AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Professor TY KISER, PHARMD, is the recipient of the CU Anschutz President’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
Professor JOHN CARPENTER, PHD, was awarded the school’s Innovation in Science Award.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs DAVID THOMPSON, PHD, was recognized with the CU Anschutz Chancellor’s Teaching Recognition Award.
Alumnus JIM SAJBEL, RPH, was recognized as CU Pharmacy’s Distinguished Coloradan. The honor is the school’s most prestigious award and is bestowed annually by the faculty to individuals who have excelled in their own professional careers and who have provided exceptional support to the profession of pharmacy.
Alumna SANDRA LEAL, PHARMD, was recognized with CU Pharmacy’s Excellence in Pharmacy Award. Leal, the CEO of the health care company SinfoníaRx, is the president-elect of the American Pharmacists Association.
Professor SUNNY LINNEBUR, PHARMD, was named the CU Pharmacy Faculty Member of Distinction.
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Assistant Professor VANESSA PHELAN, PHD, received the Doctoral Mentoring Award from the CU Anschutz Graduate School.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LAURA SABA, PHD, received the Faculty Excellence in Mentoring/ Advising Award from the Colorado School of Public Health.
The CU Pharmacy Ambulatory Care Post Graduate-Year 2 residency, led by Professor and Department of Clinical Pharmacy Vice Chair JOE SASEEN, PHARMD, won two 2019 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Residency Excellence Awards. THE AMBULATORY CARE PROGRAM won the organization’s overall Program Award.
Additionally, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOEL MARRS, PHARMD, was presented with the ASHP Preceptor Award for his contributions to the residency program.
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DR. SASEEN was awarded the Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). The award recognizes pharmacy practitioners in any practice setting who have distinguished themselves in the profession through outstanding performance and achievements.
Assistant Professor SARA WETTERGREEN, PHARMD, was recognized by APhA with the Distinguished New Practitioner Award. The award recognizes new practitioners within their first five years of practice who have demonstrated distinctive achievements in mentorship, service and commitment to the profession of pharmacy.
Associate Professor SARAH ANDERSON, PHARMD, (CLASS OF 2007) was awarded Fellow of ASHP. This recognition is awarded to pharmacists who have excelled in pharmacy practice and distinguished themselves through service and contributions to ASHP. With the award, Anderson joins an elite group of 957 pharmacists nationwide.
CU Pharmacy alumnus and benefactor HENRY STRAUSS (CLASS OF 1951) and his wife, Joan, were among the top honorees at the annual CU Anschutz Benefactor Recognition Dinner. The Strauss family, namesakes of the Strauss Health Sciences Library on campus, are passionate about integrative medicine. Their contributions to the Florence G. StraussLeonard A. Wisneski Indigenous and Integrative Medicine Collection ensure students have access to learn about the field.