Senate Resolution No. 172

BY: Senator BRESLIN

HONORING Jessica Farrell, PharmD upon the occasion
of her designation as recipient of the 2018 Ernest
J. Dupont Award by the Steffens Scleroderma
Foundation on October 12, 2018

WHEREAS, It is incumbent upon the people of the State of New York to
commend and recognize those esteemed individuals and institutions within
the medical community for their extraordinary and sustained
contributions to the progress of medicine and the improvement of life;
and

WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and in full accord with its
long-standing traditions, this Legislative Body is justly proud to honor
Jessica Farrell, PharmD upon the occasion of her designation as
recipient of the 2018 Ernest J. Dupont Award by the Steffens Scleroderma
Foundation to be celebrated at its Second Annual Event on Friday,
October 12, 2018, at Jack's Oyster House in Albany, New York; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Jessica Farrell is receiving this auspicious award in
recognition of her expertise and specialized focus on the pharmacy needs
in the context of Scleroderma, and for the extraordinary accomplishments
she has achieved less than a decade into her career as a clinical
pharmacist; and

WHEREAS, The first non-physician member of the medical advisory
board of the national Scleroderma Foundation, Dr. Jessica Farrell was
recently named to the governmental affairs committee of the American
College of Rheumatology; as an associate medical officer of the Steffens
Scleroderma Foundation, she established and secured funding for the
first in the nation post-graduate residency in rheumatologic
pharmaco-therapeutics; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Jessica Farrell received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree
at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Albany, New York;
subsequent to this, she completed an ASHP-Accredited Pharmacy Practice
Residency at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New
Jersey; following her residency, she was employed by Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center as an Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist; and

WHEREAS, Currently, Dr. Jessica Farrell is employed as an Associate
Professor in the department of pharmacy practice at Albany College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences; in this capacity, she presents on numerous
rheumatic conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis,
systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); and

WHEREAS, Dr. Jessica Farrell also works at The Center for
Rheumatology where she precepts 6th year pharmacy students and provides
pharmacy related services for the providers, staff and patients; Dr.
Farrell and her students offer one-on-one medication counseling sessions
for patients with various rheumatic diseases; and

WHEREAS, For her steadfast and unremitting commitment to teaching
and extensive research activities which have focused on drug therapy in

autoimmune diseases, Dr. Jessica Farrell received a Rheumatology
Research Foundation Health Professionals Online Education Grant in 2014;
in that same year, she was named an Albany College of Pharmacy and
Health Sciences Preceptor of Distinction in Clinical Pharmacy; and

WHEREAS, In addition to her valuable work with the Steffens
Scleroderma Foundation, Dr. Jessica Farrell serves in various capacities
for the New York State Council of Health System Pharmacists (NYSCHP),
the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/Association of Rheumatology
Health Professionals (ARHP), the American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy (AACP), and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP),
as well as the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP); and

WHEREAS, As a leader in her profession, Dr. Jessica Farrell has
proven herself to be a great asset to medicine and to the health and
welfare of the citizens of the State of New York; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
honor Jessica Farrell, PharmD upon the occasion of her designation as
recipient of the 2018 Ernest J. Dupont Award by the Steffens Scleroderma
Foundation on October 12, 2018; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to Jessica Farrell, PharmD.