APhA announces 2014 Awards and Honors Program recipients
WASHINGTON — The American Pharmacists Association has announced the selection of the 2014 Awards and Honors Program recipients. Honorees will be officially recognized at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, March 28 to 31.
American Pharmacists Association – Profession Wide Awards:
Remington Honor Medal - Highest Honor in Pharmacy – Marilyn K. Speedie of Minneapolis, MN. The award was established in 1918 to recognize distinguished service on behalf of American pharmacy news during the preceding years, culminating in the past year or during a long period of outstanding activity or fruitful achievement.
Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award – Cherokee Layson-Wolf of Baltimore, Md. Established in 2003 recognizes a community pharmacy residency director or preceptor who has demonstrated excellence in precepting, mentoring, leadership and community pharmacy residency program administration.
Distinguished Federal Pharmacist Award – CAPT Pamela M. Schweitzer of Baltimore, Md. The award recognizes pharmacists who distinguish themselves and the profession through outstanding contributions in federal pharmacy practice resulting in significant improvements in the health of the nation and the populations they serve.
Distinguished New Practitioner Award – Brent N. Reed of Baltimore, Md. The award was established in 2010 to recognize a new practitioner, within his/her first five years of practice, who has demonstrated distinctive achievements in mentorship, service and commitment to the profession of pharmacy.
Generation Rx Award – Leslie Shepard of Dickson, Tenn. The award was established in 2011 to recognize a pharmacist that has demonstrated a commitment to the mission of substance abuse education.
Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award – Ralph L. Saroyan of Stockton, Calif. The award was established in 1993 to recognize an individual who has promoted and encouraged pharmacists to attain leadership positions through example, acting as a role model and mentor.
Good Government Student Pharmacist-of-the-Year Award – Daniel Kudryashov, 2015 PharmD Candidate at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy. The award recognizes a student pharmacist who successfully organizes student pharmacist grassroots activity within their chapter and actively promotes the value of advocating for the profession.
H.A.B. Dunning Award – Cardinal Health and the Cardinal Health Foundation. This award, established in 1982, recognizes an exemplary contribution to APhA and the practice of pharmacy by a pharmaceutical manufacturer, provider of support products or service, or other entities such as wholesalers, chain corporations, etc.
Honorary Member – N. Lee Rucker and Benjamin Jacobs, both of Bethesda, Md. Honorary membership in APhA is conferred by the Board of Trustees upon individuals, either within the profession of pharmacy or outside of it, whose activities and achievements have had a significant positive impact on public health, the pharmacy profession, and its practitioners.
Honorary President – Theodore G. Tong of Tucson, Ariz. Honorary President of APhA is conferred by the Association upon a member who has made significant contributions to the Association.
Hubert H. Humphrey Award – Senator Earl L. "Buddy" Carter of Pooler, Ga. The award was established in 1978 to recognize APhA members who have made major contributions in government and legislative service at the local, state or national level.
Hugo H. Schaefer Award – Leonard L. Edloe of Mechanicsville, Va. Established in 1964 the Hugo H. Schaefer Award recognizes outstanding voluntary contributions to the organization, the profession, and society.
Linwood F. Tice Friend of the APhA-ASP Award – Marialice Bennett of Columbus, Ohio. The award was established in 1988 to recognize an individual whose long-term services and contributions have benefited the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP), and thereby student pharmacists in general.
American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM): APhA-APPM Daniel B Smith Practice Excellence Award – Allen Nichol of Gahanna, Ohio. The Award recognizes a pharmacy practitioner, in any practice setting, who has distinguished himself/herself and the profession through outstanding performance and achievements.
APhA-APPM Distinguished Achievement Awards: Pharmacy Management – John O. Beckner of Richmond, Va. The award recognizes an individual who has made significant or sustained contributions in the area of pharmacy management.
Pharmacy Practice – Stuart J. Beatty of Columbus, Ohio. The award recognizes an individual who has developed and/or implemented an innovative, original pharmacy program or service which is significant to their area of practice.
Service – Kristin Weitzel of Gainesville, Fla. The award recognizes an individual who has made significant or sustained contributions in the area of service to their community, their state or at the national level.
Nuclear Pharmacy Practice – Jeffrey P. Norenberg of Albuquerque, N.M. The award recognizes an APhA-APPM member who has made significant or sustained contributions to the practice of nuclear pharmacy.
APhA-APPM Pharmacy Management Excellence Award – Timothy J. Stroup Lansing, Kansas. The award recognizes an APhA member, in any practice setting, who has distinguished himself/herself and the profession through outstanding performance in the area of pharmacy management.
American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS): APhA-APRS Clinical Research Paper Award – Daniel R. Touchette of Chicago. The award promotes and encourages high quality clinical research or practice based research in the clinical sciences by recognizing an original research article in this area, which has been published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.
APhA-APRS Ebert Prize – Sandeep Kumar of St. Louis, Mo. The award recognizes the author(s) of the best report of original investigation of a medicinal substance published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the past year. APhA-APRS Research Achievement Award – Marie Chisholm-Burns of Memphis, Tenn. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding, meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical sciences.
APhA-APRS Tyler Prize for Stimulation of Research - Stephen W. Schondelmeyer of Minneapolis. The award recognizes an individual(s) for encouraging research by peers, students, fellows, residents and others via publications or by directing research, serving as a preceptor, or mentoring in any discipline of the pharmaceutical sciences.
APhA-APRS Wiederholt Prize – Bonnie L. Svarstad of Madison, Wisc. The award recognizes the best paper published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA), within the past two calendar years, describing original investigation in the areas of economic, social or administrative sciences. Fellows of the American Pharmacists Association: Fellows are either members of the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM) or the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS) with a minimum of 10 years professional experience. To become a Fellow, members must have demonstrated exemplary professional achievements and service to the prof