April 14, 2014
The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its annual Awards Ceremony on Sunday, April 13, at the Rizzo Center. The School thanks Rite Aid (silver sponsor) and Kroger (bronze sponsor) for their support of the event.
Gray Hutchison Jr., a Raleigh attorney and member of the board of the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina, received the School’s Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to an exceptional supporter of the School’s service and outreach initiatives whose accomplishments and contributions have enhanced the School and the profession of pharmacy at the local, state, national, or international level. (READ MORE)
Third-year student Emily Dare Peedin and alumnus Henry Smith and his wife,Tracey Smith, were the winners of the Samuel Burrus Award for Community Service. This award is presented to members of the UNC Eshelman 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. (READ MORE)
Associate Professor Bob Shrewsbury, PhD, was selected as the School’s overall instructor of the year. For the past fifteen years, Shrewsbury has been teaching compounding at the School and is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on the subject. He is a member of the United States Pharmacopeia Expert Committee on Compounding and chairs the Monograph Modernization Subcommittee, setting standards that are used in the U.S. and in more than 140 other countries.
DOWNLOAD AWARDS CEREMONY PROGRAMAcademic and Professional Awards
Office of Professional Education Academic Excellence Award
Anna Weaver Graham
Lauren Elizabeth Kane
T. R. Burgiss Family Award
Deanna Wung
Buxton Williams Hunter Award
Whitney Lee Davis
Ralph P. Rogers Sr. Award
Anna Y. Armstrong
Ballenger-Smith Award For Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Care Laboratory
Bryan J. Gendron
Molecular Pharmaceutics Award
Kayla Huneycutt Morgan
John C. Hood Sr. Award in Practice Advancement and Clinical Education
Sarah Jane Cox
John T. and Rebecca B. Henley Award in Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
Shawn Patrick Griffin
Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics Award
Brittany Michelle Loy
Jacobs Award in Medicinal Chemistry
Nicholas Bradford Watts
F. O. Bowman Award
Erin Damery
Activities and Service Awards
Kappa Epsilon Award
Kristina Blanquiz
Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Award
Erin Turingan
Boka Hadzija Student Excellence Award
Katie Lynn Traylor
Dorothy Virginia Stroud Memorial Award
Jordan M. Carrera
George H. Cocolas Pharmacy Student Body Award
Joseph Moore
Kristen Carol Burke Memorial Award
Emily Kathryn Monds
Teaching Awards
PY1 Instructor of the Year
Michael Jay, PhD
PY2 Instructor of the Year
Michael Jarstfer, PhD
PY3 Instructor of the Year
Christine Walko, PharmD
Overall Instructor of the Year
Robert Shrewsbury, PhD
Experiential Faculty Instructor of the Year
Michelle Herrmann, PharmD
Claude Paoloni Preceptor of the Year
Jennifer Mando-Vandrick, PharmD