Michael A. Zemaitis, PhD received the Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions Award sponsored by the Cardinal Health Foundation in October 2015. This award, given in Pennsylvania for the first time in 2012, honors a pharmacist who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to raising awareness of the dangers of prescription drug abuse among the general public and among the pharmacy community. The award is also intended to encourage educational prevention efforts aimed at patients, youth, and other members of the community.
Zemaitis has been a huge advocate for research, policy, and education surrounding prescription drug abuse. He has been funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to develop a plan for a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in Pennsylvania. Zemaitis has worked with the Governor’s Office and other staff from around the country to discuss Prescription Drug Monitoring and worked with the administration and legislators to pass the bill which will bring a real PMP program to Pennsylvania.
Zemaitis is a professor in the pharmaceutical sciences departments at PittPharmacy.
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