Distinguished New Practitioner Award
2025 Distinguished New Practitioner Award recipient
Major Cody R. Morcom, PharmD, BCPS
Maj Cody R. Morcom is the Chief, Satellite Pharmacy, 60th Medical Diagnostics
and Therapeutics Squadron, 60th Medical Group, Travis Air Force Base, California. He
leads 31 personnel in delivering a $34.6 million annual budget to 276,000 beneficiaries,
executing 309,000 prescriptions each year in support of the Air Force’s largest medical
center in the continental United States which handles more than 411,000 patient
encounters annually. Maj Morcom synchronizes with seven squadrons encompassing
2,500 staff and 450 medical providers, supporting comprehensive community and
referral healthcare, aeromedical evacuation and staging, deployable medical readiness,
education, research, and teleradiology services. He also leads chemical, biological,
radiological, and nuclear medical readiness for two Wings and sixty-seven units as the
Alternate Pharmacy Home Station Medical Response Team Chief, aiding delivery of
medical assets in various mission critical and contingency situations. Maj Morcom also
leads the 60th Medical Group’s Combat Service Support Team as the Officer-in-
Charge, providing strategic medical guidance to the 22d Air Task Force in
demonstrating and evaluating capabilities to generate, employ, and sustain Command &
Control and Base Operations Support functions globally. He received a direct
commission to the United States Air Force in December 2018 through the Health
Professions Scholarship Program while attending Wilkes University’s Nesbitt School of
Pharmacy in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He graduated with his Doctor of Pharmacy in
May 2020.
About
The Distinguished New Practitioner
Award was established in 2010 to recognize an individual new practitioner who has
demonstrated distinctive achievements in mentorship, service, and commitment to the
profession of pharmacy.
Nominate a colleague by
Dec. 1
Evaluation Criteria
The nominee must be an APhA member pharmacist within his/her first five years after graduation. Nominees must
be a New Practitioner in good standing at the time of nomination and are eligible to receive the award as an
Active Pharmacist Member during the subsequent APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition. Self-nominations are
allowed for this award. Applications will be evaluated based upon the following criteria (listed
alphabetically, not in rank order):
- APhA-related activities (e.g. leadership, committees, editorial advisory board member, speaker,
publication contributor/reviewer, etc.)
- Community service
- Contributions to the development of student pharmacists (e.g. serving as a New Practitioner mentor
and/or assisting in APhA-ASP related activities as a preceptor, etc.)
- Impact on the profession through singular or multiple achievements (e.g., innovation, pharmacy practice,
research, scholarly activities, etc.)
- Participation in other professional activities
Nomination process
The nominator is responsible for submitting a complete award nomination.
The nomination is to include the following items:
A letter from the nominator describing the most important achievements of the nominee and explaining why the
nominee meets the criteria for the award
One letter of recommendation is required (letters from student pharmacists are accepted); a maximum of two
letters accepted
A current curriculum or detailed résumé
Individuals may self nominate as well.
Selection process
The selection is made by the APhA New Practitioner Advisory Committee and approved by the APhA Board of
Trustees.
Nature of award
The Distinguished New Practitioner Award will be presented at the APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition and
consists of a laminated plaque, a $500 honorarium, and a complimentary New Practitioner APhA Annual Meeting
& Exposition registration.
Past recipients
2015 Gretchen K. Garofoli
2013 Ashley Stubblefield Crumby
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