Ivey Named as Francke Medal Award Winner by ASHP
The James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy congratulates professor emerita Marianne Ivey, PharmD, MPH, FASHP, for being named by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) as the 2017 recipient of the Donald E. Francke Medal (52nd Midyear Clinical Meeting, December 2017). The medal honors pharmacists who have made significant international contributions to advance pharmacy practice.
ASHPs more than 43,000 members include pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians. For 75 years, ASHP has been at the forefront of efforts to improve medication use and enhance patient safety.
The announcement states: "Dr. Ivey has made sustained contributions to international pharmacy education, practice, and research, both as a mentor to foreign pharmacy students and as a leader in the Hospital Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation.
Ivey joined the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy in 1988 and retired in April 2016. She has many years of hospital pharmacy executive leadership roles and was in charge of post-doctoral residency programs.
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