2020 APA Award Winners Brittany Sanders, Pharm.D. was awarded the 2020 Pharmacist of the Year Award. This award was established in 1959 to honor an APA member who possesses professional standards beyond reproach, has a record of outstanding civic service in the community, and has contributed his or her efforts toward the progress of the profession through the state association.
Pharmacist of the Year Brittany Sanders, Pharm.D.
Dr. Sanders has been incredibly active in the past few years in her roles as pharmacist and advocate. A native of Hot Springs, she worked in retail pharmacy for 12 years and is now the co-owner of the Pharmacy at Wellington in west Little Rock. She chose pharmacy because she wanted to be involved in patient care and it is that dedication to her patients that drove her to appear before the Arkansas legislature in 2019 to testify in support of bills that would help Arkansas patients and pharmacists. For her continued dedication to her patients and her active role in advancing the profession of pharmacy, Dr. Sanders is recognized as the 2020 APA Pharmacist of the Year. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and the UAMS College of Pharmacy. She and her husband Chad have two children and one foster son. Victoria Hennessey, Pharm.D. was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award. The APA Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award is given annually to an outstanding young pharmacist who has been out of pharmacy school less than ten years and who has demonstrated leadership among his or her peers. With less than a decade under her belt since graduating from pharmacy school, Victoria Hennessey has packed a lot of experience into such a short time. In the last few years, she split her time between filling prescriptions at a Springdale independent community pharmacy and serving in an ambulatory setting, working side by side with physicians in team-based care for low income patients in an underserved area. In July, her work in leadership positions in the pharmacy world pushed her to purchase the same store where she previously filled prescriptions.
Distinguished Young Pharmacist Victoria Hennessey, Pharm.D.
Victoria is a graduate of UCA and UAMS College of Pharmacy. She and her husband have two kids and own Community of Pharmacy of Springdale.
Mike Smets, P.D. was awarded the 2020 Bowl of Hygeia Award. The Bowl of Hygeia Award is sponsored by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation and National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations, with premier support from Boehringer-Ingelheim. This award was established to honor pharmacists who have compiled an outstanding record of community service.
Bowl of Hygeia Award Mike Smets, P.D.
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Dr. Smets grew up in the Fort Smith area spending a lot of time in community pharmacies as his father and grandfather were both pharmacists and independent pharmacy owners in Van Buren and were a great influence on him becoming a pharmacist. Community service is close to his heart as he serves on the boards of the Fort Smith Parks Commission, the Sebastian County Red Cross, the Artists, Audiences, and Community organization, and he now serves as President of Park Partners of Fort Smith. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and the UAMS College of Pharmacy and is the pharmacist in charge at Coleman Pharmacy in Fort Smith. He and his wife Bonnie have one daughter and two grandchildren.
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