Assistant dean and associate professor, Carol Balmer retired

Carol Balmer, PharmD, BCOP,assistant dean and associate professor of postgraduate professional education, School of Pharmacy at the University of Colorado Denver  retired in 2008 on the heels of two major achievements. First, Balmer received a national level oncology practice award from the Hematology/ Oncology Pharmacists Association (HOPA). While admitting it has been a number of years since she moved away from her work in clinical oncology, Balmer eagerly acknowledges the honor she feels for having received the award. “There are such wonderful clinicians in pharmacy practice, so to get this honor from my peers and colleagues was really quite nice. I was pleased about that,” she says.

Balmer’s second major achievement was celebrating the nontraditional PharmD program’s tenth anniversary, a program she’s headed since its inception. “I think we have had a successful program over the years,” says Balmer, “and we’ve helped quite a few working pharmacists meet their educational needs.”