For Immediate Release

Contact: John M. Martino
Phone Number:  (215) 895-1186
Date: 10/14/03

Pharmacy Professor Named Recipient of APhA Award

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) recently announced that Daniel Hussar, Ph.D., has been selected as the recipient of the Hugo H. Schaefer Award for 2004. The Hugo H. Schaefer Award is a national honor established by the American Pharmacists Association in 1964 recognizing outstanding voluntary contributions to society, to the profession of pharmacy, and the APhA. Dr. Hussar is the Remington professor of pharmacy of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP).

Dr. Hussar has teaching responsibilities in a number of courses at USP and has participated in numerous continuing education programs for practicing pharmacists and other health professionals. Over the years, he has published articles in several professional journals on new drugs that have been marketed in the United States, and he also developed a New Drug Comparison Rating System for health professionals.

He is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the APhA, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Drug Information Association, Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association and the Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Pharmacists Association and is a past president of the Drug Information Association and the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association, which named him “Pharmacist of the Year” in 2000. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Delaware County Christian School, including six years as president. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization.

He received a Ph.D, M.S. and B.S. in pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, now USP.

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is a private, coeducational institution founded in 1821 as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the first college of pharmacy in North America. Comprising four colleges across a broad range of majors, USP specializes in educating students for rewarding careers through its undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs in the health and related sciences.

###