Joseph Bonnarens

Biography

Dr. Joseph Bonnarens joined the Belmont faculty in August 2020. Prior to Belmont, he has served as a faculty member, as well as holding other roles (such as administrator and community pharmacy residency director), at three colleges of pharmacy. He is a graduate of the University of Mississippi where he earned his MS and PhD in Pharmacy Administration. His dissertation entitled Examining the Relationships Within and Presence of the Service Profit Chain in Independent Community Pharmacy examined the use of the service profit chain model in determining the success of a service-oriented business model in an independent community pharmacy.

Prior to graduate school, Dr. Bonnarens earned a general science and pharmacy degree from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He worked as a licensed pharmacist in a variety of settings: independent, chain and hospital pharmacies. He completed the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Executive Residency in Association Management and Leadership at ASHP headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. He remained in the Washington, DC area and became the first Director of Student Affairs and Associate Director of Management Services for the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) in Alexandria, Virginia.

Dr. Bonnarens has been very involved in professional service, as a member, presenter and officer in a variety of state, national and international professional pharmacy associations. In 2011, he served as the National President for Phi Lambda Sigma: the Pharmacy Leadership Society. His research interests include pharmacy management issues, pharmacy work force issues, patient care service development, history of pharmacy and leadership development. He will be involved in teaching in the Management track at Belmont, as well as the pharmacy law course.