The APhA Awards and Honors Program is the profession of
pharmacy’s most comprehensive recognition program. The APhA
Awards and Honors Program recognizes individuals and organizations for
their lifelong support and contributions to the profession of pharmacy,
the provision of pharmaceutical care, leadership and mentorship to the
profession and to ensuring the appropriate use of medications within the
healthcare system. Each year, APhA recognizes over 70 pharmacists,
pharmaceutical scientists, and student pharmacists who have had a
significant impact on the profession and their community. To learn
more about the individual awards presented by APhA, we encourage you to
watch the short video clips provided below.
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Fellows of the American Pharmacists Association
A Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association is a member of
either 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 of professional
experience and achievements in professional practice. An APhA Fellow
also has rendered outstanding service to the profession through
activities in APhA and in other organizations. Examples of service to
organizations may include having held an elected or appointed office,
service on a committee, expert panel, or review board, or other relevant
activities. The selection of members as APhA Fellows is made by their
respective Academy.
Remington Honor Medal
The Remington Honor Medal, named for eminent community pharmacist,
manufacturer, and educator Joseph P. Remington (1847–1918), was
established in 1918 to recognize distinguished service on behalf of
American pharmacy during the preceding years, culminating in the past
year, or during a long period of outstanding activity or fruitful
achievement.
Hugo H. Schaefer Award
The Hugo H. Schaefer Award was established in 1964 to recognize APhA
members who have made outstanding voluntary contributions to society,
the profession of pharmacy, and APhA.
Honorary Membership
Honorary membership in the American Pharmacists Association is
conferred by the APhA Board of Trustees upon individuals, either within
the profession of pharmacy or outside of it, whose activities and
achievements have had a significant impact upon the public health, the
profession, and its practitioners.
Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award
The award recognizes an APhA member who has promoted and encouraged
pharmacists to attain leadership positions within pharmacy through
example as role model and mentor. The pharmacist for whom the award is
named—Gloria Niemeyer Francke, PharmD—personally exemplified
the award’s criteria. Dr. Francke, 1986 APhA Honorary President
and 1987 Remington Honor Medalist, inspired and mentored future leaders
throughout her illustrious pharmacy career.
H.A.B. Dunning Award
Established in 1982, the H.A.B. Dunning Award recognizes an exemplary
contribution to the practice of pharmacy by a pharmaceutical
manufacturer or provider of support products or services. The award is
named for Henry Armitt Brown Dunning (1877–1962), former Chair of
the Board of Hynson, Westcott and Dunning, who as a longstanding APhA
leader was instrumental in the funding and building of the APhA
headquarters building in Washington, D.C.
Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence
Award
The Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award, in honor of the first
president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, is APhA’s
premier practice award to recognize a pharmacy practitioner in any
practice setting, who has distinguished himself/herself and the
profession by outstanding performance.
The American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmacy
Practice and Management Merit Award
The APhA–APPM Merit Award was established in 1988 to recognize
individual pharmacy practitioners for singular, significant
contributions to pharmacy practice.
Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
The award, administered by the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical
Research and Science (APhA–APRS), encourages and recognizes
outstanding meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical
sciences. Contributions to be recognized are in the areas of basic
pharmaceutical, clinical, and economic, social, and administrative
sciences, which develop knowledge and integrate the process of science
into the profession of pharmacy. The award rotates every year among the
APhA–APRS sections. In 2010, the award recognizes contributions in
the area of basic sciences.
Ebert Prize
The Ebert Prize, administered by the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical
Research and Science (APhA–APRS), was established in 1873. It
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. Both the Editorial Advisory Board of the
Journal and the APhA–APRS Awards Committee participate in the
selection process.
Wiederholt Prize
This award was established in 1996 as the APhA Best Published Paper
Award for Economic, Social, and Administrative Sciences. In 2002, it was
renamed 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 JAPhA
within the past two calendar years, describing original investigation in
the areas of economic, social, or administrative sciences.
Clinical Research Paper Award
The award, established in 2006, is intended to promote and encourage
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 JAPhA.
Takeru Higuchi Research Prize
The award, established in 1981 in honor of Dr. Takeru Higuchi, the
first president of the APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and
Science, recognizes the highest accomplishments in pharmaceutical
sciences, and is international scope and stature.
