11/12/2002

SAGINAW RESIDENT RECEIVES AWARD

Lisa Kapcia of Saginaw received the Greatest Individual Contribution Award in the area of public awareness from the Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) at their Annual Meeting Nov. 8 in Lansing, Mich.

This award, consisting of a plaque and a complimentary one-year membership, is given annually to a pharmacy professional who has contributed to public health awareness. Kapcia received the honor for her efforts during Poison Prevention Week, March 17-23, 2002. Kapcia designed, implemented and presented a program about poison prevention to third grade elementary school students at Handley Elementary in Saginaw. The program included explaining the importance of poison prevention, telling poison horror stories, giving students coloring books, handouts, word searches and other goodies regarding poison prevention and playing "Toxic Trivia."

Kapcia received the award not as a pharmacy professional, but as a pharmacy student - a great, rare and well-deserved honor. Kapcia is a working on her bachelor of science in degree in pharmacy from Ferris State University College of Pharmacy. She has made it clear, through her Poison Prevention Week program, early in her studies and pre-professional career, that she will play an instrumental role in patient care as a pharmacist in the future.

MSHP is a practice section that consists of over 500 of the Michigan Pharmacists Association's 3,600 members. Since its founding in 1883, the Michigan Pharmacists Association has been a leader in the professional and scientific advancement of pharmacy and in safeguarding the well-being of the individual patient in Michigan.