faculty news
• Julie A. Johnson has been promoted to distinguished professor.
• Keith A. Rodvold, Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, Best Research Manuscript 2009.
• W. Thomas Smith was promoted to clinical associate professor.
• Nancy L. Shapiro was named a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
Grants
• James Shaw and A. Simon Pickard were awarded 2010 Best Policy Research Poster of the Year for “Multinational Evaluation of Conditional Median Models of EQ-5D Health State Preferences” at the 17th Annual International Society for Quality of Life Research Conference.
• Julie A. Johnson has received a $500,000, oneyear administrative supplement from UF to launch a personalized medicine program in Clinical and Translational Science Institute. • John S. Markowitz and Haojie Zhu have received a two-year, $408,000 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to continue their program in pharmacogenomics of antiviral agents. This award is titled “Genetic Variants of Human CES 1 Influence the Activation and Antiviral Activity of Oseltamivir.” • Veronika Butterweck has received the 2011 Bionorica Phytoneering Award from the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research at the 42nd International Symposium on Essential Oils in Antalya, Turkey. The award includes a check for $14,500.
• James Shaw, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Top Reviewer.
Grants • Joanna E. Burdette, Liz Tilberis Grant from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund for her project “Identifying early events in ovarian cancer using ovarian surface and tubal epithelial three-dimensional culture.” The $450,000 grant will be paid in three equal installments from 2011–14.
University of Illinois at Chicago
• Michael T. Johnson, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, federal contract for up to $13.8 million to develop antibiotics to treat anthrax, tularemia and plague. The five-year contract is from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense’s combat-support agency for countering weapons of mass destruction.
Appointments/Elections
Retirements
• A. Simon Pickard was elected vice chair of the EuroQol Group Executive Committee.
• John McBride, associate director, pharmacy IT, hospital pharmacy services and clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice
• Monsheel Sodhi, assistant professor, pharmacy practice • Daniel R. Touchette was named the director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy PracticeBased Research Network.
Awards • Gail B. Mahady, United States Pharmacopoeia, Extraordinary Contributor. • A. Simon Pickard received the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology Stanley A. Edlavitch Award for Best Student Abstract (advisor/ co-author).
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academic Pharmacy now Jul/Aug/Sept 2011
University of Houston Appointments/Elections • Susan M. Abughosh has been appointed to the editorial board of Epidemiology: Current Research. • Karim A. Alkadhi has been appointed to the editorial boards of Pharmacie Globale, Current Neuropharmacology, Advances in Pharmacological Sciences, World Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology-Current Research.