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The ASHP Research and Education Foundation will recognize the recipients of the 2017 Pharmacy Residency Excellence Awards at a special reception held during the ASHP 2017 Midyear Clinical Meeting in Orlando, Florida. This award program, sponsored by Amgen, Inc., recognizes excellence in pharmacy residency training through recognition of residency programs, preceptors, and new preceptors. The recipients of this award have demonstrated innovation in training pharmacy residents and serve as models for other residency programs and preceptors.

The Program Award will be given to the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) Pharmacy Residency Program for its outstanding residency program.  The other Pharmacy Residency Excellence Award recipients include Emmanuelle Schwartzman, Pharm.D., BCACP, CDE® who will be awarded the 2017 Preceptor Award, and Joshua J. Elder, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCOP, recipient of the 2017 New Preceptor Award.

Dr. Elder is a UK College of Pharmacy alumnus and employee of Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville, KY. “Serving as a preceptor has provided me the opportunity to continue to pay forward what so many mentors have gifted to me along my journey,” said Dr. Elder. “Watching learners grow and flourish has provided invaluable career and life lessons. It is truly a humbling experience to be selected for this honor and will only continue to fuel my drive to train the upcoming generation of clinical pharmacists.”

The awardees will be formally recognized at a reception on December 2, 2017, at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.

In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.

We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.