Education
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Drake University
- Master of Public Administration (MPA), Drake University
- PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency (Ambulatory Care Focus), Creighton University
- Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES)
Research Interests
- Diabetes
- Geriatrics (Deprescribing, Ageism)
- Pharmacy Education, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Interprofessional Education (IPE)
Courses Taught
- PY3 Pharmacist Provider Series (PHRMCY 547, PHRMPR 517)
- Diabetes Care (PHARM 588)
- Pharmacotherapeutics for Older Adults (PHARM 549)
- Pharmacotherapeutics III and VI (PHRMCY 533, PHRMCY 536)
Biography
Dr. Abby Winter is an Associate Teaching Professor of Pharmacy and is the Assistant Director for Outreach in the Plein Center for Aging. She leads the clinical and outreach efforts of the Plein Center at Era Living, a group of Seattle-area assisted living communities. She teaches in various geriatrics and diabetes courses with the Schools of Pharmacy and Nursing at UW.
Dr. Winter earned her Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Public Administration degrees at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and completed a PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency with a focus in Ambulatory Care and Academia at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
She is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES, formerly CDE). Prior to working at the UW School of Pharmacy, she practiced as a Clinical Pharmacist at the University of Washington Medicine Diabetes Institute and Lipid Clinic, and prior to that was a Clinical Assistant Professor in Ambulatory Care at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy (KU) and served as a Residency Program Director (RPD) for a PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Residency Program.
Dr. Winter’s research interests include medication management in older adults, ageism, deprescribing, diabetes, interprofessional education (IPE), and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Dr. Winter serves on the School’s APPE Advisory Group as the Ambulatory Care Representative, the Chair of the School’s Curriculum Committee, and is a member of the IPE Planning Committee. She is also a Director in the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Washington Chapter.