Announcement: Lucinda Maine, AIHP Director, elected to USP Board! - American Institute of the History of Pharmacy

We are very pleased and proud to announce that Lucinda Maine, PhD, AIHP Board of Directors member, has been elected to the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) Board of Trustees for the 2025-2030 cycle.

Lucinda Maine, Ph.D., R.Ph., FAPhA, FFIP, is the CEO Emerita of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Dr. Maine served as executive vice president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy from 2002 until 2022. AACP serves as the leading advocate for high-quality pharmacy education in the US and around the world. Prior to assuming her position in July 2002, Maine served as senior vice president for policy, planning, and communications with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).

Congratulations to Lucinda and the other newly elected USP Directors:
Hanan Sboul, BPharm, MBA (President)
Jay Roberts, MBA (Treasurer)
Sue Peschin, MHS (Public Trustee)
Ilisa Bernstein, PharmD, JD (Pharmaceutical Sciences Trustee 1)
Lucinda Maine, PhD (Pharmaceutical Sciences Trustee 2)
John Lim, MBBS (Medical Sciences Trustee 1)
Dennis E. Doherty, MD (Medical Sciences Trustee 2)
John Taylor, JD (At-Large Trustee 1)
Amy Karren, BS, Biology (At-Large Trustee 2)
Jane Rhodes, PhD, MBA (At-Large Trustee 3)
Ronald T. Piervincenzi, PhD (ex officio)

Read the full USP press release her e.

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November 6, 2025, 3:00 pm (Central): AIHP Annual Business Meeting - Save the Date!
November 19, 2025, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Lauren Thompson, Kennesaw State University.
December 17, 2025, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Beyond medical pluralism: Interactions between physician-pharmacists and other craftspeople in the Graeco-Roman world with Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University.
January, 21, 2026, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, hosted by Kelly O'Donnell, Towson Unviersity.
February 18, 2026, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
March 18, 2026, 11:00 am (Central): Pharmacy History Working Group: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona

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Upcoming events of interest to pharmacists and historians of pharmacy, pharmaceuticals, medicines, science, and related fields.

November 13-16, 2025: History of Science Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
November 16-18, 2025: APhA Joint Federal Pharmacy Seminar 2025 , Fort Lauderdale, FL.
December 7-11, 2025: ASHP Midyear, Las Vegas, NV.
July 18-21, 2026: AACP Pharmacy Education, Grapevine, TX.