CAPT Philip M Budashewitz was commissioned in the U.S. Public Health Service in 1989, and has held a range of positions, with increasing responsibilities across multiple HHS staff and operating divisions. He served as the deputy director of the FDA’s Latin American Regional Office based in Mexico City, the Office of the Secretary’s Office of Global Affairs (OGA), the Executive Secretariat, the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Science Policy, the National Cancer Institute, and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). One of the highlights of his career was establishing the FDA President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program which has since helped save over 20 million lives and preventing millions of HIV infections. As part of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, CAPT Budashewitz helped modernized the system for Federal Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) designations which better targeted resources to underserved and rural communities, for programs such as the National Health Service Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs. CAPT Budashewitz recently retired from the Commissioned Corps in September of 2020, but continues to serve as the Director, Office of Medical Policy Initiatives in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

CDR Aimee Young is the Inpatient Clinical Pharmacy Manager as well as the Inpatient Pain and Surgery Pharmacist at the Alaska Native Medical Center. She holds multiple clinical certifications including BCPS, Certified Pain Educator and is championing NCPS status for inpatient pharmacists at ANMC. During the first 3 months in her role as Clinical Manager, documentation of clinical activities increased by 300% and she was an integral member of the inpatient pharmacy COVID-19 response. Her interventions have decreased the average length of stay for orthopedic patients saving over $6,000 per patient. In her role on the pain team over $1 million in revenue has been generated, and her clinical interventions result in an estimated monthly cost savings of over $14,000. CDR Young is a known subject matter expert and has over 100 publications and presentations. She is an active member of numerous clinical workgroups and professional organizations. In addition, as a certified trainer in immunizations, she has taught over 20 immunization courses in five states, certifying nearly 300 pharmacists and technicians to administer vaccines.

CDR Alexis Beyer serves as a Regional Medical Countermeasure Advisor for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in Region VII. In this position, she has exhibited tremendous leadership within multiple roles throughout the entirety of the COVID response, totaling 503 days activated to date. She is currently serving a six-month detail as an ASPR Liaison to the CDC Vaccine Task Force (VTF) in which she functions as lead agency point of contact and Subject Matter Expert on the Region VII States for the White House interagency Countermeasure Acceleration Group and the CDC VTF. Prior to this detail, CDR Beyer served as the Regional Agency Lead for COVID-19 therapeutics distribution in which she helped to expedite the distribution of approximately 300k vials of therapeutics, aiding in the lifesaving treatment of more than 85k patients. She also served as the Co-Lead for the Region’s Public Health Response and Resiliency Task Force within the Unified Command alongside FEMA and the Defense Coordinating Element (DCE). In this role she developed a regional coordination platform for State health departments to share best practices and collaborate on common issues. At the onset of the COVID response, CDR Beyer deployed to Camp Ashland, NE serving as the lead federal health official on-site for the cruise ship quarantine and repatriation mission. In this position, she oversaw 70+ quarantined travelers and 75+ federal law enforcement and health personnel. Following her deployment to NE, CDR Beyer served as the Lead Agency POC for the State of Iowa Governor’s office during the Grand Princess cruise ship COVID response.

LCDR Rachael Cook, was a member of Rapid Deployment Force 3 for over two years and serves as a Regulatory Affairs Officer, aiding CDC in obtaining FDA clearance for in vitro diagnostic tests for bioterrorism agents and infectious diseases. In January and February of 2020 she deployed to New York City, where she served as a Tertiary Screener at CDC's JFK Airport Quarantine Station. Immediately following the Quarantine Station deployment, she deployed to CDC's Occupational Health Clinic, vaccinating CDC deployers and assisting to medically clear them for deployment. She was then deployed to New York City as part of USPHS Strike Team 1 where she assisted the team in setting up and operating a pharmacy in the hot zone of the New York Javits Center Joint Services Medical Station. Following the Javits Center deployment, LCDR Cook served on back-to-back deployments with CDC, working on CDC's Health Department Task Force, the State, Tribal, and Local Task Force, the Deployer Support Unit, and the Vaccine Task Force. LCDR Cook was deployed with either USPHS or CDC for nearly all of 2020 and served in six different capacities to aid in the national COVID-19 response.

CDR Kellie Williams, is recognized for her efforts in greatly improving pharmacy services throughout the Bureau of Prisons through implementation and management of the first nation-wide Central Fill and Distribution Pharmacy (CFAD). The management of this operation streamlined the filling of prescriptions for 22 facilities in the agency, and its ability to adapt, coordinate, and manage the distribution of products makes it a critical and vital asset for the agency’s COVID response. As the Chief Pharmacist, she manages one of the largest, most complex pharmacy operations within the BOP serving approximately 23,000 patients (>18% of entire BOP population). She also created and implemented new local policies for CFAD which has an operational budget of $29.2 million for Fiscal year 2021. Most recently, she was selected to serve as the lead pharmacist in the BOP to ship, organize, and inventory PPE equipment, supplies, rapid tests, and vaccines to institutions across the country during COVID-19. She has created a substantial impact to the agency by receiving 193 separate shipments to the facility and distributing 3,429 shipments to institutions across the United States. These efforts have created significant cost-avoidance for the BOP and established an accurate tracking system for PPE.

LCDR Adam Loyson, is recognized for his accomplishments in advancing pharmacy services within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and contributions to PHS. As Chief Pharmacist at Metropolitan Correctional Center San Diego, he oversees pharmacy operations for over 700 inmates, coordinates COVID-19 vaccine administration, and implemented an in-house opioid use disorder clinic. A board-certified pharmacist in ambulatory care, he also initiated multiple pharmacist-managed clinics at previous BOP duty stations to expand patient care. Among national level BOP collateral duties, LCDR Loyson coordinates the progress of five BOP IT projects to improve patient safety as Co-Lead of the BOP Pharmacy Informatics Advisory Group and presented nationally on blockchain healthcare technology and pharmacogenomics. He also developed virtual recruitment media to increase the number of SrCOSTEP applicants four-fold as Co-Chair of the BOP-PHS SrCOSTEP Recruitment Team. In addition, he guides website update teams as Content Management Team Lead of the PharmPAC IT Workgroup and Website Subcommittee Co-Lead of the Junior Officer Advisory Group.

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CAPT George F. Archambault studied pharmacy at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and law at Northeastern University. He also received honorary doctorate degrees in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Sciences and from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and an honorary doctorate of law degree from Temple University. From 1979 to 1984, he was the Washington correspondent for Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy. For seven years, Dr. Archambault was the pharmacy consultant to the Executive Medical Officer of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund. Patient drug profiles and formulary drug prescribing became part of the pharmacy program under his leadership. One of his many outstanding contributions to pharmacy was the development of pharmacy standards (Conditions of Participation) for Medicare, which he did while he served in the Bureau of State Services and as a Pharmacy Liaison Officer to the Office of the US Surgeon General. He maintained a private law practice for six years and he practiced hospital pharmacy for 15 years. He was a commissioned officer in the USPHS and was the Director of Pharmacy for three years at the USPHS Hospital in Boston. He served for many years as chief of Pharmacy Branch, Division of Hospitals, Bureau of Medical Services, USPHS in Washington, DC. He held presidencies in APhA and ASHP. He was a member of the US Pharmacopeial Convention for more than 3 decades and a trustee for 10 years. He received both the Remington Honor Medal and the H.A.K. Whitney Lecture Award. He was a vocal advocate for expanding the role of pharmacy in health care, and challenged the lack of professional status for PHS pharmacists and led the move to improve pharmacy services in PHS. CAPT George F. Archambault was named a “Living Treasure of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps” on April 22, 1999 by Deputy Surgeon General RADM Kenneth P. Moritsugu.

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RADM Allen J. Brands served as the Indian Health Service Chief (IHS) of Pharmacy Services from 1953 until 1981, and from 1967-1981 he also served as the USPHS Chief Pharmacy Officer. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1941 with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and subsequently worked in community practice. During World War II, he served as a Battalion Radar Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and entered the USPHS in 1950. During his tour of duty as the IHS Chief of Pharmacy Services, he strongly encouraged the development of innovative and highly progressive pharmacy practices by pharmacists in the field. The use of patient medication consultation rooms attached to the pharmacy, primary care by pharmacists, the Clinical Support Center Pharmacy Practice Training Program, the IHS Pharmacist Practitioner Program, and patient consultation techniques now used nationwide in schools and colleges of pharmacy were all developed under his bold leadership. He is fondly referred to as the father of clinical pharmacy because of these programs which laid the foundation for the concept of pharmaceutical care, and his advocacy for changes in attitude and philosophy at the highest levels of the profession. Many pharmacists who served in IHS during this time of rapid advances subsequently became leaders in the academic and professional field and further supported this transition of the profession. RADM Allen J. Brands will always be remembered as a pioneer in the advancement of the pharmacy profession.

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Mary Louise Andersen graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1952 and joined her father in community pharmacy practice in Wilmington, DE. She was active in the Delaware Pharmaceutical Society, serving as its first female president in 1965. She received the A.H. Robbins Bowl of Hygeia Award and the Harry Zeisig Award from the Delaware Pharmaceutical Society. During these years, she partnered with other pharmacy leaders in convening the first Symposium for Women in Pharmacy. She was elected Vice-President of the American Pharmaceutical Association and then served two years as Speaker of the House of Delegates. During her terms, students in the profession were given the official recognition as members in this body, a decision for which she has been honored with the Linwood F. Tice Friend of the Academy of Students of Pharmacy Award. She was the first female candidate for the office of APhA President. In 2003, she was awarded the Remington Honor Medal, considered the profession’s most prestigious award for pharmacists in the United States. She was the founder of The Children’s Inn, a residential facility on the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Children’s Inn houses critically ill children who are enrolled in NIH research protocols and their families. Mary Louise Andersen had an illustrious career and demonstrated excellent leadership in many key positions, including Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health/Operations and Deputy Director of the HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care.

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RADM John Babb received his Pharmacy degree from the University of Tennessee in 1968. In 1993, he received his Master of Public Administration from the University of Memphis. He joined the U.S. Public Health Service in 1989 after working 21 years as a community pharmacist and began his exemplary USPHS career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) in Memphis, Tennessee. He then moved to Washington, D.C. as FBOP Chief Pharmacist, eventually becoming the FBOP Chief of Health Programs. In 2000, he became the Director of the Office of Force Readiness and Deployment (OFRD), with the responsibility for coordinating the public health and medical readiness and response capabilities of the USPHS. He was sworn in as an Assistant Surgeon General in 2002. RADM John Babb served as Acting Pharmacy Chief Professional Officer, Regional Health Administrator for Region VII, and HHS Acting Regional Director and Homeland Security H1N1 Regional Coordinator before retiring from USPHS in 2010.

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This award was previously sponsored by the George F. Archambault Foundation until 2011. The George F. Archambault Foundation exists to support the advancement of Public Health Pharmacy. The foundation was established in 1999 to honor the distinguished career of CAPT George F. Archambault (Ret.) with a personal emphasis on vision, leadership, growth and advanced education. Even though this award no longer provides a grant to the recipient for further training in administration/management, the PharmPAC decided to continue the recognition of USPHS pharmacists who best exemplify the qualities signified by the award.

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This award recognized a Junior Pharmacist of the U.S. Public Health Service who has demonstrated outstanding performance.