Clinical Professor
Unit: Pharmacy Practice
UAB-Huntsville
Division of Family Medicine
301 Governors Drive
Huntsville, AL 35801
Email: andrumr@auburn.edu
Phone: 256-551-4458
Miranda Andrus, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP currently is a Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice with Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy, and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine in Huntsville.
Dr. Andrus is a native of Lookout Mountain, Georgia. She completed her pre-pharmacy course work at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, graduating Magna Cum Laude, from the Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy in 1999. She completed a post-graduate specialty residency in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center and UNC at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy in 2000. In 2002, Dr. Andrus became a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
At HCOP, Dr. Andrus teaches in the Practice Ready Curriculum in areas such as smoking cessation, SOAP note writing, and patient care work-up. She serves as Course Coordinator of the Integrated Learning Experiences IX and X in the third year of the PharmD curriculum and provides instruction outpatient primary care within the experiential curriculum. Her excellence in teaching has been recognized with multiple awards, including the HCOP Excellence in Teaching Award (2015), the Pharmacy Student Council Advocate Award (2010), and seven Preceptor of Excellence Awards.
Dr. Andrus has been extremely active in the American College of Clinical Pharmacists (ACCP) since 2000. She served as Treasurer on the ACCP Board of Regents from 2018–2021 and is the founding director of the ACCP Professional Leadership Development Program, launched in 2022. She previously chaired the ACCP Education and Training Practice and Research Network in 2006-2007 and has served as chair of numerous national committees. In 2009 she received the distinction of Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (FCCP).
Dr. Andrus is a frequent speaker and presenter at national and state pharmacy and interdisciplinary conferences. She is passionate about treatment and prevention of tobacco and nicotine related disorders and has received state and federal grant funding for these efforts. She has authored over 40 peer reviewed publications related to the scholarship of teaching and learning in experiential education, tobacco/nicotine use disorder and treatment, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia.
Dr. Andrus began her appointment with the Harrison College of Pharmacy in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where she practiced in rural health for four years. In 2004, she moved to Huntsville and practices at the UAB-Huntsville Family Medicine Center where she provides pharmacotherapy patient services in the areas of smoking cessation, diabetes, hypertension, medication adherence, polypharmacy and medication affordability. She actively educates medical students and residents and in this setting, including both patient care consults and frequent didactic lectures. She offers a popular elective pharmacotherapy rotation for second- and third-year Family Medicine Resident Physicians.