Maj. Jeffery Neigh, chief of the Eisenhower Pharmacy Department. Photo by Jennifer Chipman Since 1987 the Albert B. Prescott/Glaxo Smithkline Pharmacy Leadership Award has been awarded to a young pharmacist who has been working in his/her career ten years or less. This year’s winner, Maj. Jeffery Neigh, chief of the Eisenhower Pharmacy Department will be traveling to Washington D.C. this month where he will be honored at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition.

“I am humbled and flattered to be select,” said Neigh. “The previous winners are all leaders in their fields and I feel honored to be listed among them.”

Who receives the award each year is determined by the Phi Delta Chi Pharmacy Leadership & Education Institute as well as previous recipients of the Prescott Award. Each winner receives a framed print of Albert B. Prescott and an honorarium. Prescott was the founder and dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan. He was a chemist, an educator, and a leader of pharmacists who believed in an academic basis for a pharmaceutical education. He also helped found Phi Delta Chi at the University of Michigan in 1883.

Neigh was nominated for this award by Dr. J. Douglas Bricker, the dean of the Pharmacy School at Duquesne University in Pittsburg, PA.

“I had been nominated a few years ago and did not win,” Neigh said. “I didn’t realize I had been nominated until one of the committee members contacted me for an updated CV for the committee’s review. The day after I submitted, I found out I had been selected.”

According to Col. Carol Labadie, U. S. Army Medical Command pharmacy consultant, the recipient shall have demonstrated exemplary leadership qualities as a young pharmacist indicative of someone likely to emerge as a major leader in pharmacy over the course of his or her career.

As a recipient of the Prescott Leadership Award, Neigh must address the attendees of the annual meet- ing on pharmacy as a profession, the future directions in the field of pharmacy or leadership.

“I chose leadership, Neigh stated. “Being both a pharmacist and an officer in the Army, I feel I can bring a unique perspective to this group.”