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Jamie Gwyn Barnhill, PhD, dies of Alpha-1 liver disease
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Jamie Gwyn Barnhill, PhD, died Jan. 30 in Hartford, CT. She was 56.
She became ill while on vacation in Connecticut, and died in Hartford Hospital after a six-week illness. At the hospital she learned that she had severe liver disease caused by Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency — a condition she never knew she had until it was too late.
Born in Albuquerque, she earned her PhD in pharmaceutical science at the University of Connecticut in 1986. From there she accepted a dual appointment with Tufts New England Medical Center and the Jamaica Plain VA in Boston.
In 1990, she returned to Albuquerque to accept another dual appointment as chief of the Biopharmaceutics/Pharmacokinetics Laboratory at the VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center and as Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Pharmacy.
She published many scholarly articles and trained more than 1500 practicing pharmacists over the past 20 years.
A Life Celebration will be held at the UNM Student Union Building Ballroom on Saturday, Feb. 19.
The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a donation in her name be made to the Alpha-1 Foundation. Donations can be mailed to the Alpha-1 Foundation, 2937 SW 27th Avenue, Suite 302, Miami, FL 33133 or online here
