faculty news
• Beth Phillips was appointed vice-chair, 2011-2012 Public and Professional Relations Committee, American College of Clinical Pharmacy. • Bradley G. Phillips was appointed vice-chair, 2011-2012 Fellowship Review Committee, American College of Clinical Pharmacy. He was also appointed judge, National Pharmacy Student Clinical Challenge during the American College of Clinical Pharmacy annual meeting. • Somanath Shenoy joined as an editorial board member of the journals Oncology Reports and Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine.
Awards • Michael G. Bartlett was named a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. • Catherine D. Bourg passed the ambulatory care board certification exam to receive the BCACP designation. • Brian S. Cummings was one of nine faculty inducted into the UGA Teaching Academy. • James L. Franklin served on the NIH ZRG1 F03A (20) study section in Washington, D.C. This study section reviews F31 predoctoral and F32 postdoctoral fellowships in neurodevelopment, synaptic plasticity and neurodegeneration.
Grants • Paul J. Brooks and Trina J. von Waldner, coinvestigator, received $110,160 from Pfizer for Disease Management 101: Understanding the Disease Management Process–An Educational Primer for Emerging World Markets (funds shared with College of Public Health). • James V. Bruckner was awarded an $898,179 contract for two years by the Consumer Specialty Production Association to assess potential neurotoxic risks posed by pyrethroid insecticides to infants and children. • Susan C. Fagan received a $14,200 and $46,200 grant from the Veterans Administration Medical Center to study mechanisms and consequences of hypertension after stroke. • Kalen B. Manasco received a seed grant for $1,720 from the Morgan Fund in pharmacy practice through the UGA College of Pharmacy for a project titled “Development of a pharmacist intervention to increase human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
compliance at Georgia Health Sciences Children’s Medical Center.” • Mandi Murph has received a $467,000 grant from the American Cancer Institute for the next four years to study melanoma.
The University of Oklahoma Awards • Brooke L. Honey earned Certified Asthma Educator (AE-C) credentials. • Michelle Lamb, finalist, Champions of Health. Awarded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma to the Heart Improvement Project (HIP Clinic). Category: Champion of the Underserved, Oct. 2011. • Ryan Schupbach received the Area Director’s National Impact Award presented by the Department of Health and Human Services. He was also named the Allen J. Brands Clinical Pharmacist of the Year.
Grants • Katherine O’Neal, Bayer $8,000 (supply donations), “Internal medicine quality improvement diabetes project.”
The University of Tennessee Appointments/Elections • Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, dean • Dick R. Gourley was appointed interim president of The University of Tennessee Research Foundation.
Awards • Bradley A. Boucher received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s prestigious 2011 Clinical Practice Award. • Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, author of the book, Pharmacy Management, Leadership, Marketing and Finance, is the winner of the distinguished 2011 American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) Medical Book Award, Health Care Professionals Category. • Catherine M. Crill was named an ACCP fellow. • Shannon L. Finks was named an ACCP fellow. • Joanna Q. Hudson was named an ACCP fellow.
Grants • Robert B. Parker and S. Casey Laizure, National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the
academic Pharmacy now Jan/Feb/Mar 2012
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