Tim Stratton receives UMN President's Award for Outstanding Service

Tim Stratton, PhD, RPh, FAPhA, professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has received the University of Minnesota 2025 President’s Award for Outstanding Service. These awards recognize exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units by any active or retired faculty or staff member. 

Stratton has had a distinguished career at the University of Minnesota as a faculty member in the College of Pharmacy. His commitment to service-driven practice and scholarship have helped him also provide health care to people on the margins of society and educate students about the importance of doing so. 

Stratton has provided essential contributions to the pharmacy profession through engagement with national organizations. Some of them include, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the Big 10 Academic Alliance Pharmacy Assessment Collaborative, the UMN Faculty Advisory Committee on the Health Sciences and Minnesota Area Health Education Center. His nominator also notes, “[Stratton’s] engagement and tenacious support of interprofessional education has been critically important to the development of interprofessional opportunities for Duluth pharmacy students including the rural community bus trip with medical students, curricular contributions, and his leadership of the Health of People Everywhere (HOPE) clinic, an interprofessional free clinic located in downtown Duluth, and his active membership in the Center for Interprofessional Education and Center for Interdisciplinary Programs.”  

Stratton was instrumental in the development of the clinic and engagement of both volunteering students and the other pharmacists providing necessary clinical oversight to the student care delivery. This clinic provides free medical and pharmacy care to an underserved population in Duluth. In addition to health care, the clinic volunteers talk and interact with people who have a need for compassionate engagement and provide personal items that recognize the importance of self-care for the wellbeing of all. “Tim has been a champion, participant, and leader of this clinic since its inception. Without his steadfast engagement the HOPE Clinic would not remain as an important resource for those in the greatest need in our community,” adds his nominator.

Stratton’s additional outstanding service to the Duluth community is further noted. The College of Pharmacy Duluth campus has twice been recognized with the St. Louis County Public Health Service award, the St. Louis River Alliance award for Stratton’s work keeping medications out of the drinking water in northland communities, and numerous other recognitions for  individual and collective work.

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