2026 APhA Awards & Fellow Recipients
- Remington Honor Medal: Thomas E. Menighan, MBA, ScD, FAPhA, FFIP
- Hugo H. Schaefer Award: Hae Mi Choe, PharmD
- Hubert H. Humphrey Award: Tom W. Butler, RPh
- Good Government Pharmacist-of-the-Year Award: Richard H. Dang, PharmD
- H.A.B. Dunning Award: Health Mart/McKesson
- Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award: Valerie Prince, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA
- Distinguished Federal Pharmacist Award: RDML Kelly J. Battese, PharmD, MBA
- Honorary Member: Jill Corso McNabb, MBA
- Honorary Member: Lucas Richert, PhD
- Honorary President: Rear Admiral (retired) Pamela Schweitzer
- Distinguished New Practitioner Award: Myriam Shaw Ojeda, PharmD
- Generation Rx Award: Grace T. Marley, PharmD
- Anne Burns Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award: Judy Sommers
Hanson,
PharmD, FAPhA
- Distinguished Pharmacy Technician Award: Chase Dye, MBA, MHA, CPhT-Adv, FACHE
- Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award: Stefanie P Ferreri, PharmD
- Distinguished Achievement Award in Service:
- Deanna Tran, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA
- Amy K. Kennedy, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, FAPhA
- William H. Briner Distinguished Achievement Award in Nuclear Pharmacy Practice: Stephen
C.
Dragotakes, RPh, NPh, BCNP, FAPhA
Ebert Prize
- Co – First authors: Mark A. Bryniarski, PhD, BS/MS and Md Tariqul Haque Tuhin, PhD
- Co-authors: Timothy M. Acker, Devin L. Wakefield, Panijaya (Gemy) Sethaputra, Kevin D.
Cook, Marcus Soto, Manuel Ponce, Ronya Primack, Aditya Jagarapu, Edward L. LaGory, and Kip P. Conner
- Paper title: Cellular Neonatal Fc Receptor Recycling Efficiencies Can Differentiate
Target-Independent Clearance Mechanisms of Monoclonal Antibodies
Wiederholt Prize for Best Published Paper Award for Economic, Social and Administrative
Sciences
- Primary author: Jenny L. Newlon, PharmD, PhD
- Co-authors: Swarnali Goswami, John P. Bentley, Kimberly S. Illingworth
- Paper title: Community pharmacists’ readiness to take action to improve working
conditions
Wiederholt Prize for Best Published Paper Award for Economic, Social and Administrative
Sciences
- Primary author: Jenny L. Newlon, PharmD, PhD
- Co-authors: Swarnali Goswami, John P. Bentley, Kimberly S. Illingworth
- Paper title: Community pharmacists’ readiness to take action to improve working
conditions
Research Achievement in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award
- Joel F. Farley, PhD, FAPhA
Clinical Research Paper Award
- Lisa Shea, MPH, RD
- Co-authors: Steven Zona, Aarti A. Patel, Christine Brittle, Lakesha Butler
- Paper title: How can pharmacists better support patients with chronic diseases? The
patient perspective
- Julie Akers, PharmD, FWSPA
- Katelyn M. Alexander, PharmD
- Hillary F. Blackburn, PharmD, MBA
- Kelly Brock, PharmD
- Lawrence Cohen, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, FCP, FAAPP, FNAP, BCPP
- Ryan Costantino, PharmD, PhD, BCPS
- Nicholas Dorich, PharmD
- Laura E. Knockel, PharmD, BCACP
- Yifei Liu, BS Pharm, MS, PhD
- Ashley R. Lorenzen, PharmD
- Kevin W. McCloy, PharmD, BCPS
- Phung C. On, PharmD, BCPS
- David R. Steeb, PharmD, MPH
- Jessica Wooster Thomas, PharmD, BCACP
- Roxane L. Took, PharmD, BCACP
- Sara A. Wettergreen, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM
- APhA Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award: Erin Raney, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BC-ADM
- APhA Outstanding Dean Award: Donald Godwin, PhD
- APhA Distinguished New Practitioner Award: Myriam Shaw Ojeda, PharmD
- APhA-ASP Good Government Student Pharmacists-of-the-Year Award: Caitlyn Lucore
- Outgoing APhA-ASP National President - Worthan Eagle Award: Rachel Lucky
- Student Leadership Award
- Paige Holopirek - The University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
- Sami Gangji - The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy
- Misk Al Qaderi - The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy
- Seth Meyer - Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy
- Corporate/Institution
- National Winner: Elements Pharmacy
- Honorable Mention : The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy’s Peter Lamy
Center on Drug Therapy and Aging
- Pharmacy Team Member
- National Winner: Chyanne Coe
- Honorable Mention : Abby Bode
- Friend of Pharmacy
- National Winner: Helene McDowell
- Honorable Mention : Charlene Wong
- Individual Practitioner
- National Winner: Alanna Scott
- Honorable Mention : Benjamin Prewitt
- Outstanding Career Achievement
- National Winner: Sandy (Jeong Yeon) Rhie
- Honorable Mention : Robert Yagar
- Travel Health
- National Winner: Raana Sidky