faculty news
Southwestern Oklahoma State University Appointments/Elections
• Lisa A. Appeddu joined the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department as associate professor of physiology. • Erin D. Callen joined the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department as associate professor of health-system pharmacy. • Tami Moser joined the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department as assistant professor of pharmacy administration.
Awards
• M. Omar Faruk Khan was selected as the Dr. H.F. Timmons Endowed Professor in Pharmacy. He was also selected to participate in the 2013–2014 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academic Research Fellows Program. • Edna Patatanian was selected as a fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Promotions
• M. Omar Faruk Khan was named chair of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department.
Retirements
• William “Benny” French retired on July 31, 2013. He served as a faculty member at the Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy from 1976–2013.
Grants
• Rajgopal Govindarajan received $6,500 from the American Foundation for Pharmacy Education for understanding the progression of cancer: novel approach for overcoming chemoresistance and metastasis. • Eileen J. Kennedy received $191,160 from the National Institutes of Health for probing the role of AKAPS in breast cancer using stapled peptide inhibitors. • Yujun Zheng received $82,500 from the American Heart Association to develop novel chemical probes to profile substrates of histone acetyltransferases. He also received $238,431 from the National Institutes of Health for study of chemical approaches to protein arginine methylation.
The University of Iowa Appointments/Elections
• Emily Beckett, assistant professor (clinical) • Leonard R. MacGillivray, affiliated faculty member, Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics • Stephanie Malenfant, assistant professor (clinical) • Himansu Mohapatra, post-doctoral research scholar
Awards
• Nicole Brogden, 2013 Principal Financial Group Iowa Women of Innovation Award Finalist
The University of Georgia
• Colin Higgins, 2014 Washington Fellow, American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Appointments/Elections
• Henry H. Cobb III was appointed an associate editor for Toxicology Reports.
• Donald E. Letendre was recently elected to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Board of Directors. His three-year term will begin in June 2014.
Awards
Grants
• Amber Bradley-Clemmons, first recipient of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Pharmacy SIG New Practitioner Award to the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. • Henry H. Cobb III was chosen to receive 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award. • Michael W. Neville was honored at Mercy Health Center’s Open Heart Dinner as one of four people to receive the Volunteer of the Year Award. • Marjorie Shaw Phillips was appointed to the Nominating Committee for the new Pharmacy Technician Accreditation Commission being created through collaboration between the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.
• Maureen D. Donovan, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education, $84,560, “Pediatric Nasal Dosage Forms: In Vitro Characterization of Intranasal Deposition Patterns in Children for Optimal Delivery and Performance.” • Jonathan Doorn, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, $40,000, “Novel biomarkers of exposure to organophosphate pesticides.” • Barry L. Carter, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $3,601,876, “Improved Cardiovascular Risk Reduction to Enhance Rural Primary Care (ICARE).”
Promotions
• Aliasger Salem, Lyle and Sharon Bighley Professorship in pharmaceutical sciences
• Somanath Shenoy was elected a fellow of the American Heart Association, Council of Atherosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
The University of Mississippi
• Trina J. von Waldner received the Georgia Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists Community Service Award.
• David F. Gregory, associate dean for academic affairs and clinical associate professor of pharmacy practice
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