New Associate Director for ELP

Experiential Learning Program recruits a new associate director with preceptor development, mentoring, and continuing professional development experience

By Becky Ceraul
May 16, 2012

Toyin Tofade, MS, PharmD, BCPS, CPCC, has joined the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy as associate director of its Experiential Learning Program (ELP). She has also been named an associate professor in the School’s Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science. Tofade will work with ELP staff to sustain and grow the School’s experiential learning program and to also help ensure quality among its experiential learning sites and preceptors.

“Dr. Tofade brings with her a fresh perspective and years of experience that can help evaluate and shape the School of Pharmacy’s Experiential Learning Program,” says Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, FAPhA, assistant dean for experiential learning. “We are very excited to have her working with us and look forward to all of her contributions to our program.”

Tofade joins the School from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education. She most recently worked at the Wake Area Health Education Center (AHEC) where she first served as associate director then as pharmacotherapy director.

In 2008, Tofade was named Wake AHEC Mentor of the Year and was recognized by the internal medicine teaching service for her continued excellence and dedication to the internal medicine resident and student lecture series. Since her first student in 1998, she has precepted and mentored scores of pharmacy students, residents and medical residents in an internal medicine practice, planned pharmacist continuing education courses, conducted preceptor development workshops and taught in selected courses at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

She is currently a member of both the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Continuing Professional Development (CPD) taskforce and the North Carolina CPD taskforce.

“My main goal as the new associate director for ELP is to nurture existing relationships with the School’s 700+ preceptors and to build new relationships in order to expand the experiential learning opportunities for our students,” says Tofade. “I am also very excited about the opportunity to work with the seasoned faculty, organizational leaders, preceptors, students, and staff at the School of Pharmacy as many are highly respected thought leaders in the nation.”