UI College of Pharmacy Clinical Associate Professor Stevie Veach, a clinical pharmacist at MercyOne Pharmacy in Dubuque, Iowa, will receive the 2025 American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence In Precepting Award during the APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition in Nashville next month. The accolade recognizes a community pharmacy residency director or preceptor who has demonstrated excellence in precepting, mentoring, leadership, and community pharmacy residency program administration. She has served as the director of the multisite PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program at the UI since 2013.
Veach earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from Iowa in 2006 and completed a PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency with the UI and Mercy Family Pharmacy.
“Since completing my own residency in 2007, it has been a goal of mine to carry on the legacy of the PGY1 Community-based Residency Program at the University of Iowa,” said Veach.
Veach has precepted Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience students, Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience students and PGY1 Community-based Residents in the community pharmacy setting for the past 18 years. Since 2009, she has trained 68 residents as either a preceptor or residency program director.
“The outstanding preceptors, mentors, and colleagues I have encountered in my pharmacy training and career have instilled in me a passion to help train the next generation of pharmacists."
-Stevie Veach
Currently, Veach coordinates the Doctor of Pharmacy Community Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience at the UI and organizes and teaches courses focusing on nonprescription medicines and self-care for both Doctor of Pharmacy and undergraduate students. Her primary professional interest is advancing patient care services delivered by pharmacists in the community setting.
“The outstanding preceptors, mentors, and colleagues I have encountered in my pharmacy training and career have instilled in me a passion to help train the next generation of pharmacists to provide excellent patient care and to innovate and expand the services that pharmacists can offer in the community setting.”
Veach has been involved in numerous research and pilot projects related to implementing clinical pharmacy services and practice innovations in the community pharmacy setting and has served as a Practice Transformation Coach for Flip the Pharmacy. She is an active member of several state and national professional pharmacy organizations, including the Iowa Pharmacy Association, APhA, and the Academia-CPESN Transformation (ACT) Pharmacy Collaborative. Her involvement in APhA has included being a delegate, serving on the APhA Immunizing Pharmacist Special Interest Group and Education Standing committees, and regularly volunteering as an abstract reviewer or poster judge for the Annual Meeting Contributed Posters.
In her free time, Veach enjoys spending time with her husband Jeremy and their three children, Landon, Rowan and Chase. She loves being outdoors, watching her kids participate in multiple sports, and cheering on the Iowa Hawkeyes!