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Johnson & Johnson-Merck consumer Pharmaceuticals Co.
The American Pharmacists Association announces Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. and McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNeil-PPC, Inc. as the joint recipients of the APhA H.A.B. Dunning Award for 2006 the pharmacy profession’s most prestigious award bestowed upon a member of the pharmaceutical industry by the profession of pharmacy.
This award, established in 1983 and named for former APhA leader and pharmaceutical industry executive Henry Armitt Brown Dunning, recognizes an exemplary contribution to the practice of pharmacy by a pharmaceutical manufacturer or provider of support products and services.
The firm and McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals were selected as joint 2006 recipients of the H.A.B. Dunning Award in recognition of their support of the founding of October as American Pharmacists Month. American Pharmacists Month brings together professionals, consumers, retailers, and the media in an unprecedented campaign to highlight the role of the pharmacist as the medication expert on the health care team. In addition, each company has helped to sustain several other important APhA awards to recognize outstanding individuals for their strengths as professionals.
Also, each company has been a leader in supporting numerous education and development programs in self-care for pharmacy faculty, students, and practitioners. The Annual Self Care Institute brings together college of pharmacy faculty who teach self care and provides them with cutting edge knowledge about nonprescription drugs and self care therapies, and the Institute provides them with interactive teaching skills.
The Clinical Survival Rotation Kit provides students in their final school year with the tools they need to be successful practitioners. While the long-standing Partners in Self Care continuing education series with monographs, symposia and internet programs has provided pharmacists with an extensive library of resources.
The American Pharmacists Association, founded in 1852 as the American Pharmaceutical Association, represents more than 57,000 practicing pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and others interested in advancing the profession. This firm, dedicated to helping all pharmacists improve medication use and advance patient care, is the first established and largest association of pharmacists in the United States.
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