2018-2021 – AIHP Advisor for Pharmacy Outreach (a Board-approved volunteer position)
2013-2018 – AIHP President and Chair of the Board of Directors
1992-1993 – AIHP President
1987-1988 – Chairman, Search Committee for AIHP Executive Director
1987 – Chairman, AIHP Nominating Committee
1980-1983 – Chairman, Organizing Committee, International Congress for the History of Pharmacy (held in Washington, DC, September 21-25, 1983)
1977 ff – Member of AIHP Council (the former AIHP governing board), representing American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (for several years)
1966 ff – Continuous membership in AIHP since first joining as a pharmacy student
AIHP Presentations and Articles
The U.S. Indian Health Service: A Seedbed for Innovative Pharmacy Practice—Interview with Richard Church (coauthored with Richard Bertin). Hist Pharm Pharmaceuticals. 2024; 66:34-50.
Let’s Keep Pharmacists in Pharmacy History. Pharm History. 2019; 61:109-111
Making an End, Making a Beginning. Pharm History. 2019; 61:35-36
Inspired by the Essence of Professor Sonnedecker. Pharm History. 2017; 59:88
Update on the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, International Pharmaceutical Federation World Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, September 3, 2014
Creation of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board: Remarkable Success in Interorganizational Collaboration. AIHP-sponsored session, American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 28, 2011
Pharmacy’s Organizations—Key Issues for Future Historians. Pharm History. 2009; 51(3):128-33
Role of Pharmacy Organizations in Transforming the Profession: The Case of Pharmaceutical Care. American Institute of the History of Pharmacy symposium on “Decade of Pharmaceutical Care,” San Francisco, CA, March 19, 2001
Transforming the Work of the Pharmacist: The Need for Historical Perspective (President’s Address). American Insitute of the History of Pharmacy, New Orleans, LA, March 11, 1991 (published in Pharm History, Vol. 38 [1991] No. 4 [pages 159-163]
Twenty-five Years of Pharmancy Residency Accreditation–Part I. Early Efforts to Establish the Program. Contributed paper, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 30, 1987
William A. Zellmer is the eigth recipient of the Robert P. Fischelis Award, which was established in 2015. Visit the Robert P. Fischelis Award page for a list of previous recipients.
Posted: June 20, 2025
