Gloria Niemeyer Francke

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Dr. Gloria Niemeyer Francke became assistant director of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Division of Hospital Pharmacy (1946-1956); executive secretary of the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (1949-1960); and research associate for the Audit of Pharmaceutical Service in Hospitals (1956-1964).

A native of Dillsboro, Indiana, she earned her B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Purdue University in 1942 and her Pharm.D in 1971 from the University of Cincinnati.

She then served as a drug literature specialist at the National Library of Medicine (1965-1967); as a clinical pharmacy teaching coordinator for the Veterans Administration Hospital in Cincinnati (1967-1971); as secretary of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (1968-1978); and as Chief of the program evaluation branch in the Alcohol and Drug Dependence Service, Veterans Administration (1971-1975).

She rejoined the APhA staff (1975-1985) and was elected Honorary President in 1986 and received the Remington Honor Medal in 1987.^[1]

She currently (as of 2007) serves as a member of the APhA Foundation Advisory Committee. The society's Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award is named for her.^[1]

[edit] Journalism/Publications

Dr. Francke’s journalistic achievements include:

Assistant editor of the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 1946-1947
Associate editor of the American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 1944-1964
Co-author of Mirror to Hospital Pharmacy (1964) * Perspectives in Clinical Pharmacy (1972)

She also owned and operated Drug Intelligence Publications.^{[citation needed]}