Gloria Niemeyer Francke (April 28, 1922 – August 3, 2008) was an American pharmacist. She became assistant director of the

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(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

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, Gloria Niemeyer earned her B.S. degree in Pharmacy from

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in 1942 and her

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in 1971 from the

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. She then served as a drug literature specialist at the

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(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.American Pharmacists Association: 2007 APhA awards and honors
(accessed 28 October 2007) She served as a member of the APhA Foundation Advisory Committee. The society's Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award is named for her. Francke became the first executive secretary of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists SHPin 1949 and was Associate Editor of the American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy from 1944 to 1964.

Journalism and publications

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) and ''Perspectives in Clinical Pharmacy'' (1972)

Marriage

She was married to Donald Francke, who founded Drug Intelligence (now The Annals of Pharmacotherapy). Following his death in 1978, she became the owner of Drug Intelligence Publications.

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American science writers Purdue University College of Pharmacy alumni University of Cincinnati alumni 1922 births 2008 deaths People from Dillsboro, Indiana American pharmacists Women pharmacists {{indiana-stub