James Ray was awarded the James A. Otterbeck OnePoint Patient Care Professor in Hospice and Palliative Care. Ray is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. Ray also serves as the clinical pharmacist for the Adult Palliative Care Service at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.

Ray graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy and went on to complete a general hospital pharmacy residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

University of Iowa graduate James A. Otterbeck, of Chicago, Illinois, and Naples, Florida, recently made a gift of $1.5 million through his company, OnePoint Patient Care, to establish the James A. Otterbeck OnePoint Patient Care Professorship in Hospice and Palliative Care in the UI College of Pharmacy.

This gift will help the UI College of Pharmacy take the lead in preparing health-care professionals to provide holistic end-of-life care for patients and their families.

The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy educates the next generation of leaders in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical sciences through discovery and growth, building excellence, and achieving outcomes that matter.