Latiolais awarded with the 2025 Pharmacy Mentor Award

The Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacy (TSHP) is proud to announce that Claire Latiolais, PharmD, MS is the recipient of the 2025 Pharmacy Mentor Award. 

TSHP annually recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations within our community for excellence and a commitment to advancing healthcare and pharmacy practice in Texas. The awardees are selected by the TSHP Board of Directors based on nominations submitted by TSHP members.

A pharmacist earns this award by demonstrating active involvement in the professional growth and development of other pharmacy practitioners, residents, fellows or students as it relates to the provision of patient care.

Dr. Claire Latiolais graduated from Purdue University with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2015. She went on to complete an ASHP accredited Health-System Pharmacy Administration residency in The Houston Program at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. Along with this program, she completed her Master’s in Pharmacy Leadership and Administration from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. She joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy (UTCOP) in 2018 and served as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the department of Pharmacy Practice. In the fall of 2022, Dr. Latiolais transitioned into a new role at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist on the Medication Management and Informatics team. In addition, Dr. Latiolais continued an appointment with UTCOP as the Experiential Regional Director for the Galveston/Houston Region. Dr. Latiolais is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) where she served on the 2019-2020 New Practitioners Forum Executive Committee and currently serves as a Chair in the Section of Pharmacy Educators, the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists (TSHP) where she serves on the Education Affairs Council, the Central Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CTSHP) where she served as a Board Member, Phi Lambda Sigma, Phi Delta Chi, and Rho Chi.  Her interests include drug information, formulary management, experiential education, professional development of students, and precepting.

This honor was presented April 4 at the 2025 Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacy (TSHP) Annual Seminar in Irving, TX, at the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas. TSHP’s Annual Seminar is the largest educational and networking meeting of pharmacists, new practitioners, students, technicians, and industry professionals in Texas. With a focus on quality patient care and medication safety, registrants may select from dozens of hours of live programming each year. TSHP Annual Seminar programs are designed to maintain and enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of pharmacy professionals in health-systems across Texas.

About TSHP

The Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacy began in 1949 with its first annual seminar for hospital pharmacists held at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy in Austin. Twenty-five founding members came together to form what has become one of the leading health-system pharmacy societies in the country with a dynamic professional membership association which serves Texas health-system pharmacy professionals dedicated to the mission, vision, core values, philosophy, soul, spirit, and motto of TSHP.

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