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CONTACT: Erin Wendel ewendel@aphanet.org;
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APhA Announces 2009 Postgraduate Best Paper
Awards
WASHINGTON, DC - The American Pharmacists
Association (APhA) has announced the recipients of the 2009 APhA
Postgraduate Best Paper Awards. The award was created by the APhA
Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS) to recognize
the author of the best contributed paper (podium or poster session)
presented at each APhA Annual Meeting by a postgraduate student.
Annually, APhA-APRS presents up to three awards to postgraduate APhA
members in the basic, clinical, and/or economic, social, and
administrative sciences categories. To qualify for the award, the person
must be an APhA member who was a graduate student, resident or
post-doctoral fellow at the time the paper was written.
The 2009 recipients are Robert Alfred Bechtol of
Toledo, Ohio; Abhijit S. Gadkari of Madison, Wisconsin;
and Johnny B. Roy, MD, of Edmond, Oklahoma. The
recipients were chosen during the 2009 APhA Annual Meeting in San
Antonio, TX, April 3-6, 2009.
Dr. Bechtol’s poster, “An evaluation of clinical outcomes
of a community pharmacy-based medication therapy management program for
diabetes and hypertension,” received the Postgraduate Best Paper
Award in the Economic, Social, and Administrative Sciences. His
co-author was Sharrel L. Pinto.
Dr. Gadkari received the Postgraduate Best Paper Award in the
Economic, Social & Administrative Sciences for his podium
presentation, “The doughnut hole in Medicare Part D plans: a
pharmacy claims database analysis.” David A. Mott, Joshua A.
Thorpe and David H. Kreling were the co-authors.
Dr. Roy received the Postgraduate Best Paper Award in the Clinical
Sciences for his poster, “Impact of solifenacin on symptom bother,
health-related quality of life, and work productivity in patients with
overactive bladder: results of a large, double-blind, placebo-controlled
trial.” Gregory Gilmet, Tom Marshall, David H. Mitcheson,
and Jennifer B. Shannon were the co-authors.
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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