faculty news
• Stephanie J. Phelps was installed in March 2010 as chair of the National Academies of Practice Pharmacy Academy.
Grants • Candace S. Brown, Boehringer Ingelheim, Filbanserin in postmenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder. • Lawrence M. Brown, NACDS Foundation, Services for the creation of a Web-based patient care database. • Trevor McKibbin, UT Cancer Institute, Protein changes within P13-Akt-mTOR and EGFR pathways. • P. David Rogers, NIH, Novel Azole Resistance Mechanisms of Candida albicans. • Michael C. Storm, UT Research Foundation, Pediatric dosage of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids. • Michelle M. Zingone, State of Tennessee, Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration for Diabetes Care.
The University of Toledo Awards • Vincent F. Mauro was awarded the Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the 2010 Doctor of Pharmacy class.
The University of Utah Appointments/Elections • Diana I. Brixner has been appointed to the Board of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacists (AMCP) for a second year.
Awards • Diane Ogborn (P2) and her mentor, Karen M. Gunning, received a scholarship for the 2010 AACP Wal-Mart Scholars Program.
University of Washington Awards • The School of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Out-
comes Research and Policy Program (PORPP) is a founding member of the UW Centers for Comparative and Health Systems Effectiveness (CHASE) Alliance.
Grants • Kenneth E. Thummel received a multi-million dollar U01 grant to create a new Center on Pharmacogenetics in Rural and Underserved Populations. Thummel will be the co-principal investigator of the grant with a professor in the UW School of Medicine.
Promotions • Isabelle Ragueneau-Majlessi has joined the Department of Pharmaceutics faculty as a clinical associate professor. She also became director of the School of Pharmacy’s Metabolism and Transport Drug Interaction Database.
Virginia Commonwealth University Appointments/Elections • Daniel Adkins was named assistant professor. • Gretchen Brophy was appointed to the American College of Critical Care Medicine Nominating Committee. • Laura A. Morgan was named director of the School of Pharmacy’s Foundations Lab. • Renee Murray was appointed to a three-year term on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmacy Today. • James X. Zhang was cross-appointed as an affiliate faculty member in the VCU School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Community Health. He also was appointed to the Scientific Committee of the American Society of Health Economists.
Awards • Umesh R. Desai received the School of Pharmacy’s 2010 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. • Jean-Venable “Kelly” R. Goode was one of 14 pharmacy professionals inducted into the National Academies of Practice as a 2010 Distinguished Prac-
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