| Year | Milestone | 
        
            | 1950 | Graduates from Duquesne University with B.S. degree in pharmacy 
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            | 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 |