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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Sharon Corbitt
202.429.7537; scorbitt@apha.org
February 22,
2010
Stacia Spridgen Receives APhA’s Distinguished
Federal Pharmacist Award
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Pharmacists
Association (APhA) announces that Stacia Spridgen, Director, Department
of Defense (DoD) Pharmacoeconomic Center at Fort Sam Houston in Texas
has been chosen as the recipient of the 2010 American Pharmacists
Association’s (APhA) Distinguished Federal Pharmacist Award. The
award will be presented during the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in
Washington, DC, March 12-15, 2010.
The APhA Distinguished Federal Pharmacist Award is one of the
Association’s premier annual awards. It recognizes pharmacists who
distinguish themselves and the profession through outstanding
contributions in federal pharmacy practice that results in significant
improvements in the health of the nation and the populations they serve.
APhA’s awards program is the pharmacy profession’s most
comprehensive recognition program.
Lieutenant Colonel Spridgen was selected because of her exceptional
leadership and management skills. From 2006 to 2008, she served as
the Deputy Army Pharmacy Program Director and volunteered as Executive
Officer for Health Policy and Services in the Office of The Surgeon
General (OTSG). While there, she wrote and staffed complex DoD
policies that have resulted in safer prescribing of high-risk
medications to soldiers.
In her current position at the DoD Pharmacoeconomics Center (PEC),
Spridgen oversees part of the TRICARE pharmacy program that serves 9.5
million beneficiaries. As a direct result of her leadership, the PEC
continues to achieve cost savings and rebates to the government in
excess of one billion dollars dating back to 2005. In addition, she
continues to oversee the creation of program improvements that already
have resulted in tens of thousands of deployed Service Members having
uninterrupted access to all of their medications during their
deployment, thus allowing them to focus on the mission of defending our
nation.
In addition to her daily duties, Spridgen serves as a member of the
DoD Pharmacy Board of Advisors, and the Federal Pharmacy Executive
Steering Committee. In these roles, she has been instrumental in the
exploration of new ideas to work collaboratively with the
Veteran’s Administration.
Spridgen has been an active, participating member of APhA,
particularly in Federal Pharmacy Program initiatives, where she has
given both platform and poster presentations during the Joint Forces
Pharmacy Seminar and the Federal Pharmacy Program.
She has also been recognized through numerous notable awards,
including the U.S. Army’s Order of Military Medical Merit,
selection as the 1999 U.S. Army Research Pharmacist of the Year, and
2000 Health-System Pharmacist of the Year for the Puget Sound Chapter in
Washington State.
Spridgen earned her Pharm. D. Magna Cum Laude from Campbell
University in 2003 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from the
University of Missouri in 1989.
About the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
The American Pharmacists Association, founded in
1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association, represents more than
62,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student
pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and others interested in advancing
the profession. APhA, dedicated to helping all pharmacists improve
medication use and advance patient care, is the first-established and
largest association of pharmacists in the United States. APhA
members provide care in all practice settings, including community
pharmacies, health systems, long-term care facilities, managed care
organizations, hospice settings, and the uniformed services.
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