2025 AOY Honoree, R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy - Class of 1973
Alan Dan Barreuther earned a bachelor’s in science from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy in 1973. He went on to complete a doctorate from the University of Michigan’s academic program along with the University of Michigan Medical Center Pharmacy Resident program in 1975.
Alan returned to Tucson and taught at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy from 1975 to 1991. He established clinical pharmacy roles at University Medical Center in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine, and he moved to educate students and expand clinical pharmacy roles at Tucson Medical Center. He also helped establish the Arizona Poison Control and Drug Information Center and expand it from a local entity to a statewide operation. He joined Health Partners HMO in 1991 and Southwestern Physicians Network in 1996.
In 2000, Alan was employed in the medical affairs departments of four pharmaceutical companies, and he retired in 2015. In retirement, he became a volunteer for Casa de la Luz Hospice and a board member and president of the Casa de la Luz Foundation, now known as Roots and Roads Community Hospice Foundation.
Alan received the Elias Schlossberg Lecture Award in 1991 and became a fellow of the American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists in 1995. He worked as a volunteer with the American Lung Association of Arizona for over 30 years. In 2017, he received the Bowl of Hygeia Community Service Award, and in 2021 he received the Jack R. Cole, Ph.D., Distinguished Alumnus Award from the U of A R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy.
