
During 1985-86 he served an American Council on Education Fellowship in Academic Administration. He served on the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science from 1973 to 1981, rising from Assistant Professor to the rank of Professor. He is also trained in both general mediation and health care mediation, completing the latter at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is licensed to practice pharmacy in Kentucky and Pennsylvania and has been admitted to the practice of law in Kentucky and Pennsylvania as well as before the United States Supreme Court.
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He received his professional education in pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and holds a doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was Chairman of the Moot Court Board. He has served the University in institution-wide roles under five UK presidents.

He was Assistant Dean of the UK College of Pharmacy from 1981 to 1988 and Acting Director of the UK Appalachian Center during 2004-2005. Additionally, he served as Executive Director of UK Coldstream Research Campus, the University's 735 acre research park in Lexington, from 2002 to 2004. He was Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at UK from 1988 to 1996. He has been Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Vice President for Corporate Relations and Economic Outreach as well as Special Assistant to the President for Academic Affairs and Director of Admissions at UK.

Finally, he has a faculty appointment as Professor of Clinical Leadership and Management in the UK College of Health Sciences.

In addition, he is a Professor of Public Health in the College of Public Health and Professor of Health Administration in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, a unit he served as Acting Director during 1998. Joseph L Fink III is Professor of Pharmacy Law and Policy at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and the Kentucky Pharmacists Association Professor of Leadership at the University.
