ASHP Awards Six Members with Distinguished Service Honors

The ASHP recognized six practitioners with the Pharmacy Practice Sections and New Practitioners Forum Distinguished Service Award for their volunteer efforts. Awards were presented at the reception of the ASHP’s 54^th Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition in Las Vegas.

Recipients include the following: 

Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners (SACP)

Barbara Petroff, BS Pharm, MS, FASHP

Petroff is a certified accreditation consultant and provides consulting services for infusion, specialty pharmacy, sterile compounding and accreditation preparation, and as an expert witness. She also served on the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners Executive Committee and as a longtime volunteer for numerous Section initiatives. 

Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists (SCSS)
Jill S. Bates, PharmD, MS, BCOP, FASHP

Batest is an oncology Precision Therapeutics Pharmacist at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill and national PHASeR Pharmacy Program manager for pharmacogenomics with the Department of Veterans Affairs and an Associate Professor of Clinical Education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She also served as Vice Chair and Chair of the Council on Therapeutics, Chair of the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists Executive Committee, and she was a member of the Women in Pharmacy Leadership Committee.

Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners (SICP)

Emily Alexander, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP

Alexander is a relief pharmacist and an independent consultant on telepharmacy practice, cofounder and former CEO of Envision Telepharmacy. She served on the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Executive Committee as Chair and Director at Large, was a member of the Section’s Committee on Nominations, and the ASHP Council on Public Policy, and represented both the Section and Texas as a delegate in the ASHP House of Delegates.

Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology (SOPIT)

Barbara L. Giacomelli, PharmD, MBA, FASHP

Giacomelli is VP of Advisory Services at McKesson RxO, McKesson Pharmaceitcal Solutions and Services. She is a Fellow of ASHP, served as Chair of the ASHP Section of Informatics and Technology Executive Committee, and is a member of the ASHP/ACPE Pharmacy Technician Accreditation Commission.

Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders (SPPL)

James M. Hoffman PharmD, MS, FASHP

Hoffman is the Chief Patient Safety Officer and an Associate Member in Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Hoffman served the Section in a variety of capacities, including as Vice Chair and Chair of the Section Advisory Group on Quality and Compliance and Director-at-Large and Chair of the Section Executive Committee. He was a member of the ASHP Council on Pharmacy Practice and the FASHP Recognition Committee and a delegate to the House of Delegates. He is a member of the steering committee of the ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Forecast and an author of the annual prescription drug expenditure forecast published in AJHP.

New Practitioners Forum (NPF

Ashley Duty, PharmD, MS

Ashley Duty is Clinical Pharmacy Operations Manager at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri, where she is responsible for 23 pharmacists in general medicine and hematology/oncology and oversight of USP Chapter <797> and USP Chapter <800> for all sterile compounding operations. She recently served as a planner and presenter for the ASHP Sterile Product Preparation Certificate and the Compounded Sterile Products Certificate for Pharmacists. Dr. Duty is a member of the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders Advisory Group on New and Emerging Leaders and President-elect of the Greater Kansas City Society of Health-System Pharmacists. A Past Chair of the New Practitioners Forum and Past Vice Chair of the Pharmacy Student Forum, Dr. Duty is the author of the ASHP Statement on Use of Social Media by Pharmacy Professionals.