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Wyoming Pharmacist of the Year
The Wyoming Pharmacy Association held the 92nd Annual Convention in Casper June 26-28. It was during this convention that they recognized Jennifer Nevins, RPh as the Wyoming Pharmacist of the Year. At left, Kellie Nevins, daughter and UW School of Pharmacy Student surprised her mother with this award.
Nevins has been involved in many aspects of pharmacy in her career and is an outstanding advocate for her profession. She is a member of ASHP, ASCP, WPhA and WSHP and served as WSHP president for 2006-7; president elect for 2005-6, and board member 2007-8.
In addition to being an active member for the various pharmacy associations, she has also served as an elected member of the Wyoming State Board of Pharmacy for two terms between 1993-2005, where she served as board president for a combined 4 years and is currently serving another term for 2008-2011. While on the board she participated in MPJE item writing for the jurisprudence exam and she is very active representing the board during legislative sessions and meetings with the board of medicine. She was involved with visiting various states to review prescription drug monitoring programs prior to Wyoming adopting the current prescription drug monitoring program.
She served on several taskforce committees at NABP including the Resolutions committee 2 times, Taskforce Chairman and served as the District 7 representative on NABP Resolution & Nomination Committees. She is currently the President of District 7 NABP. She is the WY NABP Voting Delegate, ACPE Board Representative, and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council, USP 797 Task Force, UW Alumni Board of Directors, as well as a UW & high school preceptor for many years.
Jennifer is active in her community with a yearly booth at the local health fair and is hoping to add a drug take-back program for the health fair this year. She is on the Hospital Speaking Bureau for the community, speaking to various groups and at the senior center and will take students to speak at the Senior Center occasionally. She organizes her school of pharmacy class reunions and started a scholarship fund for the UW School of Pharmacy students through her class.
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Wyoming Technician of the Year
During the Wyoming Pharmacy Association 92nd Annual Convention, Lorraine Bundy, CPhT was recognized as the Wyoming Pharmacy Technician of the Year.
Bundy has worked at several institutional pharmacies and helped to develop an orderly and consistent medication delivery format that increased nursing accuracy and patient safety. In 1997 when she moved to Powell, she was the sole technician for several years at Powell Valley Healthcare and filled in at every conceivable duty short of being a pharmacist. During this time PVHC instituted many successful programs such as standardizing delivery of medications to the PVHCs attached Long Term Care Center, addition of a modern pharmacy computer system, successful implementation of a medication error reporting program, and employee prescription program.
Lorraine has been a member of WPhA since 1998 and served three terms as the technician representative from 2000 to 2008. She actively works to help advance the profession of pharmacy by motivating others to join WPhA, whether technician or pharmacist. She was instrumental in starting the WPhA Annual CE for Technicians Conference in 2000.
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Bowl of Hygeia Award Winner
Dave Athey, RPh was recognized as the Bowl of Hygeia Award Winner for the state of Wyoming. Athey was unable to attend the event due to a previously scheduled vacation to Africa. This award is presented by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to an individual who has devoted their time, talent, and resources to better their community and the profession of pharmacy. This year’s recipient was no different.
Mr. Athey has many years of experience in the community pharmacy arena. He spent his first 14 years with Skaggs/Osco/Payless before moving on to work for Wal-Mart in 1990. He then opened his own pharmacy in 1992 (“Dave’s Ideal Pharmacy in Laramie, WY) and maintained this pharmacy until 1996. Dave was employed by Buttrey’s/Albertson’s pharmacy from 1996 - 1999 when he opened his second independent pharmacy “Express Pharmacy” in Laramie which has been a huge success. He has spent many years in the community and has developed great relationships with patients and health care providers. He is focused on providing patients with the best care possible and emphasizes this by offering excellent customer service. He offers services such as professional compounding, free delivery service, a drive-thru, and with the use of a new robotics system, is able to process prescriptions at an increased rate but with fewer errors. Patients frequently comment “Oh, just go to Express Pharmacy to have your medicines filled, Dave will take great care of you.” Dave’s dedication to pharmacy and to the community in general is impressive and Laramie is fortunate to have him as a member of their health care team!
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Wyoming Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year
The Wyoming Pharmacy Association held the 92nd Annual Convention in Casper June 26-28. It was during this convention that Craig Frederick, PharmD was recognized as the Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year.
Frederick is a leader not only for the profession of pharmacy, but in his own community of Guernsey, Wyoming. He owns and operates the only pharmacy in his community. He is extremely active in his church’s youth ministry, Lions Club, and the JC’s. He is always the first to volunteer when somebody asks for help. In the pharmacy he is always ready to council customers, help them find a better insurance plan, or just chat and make them feel comfortable. He puts a fire into people that motivates them to success and to help other people as much as they can along the way. Every day we can see a new person bettering their lives because he has influenced them to do so.
Overall Craig Frederick is an outstanding Pharmacist and person. He does so much for the other people that he often forgets to reward himself. He has never stopped helping and at the same time continuing to better himself and his practice.
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Wyoming Innovative Pharmacy Practice Award
During the Wyoming Pharmacy Association 92nd Annual Convention, Kem Krueger, Pharm.D., Ph.D. was recognized as the Innovative Pharmacist of the Year. While many of us think of pharmacy practice as the more traditional role of dispensing medications and/or interacting with patients and other health care providers as a clinical service, we believe that Dr. Krueger has opened our eyes to a different area of pharmacy practice. He is teaching many of the young pharmacists in this state to look at the bigger picture of pharmacy through economics, ethics, law and outcome measures, and to be proactive in preserving our profession. He is also educating many of the currently practicing pharmacists in our state about the impact of economics and health care policy on our profession, both locally and nationally.
Prior to becoming faculty at the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy 2005, Dr. Krueger was faculty at Auburn University for 7 years. He currently teaches pharmacy courses in law, ethics, and health policy. He received the Teacher of the Year Award by the Pharmacy Students at the 2009 Annual Awards banquet. He also serves as a co-advisor to the APhA-ASP chapter at UW and created an elective to help students in NCPA become more competitive in the national business plan competition. In 2007, he was awarded the College of Health Sciences Interprofessional Award. He was also honored by the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) with an award as a 12th Annual International Meeting Poster Finalist.
Dr. Krueger has spent 8 years conducting pharmacoeconomic and outcomes research, with a focus on measuring the clinical and economic impact of pharmacy services, modeling disease interventions, and validating disease state models. His most current research has impacted many people involved in health care in Wyoming, including patients, pharmacists, health care professionals, and policy makers. The titles of some of this research include: “A Feasibility Study for a New WY Rural Interdisciplinary Practice Model”, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Ethics Across the Pharmacy Curriculum”, “Outcomes of patient centered clinical prevention service with Medicaid recipients”, and “Investigating the Relationship Between Health Literacy and Adherence to Medication Regimens”, just to name a few.
He presented some of this research at the WPhA Annual Meeting in 2007, entitled “Future of Pharmacy in Wyoming: Are Wyoming Communities at Risk, Will Students Fill the Void?” This research was extremely proactive in identifying the gaps that Wyoming will experience in pharmacy related services over the next 5 years. He has been awarded grants to identify possible solutions to this problem, including more interdisciplinary work between a variety of health care professionals.
Dr. Krueger is an extremely valuable resource in our state and our profession. He has not only helped to identify future problems for Wyoming residents with regard to access to pharmacy services, he is actively looking for solutions to this problem. While this is no small feat, he has also managed to educate many people along the way, including students, pharmacists, health care professionals, and policy makers. By involving all of the above mentioned people, he has also ignited a desire to protect the services our state has to offer and improve them.
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Wyoming Health System Pharmacist of the Year
During the convention William Boulden, RPh was recognized as the Wyoming Health System Pharmacist of the Year. Boulden was also recognized by the Wyoming State Board of Pharmacy for practicing in the state of Wyoming for 50 years. Pictured at the left are two of Bill's son-in-laws who were able to be present for the special award.
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