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Pharmacist to receive $500,000 MacArthur grant in reducing medication error

20th Sep 2005, 05:58 GMT

A pharmacist will receive a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship for work in reducing preventable drug and drug delivery mistakes. The grants, awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, will be announced publicly on Tuesday, September 20th. The name of the awardee will be available on a password protected Web site on Friday, September 16th.

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