Awards - ACA Foundation

Distinguished Person of the Year Award

This award is presented in recognition of the commitment to the profession of pharmacy as an agent of change, educator, innovator, clinician, leader, policy maker or community activist. This award is presented annually at the APhA Annual Meeting.

Award Recipients

2019 Award Recipient
Distinguished Person of the Year
Jeff Stone, PharmD
Senator of California, 28th District

1975	Linus Pauling, PhD * Double Nobel Prize winner: Chemistry, Peace	1976	John C. MacFarlane President, Young Drug Products Corporation
1977	Emil P. Martini, Jr, RPh * CEO Bergen Brunswing Corporation	1978	Martin Rubin, RPh President, Royal Drug Company
1979	George S. Maggio, RPh * Founder & President Keystone Academy of Pharmacy	1980	Stanley Hartman, RPh Executive Director, Portland Retail Druggists Association
1981	Jere S. Goyan, RPh, PhD, ScD, LLD Former Dean, School of Pharmacy, UCSF, Commissioner of the FDA	1982	Ronald S. Marks, Esq Marks and Stevenson
1983	Robert D. Gibson, RPh, PharmD, ScD (Emeritus) Associate Vice Chancellor, UCSF, Former President, APhA	1984	Marcel Laventurier, RPh, BS * Retired Senior Vice President, PAID Prescriptions
1985	Joseph A. Oddis, RPh, BS Former CEO American Society of Hospital Pharmacists	1986	Raymond A. Gosselin, RPh, MS, ScD, LLD, PhD * Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
1987	Harry W. Hind, RPh, BS, LLD, ScD Chairman of the Board, Barnes-Hind, Inc.	1988	R. Keith Campbell, RPh, MBA, FAPP Professor of Clinical pharmacy, Washington State University
1989	C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD Former Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service	1990	Frank E. Young, MD, PhD Former Commissioner of the FDA
1991	Paul E. Freiman, RPh Former Chairman & CEO, Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA	1992	William R. Bacon, RPh * Past President, Academy of Community Practice (ACP) of the APhA
1993	Glen I. Stimmel, PharmD Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Psychiatry, USC	1994	Raymond Arthur Olson, RPh, CEO Former Washington State Pharmacist Association
1995	John A. Biles, PhD, Dean (Emeritus) University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles	1996	Ronald L. Williams, Pharmacist * Director and Strategic Planning Coordinator, APhA Washington D.C.
1997	M. Christine Gosselin, RPh, BS, MS Past President, Massachusetts Pharmacists Association	1998	Jerome A. Halperin, RPh, MPH, ScD Former Executive Vice President, USP
1999	Mario G. Obledo, RPh, JD Past National President, League of United Latin American Citizens	2000	Larry Sasich, PharmD Public Citizen, Washington, D.C.
2001	Leslie Z. Benet, PhD Professor, University of California, San Francisco	2002	Daniel A. Hussar, PhD Professor, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, USP
2003	Thomas J. McGinnis, RPh Director of Pharmacy Affairs, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)	2004	Nancy J.W. Lewis, PharmD, MPH Associate Professor, Wayne State University
2004	Pat Carroll-Grant, RPh, COE Executive Director of the Delaware Pharmaceutical Society	2005	Richard M. Church, PharmD Assistant Public Health Service (Indian Health Service)
2006	Robert N. Klein, JD California Institute for Regenerative Medicine	2007	Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS Former Surgeon General
2008	Michael R. Cohen, RPh MS, SCD Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania	2009
2010	Congressman Henry Waxman US Representative, California 20th District	2011	Richard J. Bertin, RPh, PhD, RADM Former Executive Director of the Board of Pharmacy Specialties
2012	J. Lyle Bootman Senior Vice-President for Health Sciences, Dean of the College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona	2013
2014		2015	Rear Admiral (RADM) Scott F. Giberson Chief Executive Officer , U.S. Public Health Service’s Commissioned Corps
2016	Betty J. Dong, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP, AAHIVP University of California Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, San Francisco, CA	2017
2018	Ken Roberts, PhD, RPh, Dean Emeritus University of Kentucky	2019	Jeff Stone, PharmD Senator of California, 28th District