Dr. Cole Wilder joined ASU Health in August of 2025 as Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Foundational Sciences in the John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering. A pharmacist by training, his teaching focuses on integrating clinical experience with foundational biomedical sciences to support the development of future healthcare professionals. Previously, he served as a clinical faculty member at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, the University of Texas at Tyler Ben and Maytee Fisch College of Pharmacy, and at Hampton University School of Pharmacy.
A native of East Tennessee, Dr. Wilder completed his undergraduate coursework at Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee, receiving his Associate of Science degree in Pre-Pharmacy in 2007. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee in 2009. He then attended an accelerated Doctor of Pharmacy program at the Appalachian College of Pharmacy in Oakwood, Virginia, graduating with his Pharm.D. in 2012. After pharmacy school, Dr. Wilder went on to complete an ASHP-accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Ballad Health Bristol Regional Medical Center in Bristol, Tennessee. After completing his PGY1 in 2013, Dr. Wilder pursued additional post-graduate training in Emergency Medicine Pharmacy at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Wilder has been board certified in Pharmacotherapy since 2013, and Critical Care since 2015. In 2023, Dr. Wilder earned a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on education technology and instructional coaching.
Dr. Wilder’s research efforts are dedicated to the scholarship of teaching and learning, with a focus on curricular integration of high-fidelity simulation activities to develop student’s clinical confidence, designing instructional strategies which facilitate the development of problem-solving and critical thinking skills to optimize clinical reasoning, and implementation of instructional coaching as a model for faculty development. His clinical research explores health disparities, with a particular focus on mitigating barriers to care experienced by rural and medically underserved populations.