2005 Recipient

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation

announces Brian Isetts of Red Wing, Minnesota, as the recipient of the Jacob W. Miller Award for 2005. Isetts will receive the award during the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, Florida, April 1-5, 2005.

The award, endowed by Wyeth, recognizes an individual who has advanced the mission of the APhA Foundation through any or all of the following: active involvement in the programs of the APhA Foundation; exemplary support in helping establish and/or maintain APhA Foundation initiatives; outstanding leadership in carrying out the mission of the APhA Foundation.

Isetts is an Associate Professor for the Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems at the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy. He has been active within the APhA Foundation for the past 11 years. In 1994 he was the recipient of an APhA-Foundation- Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation for the “Use of OTC Cholesterol Test Kits Within a Comprehensive Pharmaceutical Care Practice” at Red Wing Corner Drug. He served as a Board Member of APhA Foundation from 1996-2002. He was elected and served as President of the APhA Foundation Board of Directors in 2001 and 2002. He currently serves on the APhA Foundation Advisory Committee and as a member of the APhA Foundation Incentive Grant Review Committee.

As a Board member in 1997, Brian played a major role at an organizational retreat conducted at the Airlie House in Warrenton, Virginia. The outcome of that retreat was the adoption of the Foundation’s current mission-to improve consumer health outcomes that are affected by pharmacy. During Brian’s two years as president, the Foundation continued to sharpen the focus of its strategic planning process and created a new 5-year plan with Vision and Value Statements for the organization.

Isetts has contributed substantially to the progress that the Foundation has made in fulfilling its mission. With his dual backgrounds in practice and research, he has provided guidance in incorporating a solid research base to the development of the Foundation’s drug therapy management projects. He has provided exemplary support in helping establish and American Pharmacists Association Foundation maintaining APhA Foundation initiatives. He received a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy B.S.-Pharm) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was named a Kellogg Foundation Fellow for the Pharmaceutical Clinical Scientist Program at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, and he received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Ph.D.) in Social and Administrative Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

The Jacob W. Miller award was established in the year 2000. Jacob W. Miller served as APhA Foundation President from 1991 until 2000. Miller, a Kentucky native, graduated from the University of Kentucky-College of Pharmacy in 1951. He held positions in the industry, owned a community pharmacy, earned a Juris Doctor degree, and developed a national reputation as a pioneer in the establishment of third party prescription programs. He was active and held leadership positions in state and national pharmacy organizations including service as the President of the Kansas Pharmacy Association, 1969-70, and as APhA

President, 1978-79. Miller is probably best remembered for his long association with the Bowl of Hygeia Award program in his capacity as Assistant Vice President for Professional Relations with Wyeth from 1980 until 1993. Now retired, he and his wife, Mary, live in Virginia Beach, Virginia.