ALUMNI NEWS
Babies Teresa (Wei) Bowman, PharmD 2012, and husband Jeff Bowman welcomed their first child, son Derek James Bowman on February 1, 2016. Jeff Hamper, PharmD 2011, and his wife, Melissa recently welcomed a new baby. (NO PHOTO) Josh Weith, PharmD 2011, and his wife recently welcomed a new baby. (NO PHOTO)
Kudos
Michael Appell, PHD, 2001, has been named an American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow and a Fellow of the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry of ACS. He is currently a research chemist at the USDA. Natania Abdelfattah, PharmD 2014, is now Medical Communications Manager at Wesley Enterprise, Inc.
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Flor Cortes, PharmD 2015, married Steven Hogan.
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Sean Chan, PharmD 2011, & Amanda Seddon, PharmD 2012, got married. (NO PHOTO)
SUMMER 2016
Andrea TenBarge, PharmD 2012, is now Consultant, Global Medical Channels & eCapabilities at Eli Lilly and Company. Mitzi Wasik (former faculty) is now Lead Business Consultant – Medicare Stars at Aetna.
Elizabeth Berthel, PharmD 2014, is now Program Manager, Pharmacist at AbbVie.
Naomi Wells, PharmD 2013, is now Pharmacist at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center Bloomington.
Elizabeth Gorski, PharmD 2012, is now Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – General Pediatrics at University of Michigan Health System.
Jennifer (Samp) White, PharmD 2011, is now an Associate Director at AbbVie.
Dave Hicks, BS 1976, was lead author on a recent AJHP CPO Perspectives article titled: “Engaging and working with pharmacy consultants.” Morgan Michalek, PharmD 2014, is Manager, Global Medical Affairs at Baxalta.
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Marc Rubin, BS 1976, is now a Committee Member at the World Allergy Organization.
Sophie Wimberley, PharmD 1998, is now Medical Affairs Team Leader – Virology (West USA) at Merck. Joe Zorek, PharmD 2011, was named one of the 2016 AACP New Investigator Award recipients. He currently is working at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor.
