2024 AMCP Award Winners

AMCP 2024 Award Winners


AMCP recognize members and non-members who have made significant contributions to the profession of managed care pharmacy and to AMCP. Award recipients were publicly recognized at the AMCP 2024 annual meeting in New Orleans April 15-18, 2024.

We are pleased to present the 2024 AMCP Award recipients.

Steven G. Avey  Award 

Given by the AMCP Foundation and recognizes a health care professional for sustained, exemplary, and distinguished service managed care pharmacy practice. 

  • Doug Burgoyne, BS Pharm, PharmD, FAMCP

Distinguished Service Award 

Recognizes an AMCP member who has made exceptional and sustained contributions to AMCP over at least a five-year period. 

  • Amy M. Lugo, PharmD
  • Paul L. Jeffrey, PharmD

Individual Contribution Award

Recognizes an AMCP member for making a significant contribution by any means other than service as an AMCP Committee Member. 

  • Thomas C. Pomfret, PharmD

Spirit of Volunteerism Award 

Recognizes a current AMCP Committee Member who, over the past year, has demonstrated outstanding service and provided volunteer activities that resulted in successful and/or high quality AMCP programs, projects and/or services for our members. 

  • Abby Shimon, PharmD, MBA

Experiential Education Preceptor Award  

Recognizes an AMCP member making a significant contribution to managed care pharmacy by being a preceptor to student pharmacists for Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences and/or Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences focused in managed care pharmacy. 

  • Heather R. Gross, PharmD

Managed Care Pharmacy Residency Director/Preceptor Award  

Recognizes an AMCP member who is making a significant contribution to managed care pharmacy by being a managed care residency program director or preceptor. 

  • Theologia Horchani, PharmD, BCPS

Advocate of the Year Award 

This award recognizes an individual responsible for significant advocacy promoting AMCP's legislative and regulatory priorities. (Formerly the Grassroots Advocacy Award.) 

  • Matthew Lennertz, PharmD, MS, MBA

New Practitioner Award 

The AMCP New Practitioner Award was established in 2015 to recognize an AMCP member making a significant contribution to managed care pharmacy within five years of graduation from first professional degree in pharmacy, medicine or nursing. 

  • Morgan Portner, PharmD

Diplomat of the Year

Recognizes an individual responsible for significant activity in assisting a school/college of pharmacy with its efforts to increase knowledge about managed care pharmacy and visibility into the managed care pharmacy field. 

  • Alicia Meaney, PharmD

JMCP Award of Excellence (Article from 2023) 

Recognizes the author or authors of the best article to appear in JMCP in the prior calendar year. 

"Drug use and spending under a formulary informed by cost-effectiveness," by Yeung et al.  

  • Kai Yeung, PharmD, PhD  
  • Maricela Cruz, PhD 
  • Emily Tsiao, PharmD 
  • John B. Watkins, PharmD, MPH, BCPS
  • Sean D. Sullivan, PhD

Fellow (FAMCP) Program 

Acknowledges sustained excellence in the pharmacy profession and grants recognition for exceptional contributions, long term commitment, and active participation in AMCP.     

  • Brenden P. O’Hara, RPh, BCACP  
  • Patty Taddei-Allen, PharmD, MBA, BCACP, BDGP
  • Laura E. Happe, PharmD, MPH  
  • Maher Abdel-Sattar, PharmD, MS 
  • Desola Davis, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP  
  • Jeff Larson, RPh, MS, MBA