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2010s Elly Sarabi, PharmD ’10, is an inpatient pharmacist specialist at Kaiser Permanente. Nick Mordwinkin, PharmD ’12, is senior manager of Corporate Strategy at Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical. David Yuan, PharmD ’12, is a pharmacy supervisor at Lorena Pharmacy. Sharlin Gevargeza, PharmD ’09 (pictured above with Walgreens District Manager Penah Dadayan and Walgreens District Supervisor Paul Huynh), is manager of the Walgreens Pharmacy in Santa Clarita, California. She received Walgreens’ 2015 Champion of Champions Award, which is presented annually to a pharmacist who delivers extraordinary patient care. Gevargeza, who has worked for Walgreens since 2010, won the award for both the Los Angeles North District and the Los Angeles-wide service area.
Barbara Blaylock MS ’15 (Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy), is a junior economist with OECD in Paris. Andrew Messali MS ’15 (Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy), is an associate at Analysis Group in Boston.
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Industry Fellowships Launch Careers Fellowships provide postdoctoral scholars with hands-on experience in research and development, new product planning, managed care, medical communications, regulatory review and market access strategies — preparing them for a range of industry careers. Numerous Class of 2015 graduates directly entered fellowship programs at such companies as Allergan, Bayer HealthCare, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genentech, Genzyme, and Eli Lilly and Company. One of the longest-standing is the USC–Allergan Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowship Program. “Allergan and USC work as close partners in marking our fellowships the best opportunities for tomorrow’s great minds in our industry,” says Gavin S. Herbert, Allergan chairman emeritus.
Class of 2015 graduates who are in two-year fellowship programs include: (back row) Tony Luu, Jessie Ho, Eddie Brauer, Derek Kuwahara, Jeff Penzner and Aidan Metzinger; (front row) Katherine Tran, Stephanie Yu, Anna Cheng, Lucie Vu, Cassie Ding and Shannon Dervin
am dedicated to finding groundbreaking new ways of combining pharmacy ‘‘ Iand business toward directing the future of pharmaceutical innovation.” DEREK KUWAHARA, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FELLOW
goal is to create a lasting impact by contributing to the process of drug ‘‘ My development and commercialization.” ANNA CHENG, GENENTECH FELLOW
plan to become intimately involved in designing early-stage clinical trials, ‘‘ Ieventually working with new classes of pharmaceuticals as they make their way from the bench to the bedside.”
JEFF PENZNER, WHOSE USC–ALLERGAN FELLOWSHIP EXPLORES RETINAL THERAPEUTICS
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