Pharmacy Directors

Kim Currie Mason, Pharm.D.
Director, Department of Pharmacy
Dr. Mason is the Director of Pharmacy at The University of Tennessee Medical Center. She also has joint faculty appointments in both The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine (GSM) and College of Pharmacy. In addition, Dr. Mason precepts PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residents as a part of the department’s ASHP-accredited residency programs in critical care, internal medicine, and pharmacotherapy. She has provided required and elective coursework in the areas of Drug Information, Medication Safety and Practice Management.

She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Mississippi and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency followed by a Critical Care/Nutrition Residency at UT Medical Center where she served as the organization’s first Chief Pharmacy Resident. After joining the staff at UT Medical Center, she served as the Drug Information Specialist and later became the first Medication Safety Specialist at UT Medical Center and managed a new Medication Safety Office which is now responsible for coordinating adverse drug event reporting, pharmacy performance improvement, and medication standards compliance.

As a part of her interest in assuring overall patient safety, Dr. Mason has served for many years on The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) and became Chair of the IRB in June 2009. She is an active member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists as well as the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

Amy B. Flatt, Pharm.D.
Associate Director, Department of Pharmacy
Dr. Flatt is the Assistant Director of Pharmacy at The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy and completed a PGY1 Residency at UT Medical Center. Dr. Flatt served as the Pharmacist in Charge, then as the Computerized Provider Order Entry and Systems Specialist, before assuming the Assistant Director role at UTMC in 2010.

Barbara Eve Faircloth, Pharm.D., BCPS     
Assistant Director, PGY2 Critical Care Residency     
Dr. Faircloth is a Pharmacist Specialist in Critical Care Medicine with the Department of Pharmacy at The University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC). Also, she is an Assistant Professor with The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy. Her primary practice area is in the Medical Critical Care Unit at UTMC.

Dr. Faircloth was born and bred in the lovely state of New Jersey where she received her Bachelor of Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from Rutgers University College of Pharmacy in May 1997. She completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY2 Critical Care Residency at UTMC. Dr. Faircloth is the PGY2 Critical Care Residency Program Director at UTMC.

In addition to her commitments to patient care and furthering the education of the future of our profession, Dr. Faircloth is a wife and mother of two wonderful boys