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Susan C. Fagan, Alicia B. Forinash, Gary R. Matzke, John E.Murphy, Edith A. Nutescu, and Frank Romanelli have been selected by the College’s Awards Committee to receive ACCP’s prestigious 2019 Therapeutic Frontiers Lecture Award, Clinical Practice Award, C. Edwin Webb Professional Advocacy Award, Robert M. Elenbaas Service Award, Russell R. Miller Award, and Education Award respectively. The awards will be presented in New York, New York, on Sunday morning, October 27, during the Awards and Recognition Ceremony of the College’s 2019 Annual Meeting.

The ACCP Education Award recognizes an ACCP member who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy education at either the professional or postgraduate level. Frank Romanelli, Pharm.D., MPH, FAPhA, BCPS, AAHIVP, is interim associate dean in the Department of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy and a clinical specialist in the division of infectious disease, Department of Internal Medicine in the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Sara Brouse, professor and regional dean, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Abilene Campus, wrote in her letter of support:

Dr. Romanelli has always taught with innovation in mind. He was a recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Teaching Innovations Award in 2004 and the UK College of Pharmacy Michael J. Lach Innovative Teaching Practice Award in 2013. His vision and innovative spirit have been paramount to influencing curricular change since he joined the UK College of Pharmacy following residency. Dr. Romanelli has officially led curricular transformation efforts at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy since 2007 when he became Assistant Dean of Education. Under his tenure as Associate Dean of Education, he launched the new integrated curriculum at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in 2016. As influential as Dr. Romanelli has been in the classroom, his education-related impact has been equally felt by peer educators nationwide through his 45 education-related published articles, letters, and opinion statements. I personally have become accustomed to reading his regular editorials and letters and utilize many of them as discussion starters for my own academia experiential rotations for residents. They have also been the subject matter of many faculty debates and discussions at my present institution. His contributions are always timely with issues that are being faced in our profession as educators.

At the time of his nomination, Romanelli had published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as 10 book contributions and peer-reviewed letters. He has presented extensively at professional and scientific meetings (including ACCP meetings) and served as a member of several ACCP committees and task forces.

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.