FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE             Contact: Erin Wendel
August 7, 2009                                202.429.7558; ewendel@aphanet.org 

APhA ANNOUNCES MARIALICE S. BENNETT AS ITS
2010-2011 PRESIDENT-ELECT

WASHINGTON, DC – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) has announced that Marialice S. Bennett, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Practice at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Pharmacy, has been chosen as President-elect. Also elected to serve on APhA’s Board of Trustees, beginning in March 2010, are Lawrence M. Brown of Germantown, Tennessee; Matthew C. Osterhaus of Maquoketa, Iowa. They will serve a three-year term. Elected as Honorary President was Dennis B. Worthen of Loveland, Ohio. These individuals will be installed at APhA’s 158th Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, DC, March 12-15, 2010.

President-elect Bennett will succeed Harold N. Godwin to the office of President on March 28, 2011 at the conclusion of the 2011 APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition in Seattle.

Bennett, a graduate of OSU, has held various offices in the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM), including that of President from 2007-2009, during which time she also served on the APhA’s Board of Trustees. Recently, Bennett was selected as the recipient of the 2009 APhA Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award. Her other honors include being the recipient of the first APhA Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award; APhA Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award; and twice being the recipient of the Miriam Balshone Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 1997 and 2000 she was selected as OSU faculty member of the year for the college of pharmacy two year post doctor of pharmacy program.

ELECTED TRUSTEES

Brown is an Associate Professor at the University Of Tennessee College Of Pharmacy in Memphis, Tennessee. He has been a member of APhA since 1996. He served as Speaker of the APhA-ASP House of Delegates from 1998-1999 and as Speaker of the APhA House and Trustee from 2004-2005.  He is a co-chair of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance Quality Metrics Workgroup.

Osterhaus is owner of Osterhaus Pharmacy in Maquoketa, Iowa. He was President of the Iowa Pharmacy Association from 2004-2005 and Chairman of the Board from 2005-2006. In 2005, he received the APhA-APPM Distinguished Achievement Award in Community and Ambulatory Practice and in 2006 received the Good Government Pharmacist-of-the-Year Award.  He is a current member of the APhA Board of Trustees.

Worthen, who was selected as Honorary President, is a Lloyd Scholar at the Lloyd Library and Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences. Worthen served on the APhA Foundation Board of Directors from 2005-2008 and was Vice President from 2006-2008.

Other candidates on the ballot were Melinda C. Joyce of Bowling Green, KY, for President-elect; and Michael Manolakis of Charlotte, North Carolina; and Gary Smith of Tucson, Arizona, for trustees.

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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