Idaho’s Business Review Women of the Year Award Winner

Jennifer Adams, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor joins the ranks of many highly esteemed and successful women by being honored as one of the Women of the Year award by Idaho Business Review. She accepted her award at an event on Thursday, September 19th, 2024.

Jennifer Adams “stands out for her leadership, mentorship, and dedication to advancing pharmacy education and practice”, says Heide Brandes for the Idaho Business Review.

Adams is involved with national organizations including American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) as well as the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). In 2023 she advocated to the Idaho Legislature to pass the Gestational Carrier Agreement Act (HB264), saying how positively it will affect families in Idaho, as she drew on her own personal experiences with infertility to help influence its passing.

Some of her other accomplishments include, in 2021 Most Influential Faculty by Idaho State University College of Pharmacy Class of 2021.  Also in 2021 she was inducted as a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, and  in 2018 she was inducted as a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association.

Throughout the community she continues to volunteer her time locally with the Idaho Foodbank and nationally as chair of the Council of Deans on the AACP Board of Directors. She contributed to publications for several pharmaceutical journals in pharmacy education and practice.

Dr. Adams states in the Idaho Business Review that “it is my goal to make a positive difference in not only the lives of those I interact with daily, but also in the lives of those in my community, my state and my nation. In working with pharmacy scientists, clinicians and educators, I have learned that I possess skills that make me stand out. My ability to lead, motivate, and positively influence others is not common among my peers.”