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2008 School of Pharmacy Awards

05-15-2008

The UNC School of Pharmacy held its annual awards banquet on May 2 at the Rizzo Conference Center.

Student Academic Awards

Outstanding Pharmacy Student Award

Brian Cameron Alexander, Lauren Ashley Brogdon, Vi Thuy Do, Heather Isley Edmonds, Ninh My La, Margaret McCarley Lowe, Wesley Andrew McCall, Bridgette Louise Therriault
The faculty recognize graduating students who have attained the highest measure of scholastic achievement in the professional program.

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Care Award

Mary Lamberth Bennett
The faculty recognize an outstanding student for excellent performance during his or her pharmacy clerkships with special emphasis on patient relations in both health-system and community practice.

Roche Pharmacy Communications Award

Heather Isley Edmonds
The faculty recognize a graduating student who has excelled in the area of communications, both in the classroom and the practice environment.

Facts and Comparisons Award for Excellence in Clinical Communications

John P. Dombach
This award is given in recognition of a graduating student who is in the top 25 percent of the class and has demonstrated superior verbal and written clinical communication skills.

Lily Achievement Award

Abigail Ellen Miller
The faculty recognize a graduating student who demonstrates superior scholastic and professional achievement.

Merck Awards

Wesley Andrew McCall, Jenna A. Minton, Lou Ann Yi The faculty recognize three graduating students for their scholastic achievements in pharmacy studies and noteworthy achievements in pharmacy practice.

Mylan Award for Excellence in Pharmacy

George William Bliss
The faculty recognize a graduating student who is in the top 25 percent of the class, has high professional motivation, and has superior proficiency in the provision of drug information services.

Buxton Williams Hunter Award

Shazia Yusaf Ali
This award was established in 1937 by David R. Davis, BSPhar ’25, of New Bern, in honor of his great-uncle, a well-known pharmacist of New Bern. The funding is provided by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is awarded annually to a student who excels in campus citizenship and scholarship.

T. R. Burgis Family Award

Jessica Lynn Leister
This award is based on a student’s personal involvement in an intervention case that best illustrates the profession of pharmacy in action. Candidates submit a paper describing their professional involvement with a patient in the area of health promotion and disease prevention. Funding for this award is provided by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and given in memory of T. Roy Burgiss, BSPhar ’25, by family members Patsy Burgiss Sanders, BSPhar ’48, and Thomas Reeves Burgiss, BSPhar ’53.

Ralph P. Rogers Sr. Award

Emily Pappas Graham
This award is given each year to a third or fourth professional year student who has expressed a keen interest in a career in community pharmacy and has performed well in relevant classes. Candidates are judged on an essay they prepare, as well as relevant coursework. Funding for this award is provided by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is given in honor of Ralph P. Rogers, Sr., BSPhar ’13, a prominent Durham area pharmacist, and is given by his family.

Balenger-Smith Award For Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Care Laboratory

Ginny Schaffer
Presented for outstanding performance by a first-, second-, or third-year student in the Pharmaceutical Care Laboratory who demonstrates excellence in professionalism, written and verbal communications, pharmaceutical compounding, medication administration, and patient care. This award is funded by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is given by E. Scott Ballenger, BSPhar ’91, and Jennifer Smith Ballenger, AB ’87, to honor William L. Ballenger and Robert L. Smith’s many years of teaching.

USPHS Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award

Lisa Jo Adams
This award is given to a student who has demonstrated the development and implementation of programs that advance the goals stated in “Healthy People 2010,” and who participates in programs that support the philosophy and goals of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Jacobs Award in Medicinal Chemistry

Margaret McCarley Lowe
The Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products selects a graduating pharmacy student who achieved excellence in medicinal chemistry coursework and research. This award is funded by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is named in honor of M. L. Jacobs, a medicinal chemist who was dean of the School of Pharmacy from 1946 to 1950.

Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy Award

Renee Hodge Howard
The Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy selects a graduating student whose overall performance in relevant coursework, research, and other activities related to pharmaceutical outcomes is judged to be superior.

Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics Award

Bridgette Louise Therriault
The Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics selects a graduating student who has demonstrated a high degree of professional motivation and concern about the role of the pharmacist in the delivery of health care.

Molecular Pharmaceutics Award

Brian Cameron Alexander
The Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics selects a graduating student whose overall performance in the divisional course sequence is judged to be superior.

Kathryne A. Brewington Graduate Research Award

Brandon Swift, PhD Candidate, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
The award is presented in memory of Kathryne A. Brewington, a graduate student in the School of Pharmacy from 1992 to 1997. The award will help facilitate the research of a senior graduate student who displays the same enthusiasm for graduate study that characterized Kathryne’s time at the School. This award is funded by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina.

F. O. Bowman Award

Shannon Leigh Holt
The award is presented to a student in the Honors Program in recognition of the best honors paper. Funding for this award is provided by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is given by Fred O. Bowman Jr., MD ’50, in honor of his father, who served as general counsel to the NCPhA and the NC Board of Pharmacy.


Student Activities Awards

Student Body Past President Award

Harry Patrick Marcelin
The student body recognizes the leadership and contributions of the graduating past president of the Student Body Senate.

APhA-ASP Mortar and Pestle Professionalism Award

Megan Dudley Wheatley
The American Pharmaceutical Association recognizes a graduating student who exhibits the ideals of professionalism and excellence in patient care in all aspects of his or her academic pharmacy career and has demonstrated exceptional service and commitment to the profession of pharmacy through involvement in professional organizations and other extracurricular learning opportunities.

Kappa Epsilon Award

Emily Pappas Graham
The Lambda Chapter of Kappa Epsilon recognizes a student who has demonstrated qualities of leadership, character, service, and scholarship.

APhA-ASP Senior Recognition Certificate

Janet Ashley Jacobs Gunter
The American Pharmaceutical Association recognizes a student who is in good academic standing, has leadership experience in professional pharmacy organizations, and has shown the greatest involvement with APhA.

CAPS-ASHP Leadership Award

Lindsay Robin Hovestreydt
The award is given to a student with interest in pharmacy practice in health systems who has shown academic excellence and leadership ability.

Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Award

Holly Elizabeth Barrier
The Epsilon Chapter of Phi Lambda Sigma recognizes a student who has demonstrated great potential to become an effective leader in the School of Pharmacy.

Boka Hadzija Student Excellence Award

Lisa Jo Adams
The student body presents this award as peer recognition for all-around service and dedication to the profession of pharmacy. The award was established in 1998 by the Student Senate and named in honor of Boka W. Hadzija, PhD, a pharmacy faculty member, in recognition of her many contributions to the students and educational programs of the School of Pharmacy and is funded by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina.

The Dorothy Virginia Stroud Memorial Scholarship

Kelly Lynn Martin
This award is given in memory of Ginny Stroud, class of 2001, to a second-year pharmacy student who exhibits the qualities that were representative of Ginny’s character. The selected recipient must be well-rounded, trustworthy, caring, and genuine; exhibit concern for others over themselves; and demonstrate genuine concern for patients and their wellbeing. Funding is provided by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina.

George H. Cocolas Pharmacy Student Body Award


Caroline Godwin Moore
The student body presents this award to a member of the graduating class who has demonstrated the highest qualities of character, deportment, scholarship, participation in extracurricular activities, and promise of future distinction in the profession of pharmacy. This award is funded by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is in honor of George H. Cocolas, BSPhar, PhD ’56, retired associate dean of the School of Pharmacy.


Teaching Awards

PY1 Instructor of the Year Award

Lisa Dinkins, PharmD ’06, Clinical Instructor, Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education
Awarded to a faculty member who teaches coursework in the first year of the professional curriculum in recognition of high qualities of instructional ability and interest in the students and the educational programs of the School.

PY2 Instructor of the Year Award

Adam Persky, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Awarded to a faculty member who teaches coursework in the second year of the professional curriculum in recognition of high qualities of instructional ability and interest in the students and the educational programs of the School.

PY3 Instructor of the Year Award

Ralph Raasch, PharmD, Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education
Awarded to a faculty member who teaches coursework in the third year of the professional curriculum in recognition of high qualities of instructional ability and interest in the students and the educational programs of the School.

Overall Instructor of the Year

Adam Persky, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Awarded to the faculty member who has demonstrated the highest qualities of instructional ability and interest in the students throughout the four years of the professional program. award for Excellence in teaching and instruction assistance

Award for Excellence in Teaching and Instruction Assistance

Mary Carroll, PhD Candidate, Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products
Michael Hackett, PhD Candidate, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics
The Graduate Education Committee recognizes graduate students for outstanding performance of duties associated with teaching and instruction in the professional and/or graduate program.

AHEC Instructor of the Year

Suzanne Cala Harris, PharmD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pharmacy Practice and Experiential Education
The graduating class recognizes an AHEC pharmacy faculty member for outstanding contributions to the educational development of future pharmacists. This individual has demonstrated high standards of professionalism, leadership, ethics, and clinical practice.

Preceptor of the Year

Jennifer Askew, PharmD ’03, New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Jane Maney, RPh, Jane’s Rx Drugs
Allison Walls, PharmD, Carolinas Medical Center
The graduating class recognizes preceptors for outstanding contributions to the educational development of future pharmacists. These preceptors have demonstrated high standards of professionalism, ethics, and clinical practice.


Special Recognition

Samuel Burrus Award for Comunity Service

Harry Patrick Marcelin, 2008 PharmD Candidate
J. Robert Taylor, BSPhar ’62 and Linda Tennant Taylor, BSPhar ’63
Presented to members of the UNC School of Pharmacy family who exhibit outstanding and unselfish civic, community, or church volunteer service provided outside the scope of regular pharmacy practice. One award is presented to a student currently enrolled in the School. The second is awarded to an alumnus of the School or to a husband and wife team, at least one of whom is an alumnus. This award is funded by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is given by the Burrus family in memory of Samuel B. Burrus, BSPhar ’83, who was a community pharmacist in western NC.

School of Pharmacy Distinguished Service Award

Steve Dedrick, BSPhar ’72, MS ’89
Presented to an individual who has provided distinguished service and outstanding support to the School of Pharmacy.


Rho Chi National Honor Society

Rho Chi’s fundamental objective is to stimulate and recognize academic excellence. Those elected to membership have displayed a capacity for achievement in the science and art of pharmacy and the allied sciences and a strength of character, personality, and leadership.

Class of 2008

Brian Cameron Alexander
Shazia Yusaf Ali
Seth Joseph Axford
George William Bliss
Lauren Ashley Brogdon
Vi Thuy Do
Heather Isley Edmonds
Kristen Ann Engelen
Janet Ashley Jacobs Gunter
Alexander Thomas Jenkins
Akram Khaksari
Ninh My La
Anissa Lynn Litwin
Margaret McCarley Lowe
Wesley Andrew McCall
Marcy Jill McCaskill
Leandra Rose Miko
Jenna A. Minton
Stacie Mock
Derek Michael Phillips
Veena Rajanna
Amber Kathryn Ratliff
Wendy Ann Rycek
Jessica Mollie Sheppard
Bridgette Louise Therriault
Jennifer Laurie Warren

Class of 2009

Angela Susan Alston
Sola Anagho
Hillary Snow Baker
Adam W. Boles
Erin Woodall Duff
Mary Woelfel Duffy
Ashley Pell East
Lindsey Morgan Fierer
Carolyn Theresa Fleck
Karl Peter Frederiksen
Ramonna Irene Ghitea
Rebecca H. Grandy
Tyler Chase Greenwood
Travis Scott Heath
Emily Lauren Heil
Lindsay Erin Hoffman
William Horton
Caroline Anne Howard
Josie Looney
William Mang
Ali Mehrizi
Colleen Skeuse Moore
Namrata Bakul Patel
Kathryn Marie Pruden
Kristen Elizabeth Smith
Daniel Francis Stinehelfer
Rachel Elisabeth Townson
Jacqueline Vitello
Amy Kathryn Wiglesworth

Class of 2010

Christopher Franklin Abernethy
Kimberly M. Argudin
Carrie Berkley
Allison M. Billock
Susanna L. Bowling
Brandy Leigh Brensinger
Rochelle Hiawatha Carlton
Kimberly Susan Fordham
Robin Emily Gerding
Courtenay Read Gilmore
Jacob E. Hampton
Kimberley Anne Harris
Michael L. Hurtik
Rebecca L. Jenkins
Larissa Lynn Johnson
Jamie Lin Jurkiewicz
Rebecca Michelle Karner
Daniel Ho Kim
Amber Nicole Kinard
Brian Patrick Murray
Neha Patel
Sara Renee Peters
Elizabeth Hinsdale Poole
Laura Virginia Salley
Savanna Steele
Tara Verville
Constance Elliott Weld
Ian R. Willoughby
Tsu-Hsuan Yang

External PharmD Students

Brenda Kay Asplund
Robin Cook Reap
Graduate Students
Ashley Beard
Shyh-dar Li
Katherine Nicole Theken
Stacie Burton Dusetzina
Giulia Ghibellini

Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society

The goal of Phi Lambda Sigma is to recognize outstanding leaders in the profession of pharmacy. Phi Lambda Sigma members are expected to uphold the high standards of the society and of the profession and to dedicate themselves to further the advancement of pharmacy through exemplary leadership, character, and achievement.

Class of 2008

Shazia Yusaf Ali
Christine Nicole Davis
Patrick L. Fletcher
Steven Alexander Gilmore
Janet Ashley Jacobs Gunter
Robert Jordan Hinkle
Harry Patrick Marcelin
Abigail Ellen Miller
Caroline Godwin Moore
Kristin Marie Schmidt
Sarah Kingsland Walker

Class of 2009

Katie Bayliss
Sara Anne Dawson
Emily Lauren Heil
LaQuoia Yvette Johnson
Emily Ann McCrary
Ryan King Owenby
Jacob Douglas Spangler
Kyra Lynn Walgos
Laura Michele Yarbro
Laura Elizabeth Yoder

Class of 2010

Kelly Lynn Martin
Kimberly Nelva Mason
Dana Noel Petri