faculty news
Promotions
• Thomas J. Abbruscato was promoted to professor for the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. • Amie Blaszczyk was promoted to associate professor for the Department of Pharmacy Practice.
• Amber Bradley became a board-certified oncology pharmacist. • James V. Bruckner was named a fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences.
• Paul R. Lockman was promoted to associate professor with tenure for the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• David L. DeRemer received the 2012 Outstanding Pharmacy Practitioner award from the Georgia Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists.
• Nikita Mirajkar was promoted to assistant professor for the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
• Sarah Evans, a Pharm.D. student with mentor Amber Bradley, won a travel award to the STaR conference.
• Jon A. Weidanz was promoted to professor for the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
• Janet Fowler was selected as the 2012 Fourth Quarter STaR Award winner.
The University of Arizona
• Anna Goc, post-doctoral fellow with mentor Somanath Shenoy, won a travel award to the STaR conference.
Grants
• Bradley Hanberry, graduate student with mentor Jason A. Zastre, won a travel award to the STaR conference.
• Daniel C. Malone received $205,434 from the National Pharmaceutical Council for the development of a training program on patient heterogeneity. He also received an award of $287,596 for a drug-drug interaction clinical decision support conference series from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The University of Georgia Appointments/Elections
• James V. Bruckner was appointed to the U.S. EPA Scientific Advisory Board Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee. He was also invited to be a member of the Committee on Risks Associated with High Pressure Liquid Fracturing of Rock, for the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Academy of Sciences. • Brian S. Cummings was appointed as an associate/section editor for Chemico-Biological Interactions and served on the NIH study section ZMD1 MLS. • Dexi Liu served as a stage two editorial board member for the NIH IMST-13 Bioengineering Review Panel. • Kalen B. Manasco was appointed chair of the newlyformed Pediatric Pharmacy Special Interest Group at AACP. • Bradley G. Phillips was installed as treasurer for the board of regents and member of the executive committee for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. • Marjorie Shaw Phillips was appointed to the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.
Awards
• Molly Altman, a graduate student in Mandi Murph’s laboratory, received the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Award and has been selected to participate in the Washington Fellows Program. She also received a travel award to present her work at the STaR (Southern Translational and Educational Research) conference.
• Jeremy Headrick was named STAR employee for the fall quarter. • Keith N. Herist was recertified as an AAHIVM-HIV Pharmacist for another two-year period with the American Academy of HIV Medicine. • Linda D. Hughes received board certification in pharmacotherapy. • Dianne May, Christy Norman and Tad Gomez received the Outstanding Hospital or Health-System Pharmacy Newsletter Award from the Georgia Society of Health-System Pharmacists. • Deanna W. McEwen received board certification in pharmacotherapy. • Mandi Murph received a travel award to present her work at the STaR conference. • Barbara Mysona, post-doc with Azza el-Remessy, won best post-doctoral presentation award at the STaR conference. She was also awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. • Merrill Norton has joined a research consortium to study the management of chronic pain in addicted patients. • Somanath Shenoy received the Outstanding Achievement in Research Award at the 17th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and the 15th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine.
Grants
• Chung K. Chu received $91,486 from the University of Southern California for the second year of study on epigenetic regulation of alcoholic liver fibrosis. • Susan C. Fagan received two grants from the Veterans Administration Medical Center; $46,200 to study mechanisms and consequences of hypertension after stroke-IPA Pillai, and $31,680 to study mechanisms and consequences of hypertension after stroke-IPA ISRAT.
academic Pharmacy now Spring 2013
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