Interim Director of the Professional Program
Associate Department Head
Hill Crest Clinical Professor
Units: Pharmacy Practice, Academic Programs
Meridian, Mississippi
Email: eilanls@auburn.edu
Lea S. Eiland, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCPPS, FASHP, FPPA is a Hill Crest Clinical Professor and Associate Department Head of Pharmacy Practice with Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Huntsville Regional Medical Campus.
Dr. Eiland joined the Auburn faculty in August 2002. She teaches in the areas of Pediatrics, Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation, Infectious Disease, and Leadership. She practiced for 10 years at the Huntsville Hospital Women and Children in the general pediatric inpatient setting. From 2012-14, she practiced at the UAB Health Center Huntsville Pediatric Clinic and remains a consultant for this practice. She also has experience in the outpatient sickle cell clinic and pediatric ICU. Her interests include infectious diseases and neurology.
Dr. Eiland graduated with her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2001. She completed an ASHP-accredited pediatric specialty residency at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Amarillo in 2002. In 2004, Dr. Eiland became a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist, and in 2015, she became a Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist.
In 2025, Dr. Eiland received the Auburn University Gerald and Emily Leischuck Endowed Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, which is Auburn’s highest recognition for faculty teaching. She also received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s Education Award and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s Pharmacy Practice Section’s Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award. In 2022, Dr. Eiland received the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Pediatric Pharmacy SIG Excellence in Teaching in Pediatric Pharmacy Award. She has also received the Pediatric Pharmacy Association Scholarship of Teaching Award twice. Dr. Eiland was recognized as the 2019 Graduate of the 1980’s Pharmacy Fellow from the Harrison College of Pharmacy. She was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Harrison College of Pharmacy in 2016 and has received the Preceptor of Excellence award four times. She has received two student-selected awards: the Harrison College of Pharmacy Hargreaves Faculty Mentor Award in 2005 and the Harrison College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher Award in 2025.
Dr. Eiland was honored with the Merck Pharmacist Achievement Award and the Alabama Society of Health-System Pharmacists Pharmacist of the Year Award in 2008. She participated in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s Academic Leadership Fellows Program during the 2008-09 year (Cohort 5). In 2015 and 2023, she received the Presidential Citation Award from the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group. In 2024, she received the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Section of Pharmacy Educators Distinguished Service Award.
In 2009, Dr. Eiland received the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy Leadership Award and the University of Texas College of Pharmacy Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. In 2012, she was awarded Fellow by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and in 2015, she was recognized as Fellow by the Pediatric Pharmacy Association.
Dr. Eiland is active in several national pharmacy organizations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), Pediatric Pharmacy Association (PPA), American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), and American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). She currently serves on the PPA Board of Directors and continues involvement in the ASHP, AACP, and ACCP.
Dr. Eiland is a past member of the ASHP Board of Directors, past Director-at-Large of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Educators Executive Committee, past Chair and Director-at-Large of the ASHP Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists Executive Committee, and past Chair of the ASHP Council on Education and Workforce Development. She is also a Past President of the Alabama Society of Health-System Pharmacists. In PPA, she served as the PPA SIG Coordinator, Vice President of Membership Services, and a member of the PPA Board of Directors.
Dr. Eiland remains an active speaker and presents her clinical and educational research at national and state pharmacy meetings. She has authored original research articles, review articles, and book chapters related to pediatric pharmacotherapy and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is an author and Senior Editor of PPA’s textbook, Advanced Pediatric Therapeutics. Dr. Eiland was the Pediatric Section Editor and then Managing Editor of PharmPrep, ASHP’s NAPLEX® Review, authored and edited ASHP’s Infectious Disease Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment, and served as an author and Section Editor of ACCP’s Pediatric Pharmacotherapy 1st edition textbook. Dr. Eiland received an Auburn Author Award in 2016 from the Auburn University Graduate School and Auburn University Libraries for her textbook publications.