Hickey one of 11 Pharm.D.s nationwide to win ASHP Student Leadership Award
VCU School of Pharmacy fourth-year Pharm.D. student Erin Hickey is one of 11 students nationwide to be recognized with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2017 Student Leadership Award.
Students who receive the award are selected for their achievements in campus and pharmacy practice leadership, including professional work experience, internships and other accomplishments.
Hickey is part of ASHP’s Career Development and Education Advisory Group. At the School of Pharmacy, her activities have included serving as president of the Student Chapter of the Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists and as student vice chair of the VSHP Mentoring Program for the state. She is a member of the Beta Nu chapter of Phi Lambda Sigma pharmacy leadership society and the Lambda chapter of the Rho Chi academic honor society in pharmacy. She has participated in the school’s Student Pharmacist Policy and Advocacy Forum and has worked with the Remote Area Medical event in Wise County, Va.
An inpatient pharmacy intern for the VCU Health System, Hickey served as a PCAT course instructor and pharmacy lab teaching assistant for the university’s Summer Academic Enrichment Program (of which she is an alumna). She has conducted research, during her tenure at the school, on the perception of pharmacy practice with Ron Ballentine and Erika Dumke (formerly of the VCU Division for Health Sciences Diversity), and in bone marrow transplantation with Kelly Hawks. Following graduation, Hickey will enter a PGY1 residency at University of Kentucky Healthcare in Lexington.
Sponsored by ASHP and the ASHP Research and Education Foundation, the Student Leadership Award honors student members in their second through fourth years of pharmacy school. The award winners receive a plaque, an ASHP drug information reference library and a $2,000 cash award.
The other winners are students at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences — Albany Campus, Medical University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, Northeast Ohio Medical University, The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy (two), Temple University School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and Western University of Health Sciences.
For more information about the ASHP Student Leadership Award, click here. To learn more about the ASHP Pharmacy Student Forum, click here.
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