SPOKANE, Wash. – Donald L. Spedden, a clinical staff pharmacist at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, has been named the 2013 Preceptor of the Year by the College of Pharmacy at Washington State University for his work with students in their final year of the pharmacy degree program.
Spedden was nominated by the students. He is one of about 350 active preceptors in Washington state who supervise students while they move through a series of six-week internships in their final year of the pharmacy program. He has been a WSU preceptor at Deaconess since 2001.
Spedden graduated from the WSU pharmacy program in 1983 and has worked as a pharmacist in Spokane since then. In 2012, he received an “Outstanding Mentor” award from the Washington State Pharmacy Association. In 2010, he was named Employee of the Year by Community Health Systems Deaconess Medical Center.
The WSU preceptor award recognizes outstanding contributions to the educational development of future pharmacists and demonstration of high standards of professionalism, ethics and clinical practice.
Contact:
Lorraine Nelson, WSU College of Pharmacy, 509-368-6671, lanelson@wsu.edu