Bio

Marcia Buck is the director of Clinical Practice Advancement for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. She is currently involved in the creation of programs to aid in the preparation of the next generation of pharmacy leaders, including the ACCP Professional Leadership Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience and the ACCP Professional Leadership Development Program. In addition, she is engaged in supporting expansion of credentialing within the pharmacy profession and the advancement of pharmacists providing medication optimization in team-based patient care.

Buck received her B.S. and Pharm.D. degrees from Purdue University and completed her pediatric residency and a fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the staff of ACCP in 2019, Buck was coordinator for Clinical Pharmacy Services at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, professor of Pediatrics in the UVA School of Medicine, and the director of the UVA PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency Program. She was also an affiliate clinical professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy. She is a board-certified pediatric pharmacotherapy specialist.

Buck served on the ACCP Board of Regents from 2008 to 2011 and was president of ACCP during 2016-2017. She has served as author and section editor for both Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs and Advanced Pediatric Therapeutics, as well as being a member of the editorial boards of Pharmacotherapy, the Annals of Pharmacotherapy, and The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Buck was elected a fellow of ACCP in 1998 and of the Pediatric Pharmacy Association in 2009. She was named a distinguished alumna of the Purdue University College of Pharmacy in 2016.