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Lori Esch, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice
Funeral services were held yesterday for Lori D. Esch, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, who died on Sunday of cancer. She was 34.
Esch joined the UB faculty as a research assistant professor in 1997 after earning her doctorate in pharmacy from UB. She served as director of the HIV Medication Adherence Clinic operated by UB and based in the Immunodeficiency Services Clinic in the Erie County Medical Center. She implemented one of the first HIV pharmacotherapy residency programs in the U.S., which recently received accreditation from the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists. She also was coordinator of the national HIV Pharmacotherapy Preceptorship Program for visiting pharmacists working in HIV clinical practices around the country, also based at ECMC.
Esch served as associate editor of the HIV ePharmacotherapy Network, an international Web site for networking HIV caregivers.
She received numerous awards during her career, among them the Merck Recognition for Contributions to HIV Care and Education, and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists/Bristol-Myers Squibb Specialty Residency Training Award. She was a member of the Pharmacy Advisory Committee of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute.
The author or co-author of more than 30 publications, Esch delivered numerous presentations at scholarly meetings across the U.S. and Canada.
Contributions may be made in Esch's memory to Pregnant with Cancer, P.O. Box 1243, Buffalo, N.Y., 14220, or to Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Dr. Cohen Critical Care Video Conference Project, P.O. Box 631, Buffalo, N.Y., 1240.