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2023 AMCP Award Winners

2023 AMCP AWARDS


AMCP confers awards to recognize members and non-members who have made significant contributions to the profession of managed care pharmacy and to AMCP. Award recipients were publicly recognized at AMCP 2023 Annual.

We are pleased to present the 2023 AMCP Award recipients.
 

Distinguished Service Award 

Recognizes an AMCP member who has made exceptional and sustained contributions to AMCP over at least a five-year period. 

  • Marissa Schlaifer, MS, RPh
  • Billy West, Pharm D, MBA, FAMCP

Individual Contribution Award

Recognizes an AMCP member for making a significant contribution by any means other than service as an AMCP Committee Member. 

  • Marlene (Marnie) Wickizer, PharmD

Spirit of Volunteerism Award 

Recognizes a current AMCP Committee Member who, over the past year, has demonstrated outstanding service and provided volunteer activities that resulted in successful and/or high quality AMCP programs, projects and/or services for our members. 

  • Justin Bioc, PharmD, BCPS, RPh

Experiential Education Preceptor Award  

Recognizes an AMCP member making a significant contribution to managed care pharmacy by being a preceptor to student pharmacists for Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences and/or Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences focused in managed care pharmacy. 

  • Hannah Lee-Brown, PharmD, RPh, CPHQ

Managed Care Pharmacy Residency Director/Preceptor Award  

Recognizes an AMCP member who is making a significant contribution to managed care pharmacy by being a managed care residency program director or preceptor. 

  • Ryan Swanson, PharmD

Advocate of the Year Award 

This award recognizes an individual responsible for significant advocacy promoting AMCP's legislative and regulatory priorities. (Formerly the Grassroots Advocacy Award.) 

  • Susan Ito, PharmD

New Practitioner Award 

The AMCP New Practitioner Award was established in 2015 to recognize an AMCP member making a significant contribution to managed care pharmacy within five years of graduation from first professional degree in pharmacy, medicine or nursing. 

  • Kenneth Garcia, PharmD

Diplomat of the Year

Recognizes an individual responsible for significant activity in assisting a school/college of pharmacy with its efforts to increase knowledge about managed care pharmacy and visibility into the managed care pharmacy field. 

  • Ethan Heidorn

JMCP Award of Excellence (Article from 2022) 

Recognizes the author or authors of the best article to appear in JMCP in the prior calendar year. 

"Underprescribing vs underfilling to oral anticoagulation: An analysis of linked medical record and claims data for a nationwide sample of patients with atrial fibrillation" by Guo et al.  

  • Jingchuan Serena Guo, MD, PhD 
  • Meiqi He, MS 
  • Nico Gabriel, MS 
  • Jared W Magnani, MD, MSc 
  • Stephen E Kimmel, MD, MSCE 
  • Walid F Gellad, MD, MPH 
  • Inmaculada Hernandez, PharmD, PhD 

Fellow (FAMCP) Program 

Acknowledges sustained excellence in the pharmacy profession and grants recognition for exceptional contributions, long term commitment, and active participation in AMCP.     

  • Steven Kheloussi, PharmD, MBA
  • Vimal Reddy, PharmD
  • Billy West, Pharm D, MBA, FAMCP

Steven G Avey Award 

Presented by the AMCP Foundation, the Avey Award is managed care pharmacy’s highest honor, recognizing an AMCP member for sustained, exemplary and distinguished service to the profession of managed care pharmacy. 

  • Judith A. Cahill