Professor Marialice Bennett Elected President of APhA

Prof. Marialice BennettWASHINGTON, DC – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) has announced that Marialice S. Bennett, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Practice at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Pharmacy, has been chosen as President-elect. Also elected to serve on APhA’s Board of Trustees, beginning in March 2010, are Lawrence M. Brown of Germantown, Tennessee; Matthew C. Osterhaus of Maquoketa, Iowa. They will serve a three-year term. Elected as Honorary President was Dennis B. Worthen of Loveland, Ohio. These individuals will be installed at APhA’s 158th Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, DC, March 12-15, 2010.

President-elect Bennett will succeed Harold N. Godwin to the office of President on March 28, 2011 at the conclusion of the 2011 APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition in Seattle.

Bennett, a graduate of OSU, has held various offices in the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM), including that of President from 2007-2009, during which time she also served on the APhA’s Board of Trustees. Recently, Bennett was selected as the recipient of the 2009 APhA Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award. Her other honors include being the recipient of the first APhA Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award; APhA Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award; and twice being the recipient of the Miriam Balshone Award for Distinguished Teaching at the OSU College of Pharmacy. In 1997 and 2000 she was selected as OSU faculty member of the year for the College of Pharmacy two year post baccalaureate of pharmacy program.

Source: The American Pharmacists Association.

For more information about Prof. Bennett's election please visit the APhA web site.

 

 

9/22/09

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