Three individuals with UConn connections were honored at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) held in Nashville, Tenn. March 16 – 19.
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Nathanial Rickles, Pharm.D., Ph.D., BCPP was named a 2018 APhA Fellow. This designation is based on criteria that includes a minimum of 10 years of exemplary professional experience including APhA related activities, community service, and impact on the pharmacy profession through research, scholarly activities, and innovative practice. The designation, FAPhA continues throughout an individual’s active membership in the organization.
Rickles joined the UConn School of Pharmacy in 2016. His teaching interests include health communication, health behavior change/health promotion, the sociology of mental health, and research/design methods.
He is a member of UConn’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), Center of Aging, and the Center for Public Health and Health Policy. He has also collaborated with the non-profit Institute for Community Research in Hartford, which is devoted to finding the root causes of health disparities among disadvantaged individuals and communities.
Stefanie Ferreri ’97 (BS/Pharmacy) received the APhA-APPM Distinguished Achievement Award in Pharmacy Practice. Ferreri, who earned her Pharm.D. from Campbell University is now a clinical professor at the University of North Carolina’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She is also a Fellow of the APhA.
The Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes an individual who has developed or implemented an innovative, original pharmacy program or service that is significant to their area of practice. Ferreri was selected for the award because of her role in the development and implementation of a collaborative care model in which community pharmacists are integrated into the medical home care team.
The 2018 Research Achievement Award was presented to Betsy Sleath, ’88 (BS/Pharmacy), the George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy and chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy.
The award, offered annually, recognizes outstanding, meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical sciences. It covers the areas of basic pharmaceutical, clinical, and economic, social and administrative sciences. Applicants are judged on their established stream of research, international recognition, leadership and other recognition, new concepts and innovative research in pharmaceutical science as well as the use and implementation of research by the profession, the research community, and other disciplines.
Sleath, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says she has been a member of the APhA since her student days at UConn.
Founded in 1852, the APhA is the largest association of pharmacists in the United States, with more than 62,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians as members. Its mission includes equipping its members for their role as medication experts in team-based, patient-centered care.
