Distinguished Achievement Awards
2024 Distinguished Achievement Award in Service Recipient
Sara Wettergreen, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM
Dr. Sara Wettergreen is a passionate pharmacy educator, clinical pharmacist, and advocate. She works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and helps lead curricular change efforts at the school. Her primary teaching areas are related to patient-centered communication and advanced diabetes management. In her role as a faculty, she spends half of her time as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at UCHealth Lone Tree Primary Care clinic, where she provides chronic disease state management and pharmacotherapy consultations. Dr. Wettergreen is an active member of many professional organizations, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Pharmacists Society. She considers APhA her professional organization home, with continual leadership and involvement for the last 10 years. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering in her community through Junior League and getting to explore the mountains of Colorado by hiking and skiing.
About
These awards recognize individuals who have made a significant or sustained contribution to pharmacy practice and have advanced the missions of APhA and APhA-APPM. Up to two recognitions will be presented each year, and the individual awards will be as follows: Distinguished Achievement in Pharmacy Practice, and Distinguished Achievement in Service. In any given year, one or two awards will be presented in any combination as determined by the APhA-APPM Awards Committee.
Criteria
Nominees must be a pharmacist member of APhA and a member of APhA-APPM. Remington Medalists are not eligible for these awards. All Distinguished Achievement Award nominations will be evaluation based upon the following criteria (listed alphabetically; not in rank order):
APhA-related activities
Awards and recognition
Community service
Participation in other professional associations
Impact on practice & profession within nominee’s focus area (pharmacy practice/pharmacy management/service)
Nomination process
The nominator is responsible for submitting a complete award nomination.
The nomination is to include the following items:
A letter of nomination describing the most important achievements of the nominee and explaining why the nominee meets the criteria for the award
One letter of recommendation from someone other than the nominator is required, up to two letters accepted
A current curriculum vitae or detailed résumé
Selection process
The selection is made by the APhA-APPM Awards Committee based upon careful review of the complete nominations and criteria as listed above. Particular attention will be given to the individual’s impact on the profession.
Nature of award
The award is presented at the APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition and consists of a crystal recognition piece. The recipient also receives a complimentary APhA Annual Meeting registration and reimbursement for meeting-related travel expenses, according to current travel policies and up to the maximum amount budgeted by APhA.
Distinguished Achievement in Pharmacy Practice
The nominee has developed and/or implemented an innovative, original pharmacy program or service which is significant to the nominee’s area of practice. The nominee has engaged in scholarly activities (publications, poster/podium presentations, expert review panel participation) and performed practical pharmacy research that has had a significant impact on the quality of patient care and/or cost containment.
Past Recipients
2019 Kimberly C. McKeirnan
2015 Allison M. Dering-Anderson and Dominic A. Solimando
2013 Janelle F. Ruisinger
Distinguished Achievement in Service
The nominee has made significant or sustained contributions in the area of service to their community, their state, or the national level. Service activities would include community service, service to the profession, and service to APhA. The nominee has mentored and inspired individuals to participate in service activities and through their leadership have contributed to the development of future advocates for the profession.
Past recipients:
2018 Emily Prohaska and Melissa Skelton Duke
2016 Kimberly Sasser Croley and Amy Lugo
2015 Duann V. Thislethwaite
2013 Charles J. Broussard
Distinguished Achievement in Pharmacy Management
The nominee has made significant or sustained contributions in the area of pharmacy management. The nominee has engaged in or encouraged others to pursue scholarly activities (publications, poster/podium presentations, expert review panel participation) and practical pharmacy research that has had a significant impact on the quality of patient care and/or cost containment.
Past recipients:
Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Distinguished Achievement Award in Administrative Practice
Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Distinguished Achievement Award in Clinical / Pharmacotherapeutic Practice
1969 George F. Archambault
2006 Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner
2005 Daniel E. Buffington
2004 Jean-Venable R. Goode
1999 Terrence Schwinghammer
1995 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble
Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Distinguished Achievement Award in Community and Ambulatory Practice
2005 Matthew C. Osterhaus
2003 Judith B. Sommers Hanson
Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Distinguished Achievement Award in Hospital and Institutional Practice
2001 Dominic A. Solimando, Jr.
Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Distinguished Achievement Award in Specialized Pharmacy Practice
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