ASHP Foundation to recognize Joseph Hanlon with literature award

The ASHP Research and Education Foundation will honor Joseph Hanlon with a Literature Award in the Sustained Contributions category during its midyear clinical meeting Dec. 6 to Dec. 10 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' award recognizes pharmacists who have made significant contributions to biomedical literature. Specifically, the Sustained Contributions award is given to individuals who have published high-quality and high-impact articles in primary peer-reviewed journals over at least 20 years.

Hanlon has spent more than two decades conducting research on health services and drug use among the elderly, including analyzing the racial differences in medication use in older adults as well as examining drug-related problems in the elder population. He is the creator of the Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI), which is used internationally to measure change in drug-prescribing quality.

In addition to authoring 125 peer-reviewed research articles, Hanlon is a tenured professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and a health scientist with the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, also in Pittsburgh.

Since its 1971 origin, ASHP Foundation's Literature Awards has honored more than 600 pharmacy practitioners. Besides sustained contributions, other award categories are innovation in pharmacy practice, drug therapy research, pharmacy practice research and student research. The awards are meant to encourage research, innovation and higher quality within professional literature.