Thomas Reinders, Pharm.D., joined the faculty of the VCU School of Pharmacy in 1974. In addition to his tenured faculty responsibilities, he held a variety of administrative positions, including associate dean for admissions and student services and director of pharmacy at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals.

He received a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Cincinnati. Also, he completed pharmacy residency programs at the Children’s Hospital and U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital in Cincinnati. Reinders has more than 35 years of volunteer service with the United States Pharmacopeia, where he chaired the Panel on Pharmacy Practice and the Expert Committee on Nomenclature, Safety and Labeling and represents USP as a member of the United States Adopted Names Council. He has served as a member of the FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee and as director of several not-for-profit organization boards. Reinders is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bowl of Hygeia Award for Outstanding Community Service, the VCU Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy Distinguished Alumnus Award, the ASHP Award for Achievement in the Practice of Hospital Pharmacy on two occasions, the APhA Distinguished Achievement Award in Administrative Practice, the APhA Gloria Francke Leadership Mentor Award and the VPhA Outstanding Pharmacist Award. He has been honored as Pharmacist of the Year by the Virginia Pharmacists Association and Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and he is a fellow of the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice.