AMCP and FMCP Confer Awards for Volunteer and Professional Accomplishment in Pharmacy

Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Hosts 20th Annual Meeting &
Showcase in San Francisco, California April 16 - 19, 2008
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(Business Wire)--
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy's 20th Annual Meeting &
Showcase, a premiere event attended by thousands of managed care
pharmacy professionals, opened at the Moscone West Convention Center
at 8:00 am on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Nationally renowned keynote
speakers, inauguration of the Academy's new officers and the 2008
Annual Showcase exhibit will highlight the many activities scheduled
for the 4-day program. In addition, AMCP will confer awards
recognizing outstanding achievement in the profession and practice of
managed care pharmacy.

The AMCP Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Elaine
Manieri, BS Pharm. This Award reflects the highest standard that an
AMCP member can achieve. Conferred upon a member who has demonstrated
at least five years of exceptional and sustained volunteer service,
Distinguished Service Award winners achieve recognition not only for
their professional achievements, but also for their commitment to the
Academy. Manieri's strong advocacy, sustained volunteer service and
exceptional leadership skills earned her election to the AMCP Board of
Directors in 2005, where she proved to be a productive and committed
contributor. She is currently serving as president of AMCP Horizons,
LLC through 2010, and has been instrumental in building Horizons into
a profitable, growing and dynamic organization. In addition to a long
list of accomplishments, Manieri is also a positive example to others,
always encouraging and challenging AMCP members to volunteer for
leadership roles.

New AMCP Fellows: A Fellow of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
is an Academy member who merits recognition for sustained excellence
in the pharmacy profession as well as notable service to AMCP. The
2008 FAMCP inductees are H. Eric Cannon, PharmD and Cynthia J. Pigg,
BS Pharm, MHA.

H. Eric Cannon, PharmD: An active member of the Academy since
1998, Cannon is chief of Pharmacy and director of Health and Wellness
for SelectHealth, an Intermountain Healthcare company. He has years of
experience practicing in the hospital, retail, long term care and home
health environments, and recently served on an Institute of Medicine
Committee, Preventing Medication Errors. He has chaired the Academy's
Legislative Committee and served in other various capacities.

Pigg is currently the executive director and CEO of the Foundation
for Managed Care Pharmacy where she works to fulfill the mission of
helping people optimize their medication therapy. Pigg is considered a
thought leader in managed care pharmacy with experience ranging from
clinical leadership to the business aspects of pharmacy benefit
management. She is a past president of AMCP and FMCP.

The 2007 Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy Award for Excellence:
The winning article, from the March 2007 issue of JMCP was "Comparison
of mail-order with community pharmacy in plan sponsor cost and member
cost in two large pharmacy benefit plans," authored by Michael
Johnsrud, PhD; RPh, Kenneth A. Lawson, PhD, RPh; and Marvin D.
Shepherd, PhD, RPh. All three authors are employed by the College of
Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin.

This article presented ground-breaking research that examined the
widespread perception that mail order pharmacy offers plan sponsors
lower pricing compared with community pharmacy. Using price per unit
and price per day methods of analysis, this research showed that mail
order pharmacy had lower costs for the member, but not necessarily for
the plan sponsor.

AMCP's Foundation Confers Award

The Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy's Steven G. Avey Award
recipient is David Eddy, MD, PhD. Possessing a rare combination of
talents, Dr. Eddy is a heart surgeon turned mathematician and
health-care economist known for his willingness to follow difficult
paths or take an unpopular stand. He coined the term "evidence-based"
and developed the original concepts and methods underlying
evidence-based guidelines, coverage policies and performance measures,
almost single-handedly reshaping modern medical and pharmacy practice.
His ground-breaking work shaping the development of treatment
guidelines, mathematical modeling, coverage decisions, medical
necessity, cost-effectiveness analysis and performance measurement
will continue to influence generations of practitioners across broad
realms of medical practice.

Elected or appointed to more than 40 national and international
boards and commissions - including Consumers Union, the National Board
of Mathematics, the World Health Organization Panel of Experts, the
Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Advisory Panel, and the National
Committee for Quality Assurance - Dr. Eddy has been a member of the
Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences since 1984.

He was Professor of Engineering and Medicine at Stanford, and then
the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management at
Duke University, before he resigned to become an independent
researcher and writer. He is the founder and co-inventor of the
Archimedes model, and is currently the Chief Medical Officer of
Archimedes, Inc. in San Francisco, a "virtual patient" program that
works so well it has the ability to duplicate clinical trial outcomes.
Some have called it the single most important new tool for medical
care support of the decade.

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is a national
professional association of pharmacists and other health care
practitioners who serve society by the application of sound medication
management principles and strategies to improve health care for all.
The Academy's 5,700 members develop and provide a diversified range of
clinical, educational and business management services and strategies
on behalf of the more than 200 million Americans covered by a managed
care pharmacy benefit. More news and information about AMCP can be
obtained on its website, at www.amcp.org. The Academy will observe its
20th Annual Meeting in 2008.

The Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy (FMCP), a non-profit
charitable trust, is a research, education, and philanthropic
organization affiliated with the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
(AMCP). Established in 1990, the Foundation was created to allow
corporations and interested individuals an opportunity to participate
in the research and education agenda of AMCP. The Foundation also
allows individual and corporate members of AMCP to demonstrate their
commitment to the concept and practice of pharmaceutical care in
managed health care settings. More information on FMCP is available at
www.fmcpnet.org.

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
Carolyn Stables, 703-683-8416 ext. 608
cstables@amcp.org

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