Pharmacy Compounding Foundation

• Our list of PFMs keeps going (and growing)

  APC offers a pharmacy/facility membership (PFM) as an alternative to purchasing several individual memberships. This is a relatively new program, so we'd like to thank our 38 PFM members so far for being the trailblazers they are. read more →

• Avoid becoming an insurance statistic, a $25 webinar from APC

  Thanks to our friends at Pharmacists Mutual, we can tell you and your team members what they are and how to avoid them. read more →

• APC and CVM leaders meet (again)

  In a recent follow-up meeting with APC leaders, FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine’s Dr. Bill Flynn acknowledged APC's questions about the practical implications of certain provisions of GFI256 may result in tweaks to the doc. read more →

• APC Fellows Program gets 2022 reboot

  Established in 1997, the APC Fellows Program distinguishes pharmacists—and, new this year, pharmacy technicians—who are exemplary in their professionalism and commitment to the practice of pharmacy compounding. read more →

• Upcoming programs: Compounding Pharmacy Compliance and two webinars

  Registration is open for Informa Connect's hybrid conference, Compounding Pharmacy Compliance, June 21-22, 2022, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, VA. read more →

• Thanks for the memories, Mr. Kantor

  The APC Team recently said goodbye to our outgoing director of communications, Andrew Kantor, whose last day was Thursday, May 12. read more →

• APC, CVM leaders meet, discuss GFI #256

  On Wednesday, APC leaders met with officials from FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine to enunciate concerns about what APC sees as ambiguity and uncertainty in CVM’s final GFI #256, regarding animal compounding. read more →

• PCAC to consider glutathione

  This just in: FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee will meet June 8, when a number of substances will be up for review, notably glutathione. read more →

• Meet our newest team member

  We’re pleased to announce that Betsy Keck has joined the APC team as director of communications. read more →

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Student Scholarship Opportunities

The Pharmacy Compounding Foundation provides three scholarship opportunities for current pharmacy students:

• Foundation and Pharmacists Mutual Compounding Scholarship
• Foundation Fund-the-Future
• Foundation Student Writing Competition

Pharmacy Compounding Foundation and Pharmacists Mutual 2022 Compounding Scholarship

Through the generosity of the Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company, the Pharmacy Compounding Foundation awarded two $2,500 scholarships in 2022 to pharmacy students who have demonstrated commitment to a career in compounding pharmacy in the United States.

2022 Winners

Ryan DeGuzman
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Va.

Kaitlin Martin
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

2021 Winners:

Jacob Sweet
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Rootstown, OH

Marianne Vandiver
Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy
Clinton, SC

2020 Winners:

Brianna Hassett
PharmD Candidate 2021Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, OK

Natalia Swiderski
PharmD Candidate 2020Farleigh Dickinson University
Florham Park, NJ

Foundation Fund-the-Future Program

The foundation’s Fund-the-Future program awards grants to pharmacy students.

March 1, 2022: We’re updating the program for 2022 and beyond — watch this space or look for an email from APC (or in the weekly Compounding Connections) for more information. 

Previous Fund-the-Future Winners

2020 and 2021: Due to Covid-19, the Pharmacy Compounding Foundation did not award any Fund-the-Future scholarships for 2020 or 2021.

2019 Compounders on Capitol Hill

Jacklyn Altman; University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, Columbia, SC
Meredith Kelderhouse; University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, Columbia, SC

2019 EduCon

Omar Fuentes; The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, Austin, TX
Elio Magero; Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY

Read what former recipients have to say about the Fund the Future scholarship experience.

Foundation Student Writing Competition

The foundation’s semi-annual Student Writing Competition to recognize outstanding original papers by student pharmacists on a particular topic affecting pharmacy compounding. Up to two winners will be selected by a review committee from the papers submitted. The winners of this writing competition will each receive a $1,000 cash prize. All student pharmacists are encouraged to compete.

The Pharmacy Compounding Foundation is no longer awarding any Student Writing Competition scholarships.

Previous Student Writing Competition Winners

Theme: “With the increase in healthcare costs and reduced rate of insurance reimbursements, how do compounding pharmacies remain competitive?”

Alexandra Gochenauer; University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Ryan Waldschmidt; Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH