College of Pharmacy Program

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY SCHOLASTIC HONORS CONVOCATION & COMMENCEMENT

VIRTUAL CEREMONY MAY 8, 2020 2:00 P.M.

Program

Master of Ceremonies National Anthem Invocation

Keith M. Olsen, Pharm.D., Dean Cacey Vavra Melissa Borsh

Welcome

Keith M. Olsen, Pharm.D., Dean

Chancellor’s Remarks

Jeffrey P. Gold M.D., Chancellor

Presentation of Senior Awards

Ally Dering-Anderson, Pharm.D. Chairman, Scholarship, Honors and Financial Aid Committee

Presentation of Preceptor and Site of the Year Awards Presentation of University Awards

Honorary Doctorate of Science J.G. Elliott Award Distinguished Service Award

Anthony Donovan, Class President Jeffery P. Gold M.D., Chancellor H. Dele Davies, M.D., M.S., M.H.C.M. Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dean for Graduate Studies

Presentation of Doctoral Hoods and Dean’s Remarks

Keith M. Olsen, Pharm.D., Dean

Administration of Pharmacist’s Oath

Christopher L. Shaffer, Pharm.D.

Conferral of Degrees

Jeffrey P. Gold M.D., Chancellor Keith M. Olsen, Pharm.D., Dean

Presentation of Class

Keith M. Olsen, Pharm.D., Dean

Moving of Tassels and Recognition of Support

Jeffrey P. Gold M.D., Chancellor

Closing Remarks

Keith M. Olsen, Pharm.D., Dean

Benediction

Andrew Stoecklein

Class of 2020 Jared Anderson, Lincoln Adam Bassing, Hooper With Distinction Sara Bichlmeier, Stamford Brittani Bjelland, Lake Mills, IA Madeline Blaha, Blair With High Distinction Melissa Borsh, Omaha With Distinction Andrew Butler, Kearney Leslie Chudomelka, Ashland Derek Classen, Humphrey Allyson Cole, Trenton Laura Dieckgrafe, Cook With Distinction Anthony Donovan, Kearney With Distinction Craig Driver, Minden John Glass, Omaha With High Distinction Tanner Griffith, Aurora Kristen Grimaldi, Omaha With High Distinction Kelsey Haywood, Omaha Qingfeng He, Zhanjiang, China With Distinction Brooke Herchenbach, Norfolk Brittany Hircock, Juniata Alexa Karels, Papillion Zachary Kaster, Tecumseh Molly Klinginsmith, Kearney Natasha Konfrst, Council Bluffs, IA Kayla Lane, Arcadia Kealy Marth, Bellevue With Distinction Hannah Milenkovich, Elkhorn With High Distinction

Daniel Olson, Holdrege Diana Palandri, Omaha Lauren Peterson, Blue Hill Kelsie Post, Beatrice With High Distinction Xiaoxiao Qi, Shanghai, China With High Distinction Corey Ridge, Omaha Tarynn Rozanek, Fremont Brittany Ryan, Winside With Highest Distinction Reda Safi, Omaha Jessica Sobczyk, Omaha Kelcy Sorensen, Omaha With Distinction Ryan Steffes, Omaha Andrew Stoecklein, Papillion Ku’ulei Stuhr, Grand Island Amy Thomas, Omaha Natalie Tiefenthaler, Sioux Falls, SD Kaylee Todd, Gothenburg With Distinction Emily Tomes, Papillion Megan Vandergriend, Elkhorn With Distinction Jenna Vittetoe, Omaha Madeline Volk, Arlington With High Distinction Quyen Vu, Lincoln Jacqueline Waller, Grand Island Chao Wang, Anhui Province, China Yike Wang, Chengdu, China Nakaisha Wiegert, Wausa Marysa Wilson, Aberdeen, SD With High Distinction Andre Wilt, Omaha Cali Wurdinger, Randolph

2020 Senior Awards Rho Chi Achievement Award Phi Lambda Sigma Award Academy of Students of Pharmacy Certificate of Recognition Award US Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award Cunningham Memorial Award in Pharmacodynamics Stephen A. Scholtz Memorial Award Mylan Pharmaceuticals Award Phyllis Rhodes Award Bradley G. Wulf Memorial Award Barbara Osborne Manchester Award Varro and Virginia Tyler Award Clinical Services Award Wolters Kluwer Clinical Drug Information Award Joseph B. Burt Memorial Award Excellence in Advanced Practice Experience Recognition Patient Care Champion Award

Pharmacist’s Oath

I promise to devote myself to a lifetime of service to others through the profession of pharmacy. In fulfilling this vow: I will consider the welfare of humanity and relief of suffering my primary concerns.

I will apply my knowledge, experience, and skills to the best of my ability to assure optimal outcomes for my patients.

I will respect and protect all personal and health information entrusted to me.

I will accept the lifelong obligation to improve my professional knowledge and competence.

I will hold myself and my colleagues to the highest principles of our profession’s moral, ethical and legal conduct.

I will embrace and advocate changes that improve patient care.

I will utilize my knowledge, skills, experiences, and values to prepare the next generation of pharmacists.

I take these vows voluntarily with the full realization of the responsibility with which I am entrusted by the public.

2020 Graduating Class Academic and Leadership Awards and Honors Madeline Blaha Melissa Borsh Laura Dieckgrafe Anthony Donovan John Glass Kristen Grimaldi

National Dean’s List Brittany Hircock Kealy Marth Hannah Milenkovich Diana Palandri Kelsie Post

Xiaoxiao Qi Brittany Ryan Kelsie Sorensen Kaylee Todd Megan Vandergriend Madeline Volk Marysa Wilson

Scholarship UNMC College of Pharmacy Regents Scholarship for Academic Excellence John Glass ‘19 Kristen Grimaldi ’16, ’17, ’18, ‘19 Tanner Griffith ‘17 Hannah Milenkovich ‘17, ‘18, ‘19

Kelsie Post ‘17 Kelcy Sorensen ‘16, ‘17, ‘18 Brittany Ryan ‘17 , ‘18, ‘19 Madeline Volk ’16, ’17, ’18, ‘19

Plough Foundation Pharmacy Student Scholarship Laura Dieckgrafe ‘17 Quyen Vu ‘17 Kealy Marth ‘17 Andre Wilt ‘17 Kaylee Todd ‘17 Dean’s Pharmacy Leadership Award Madeline Blaha ‘18, ‘19 Kelsie Post ‘19 Melissa Borsh ‘19 Ku’ulei Stuhr ‘19 Anthony Donovan ‘18 Emily Tomes ‘19 Hannah Milenkovich ‘19 Megan Vandergriend ‘18, ‘19 Robert A. & Elizabeth Hardt Scholarship Madeline Blaha ‘18 Anthony Donovan ‘18 Megan Vandergriend ‘17, ‘18

Mark Augustin Memorial Scholarship Megan Vandergriend ‘17 Thomas J. O’Holleran Scholarship Andre Wilt ‘19 Leland “Lee” C. Lucke Scholarship Kelcy Sorensen ‘19 Class of 1986 Scholarship Adam Bassing ‘19 Dr. Melvin R. Gibson Leadership Award John Glass ‘18 Laura Dieckgrafe ‘19 Alice Elizabeth Barnes Fortna Scholarship Craig Driver ‘19 Daniel & Patricia Hughes Scholarship Adam Bassing ‘16 Rex Higley Scholarship Marysa Wilson ‘17 Kelsie Post ‘19 Burroughs Wellcome Scholarship Melissa Borsh ‘18 LaJoie Gibbons Scholarship Kaylee Todd ‘18 Gundmundsen Statewide Scholarship Marysa Wilson ‘19 College of Pharmacy Scholarship Craig Driver ‘17 Hazel V. Emley Scholarship Madeline Blaha ‘19 E.F. Schwedhelm Scholoarship Kealy Marth ‘16

U-Save Pharmacy, Inc. Retail Pharmacy Scholarship Marysa Wilson ‘17 Leslie Chudomelka ‘19 Susan LaFlesche Picotte CPFI Scholarship Diana Palandri ‘19 Kelsie Post ‘16 Rufus A. Lyman Memorial Scholarship Anthony Donovan ‘17 Kealy Marth ‘19 Marysa Wilson ‘18 Edward & Lois Holscher Scholarship Madeline Blaha ‘17 Roger L. Miller & Margaret H. Miller Pharmacy Scholarship Megan Vandergriend ‘19 Joseph D. Williams Scholarship Kelsie Post ‘19 Sarah E. Cohen Feldman Scholarship John Glass ‘17 Cora Mae Briggs Scholarship Madeline Blaha ‘17 Dr. Witold Saski Pharmacy Scholarship John Glass ‘17 Kaylee Todd ‘19 Cardinal Health Nuclear Pharmacy Scholarship Laura Dieckgrafe ‘18 Kealy Marth ‘18 Class of 1968 Scholarship Kealy Marth ‘16 Alumni Scholarship Marysa Wilson ‘17

Versal H. & Edith Molly Stevens Caton Scholarship Brooke Herchenbach ‘17 Jacqueline Waller ‘16 Robert J. Valdez Pharmacy Scholarship Jacqueline Waller ‘19 Mayme & Steve Severa & Irene M. & Robert D. Baumfalk Scholarship Kelsie Post ‘16, ‘17‘19 Kay F. Crawford Scholarship Jared Anderson ‘16, ‘17 ‘19 Dr. & Mrs. Varner R. Richards Scholarship Anthony Donovan ’17, ‘19 Kelsie Post ‘18 Lucy Menebroker Scholarship Jared Anderson ‘16 Paul Carlberg Scholarship Adam Bassing ‘16 Kaylee Todd ‘17 Phuong-Nguyen-Yen Le Scholarship Madeline Blaha ‘17 Jacqueline Waller ‘16 Engel Sisters Scholarship Kelsie Post ‘18 Jay Druecker Ph.D. Memeorial Scholarship Jacqueline Waller ‘18 Adam & Frances Rubendall Memorial Scholarship Xiaoxiao Qi ‘17 Andre Wilt ‘18

HONORARY DOCTORATE OF SCIENCE Doyt L. Conn, M.D. Nebraska native and UNMC alumnus Doyt Conn, M.D., is honored with the Honorary Doctorate of Science Degree for high distinction in the use of his skills in medicine, science, and teaching to serve his fellow man.

Dr. Conn’s commitment to medicine and service is so great that after his retirement from a 25-year distinguished career at the Mayo Clinic, he soon embarked on a second act. Following a three-year stint as senior vice president for medical affairs for the National Arthritis Foundation, he again became a full-time clinician, scientist and educator at Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Health Systems in Atlanta, which is the fifth-largest public hospital in the U.S. There, he threw himself into understanding the challenges faced by patients from an underserved population, who often were on Medicaid or had no insurance at all. It was a job he would not have been up to earlier in his career, Dr. Conn said, adding: “The journey from Mayo to Grady is as long as any in American medicine.”

Dr. Conn also was involved providing medical services during humanitarian crises while serving as medical director of Americares in the 1990s. He helped establish medical services in Kenya for Somali refugees and helped set up a hospital in Rwanda to serve survivors of the Rwandan genocide.

Dr. Conn is the former director of rheumatology at Emory, Grady and the Mayo Clinic. He is currently professor emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine, and he resides in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Conn has published more than 200 papers, abstracts and book chapters, and he helped train more than 100 rheumatology trainees at Mayo and Emory.

He is a former military surgeon at the U.S. Public Health Service, Galveston, Texas.

Dr. Conn was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He is a proud product of Gering High School, Nebraska Wesleyan University and the UNMC College of Medicine.

He has been honored with numerous awards and is a respected publications editor. The university is proud to confer this honorary degree on Dr. Doyt Conn.

J.G. (JACK) ELLIOTT AWARD Roger Reamer, M.B.A. Roger Reamer is honored today with the J.G. Elliott Award for his decades of service to his fellow Nebraskans, notably as a leader and advocate for health care administration, public health initiatives and health science education for rural communities.

Though he has served for more than two decades as chief executive officer for Memorial Health Care Systems in Seward, Neb., Reamer’s service has reached far beyond his community and county. Roger’s passion and commitment fuels his dedication to ensuring excellence in health care services for patients, medical professionals and communities across Nebraska.

He has respect and a strong understanding of the vital service rural health care delivers to smaller communities. He has provided leadership, direction and development skills to establish and strengthen rural health care and is a dedicated advocate for rural health policy development. His leadership and collaborative efforts have helped rural hospitals and health care organizations improve delivery of care and build effective alliances for long term sustainability.

He’s served on the American Hospital Association Board, Nebraska a Hospital Association Board, State of Nebraska Board of Health, Four Corners Public Health Department, as well as rural health and health education boards.

During the current COVID-19 public health emergency, Reamer’s leadership is crucial on two fronts: the hospital side, and within the district health department.

The J.G. Elliott Award is given annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to medicine and health programs for the state of Nebraska.

It is awarded in memory of Jack Elliott, a former Scottsbluff resident, who served on the University of Nebraska Board of Regents for 20 years until his death in 1974. The University is proud to present this award today to Roger Reamer.

UNMC CHANCELLOR’S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Anne M. Hubbard, M.D. Anne Hubbard, M.D., a physician, philanthropist, and a UNMC alumnus, is honored with the UNMC Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award for her longtime commitment to the university, and to ensuring a healthy future for our state.

Dr. Hubbard is now retired from an outstanding career in academic and clinical medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and at her alma mater, UNMC, and Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.

She remains very well respected in her field of pediatric radiology and fetal and orthopedic imaging.

In her community service role, she does even more for all Nebraskans, in building upon the groundwork laid by her parents, Dr. Theodore Hubbard and Claire Hubbard. The Hubbards were tremendous supporters of the university, establishing the Theodore F. Hubbard, M.D., Chair of Cardiology and the Theodore F. Hubbard, M.D., Endowed Chair of Cardiovascular Research at UNMC. Through the Claire M. Hubbard Foundation, which honors her mother, Dr. Hubbard also has supported several organizations to support advancing the education, research and patient care missions of UNMC. Under Dr. Hubbard’s leadership, the foundation established the Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Health and Environment in the UNMC College of Public Health, among other initiatives.

Dr. Hubbard is an engaged philanthropist, often linking multiple organizations to leverage the impact of the various programs she supports. She is dedicated to the education and health of children, underserved communities and understanding the importance of the environment and natural resources to human health.

She serves on the boards of the St. Augustine Indian Mission, in Winnebago, Neb., The Nature Conservancy of Nebraska, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, and the University of Nebraska Foundation Board of Trustees.

Dr. Hubbard grew up in Omaha, and graduated from UNL, and the UNMC College of Medicine. She served her internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic. She served her radiology residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

The university is proud to honor Dr. Anne Hubbard with the UNMC Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award.

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