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March 15, 2010

Elizabeth Allan Flynn Receives APhA’s Wiederholt Prize

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) announced that Elizabeth Allan Flynn, RPh, PhD, of Artesia, NM, is the recipient of the 2010 APhA Wiederholt Prize. The award was presented during the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, DC.

Established in 1996 as the APhA Best Published Paper Award for Economic, Social, and Administrative Sciences, this award was renamed in 2002 as the Wiederholt Prize in honor of Joseph B. Wiederholt, PhD (1949-2001).  Dr. Wiederholt was the first recipient of the award and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The purpose of the award is to recognize the best paper published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association with in the past two calendar years, describing original investigation in the areas of economic, social, or administrative sciences.

Flynn was selected in recognition of her paper titled “Dispensing Errors and Counseling Quality in 100 Pharmacies,” which was published in the March/April 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. Her co authors are Kenneth N. Barker, PhD, Bruce A. Berger, PhD, Kimberly Braxton Lloyd, PharmD, and Patrick D. Brackett, PharmD.

Flynn is a clinical affiliate associate professor at the University of Florida and a part-time community and hospital pharmacist, learning how her future research can benefit from front-line experience. Her expertise is in the application of ergonomics to prevent errors and evaluation of technology for effects on medication errors and efficiency.

Flynn has been a co-investigator on more than $5 million of research, and has conducted studies in more than 250 sites in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. She has published or presented more than 125 papers. Flynn was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors. She is currently a member of the United States Pharmacopeia Safe Medication Use Expert Committee (2005–2010).

Flynn received her BS in pharmacy from the University of Florida, MS in hospital pharmacy, residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and PhD from Auburn University’s Department of Pharmacy Care Systems. She served as president of the New Mexico Society of Health-System Pharmacists (2003–2004) and is a member of APhA, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International.

About the American Pharmacists Association

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.

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