Michelle Z Farland, Pharm.D.

Dr. Farland received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in 2005. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center (now UF Health at Jacksonville) in Jacksonville, Florida and a specialty residency in Ambulatory care/Primary care at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Farland joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy in 2007 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. She then joined the faculty of the University of Florida in 2015 and was promoted to Clinical Professor in 2021. In 2025, she was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Department of Pharmacy Education and Practice.

Previously, she was Division Head of Community-Based Pharmacotherapy. Her educational research focuses on outcomes of team-based learning and personal, professional development, and alternative grading approaches. Dr. Farland has been recognized by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) with the 2012 New Educator Award, by the Team Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) in 2016 as a team-based learning consultant-trainer, and by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) in 2017 as an Emerging Teaching Scholar and 2025 as a Distinguished Teaching Scholar. She also received an honorable mention for the AACP Innovations in Teaching Award in 2019 and the ACCP Education & Training PRN Best Paper Award in 2024. In addition, she served as the vice chair of the AACP Academic Affairs Committee [2022-2023] that authored the Curricular Outcomes and Entrustable Professional Activities (COEPA 2022), which guides curriculum development for the pharmacy education academy.

Dr. Farland is a past president of the Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC) [2019-2021], and is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society (PLS). Dr. Farland has served as a national speaker in the areas of diabetes, team-based learning, collaborative learning teams, alternative grading approaches, and situational judgment tests.

Farland’s research focuses on pharmacist impact on patient outcomes for chronic disease states in outpatient interdisciplinary care settings, implementation and innovation of team-based learning in the professional curriculum, collaborative learning teams, situational judgment tests for assessment and selection, and alternative grading approaches.