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Mustafa
Lokhandwala,
Dean of the College of Pharmacy
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Highlights
The College of Pharmacy faculty has truly set
the stage for Learning and Leading in FY02.
Faculty members of the university's College
of Pharmacy are funded by national health organizations such as
the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association
for their innovative research and drug development for diseases
like asthma, skin cancer, and congestive heart failure.
Faculty highlights include:
- Dean Mustafa Lokhandwala was moderator and
presenter at a session entitled Facilitating Campus Dialogue
Among Different Ethnic, Racial and Religious Student Populations.
The session was part of the recently held meeting in Houston of
the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Dean Lokhandwala
also received Individual Education Excellence Award from Texas
Pharmacy Foundation.
- At the Texas Pharmacy Foundation Healthcare
Pathfinder Forum and Awards Gala several faculty members
were honored. In the category of Faculty Inspiring Students to
Partnerships, Andrea Smesny, PharmD received the top award. J.
David Hayes, PharmD, was the runner-up. Nomination finalists for
the category included Sherri Konzem, PharmD; Lynn Simpson, PharmD;
Judith Smith, PharmD; and David Wallace, PharmD. All recipients
and nominees serve as clinical assistant professors of clinical
sciences.
- The fruit of faculty efforts, our students,
are also receiving awards and causing many in the pharmacy education
world to take notice.
Student highlights include:
- PharmD student Mikke Johle and faculty mentors
Melinda Neuhauser and Kevin Garey will showcase their project
A Houston-Based Medicine Cabinet Cleanup Campaign
at the NACDS Pharmacy and Technology Conference in San Diego this
year.
- PharmD student Abid Ghafoor and faculty mentor
Sugit Sansgiry were selected for their project The Impact
of the Human Genome Project on the Professional Role of the Community
Pharmacist and will also be shown at the Pharmacy and
Technology conference for NACDS (National Association of Chain
Drug Stores).
- PharmD student Joanne Gonzales and faculty
mentor Judith Smith were accepted to present their abstract, Development
of a High Performance Liquid Chromatography Assay for determination
of concentration of Manumycin A in Mouse Plasma at the
ACCP (American Council of Colleges of Pharmacy) meeting in Savannah,
Georgia.
- PharmD student Eva Couvillon was honored
with the publishing of her paper, Inhalation vs. Cutaneous
Anthrax. It was the lead article in the Texas Pharmacy
Association Journal winter edition.
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