For Immediate Release
Contact:
John M. Martino
Phone Number: (215) 895-1186
Date: 08/14/02
USP's
Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees Receives Prestigious
Award From PSHP
The
Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists (PSHP) recently named
Marvin S. Samson, vice chairman of the board of trustees of University
of the Sciences in Philadelphia, as this year's recipient of the Sister
M. Gonzales-Duffy Lecture Award.
The award was established in 1985 by the PSHP in honor of the late
Sister M. Gonzales-Duffy, R.S.M., a PSHP member and director of pharmacy
and central service at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Samson
is CEO of Samson Medical Technologies.
He was founder and president of Elkins-Sinn, Inc. (now ESI-Lederle)
and Marsam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and has been an outstanding advocate
for the generic drug industry as chairman of the Generic Pharmaceutical
Industry Association. He
holds five U.S. patents pertaining to pharmaceutical manufacturing.
His extensive collection of pharmacy artifacts, which he gathered
from the basements of old neighborhood pharmacies, led to the creation
in 1995 of the Marvin Samson Center for the History of Pharmacy at USP.
He was awarded honorary alumnus status the following year.
In 1992, he was the recipient of the 1992 Camden County New Jersey's
"Business Leaders Award" for manufacturing.
The
Sister Gonzales Award is presented annually to an individual of high moral
character, good citizenship, and high professional ideas who has sustained
contributions to health-system pharmacy that have impacted practice in
Pennsylvania. The chosen
individual needs to have achieved national prominence through accomplishments
in any of several areas including health-system pharmacy practice or patient
care, health-system pharmacy education, basic or clinical research related
to health-system pharmacy, pharmacy organizational activity related to
health-system pharmacy, public or interdisciplinary activities benefiting
health-system pharmacy, pharmaceutical law, ethics, or professional conduct
activities related to health-system pharmacy.
Samson
will be presented his award on Friday, October 11, 2002 at the Lancaster
Host Resort in Lancaster, Pa. The
presentation will follow his lecture, "A Generic Injectable Drug
- From Idea to Market", scheduled for 9 a.m.
The Award Lecture is being held in conjunction with the PSHP 34th
Annual Assembly.
The
PSHP is the fifth largest affiliate of the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists, consisting of over 1,100 members statewide. Members of PSHP
are employed in various settings throughout the Commonwealth including
hospitals, home care agencies, long-term care facilities, ambulatory care
facilities, health maintenance organizations, clinics, sub-acute facilities,
psychiatric centers, correctional facilities, and colleges of pharmacy.
The mission of PSHP is to
enable pharmacists to provide safe, proper, and cost-effective medication
use, serve as an advocate for patient access to appropriate drug therapy,
enhance public awareness of the value of care provided by pharmacists,
and promote pharmacy as an essential component of the health care team.
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