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Andrea L Porter, PharmD

Professor (CHS)
Director of Pharmacotherapy Laboratories

Andrea L. Porter, PharmD received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy in Madison, Wisconsin and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Porter is the Director of Pharmacotherapy Laboratories. She coordinates the Integrated Pharmacotherapy Skills I and II courses and co-coordinates the Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences I and II courses. She received the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Pharmacy Teaching Innovation Award in 2012. Dr. Porter lectures on antithrombotics in the University of Wisconsin - Madison Physician Assistant Program and facilitates interprofessional cases in the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. 

Dr. Porter’s service to the School of Pharmacy has included various committee appointments such the Academic Planning Council and the Experiential Learning Program. She is a Fellow for the UW-Madison Teaching Academy and has participated in the Blended Learning Fellowship Program and Blended Learning Fellowship Program on Active Learning Classrooms.

She is also a faculty advisor for the largest student professional organization, the Wisconsin Society of Pharmacy Students, which is affiliated with APhA, ASHP, and the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, since 2007. She is on the Faculty Advisory Panel for student societies in ASHP. She is an active member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) and is the Immediate Past Chair of the Laboratory Instructors Special Interest Group. Dr. Porter is a a Fellow in the AACP Academic Leadership Fellows Program Cohort 16. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board member of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Porter has been an AACP Walmart Scholars Program Faculty Mentor in 2011, 2017, and 2019.

Dr. Porter is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in the Anticoagulation Clinic at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, WI. She is the Conference Chair and a member of the planning committee for the Pharmacy Invitation Conference on Antithrombotic Therapy.

Her research interests focus on educational-based scholarship, particularly educational innovation and blended learning, as well as clinical research in her practice. She is co-recipient of the 2017 Rufus A. Lyman Award, given to the best paper published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education for her work in the Integrated Pharmacotherapy skills courses. In 2019, she received an AACP Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grant for a telepharmacy simulation with North Dakota State University.