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Stephen Schondelmeyer receives 2000 Parker Award |
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Stephen W. Schondelmeyer, M.Pub.Adm.,
Pharm.D., Ph.D., is recipient of the 2000 Paul F. Parker
Award. The award is presented annually by the UK College of Pharmacy "to a past resident of the University of Kentucky Pharmacy Residency Program or to an individual intimately associated with the success of the program. This award recognizes an individual who has displayed sustained contribution to the profession in practice, teaching or research; a commitment to high ideals and excellence in their chosen field; leadership and innovation; and a passion to encourage the personal and professional growth of
others." The award was presented during the American Society
of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Meeting in Las Vegas at the UK Pharmacy
Residency Luncheon, Dec. 5 at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Dr. Schondelmeyer is professor of pharmaceutical management and economics at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, where he holds the Century Mortar Club Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Management and Economics. He is director of the PRIME Institute, which focuses on pharmaceutical research related to management and economics, and also is head of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems at the College of Pharmacy. He earned his bachelor of science degree in pharmacy at the University of Missouri, received his Pharm.D. and performed a clinical pharmacy residency at the University of Kentucky, and earned his master's in public administration and Ph.D. in pharmaceutical administration from The Ohio State University, with a focus on health economics and behavioral epidemiology. Dr. Schondelmeyer's research interests
encompass health care economics and public policy as they relate to
pharmacists and pharmaceuticals. Specific |
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the elderly, indigent and other populations; financing and design of drug therapy
benefit programs; monitoring pharmaceutical economic trend indicators
related to pharmacists, pharmacies, wholesalers, manufacturers, drug
products, consumers, insurers and pharmaceutical benefit managers; and
characterization of the economic life cycle of drug therapy markets
and the nature of competition among drug products.
He has conducted policy analysis in areas such as payment for prescription drugs under Medicaid, Medicare, managed care and other third-party programs. He was appointed to the Prescription Drug Payment Review Commission, which served in an oversight and advisory capacity to Congress for the now-repealed Medicare outpatient drug program. He has conducted research projects for a variety of sponsors, including the Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the pharmaceutical industry, and pharmacy associations. He also has worked with a number of states to develop drug assistance programs for the elderly and to address other pharmaceutical policy issues. |
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 Paul
F. Parker
Paul F. Parker was instrumental in establishing University of Kentucky Hospital and served as its first director of pharmacy and central services. During his tenure with the University and College of Pharmacy, 1960-1984, he received international recognition for helping develop the nation's first hospitalwide unit dosage system and drug information center. He also helped develop the clinical pharmacy practice and teaching programs at the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Parker served as president of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP - now American Society of Health-System Pharmacists), as well as treasurer and committee chair of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP). He was a member of Rho Chi national pharmacy honor society and in 1967 received the Harvey Whitney Lecture Award, the most prestigious award of ASHP. |
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University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy - Rose Street, Lexington, KY
40536-0082 - Phone: (859) 323-5761
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