Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy honored three alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards on Feb. 12. This was the ninth year that Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented by the College of Pharmacy.

Timothy Tracy, a 1983 graduate, Leonard L. “Bud” Lance, a 1970 graduate, and John A. Armitstead, a 1979 graduate, were recognized for their outstanding career accomplishments and their contributions to ONU.

“We are extremely honored to recognize these distinguished alumni for their significant contributions to the profession of pharmacy,” said Steven J. Martin, dean of the College of Pharmacy. “These individuals have helped build the proud tradition and excellence of the Ohio Northern Raabe College of Pharmacy.”

Timothy Tracy
Tracy is provost at the University of Kentucky. Prior to entering academia, he practiced in community and hospital settings throughout Ohio.

Tracy launched his academic career at West Virginia University, where he won six college-wide teaching awards and one university-wide teaching award. Tracy then joined the University of Minnesota, where he served as head of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, director of the Center for Forecasting Drug Response, and director of Clinical and Translational Research Services. In August 2010, he joined the University of Kentucky as dean of the college of pharmacy; from May 2012 until August 2013, he served as interim provost, until taking the position full-time in 2015.
 

Leonard L. “Bud” Lance
Lance was the founding pharmacist at Lexi-Comp and helped develop their first drug database in 1989. He retired from Lexi-Comp in 2011 after some almost 23 years, was the pharmacy editor, technical advisor and pharmacy information database coordinator for Lexi-Comp Inc.

Along with authoring Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ “Quick Look Drug Book,” he provided technical support to Lexi-Comp's reference publications. Lance also assisted more than 300 major hospitals in producing their own formulary pharmacy publications through Lexi-Comp’s custom publishing service. Lance also was manager of the Dosage Forms Database in Lexi-Comp’s Medical Sciences Division.

John A. Armitstead
Armitstead is president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) as well as system director of pharmacy services at Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Fla. and Cape Coral, Fla.

He started his practice in pharmacy as a volunteer. Since that time, he has been a pharmacy technician, pharmacy intern, staff pharmacist, pharmacy resident, cardiology clinical specialist, critical care pharmacy supervisor, assistant director, associate director, director, associate professor and assistant dean.