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University of Wyoming

Ardis J. Meier

◊ Former chief pharmacy consultant to the USAF Surgeon General


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Meier participated in ASUW and band while at UW and was a member of the UW Pharmacy Dean's Advisory Council. She entered the Air Force ROTC Program while at Wyoming and was commissioned a second lieutenant in May 1977.

Hometown:
Lusk, Wyoming

College:
Health Sciences

Degree:
B.S. Pharmacy

Colonel (Ret.) Ardis J. Meier was certified as a practicing pharmacist by the Wyoming State Board of Pharmacy in 1978, before earning an M.S. in pharmacy practice from the University of Arizona at Tucson in 1988.

She served as a pharmacy adviser at the Pharmacy College at Hampton University in Virginia, and she completed the Air Force Physicians in Management course as well as the prestigious Kellogg Executive Management Course at Northwestern University in Chicago. She also held faculty preceptor appointments at the College of Pharmacies at the University of Illinois, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of the Pacific. Previously with the USAF/C 1st Medical Group Langley AFB, Meier is also the former associate chief for Biomedical Sciences Corps for Pharmacy and Andrews AFB in Maryland.

Meier has been honored with such awards as the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Force Achievement Medal, and the Air Force Recognition Ribbon with one Oak Leaf Cluster.

She is a member of the American Pharmacists Association, the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists, the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the United States Pharmacopoeia, and the Society of Air Force Pharmacy.

Meier retired from her last position in 2004 as the chief pharmacy consultant to the USAF Surgeon General, following 26 years of service.

Photo courtesy UW News Service