LITTLE ROCK -  Nicki Hilliard, Pharm. D., a pharmacy professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been elected to serve as president-elect of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the largest pharmacy professional organization, for the 2017-2018 term.

Hilliard is a professor in the College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy Practice.

She will become president-elect at the association’s annual meeting next spring. Hilliard will spend a year in that office, and then in Nashville in spring 2018, she will become the association’s president. In 2019, Hilliard will become past-president. She will serve on the Board of Trustees for all three years starting in 2017.

Hilliard is a former APhA-Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management president and APhA Trustee, serving on the APhA Governmental Affairs, Strategic Planning and Policy Standing Committees.

In 1996, Hilliard earned her doctorate in pharmacy and in 1983 her bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, both from the UAMS College of Pharmacy. In 1990, she earned a master’s degree in health services administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.