James Charles McElnay
OBE FCCP FRPharmS is the current Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Enterprise and Postgraduate Affairs and the Acting
President and Vice-Chancellor of
Queen's University Belfast. He was elected as acting Vice-Chancellor at a meeting of the standing committee of the university following the death of President and Vice-Chancellor
Prof. Patrick Johnston.
McElnay previously served as acting president and Vice-Chancellor in 2013 before the appointment of Prof. Johnston.
Background
McElnay earned his BSc and PhD from
Queen's University Belfast and, after registration as a qualified pharmacist, he spent a year at the
University of Iowa
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on a postdoctoral fellowship.
He continued his academic career at Queen's and spent a year as a visiting professor at the
Texas Medical Centre in
Houston
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before being awarded a Chair of Pharmacy Practice in 1995. At Queen's, he was Head of the School of Pharmacy from 1994 to 2001 and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005.
McElnay is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland.
His research interests lie in the area of clinical pharmacy, with particular reference to pharmaceutical care and paediatric therapy.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2019 New Year Honours for services to Higher Education and Pharmacy.
References
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1954 births
Living people
Vice-Chancellors of Queen's University Belfast
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast