SOP kudos: the best of the best
As the holidays approach and you prepare for another potluck – or to move to another office – or to wind down for another year — take a look at just a few of the last quarter’s faculty, staff and student accomplishments. Congratulations to all, and to all a good night!
- Michael Bentley, assistant professor of pharmacy, was appointed to serve as a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Fundamental Critical Care Support program and also the society’s Research Committee. Both appointments are three-year terms.
- Kai “Annie” Cheang, associate professor of pharmacy, was named an American College of Clinical Pharmacy fellow and honored during the 2009 ACCP Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
- Laura Georgiadis, office manager for the Department of Pharmaceutics, was one of eight finalists nominated for the university’s 2009 Dorris Douglas Budd Award.
- Jean-Venable “Kelly” R. Goode, professor of pharmacy, received the inaugural National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ Community Pharmacy Faculty Award and was recognized at NACDS’ 2009 Pharmacy & Technology Conference in Boston.
- Lokesh Jain, a Department of Pharmaceutics Ph.D. student, received the AAPS Graduate Student Symposium Award in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism & Clinical Pharmacology and Translation Research at the opening session of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists’ 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition.
- Nantana Kaisaeng, a Department of Pharmacy Ph.D. student, published a paper, “Medicaid Pharmacy Cost-Containment Policy Actions and Access to Prescription Drugs and Medical Care,” as the lead manuscript in the November 2009 issue of Drug Benefit Trends. To see her paper, click here.
- Gary Matzke, associate dean for clinical research and public policy, was appointed to Subcommittee D of the Grant Review Panel of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
- At the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Programs’ 12th annual Research and Career Day, Aditi Mulgaonkar (Ph.D. student in the Department of Pharmaceutics) won the Thakker Award. The Pharm.D. Award went to Michael Snow (P2), with honorable mention going to Che Min Chang (P2). Bhawana Saluja (Ph.D. student in the Department of Pharmaceutics) received the Graduate Award, with honorable mention going to J. Timothy King (Ph.D. student in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry).
- Alexis Noble and Artie Strunk (both P4) won the Virginia Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists’ second Jennifer E. Stallings College Bowl at the VSHP Fall Seminar in Newport News. Gayle Slifka (Pharm.D. ’99) of Pfizer says Noble and Strunk represented the School of Pharmacy “with honor, talent, pride and confidence.”
- Ron Polk, professor of pharmacy, received the 2009 Russell R. Miller Award at the 2009 American College of Clinical Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. The Miller award is given annually to “recognize a College member who has made substantial contributions to the literature of clinical pharmacy.” Russell Miller was the founding editor of the ACCP journal, Pharmacotherapy.
- Kumar A. Shah, a Department of Pharmaceutics Ph.D. student, received the AAPS Graduate Student Symposium Award in Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality at the opening session of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists’ 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition.
- Benjamin Van Tassell, assistant professor of pharmacy, and Mark Munger, professor and associate dean for academic affairs at University of Utah College of Pharmacy, were selected for the 2009 Outstanding Paper of the Year Award by the ACCP Cardiology PRN. Other coauthors on the paper: Matthew Rondina, Franklin Huggins and Edward Gilbert. To see the paper, click here.