| Year
|
Milestone
|
| 1950 |
Graduates from Duquesne University with B.S. degree in pharmacy
|
| 1950-1 |
Serves as staff pharmacist at Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh |
| 1951-53 |
Serves in U.S. Army, first at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and then in Landstuhl, Germany |
| 1953–54 |
Serves as assistant director of Pharmacy, Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh |
| 1954–56 |
Serves as chief pharmacist, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh |
| 1954–56 |
Serves as president, Western Pennsylvania Society of Hospital Pharmacists |
| 1956–57 |
Serves as member of ASHP Committee on Program and Public Relations |
| 1956 |
Appointed as full-time Staff Representative, Council on Professional Practice, American Hospital Association, Chicago |
| 1957–58 |
Serves as vice president, Illinois Society of Hospital Pharmacists |
| 1960 |
Hired as first full-time executive officer of ASHP; replaces Paul F. Parker as director of American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) Division of Hospital Pharmacy |
| 1970 |
Receives ASHP’s Harvey A. K. Whitney Lecture Award |
| 1975 |
Receives first of six honorary Doctor of Science degrees |
| 1977-82 |
Serves as president, FIP Section on Hospital Pharmacy |
| 1978 |
Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award from Duquesne University School of Pharmacy |
| 1983 |
Receives Hugo H. Schaefer Award, presented by APhA |
| 1984 |
Elected vice president, FIP |
1986
|
Receives Donald E. Francke Medal, presented by ASHP |
| 1986-90 |
Serves as president, FIP |
| 1990 |
Receives APhA’s Remington Honor Medal |
| 1994 |
Receives FIP’s André Bédat Award |
| 1996 |
Joseph A. Oddis Leadership Award established by Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists |
| 1997 |
Retires from ASHP |
| 1998 |
Named as honorary member of ASHP |
| 2013 |
ASHP headquarters building at 7272 Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland, named Joseph A. Oddis Building |
| 2013 |
Becomes first recipient of Joseph A. Oddis Award for Exceptional Service to FIP |
| 2017 |
New ASHP headquarters offices at 4500 East West Highway in Bethesda, Maryland, named as ASHP Joseph A. Oddis Global Headquarters |
| 2018 |
Named as Fellow of FIP |
