Opening Session

Doors open at 7:30 a.m. (subject to change)

Presidential Address
ASHP President Paul C. Walker, PharmD, FASHP, Clinical Professor and Assistant Dean of Experiential Education and Community Engagement, College of Pharmacy, and Manager, Department of Pharmacy, Michigan Medicine

CEO Award for Staff Excellence
Presented by ASHP Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Paul W. Abramowitz, PharmD, ScD (Hon), FASHP, the CEO Award for Staff Excellence recognizes an individual staff member who, in addition to performing all of his/her normal job duties with excellence, has also demonstrated exceptional initiative in contributing to ASHP. Specifically, this award recognizes a staff member who has provided an outstanding contribution by leading or developing a project of significant value for ASHP and has demonstrated sustained excellence over time to the advancement of ASHP.

Awardees:

• Paul Busby, Manager, Office of Project Management & Technical Support, Office of Information Technology
• Christina Francisco, Director, Digital Marketing & Strategy, Office of Marketing & Communications
• Jillanne Schulte Wall, Senior Director, Health & Regulatory Policy, Office of Government Relations

Announcement of the 2022 ASHP National Clinical Skills Competition Winning Team
The ASHP National Clinical Skills Competition is an interactive, team-based analysis of patient-case scenarios that provide student pharmacists the opportunity to showcase and enhance their clinical skills and knowledge. Winning teams from the local-level competitions at each school and college of pharmacy compete in the semifinal round (national-level) on Saturday. The top 10 teams advance to compete in the final round, oral presentation, on Sunday.

Acknowledgment of the Donald E. Francke Medalist
The ASHP Board of Directors’ Donald E. Francke Medal honors pharmacists who have made significant international contributions to advance pharmacy practice.

Toyin Tofade, PharmD, MS, BCPS, CPCC, FFIP, 10th President, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York

Dr. Tofade is a well-respected and accomplished leader in global pharmacy with sustained contributions to international pharmacy leadership and continuous professional development (CPD). She has published several papers and presented her work on CPD, academic capacity, organizational leadership, and building strong relationship systems both nationally and internationally.

ASHP Board of Directors’ Awards

ASHP Board of Directors Award of Honor
The ASHP Board of Directors Award of Honor recognizes individuals outside the pharmacy discipline who have made extraordinary national or world-wide contributions to the health field.

Scott Gottlieb, MD, 23rd Commissioner Food and Drug Administration; Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC

Dr. Gottlieb is a highly esteemed physician, medical policy expert, and public health advocate. As FDA commissioner, he helped streamline and accelerate the drug review and approval process, address concerns around drug prices, combat opioid use disorder, and embrace innovation related to medical products. His ongoing support of pharmacists as medication experts and advocacy for pharmacist provider status sparked impactful, profession-wide change and advancement.

ASHP Board of Directors’ Distinguished Leadership Award
The ASHP Board of Directors’ Distinguished Leadership Award recognizes pharmacists who have achieved excellence in pharmacy practice leadership in acute and ambulatory care settings.

Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, FAST, Executive Vice President and Provost, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon

Dr. Chisholm-Burns is a nationally renowned prolific researcher, educator, and leader in health disparities, healthcare access, social justice, and the scholarship of teaching. For nearly 30 years, her work has embraced transformational learning opportunities that create and foster diverse and equitable academic and healthcare environments and encourage dialogues and innovation between students, patients, and providers.

Miriam A. Mobley Smith, PharmD, FASHP, Interim Dean, University of Hawaii at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, Hilo, Hawaii

Dr. Mobley Smith is a highly accomplished and esteemed leader, educator, and speaker. Her strategic leadership, unyielding passion, and demonstrated commitment to training the pharmacy workforce continues to elevate the role of pharmacy professionals, enhance patient safety, and advance the pharmacy profession.

ASHP Board of Directors Pharmacy Champion Award
The ASHP Board of Directors Pharmacy Champion Award recognizes leadership in advocacy and public policy that contributes to significant improvements in patient care, drug safety, medication-use outcomes, and advances the vital roles pharmacists play as patient care providers.

Representative Gary Merchant, MBA, RPh, Sullivan, District 4, New Hampshire House of Representatives

Representative Merchant is a subject matter expert on 340B-participating hospitals and the orphan drug exclusion, pharmacy supply chain, and hospital pharmacy management. He is an avid champion for advancing pharmacists’ scope of practice, expanding reimbursement for services provided by a pharmacist, and fostering medication safety and health outcomes. He played a significant role in facilitating legislation that recognizes pharmacists as providers under Medicaid and expands their ability to prescribe medications for tobacco cessation. Representative Merchant also championed legislation creating a new license category for advanced pharmacy technicians authorizing them to perform most technical dispensing functions without the review or approval of a licensed pharmacist.

Colorado Pharmacists Society led coalition involved in the passage of H.B. 21-1275, Medicaid Reimbursement for Services by Pharmacists

A coalition of pharmacy and healthcare professionals led by the Colorado Pharmacists Society worked closely with state legislators to secure passage of legislation that requires Medicaid to reimburse pharmacists for clinical services under the medical benefit, including those providing advanced clinical services under collaborative practice agreements or statewide protocols. This group of dedicated pharmacy and healthcare leaders executed a concerted, highly organized, and effective effort to improve patient access to primary care and add to the growing list of states expanding patient access to pharmacists’ services.

ASHP Board of Directors Pharmacy Technician Excellence Award
The ASHP Board of Directors Pharmacy Technician Excellence Award recognizes contributions to excellence in the role of pharmacy technicians, advancement of the pharmacy technician workforce, and advancement of pharmacy practice.

Barbara E. Lacher, CPhT, Associate Professor and Program Director (ret.), North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, North Dakota

Ms. Lacher is a highly respected pharmacy technician educator and advocate for the advancement of the pharmacy technician workforce. For more than 20 years, she has been a leading voice for the development of national, uniform standards for pharmacy technician education and training.

ASHP-ABHP Joint Leadership Award
The ASHP-ABHP (Association of Black Health-System Pharmacists) Joint Leadership Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.

Angela M. Hill, PharmD, CPh, RPh, Professor and Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs; Project Director, WE-CARE, University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy, Tampa, FL

Dr. Hill is a respected educator, researcher, and leader with a passion for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and fostering a more diverse and culturally literate healthcare workforce. Throughout her career, she has leveraged her vast expertise and community relationships to train investigators to implement culturally tailored strategies for enhancing recruitment and retention of diverse research participants, mentor the next generation of cross-culturally informed and responsive patient care providers, and ensure intercultural competent pharmacist care is available and utilized both locally and globally.

ASHP Foundation 2022 Literature Award for Sustained Contributions
The ASHP Foundation annual Literature Award for Sustained Contributions recognizes a pharmacist who, throughout their career, has made significant contributions to biomedical literature. The ASHP Foundation has been presenting this award since 1971. It is based on the idea that recognition through awards stimulates research and innovation and fosters improvement in the quality of biomedical literature. The Award for Sustained Contributions honors a person with a track record of publishing relevant articles of consistently high quality and impact in the primary, peer-reviewed biomedical literature over a minimum of 20 years.

“A Morning With Michael Strahan”