P-SHOR Professor Chosen for Future Academic Leaders Training Program

Megan Ehret specializes in psychiatric pharmacy.

By Andrew Tie
August 19, 2024

Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research (P-SHOR) at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP), will take part in a training program to develop future leaders in pharmacy, higher education, and the pharmacy profession.

Ehret is one of 35 individuals accepted into the 2024-25 cohort of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s (AACP) Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP). The year-long program is designed to develop promising individuals from member institutions to become future leaders in pharmacy and higher education.

“I am delighted that Dr. Ehret has been selected to take part in AACP’s Academic Leadership Fellows Program, as she possesses the qualities and potential to make a significant impact on pharmacy education as a future leader in teaching, practice, and administration,” said Sarah L.J. Michel, PhD, dean of the School and professor of pharmaceutical sciences, who nominated Ehret for the program and will serve as her program mentor.

AACP’s Academic Leadership Fellows Program supports and contributes to the development of leaders in academic pharmacy and higher education, providing an opportunity for fellows to expand relationships with peers and colleagues in other institutions, as well as within their own college and university. Sessions in the program include team building and networking, issues facing pharmacy and higher education, leadership style and development.

Ehret is a psychiatric pharmacist and serves as co-director of the School’s Mental Health Program, which runs the Maryland Department of Health’s Peer to Peer and Antipsychotics Review Programs, oversees psychiatric pharmacy services at five adult residential facilities in Maryland, and collaborates with the University of Maryland Medical Center, Midtown Campus to provide psychiatric pharmacy support. Ehret helped UMSOP develop one of the first Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) courses in the country to train student pharmacists to administer long-acting injectables to help treat schizophrenia, substance use disorder, HIV, diabetes, cholesterol, and more. She previously served as president of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (now known as the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists) from 2018 to 2019.

“I am thrilled and excited to take part in the Academic Leadership Fellows Program over the next year,” Ehret said. “I look forward to meeting other educators across the country and learning from established leaders in pharmacy education. It is an honor to represent the School of Pharmacy in this national cohort.”

Founded in 2005, AACP’s ALFP has graduated dozens of pharmacy faculty members who have gone on to leadership positions such as department chairs, associate deans, and deans. Ehret is a member of the program’s 21^st cohort.

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