faculty news
Faculty News Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Appointments/Elections • Ray Chandrasekara has added of director of intercultural affairs and diversity to his responsibilities. • Clayton English, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, Vermont campus • Catherine Murphy, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, Vermont campus • David Kile, administrative director of the Research Institute for Health Outcomes and Graduate Programs in Social and Administrative Sciences, and instructor of pharmacy practice
Grants • Amit Pai has received a $237,665 grant from Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. to study the pharmacokinetics of oseltamivir carboxylate in morbidly obese subjects.
Retirements
“Women of Distinction Leadership Award” sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Auburn University. • Laura Susan Cain has been recognized as a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist. • Elizabeth A. Flynn, Kenneth N. Barker, Bruce A. Berger, Kimberly Braxton Lloyd and P. David Brackett have been awarded the APhA-APRS Wiederholt Prize for 2010 for their 2009 paper on dispensing errors and counseling quality in 100 pharmacies, published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. • Anna Solomon has been recognized as a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist. • Bradley Wright has been recognized as a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist.
Promotions • Muralikrishnan Dhanasekaran was promoted to associate professor with tenure. • Lea S. Eiland has been named an associate department head of pharmacy practice.
• Rinaldo (Ralph) V. DeNuzzo, professor of pharmacy practice, has retired from teaching after 58 years with ACPHS. He will continue to work for the college in the Office of Institutional Advancement.
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Awards
Appointments/Elections • Heather P. Whitley has been elected co-chair for the Alabama Obesity Task Force. • Heather P. Whitley and Gordon Sacks have been selected to participate in the Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative (PSPC). • Weili Yan, assistant professor in pharmacal sciences
Awards
• Daniel A. Brazeau is the recipient of the University at Buffalo Celebration of Academic Excellence, 2010 Teaching Innovation Award. • Brian T. Tsuji received the Pfizer 2009 ASPIRE Young Investigator Award in Antibacterial Research.
Grants • Donald E. Mager is co-investigator in a $283,010 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study “Population Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics in Nonablative Stem Cell Recipients.”
• Kimberly Braxton Lloyd has been awarded the 2010
academic Pharmacy now Apr/May/Jun 2010
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