As he looks ahead at the last months of his tenure at the University of Iowa, a professor and former dean of the pharmacy program, Donald Letendre, is receiving the 2026 Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award, an annual award given to one person in the nation per year. The award is considered to be the highest honor in pharmacy.
According to the Harvey A.K. Whitney website, the award is administered by the American-Society of Health-System Pharmacists and given to people who have made significant contributions to the pharmacy landscape.
Letendre is an honoree for the award and will be officially given the award in June. As part of the award, Letendre will give a lecture in St. Louis in June, the same month he plans to retire…