WASHINGTON, Aug. 22,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Pharmacists
Association (APhA) Foundation today announced the recipients of the
2024 Pinnacle Awards.
Established in 1998, the Pinnacle Awards celebrate significant
contributions to the medication use process leading to enhancements
such as increasing patient adherence, reducing adverse drug
events, promoting the use of national treatment guidelines,
improving patient outcomes, and enhancing communication among the
members of the health care team.
"The APhA Foundation has the great pleasure of recognizing this
year's Pinnacle award recipients," said Benjamin Bluml, RPh, APhA Foundation Executive
Director and Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation.
"These individuals and organizations are community champions of
continued medication use improvement and quality care."
2024 Pinnacle Award Recipients and Categories
Michael E. Klepser, PharmD,
FCCP, FIDP
Category I: Individual Award for Career Achievement presented to an
individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in enhancing
health care quality and medication use.
Klepser has been in practice for more than 30 years. He has been
a professor at the Ferris State
University College of Pharmacy since 2001 and is an adjunct
faculty at the University of Nebraska
College of Pharmacy. Klepser is the founder and Director of The
Collaboration of Advance Pharmacy Enterprises (CAPE). Under CAPE,
Klepser works with numerous enterprises to improve quality of and
patient access to care.
Dispensary of Hope
Category III: Award presented to Voluntary Health Agencies,
Nonprofit Organizations, Associations, Government Agencies or
Public/Private Partnerships that demonstrated approaches to assist
patients and their caregivers in achieving better outcomes from
their medications.
Nashville-based nonprofit,
Dispensary of Hope, has been actively operating and building a
national model of medication access for the most vulnerable for
over a decade. Dispensary of Hope is comprised of a network of
dispensing sites, focused on a shared mission to provide vital
medication access to low-income and uninsured individuals across
the United States. This innovative
model unifies pharmaceutical manufacturing and safety net health
care delivery with a common goal of saving and transforming
lives.
The Innovations in Pharmacy Practice
Lecture will be delivered by both Michael E. Klepser, PharmD, FCCP, FIDP, and
Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA, the
Chief Pharmacy Officer of Dispensary of Hope.
Support for the APhA Foundation Pinnacle Awards Program is
provided by an educational grant from Merck.
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