Ord, NE – The 2018 Bowl of Hygeia Award was announced during the Nebraska Pharmacists Association Annual Convention on June 8, 2018 and Ords Angela K. Svoboda, ParmD, RP was the recipient for her outstanding community service.
Svoboda is a pharmacist from Ord, Nebraska and owner of Good Life Pharmacy. She can be seen anywhere in the community of ord volunteering in 4-H, FFA, school activities, taking photos. She has served on the hospital foundation board and continues to work with the community providers.
She is the newest member of the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy and is long-time member and advocate for the Nebraska Pharmacists Association and the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, serving on various committees and task forces. Under her leadership, Good Life Pharmacy has a true healthy living focus.
The Bowl of Hygeia is the most widely recognized international symbol for the pharmacy profession and is considered one of the professions most prestigious awards. The Bowl of Hygeia has been associated with the pharmacy profession since as early as 1796 when the symbol was used on a coin minted for the Parisian Society of Pharmacy. The bowl represents a medicinal potion and the snake represents healing. Healing through medicine is why the pharmacy profession has adopted the Bowl of Hygeia symbol.
