Melanie Honegger

IPPE Community Preceptor of the Year!

Melanie Honegger is the pharmacy manager at the Seymour, Conn. Stop and Shop. Helping people is what attracted her to a career in pharmacy and is what makes her career so fulfilling. As a preceptor, Honegger attempts to provide her students with real-life experiences and a realistic view of her career, hoping they will see that the demands of community pharmacy can be difficult but also rewarding.

“I try to show the good and the bad of my job, so that they can make informed decisions on what type of pharmacist they want to be,” she explains. Her students’ comments prove that she does so successfully, saying that they experience helped to shape and expand their views of pharmacy and where they would like to go within the field.