Jack W. “Jay” Campbell IV, JD, RPh, Elected NABP Treasurer at Association’s 113th Annual Meeting

Jack W. “Jay” Campbell IV, JD, RPh, was elected to serve as the 2017-2018 treasurer of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) during the Association’s 113th Annual Meeting, May 20-23, 2017, in Orlando, FL. Prior to the election, Mr Campbell served a three-year term as an Executive Committee member representing District 3.

Mr Campbell has served as the executive director of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy since 2006. He began his career in 1993 as a community pharmacist and as a researcher for a pharmaceutical company. Following law school and a federal judicial clerkship, Mr Campbell practiced as an appellate litigation attorney for eight years in Washington, DC, and Charlotte, NC.

Mr Campbell is an active member of NABP and has served on many of the Association’s committees and task forces, including the Committee on Law Enforcement/Legislation, the Task Force on Prescription Drug Diversion from Common Carriers, and the Task Force to Review and Recommend Revisions to the Controlled Substances Act, for which he served as chair. He is also a board member and the current president of District 3. In 2013, NABP awarded Mr Campbell the Lester E. Hosto Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association.

Mr Campbell is also involved with other professional organizations, including the American Society for Pharmacy Law, of which he was president from 2008 to 2009, and the American Pharmacists Association.

An adjunct professor at Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and adjunct instructor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Wingate University School of Pharmacy, Mr Campbell shares his expertise and guidance with future pharmacists. He was named the 2009, 2013, and 2017 PY3 Instructor of the Year by his third-year pharmacy students at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Mr Campbell obtained his bachelor of science degree in pharmacy from UNC in 1993 and his juris doctor degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1997, graduating as the valedictorian of his class at both universities.

NABP is the independent, international, and impartial Association that assists its state member boards and jurisdictions for the purpose of protecting the public health.