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Pharmacist

Summer 2010 ￭ Volume 34, Number 2

Garry Zage revolutionizes

pharmacy automation

Compounding makes a comeback

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Pharmacist

Summer 2010 ￭ Volume 34, Number 2

Table of Contents

cover“Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink” by Kristin Thomas, M.S. candidate in biopharmaceutical sciences, 2nd place winner of The Image of Research 2010 (page 6)“My image features an evaporating dish containing an array of disks cut from PEGDA hydrogels synthesized in our lab. These disks are transparent and at the microscale they are comprised of an interpenetrating network into which water and proteins can enter. These gels can be synthesized using either chemicals or light, but what makes them so unique is their ability to amalgamate themselves with aqueous systems and hoard all of the water – much like a sponge. This ability makes the hydrogel a prime candidate for a variety of applications ranging from everyday products such as diapers to systems that contain cells. Here we see pictured transparent disks of hydrogel swollen from water uptake. In my research, I study the ability of these gels to absorb protein along with water. If these gels are able to take up enough protein, they could be used as environments for cells, or even drug delivery vehicles into which ‘target’ proteins could enter and release therapeutic agents.”

In Every Issue

03 Dean’s Message

04 News Flash

05 Discoveries in Research

06 Rising Stars

18 Gallery

22 Class Notes

23 Obituaries

26 In the Loop

In This Issue�Transformer�Man� � 12Garry Zage revolutionizes pharmacy automation by revitalizing a brand name and, in the process, hopes to do the same for the profession.

The�Compound�Solution�� 14COP alumni usher in a comeback of compounding pharmacy with a solid foundation in basics and focus on customized care.

Album:�Commencement�2010��16See how the College welcomed 219 graduates to the alumni fold on May 6.

A Publication for the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy Alumni and Friends

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PublisherJerry L. Bauman,BS ’76, PharmDDean

EditorJessica A. CanlasAssistant Director of Communications

Contributing EditorsHugh M. CookSamuel Hostettler

PhotographyBarry DonaldRoberta Dupuis-DevlinKathryn MarchettiBen Stickan

DesignerKimberly A. HegartyUIC Office of Publications Services

College of PharmacyAdministrative Officers

Department HeadsWilliam Beck, PhDBiopharmaceutical Sciences

Judy Bolton, PhDMedicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

Nicholas Popovich, BS ’68, MS ’71, PhD ’73Pharmacy Administration

Janet Engle, PharmD ’85Pharmacy Practice

Vice Dean, RockfordRegional ProgramDavid W. Bartels, PharmD

Executive Associate DeanJanet Engle, PharmD ’85

Associate DeansClara Awe, PhD, EdDDiversity Affairs

James Bono, MHABusiness Development and Administrative Affairs

Marieke Schoen, PharmD ’88Academic Affairs

Steven M. Swanson, PhD ’90Research

Thomas TenHoeve III, PhDStudent Affairs

Assistant DeansDebra Agard, PharmD ’92,MHPEStudent Affairs

Suzanne Rabi, PharmD ’04Academic Affairs

Jean Woodward, PhDStudent Affairs

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Corrections, Winter 2010“A Night to Remember” (pg. 12), Donna M. Carroll’s name was incorrectly spelled in her photo caption.

Honor Roll of Donors 2008-09 (pg. 17), Mark Pilkington, BS ’84, MS ’88, should have been denoted as a member of the College of Pharmacy National Advisory Board.

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>editorialcreditsWhen I graduated from the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy in 1976, my graduating

class was composed of 235 students (the largest graduating class in our 150 years), we were the only college of pharmacy in the state of Illinois and there were 72 colleges of pharmacy in the United States. As of this writing, there are four colleges of pharmacy in Illinois (with nearly 600 future graduates) and 120 colleges of pharmacy in the country. More are being planned. Just four years ago, when I was appointed dean, there appeared to be an incredible shortage of pharmacists in Illinois and nationwide. Academia responded to this demand by forming new colleges of pharmacy (somewhat surprisingly, many by colleges and universities without an existing health science mission) and by increasing the class size of existing colleges of pharmacy. Salaries for pharmacists skyrocketed; our students had job offers (many with signing bonuses and some with new cars!) often during their P1 year. These opportunities in pharmacy did not escape bright students in Illinois and around the United States. Our applicant pool became (and remains) extremely vibrant (about nine to 10 applicants per one acceptance), filled with some of the most talented students I have ever witnessed in my 30 years in academia. In our applicant pool this year, about 75% of students had a prior B.S. in the sciences with an average GPA of nearly 3.6/4.0. This demand for pharmacists has been fueled not by the expanding roles of pharmacists alone but mainly by the incredible expansion of chain drug stores. At one point in time, Walgreens was opening one new store in the United States every 17 hours. But then some brilliant bankers bet on something called derivatives and mortgage-backed securities and the housing market went south. But of course, despite the dramatic and abrupt downturn in the economy, the rapid expansion of chain pharmacies was not sustainable forever. In my opinion, the pendulum has swung too far. I am concerned there will be (or already is?) a major oversupply of pharmacists. My cry for a moratorium on new colleges of pharmacy may be viewed as self serving. Doesn’t UIC COP want the competition? But honestly, that’s not what worries me. What worries me is the impact on the overall profession. Right now, the pharmacy field has an incredible pool of talent in the form of exceptional students entering colleges of pharmacy and eventually the profession. This bodes well for the field of pharmacy, as talented people tend to push boundaries and make significant contributions. But will all colleges get this caliber of student? I fear it won’t be long before these talented students see the potential oversupply and choose law, medicine or engineering instead. Further, I am concerned about why some universities decide to start a new college of pharmacy. Is it because there is a burning altruism to help the profession and society? Of course not: universities, like any other business, see opportunities and new revenue streams in the form of tuition. Last, I am worried that experiential resources in Illinois and elsewhere are stretched to the maximum. There are only so many exceptional community and hospital sites in Illinois where these students can train. This will impact the quality of their education. I thank my lucky stars every day the University of Illinois has a teaching hospital where most of our clinical clerkships reside. One of the definitions of a profession is that it controls its own workforce. In my view, it is time for pharmacy to step up and do just that. Right�now,�we�don’t�need�any�new�colleges�of�pharmacy�in�Illinois...……..�for�the�good�of�the�profession.

Jerry L. Bauman, BS ’76, RES ’77,PharmD, FCCP, FACCDean and Professor

From the Dean

Volunteer with COP!Interested in donating your time to the College of Pharmacy? Join fellow alumni and make an impact in the lives of current students at the following events:

> White Coats: Take part in the time-honored tradition on August 18 (Rockford) and August 19 (Chicago).

> Reunion Class Agents for classes of 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005! With our help, contact your classmates and encourage them to attend this year’s celebration!

To volunteer for any of these opportunities, or to find out about how else you can donate your time to the College, contact Deb Fox, (312) 996-0160.

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151The College of Pharmacy’s age

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50Students in Rockford’s inaugural class this fall

1,500Applicants for fall 2010

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incoming class

> Discoveries in Research

Antibiotics might team up to fight deadly staph infectionsResearchers at UIC and Israel’s Weizman Institute of Science have found that two antibiotics working together might be more effective in fighting pathogenic bacteria than either drug on its own. Individually, lankacidin and lankamycin, two antibiotics produced naturally by the microbe streptomyces, are marginally effective in warding off pathogens, according to the portion of the study conducted at UIC. Alexander Mankin, professor and associate director of the UIC Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and lead investigator, and his team found that when used together, the two antibiotics are much more successful in inhibiting growth of dangerous pathogens such as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and possibly others. MRSA is a staph infection that is resistant to certain antibiotics. The research results were published in the Jan. 11, 2010 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

Clues to pregnancy-associated breast cancer foundExpression of inflammatory-related genes in breast tissue of women who have previously given birth may explain the aggressiveness and frequency of pregnancy-associated breast cancer, according to new research at UIC. Pregnancy at a relatively young age reduces the risk of breast cancer over the long term, but epidemiological studies have found that women are at an increased risk for breast cancer during pregnancy and for up to 10 years after giving birth, says Debra Tonetti, associate professor of pharmacology and lead researcher on the study. Tonetti and her research team examined the level of expression of 64 genes in benign breast tissue. A surprising finding was evidence of a protective effect of pregnancy as well, since the expression of many hormone and growth factor signaling genes suggests protection. These findings indicate that a balance between high risk inflammatory and protective hormone signaling gene expression may ultimately determine a woman’s individual breast cancer risk, she says.

Progesterone found in plantsFor the first time, researchers have obtained rigorous evidence that progesterone, a mammalian steroid hormone, is found in a plant. While searching for cytotoxic entities in walnut tree leaves, Guido F. Pauli, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy, and colleagues isolated small quantities of progesterone and confirmed the hormone’s presence by a combination of mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. In mammals, progesterone has several roles, such as preparing the uterine lining for a potential pregnancy, but progesterone’s biochemical role in plants is not clear, which warrants further research.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, signed into law by President Obama on Feb. 17, 2009, provides an unprecedented opportunity to advance scientific research and discovery for the benefit of the nation, calling for federal funding agencies to invest approximately $22 billion in extramural research through September 2010. As of April 26, 2010, UIC has been awarded $75,150,223 through ARRA. Of that, the College of Pharmacy claims nearly 13 percent as its share, positioning it in 4th place for overall ARRA funding among all UIC colleges.

A new model that can be used to guide health care financing and resource allocation decisions in the United States has been developed by an international group of researchers led by a team from UIC.

“There are some segments of the U.S. population for which health care is publicly financed through tax dollars,” says James Shaw, assistant professor of pharmacy administration at UIC and principal investigator of the study. “To guide the financing decisions that affect these groups, it is important to understand how society values health.”

Using data from a representative sample of more than 4,000 Americans, Shaw and his colleagues developed a model to predict median preferences for health states described by the EQ-5D questionnaire. The model’s predictions, Shaw says, provide “the most accurate and equitable of available representations of U.S. population preferences for EQ-5D health states.”

The EQ-5D is a brief questionnaire designed to measure a person’s point-in-time health status. It uses five questions to measure the severity of problems with mobility, the performance of self-care activities, the performance of usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.

Combinations of responses to the questions describe a total

of 243 unique health states. An index representing the value of an individual’s health to society can be derived by weighting and aggregating his or her questionnaire responses.

Until now, EQ-5D index scores were generated using a set of weights developed to estimate mean societal preferences for EQ-5D health states.

Mean values have traditionally been used to characterize health preferences in the United States, Shaw says. But, “a handful of individuals with extreme preferences can exert undue influence on the mean. The median provides a fairer representation of the aggregate preference of all population members, as it is influenced to a lesser degree by extreme values.”

The research, published in the March/April issue of the journal Value in Health, resolves a number of problems that have plagued previous efforts to estimate population health preferences, Shaw says.

“Our predicted preferences should be considered for use in cost-utility analyses conducted in the United States,” Shaw says. “Given the current political environment, this work will hopefully foster an increased interest in the performance of economic evaluations for health care products and services.”

Co-authors include A. Simon Pickard and Shengsheng Yu of UIC; Shijie Chen of Pfizer Consumer Health in Madison, N.J.; Vincent Iannacchione of RTI International in Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey Johnson of the University of Alberta; and Stephen Joel Coons of the Critical Path Institute in Tucson, Ariz.

Funding for the collection of data used in the study was through a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Survey provides new way to estimate U.S. health preferencesby Sam Hostettler

$2,931,747

$4,884,030

$187,048

$129,217

$1,402,284 Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Biopharmaceutical Sciences

Institute for Tuberculosis Research

Pharmacy Practice

• Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy: $2,931,747

• Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: $4,884,030

• Biopharmaceutical Sciences: $187,048

• Institute for Tuberculosis Research: $129,217

• Pharmacy Practice: $1,402,284

TOTAL: $9,534,326

Distribution of ARRA Funds by COP Department

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Since Spring 2009, Clinical Assistant Professor and Clinical Staff Pharmacist Marlowe Djuric Kachlic, PHARMD ’05, has been inducted into Rho Chi, the academic pharmacy honor society, and Phi Lambda Sigma, the pharmacy leadership

society; she also was named UIC Advisor of the Year in April for her work with the College’s American Pharmacists Association student group.

Kachlic received her BS in chemistry from Valparaiso University in 2001 and her Pharm.D. from UIC in 2005. She completed a pharmacy practice residency with an emphasis in community care in 2006 with Dominick’s Pharmacy and UIC. She then began her position as clinical staff pharmacist at University Village Pharmacy, clinical pharmacist in family medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center and clinical assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy. Her areas of interest include women’s health, asthma, gastroenterology, immunizations and patient education.

How did you decide to become a pharmacist? I was a chemistry major in undergrad, and knew I wanted to work in health care, either as a nurse, a pharmacist or a physician. My uncle, Peter Djuric BS ’78, is a pharmacist, so I had always leaned that way because of him. I worked in the cardiovascular surgery department office at Rush Hospital during summers all through high school and early college. One summer, Andy Donnelly BS ’80, MBA ’84, PHARMD ’87 (who was at Rush back then) set up some shadowing of clinical pharmacists for me in transplant, critical care and internal medicine. After that, I knew I wanted to be a pharmacist. I couldn’t quite believe all of the things a pharmacist did!

Describe your fondest memory from your days as a COP student. The best time I had in pharmacy school was when my friends and I all went to ASHP [American Society of Health-System Pharmacists] midyear in Orlando our P4 year. We somehow got nine people in a suite, went to Disney World twice and had a blast. It was at that meeting that I also pre-interviewed for the residency I ended up doing, and it felt like I had really figured out what kind of pharmacist I wanted to be. Everything fell into place at that meeting…and I got to see Mickey Mouse.

What do you enjoy the most about being an advisor for a student organization? I really love getting to know the students in APhA, because I can see what type of pharmacist they’ll be beyond the classroom. I enjoy the enthusiasm they have for the profession—it re-energizes me.

Describe what it was like for you to be inducted into Phi Lambda Sigma and then named UIC Advisor of the Year the following week. Honestly, my head is still spinning. This time last year, I was inducted into Rho Chi, which was an incredible honor. When I found out I was being inducted into Phi Lambda Sigma this year, I was so thrilled! When I received the e-mail about the Advisor of the Year nomination, I got choked up! I never thought of what I do as being so influential. When they announced my name at the awards ceremony (I was up against Nick Popovich, BS ’68, MS ’71, PHD ’73, too!), I felt numb with excitement! There were pharmacy students there, receiving leadership awards as well, and as the Chancellor pointed out to me—I got a standing ovation from them! I worked two jobs while I was in pharmacy school, so I didn’t get the chance to be as involved as the students I work with. Now, I have the chance to be involved, and the students are showing me that they appreciate what I do.

What’s the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your career? I didn’t realize how much I like to be busy at all times. This usually means taking on a million projects and tasks that need to be completed at the same time. My biggest challenge is figuring out how to clone myself.

What do you find most rewarding about your work? When students approach me and tell me that I (in any way) influenced them—be it from a lecture I gave, a class I helped develop or just for being there for them—that’s the best reward I could ask for.

Any advice for current COP students? Get as much experience as you can while you’re a student. That may mean working in a pharmacy (or two) to see what it is you’re really meant to do. It also may mean getting involved in organizations that do outreach in the community, like APhA and several others. Make the most of your IPPE [Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience] as well as your P4 rotations. Keep an open mind about your future!

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Ying He, Ph.D student in biopharmaceutical sciences, was selected to participate in the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Graduate Student Symposium, held at the National Biotechnology Conference in San Francisco, in May. The program recognizes excellence in graduate education in the fields of pharmaceutical biotechnology.

Andrew Newsome, second-year pharmacognosy student, was awarded the 2010 American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. The award was established to encourage outstanding pre-doctoral students to continue their studies.

Kristin Thomas, M.S. candidate in biopharmaceutical sciences, won 2nd place in the UIC Image of Research 2010 competition with her image “Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink” (see cover). The Image of Research is an annual interdisciplinary exhibit competition that showcases the breadth and diversity of research at UIC.

Caitlin Wilke, MS ’07, Ph.D. candidate in pharmacy administration, won the best student oral presentation award at the 16th Annual International Society for Quality of Life Research meeting last October. The honor is in recognition of her poster, “Comparison of Patient and Proxy EQ5D Ratings Using Parametric and Nonparametric Item Response Theory Approaches.”

Daniel Wojenski, third-year professional student, is a recipient of the 2010 American Pharmacists Association Student Leadership Award. It recognizes outstanding academic achievement and leadership ability in APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacists, who are in their penultimate year of pharmacy school, at the local, regional and national levels. Wojenski also was awarded an APhA Foundation Scholarship.

Operation Immunization’ claims top national prize by Sam Hostettler

Immunizations have protected millions of people from potentially deadly diseases. College of Pharmacy students are developing new ways to vaccinate even more people.

For their efforts, the UIC College of Pharmacy’s “Operation Immunization” claimed the top national award from the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) at the group’s annual meeting in Washington, DC. More than 100 pharmacy schools were represented at the meeting.

The UIC students immunized and educated people at more than 150 flu-shot clinics at community pharmacies, civic centers, churches and employer sites throughout the Chicago area from September to December of last year, says Carolyn Sharpe, a third-year professional student and chairwoman of Operation Immunization.

All 160 fourth-year pharmacy students became certified to provide immunizations last year through an American Pharmacists Association training program. More than 300 first- through third-year students were trained to educate patients and dispel myths about vaccinations and to assist pharmacists with immunizations.

Students provided information at health fairs, elementary schools and flu clinics. The immunization events were designed to target HIV/AIDS patients, people with respiratory diseases, patients eligible to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine, the elderly and at-risk populations for H1N1 flu, says Daniel Wojenski, a third-year professional student and president of the student organization.

In addition to the events students had participated in previously, such as the AIDS Run/Walk Chicago, the program was expanded to include educational booths at the American Lung Association Lung Walk, Wojenski says. To battle the hype surrounding H1N1, students staffed flu-shot kiosks at O’Hare International Airport to educate and screen travelers for both the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines.

The students also developed a “Myth Busters” game to educate veterans at the North Chicago VA Hospital about the seasonal flu, H1N1 and pneumonia immunizations.

The Operation Immunization campaign resulted in nearly 15,000 people being immunized, Sharpe says. More than 6,600 received health and wellness clinical services, and 106,000 were educated. Some 220 events were conducted through 15 projects by 343 student pharmacists and 17 faculty and staff who assisted.

“The program requires a lot of work and time to coordinate, but our students really look forward to volunteering at the clinic sites and participating in the community events,” Sharpe says. “It was exciting to win the award to showcase our program on a national level. But our goal was to provide community outreach to educate as many people as we could about vaccinations. That is our real reward.”

Third-year professional student Carolyn�Sharpe (center left), Operation Immunization chair for COP’s APhA-ASP, and faculty advisor Marlowe�Djuric�Kachlic (center right), clinical assistant professor, receive the national 2009 Operation Immunization Award at the 2010 APhA Annual Meeting in March.

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Nutescu honored by ACCPEdith�Nutescu, PharmD ’94, clinical professor, department of pharmacy practice; and director of the Antithrombosis Center at the University of Illinois Medical Center, received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Therapeutic Frontiers Clinical Practice Award. This honor recognizes an individual who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy practice.

Hong and Jeong receive Vahlteich AwardSeungpyo Hong, PhD assistant professor of biopharmaceutical sciences, and Hyun-Young Jeong, PharmD ’01, PhD ’04, assistant professor of biopharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice, are recipients of the 2010 Hans W. Vahlteich Research Scholar Awards. The awards are funded by the income generated by the Hans and Ella McCollum Vahlteich Endowment Fund. This fund was created from the estates of the Drs. Vahlteich following their death and totaled nearly $1.4 million. Hans earned his Graduate in Pharmacy (PhG) and Pharmaceutical Chemist (PhC) degrees from the College in 1917 and 1918, respectively. Supporting promising junior faculty members, the award has funded 20 researchers for a total of $700,000 since 1992.

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Jeong’s research project is to understand the induction of CYP2D6 expression in pregnancy. CYP2D6 is an important enzyme involved in bioactivation of pro-carcinogens and hepatic elimination of drugs. Differential expression of CYP2D6 leads to altered rates of drug elimination, and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer. Interestingly, clinical evidence indicates that pregnancy enhances expression and/or activity of CYP2D6. Jeong hopes to identify pregnancy-specific CYP2D6 inducer(s) and underlying regulatory mechanisms for CYP2D6 induction during pregnancy.

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Since 1973, the Chancellor’s Student Service Award has recognized outstanding student leaders and volunteers. This award honors students who, while maintaining high academic achievement, demonstrate a commitment to the UIC community through participation in student organizations or enhance the greater Chicago community through their service activities. The following is a list of 2010 COP recipients.

•Nicole Avant•Michelle Bryson•Rebecca Calderon •Thomas Chiampas•Katie Culos•Daniel Limoges •Danielle Donohue•Pulkit Gupta•Yash Jalundhwala•Laurie Kania•Michael Kenes•Lois Komolafe•Benjamin Le •Neal Lyons•Michael Mearis •Mutiu Okanlawon•Amanda Seddon•Olufunmibi Taiwo•Daniel Wojenski

This year’s Research Day on Feb. 26 concluded with the 12th Annual Graduate Students Awards Ceremony, recognizing outstanding master’s and doctoral candidates.

Biopharmaceutical SciencesDirim�Arslan, W.E. van Doren ScholarMisuk�Bae, Wise Travel Award, Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Graduate College Presenter’s Award and American Scholar Consortium Honor Society InvitationChen-Fen�(Terri)�Chen, Graduate Student Council Travel AwardYan�Chen, W.E. van Doren Scholar, UIC FellowshipYing�He, Edward Benes Scholarship, UIC Fellowship and 3rd Place, Midwest Pharmaceutics Grad Student Research MeetingTsui-ting�Ho, Myron Goldsmith Scholarship and Golden Key Honor SocietyChelsea�Kirkmire, 2009-10 Pharmacologic Science Training Program FellowshipSok�Bee�Lim, Graduate Student Council Travel Award, Graduate College Presenter’s Award, AAPS Physical Pharmacy & Biopharmaceutics Section Travel Award-National Biotechnology Conference 2009 and 3rd place (tie), Controlled Release Society, IL Chapter Poster CompetitionMary�Ellen�Molloy, 2009-10 Pharmacologic Science Training Program Fellowship and Wise Travel AwardAshwini�Pai, Provost’s Award for Graduate ResearchSunhair�Sunoqrot, University of Illinois Chancellor’s Supplemental Research FellowshipDeepali�Vartak, 3rd place (tie), Controlled Release Society, IL Chapter Poster CompetitionBethany�White, UIC Fellowship and 1st place, Midwest Pharmaceutics Grad Student Research MeetingYiyun�Zhang, 3rd Place Poster at UIC Graduate Research Symposium

Forensic ScienceGregory�Hickey, Charles Wesley Petranek Memorial ScholarshipGina�Romano, Charles P. Bondy Scholarship

Medicinal ChemistryKyle�Butler, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Pre-doctoral FellowshipXiaokai�He, W.E. van Doren ScholarHazem�Abdel-Karim, W.E. van Doren ScholarYulia�Mikhed, Fulbright Scholar (Ukraine Program)Suzanne�Quartuccio, Prof. Ludwig Bauer AwardMay�Fern�Toh, UIC FellowshipAditya�Vaidya, Oscar Robert Olberg PrizeDivya�Vasudevan, Joseph Frank Celer Scholarship

PharmacognosyJacqueline�La�Marre, Lloyd Yale Memorial ScholarshipLinlin�Dong, Charles L. Bell AwardYang�Song, Paul Sang AwardRene�F.�Ramos�Alvarenga, Fulbright Pre-doctoral FellowshipBethany�Elkington, Fulbright Research FellowshipKimberly�Bean, NIH F-31 Pre-doctoral FellowshipAndrew�Newsome, UIC Fellowship

Pharmacy AdministrationFang-Ju�Lin, Al Langerman Memorial ScholarshipYash�Jalindhwala, Jesse E. Stewart Memorial Scholarship Noteworthy Publicationvan Breemen, R., Newsome, A., and Dahl, J.: Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Chapter Mass Spectrometry and Drug Discovery. John Wiley & Sons, 2009Graduate�students:�Andrew�Newsome�(Pharmacognosy) and Jeffrey�Dahl (Med Chem)

The College of Pharmacy’s 58th Annual Doctor of Pharmacy Honors Convocation was held April 27 at the College. More than 40 scholarships, totaling $125,000, were awarded to the following students by alumni, donors and faculty.

Academy of Students of Pharmacy Patient Counseling Award Carolyn Sharpe

Bette Cipolle and Rosann Sula Memorial Scholarship Michelle Bryson

C.P. van Schaack Award in Chemistry Lamya Arman

Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Scholarship (Walgreen Company) Brittany Allen

CVS/Pharmacy Scholarship Lindsey Koerten Bethany Daily Daniel Limoges Tommy Chiampas Wen-Li Lao

Edward F. Skorczewski Jr., Memorial Award (Polish American Pharmacists Association) Yana Blekhman

Edward S. and Josephine E. Mika Scholarship Daniel Wojenski

FMC Award of Excellence Kristian Campbell

George L. Webster Professional Service Award Daniel Wojenski

Glenn S. Kraiss Pharmacy Leadership Scholarship Kathleen Tsai

Harry Goldstine Scholarship Fund Morolake Olaleye

Herbert Martin Emig Award in Clinical Pharmacy Jennifer Splawski

Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists Student Award Janet Hinkes

I.B. Crystal Memorial Award Matthew Brew Samantha Cabrera Jin Han Alexander Kantorovich John Komenda Sarah Larison Yee Ming Lee Jeremy Raschke Sarah Sullivan James Williams Nicholas Zupec

IPhA Foundation Leadership Award Jessica Jacobson

Jack and Margaret Stites Memorial Scholarship Nicole Avant

Joseph Anton Koren Memorial Scholarship Tatyana Lawrecki

Josephine J. Margraff Scholarship Tao Bai

Kappa Psi Scholarship Stewart Chung Candy Ng Joseph Nguyen

Lilly Achievement Award Tommy Chiampas

Merck Award Awais Butt Tim Harrison Melissa McInnis Shirley Yu

Mylan Pharmaceuticals Excellence in Pharmacy Award Lara Ellinger

Nathan Stoller Scholarship and Robert I. Zeman Scholarship Kimberly Kauzlarich

Osco Drug Scholarship Donna Faber Nikki Herlich Kirsten Maloney Joseph Nguyen Carolyn Sharpe

Pharmacists Mutual Companies Scholarship Shirley Yu

Phi Delta Chi Memorial Award Patrick Fleming

Reed G. Henninger Scholarship in Pharmacy Eucharia Igwe

Reuben M. Reifler, MD and Tillie T. Reifler Scholarship for Pharmacy Students Monica Gichuru-Wiley

Rho Chi Prize Krista Williams

Robert J. Ireland Scholarship Catherine Freeman

Robin Nash Clinical Pharmacy Scholarship Tammy Nguyen

Samuel Shkolnik Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence Award (Delta Kappa Sigma Alumni Chapter of Rho Pi Phi PharmacyFraternity) Lynn Tran

Urban Health Program Alumni Scholarship Nicole Avant

W.E. van Doren ScholarsBiopharmaceutical�Sciences: Merideth Gilley and Ephrem GebremedhinMedicinal�Chemistry�and�Pharmacognosy:� Su-Young Choi and Cynthia MuthusiPharmacy�Administration: Chintan Patel and Joseph ZorekPharmacy�Practice: Jennifer Hlubocky and Alina Meile

Walgreens Diversity Scholarship Benjamin Le

Walgreens Health Initiatives Managed Care Award Zoe Clancy

Wal-Mart Pharmacy Scholarship Carly Bates

Walgreens Zora Kosanovich Memorial Scholarship Megan Adami

Chancellor’s honor awarded to 19 COP students

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Rockford Vice Dean Dave Bartels reflects on campus openingBy Dave Bartels

Well, after a long wait, it’s finally here. No, I’m not talking about summer, although that’s nice, too. I’m talking about the new

University of Illinois College of Pharmacy at Rockford. After a one-year delay, we are in the process of admitting the first class of students for this fall. Actually, the delay was a blessing in disguise. It gave us time to complete the space renovation and test the distance-education equipment before the first class arrives.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the expansion of the UIC College of Pharmacy to Rockford, let me give you a little history. About four years ago, Dean�Jerry�Bauman,�BS�’76,�RES�’77 proposed regionalizing the COP as a way to expand our presence as the flagship college of pharmacy within the state. The UIC College of Medicine regionalized its campuses 40 years ago, and the UIC College of Pharmacy has had a presence at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford campus for 27 years, with jointly funded faculty positions. So the Rockford expansion of COP was a natural progression.

To accomplish the expansion, the COP needed space at the Rockford campus. Coincidentally, the College of Medicine had plans to build an addition to the existing building to house the University of Illinois National Center for Rural Health Professions. These plans had been in place for about 10 years, but lacked funding until COP’s expansion proposal became a reality. The expansion plan was approved by the

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COP faculty, the University and the Illinois Board of Higher Education. The University approved plans and funding for a 58,000-square-foot expansion of the Rockford campus. Site preparation and construction began in the summer of 2008, and the building is now nearing completion, with the official ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for mid-August 2010. COP will have exemplary facilities in Rockford when the project is completed.

The University of Illinois at Rockford Health Science Center campus is located on a 20-acre, park-like setting in a residential area of Rockford. When completed, the College’s Rockford campus will have three 64-seat classrooms, each equipped with state-of-the-art distance education equipment, and five smaller classrooms that will seat 15 to 25 people. All of the core courses will be taught through distance education, with lectures originating from both Chicago and Rockford. Recitations, labs and small-group discussions will be conducted by faculty locally on each campus. The Rockford campus features new compounding and dispensing labs that seat 30 to 32 students, and six standardized patient suites where pharmacy and medical students will learn interviewing techniques and patient assessment using standardized patients. The Rockford site also has a newly renovated health science library and research labs for basic science research faculty.

An exciting piece of the Rockford Program will be a Rural Pharmacy Education Program (RPharm)—modeled after the highly successful Rural Medical Medication (RMED) Program run by the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. This program recruits students from rural, medically underserved areas of Illinois and trains them in the unique aspects of rural health care in hopes that they will become primary care physicians practicing in rural areas of Illinois upon completion of their training. The RMED Program has been highly successful, with 80 percent of students going into primary care and 70 percent practicing in rural Illinois. We plan to use the same recruitment methods and curriculum as RMED. RPharm students will train inter-professionally with medical students during their four years at Rockford with the hope that they will develop collaborative practices in rural areas upon graduation. This program has the potential to develop a unique practice model that can significantly improve health care delivery in rural communities.

So, after several years of planning and hard work, our plans to open the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy at Rockford are on track. I will update you on the progress of the expansion, the success of the program and the unique education and practice model being developed in Rockford.

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Garry Zage revolutionizes pharmacy automation by revitalizing a brand name and, in the process, hopes to do the same for the profession By Jessica A. Canlas

In 2004, when Garry�Zage,�BS�’77, got wind that Rod Lester had been receiving calls from potential buyers interested in his groundbreaking pharmacy automation company, Kirby Lester, he saw an opportunity. Even though, by all accounts, the family-run business was not officially up for sale, Zage decided to begin a conversation, pharmacist-to-pharmacist.

“I told [Lester], ‘I understand you’ve been at this business for 30 years. I’ve been [analyzing] where the market’s going, and I thought we could sit down and talk,’ recalls Zage. “He said, ‘Why would you want to talk with me?’ I said, ‘Because, someday, you’ll be thinking of an exit, and maybe I want to be part of that exit.’

That approach paid off: by the end of 2005, Zage had acquired the Stamford, Conn.-based company and moved its headquarters to Lake Forest, Ill.

Established in 1971, Kirby Lester was a pioneer in pharmacy automation. Its automated tablet counter replaced the standard tray-and-spatula dispensing method throughout pharmacies worldwide, reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Though wildly successful, the simple technology behind the Kirby Lester counting mechanism—essentially a beam of light, interrupted as tablets are poured through the device—remained largely unchanged.

“It was perfect timing,” Zage asserts. “I realized that the basic counting machine needed enhancements—biometrics, verification systems. [Lester] said he didn’t really want to do all of that.”

To resolve issues that had been problematic with Kirby Lester machines, which included flickering count mechanisms, cleaning difficulties and counting inaccuracies, Lester and his team created a line of more robust systems, which incorporate an array of 96 optical sensors with memory and shape recognition. Customizable enhancements include bar code verification to ensure accurate labeling, an interface to a computerized pharmacy management system and workflow and inventory software.

To rebuild Kirby Lester’s leadership, reinvigorate its research and development and improve its marketing and product offerings, Zage drew on his more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and business development.

>>Learning�the�business�Zage began his career in 1977 as a hospital pharmacist at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. While working

with Loyola’s cystic fibrosis program, Zage realized the potential to expand the pharmacist’s role in patient care and brought that focus with him when he became an administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chicago.

“The most rewarding and humbling aspect of [working at Loyola] was knowing the patients and their families, and what they were going through,” Zage recalls. “When I got to St. Joseph’s, I took my clinical knowledge and tied it into programs and services.

“I always wanted to extend the pharmacist’s role in some way.”One of the programs that Zage created at St. Joseph’s was a metabolic support service in which nurses, dieticians and

clinical pharmacists went on rounds with physicians and developed patient care on the hospital floor. “It was an opportunity for the pharmacist to actually leave the dispensing function,” he says. “I thought it was

tremendous.”In the mid-1980s, Zage left the hospital setting to join American Hospital Supply, an Evanston-based company that

sought his expertise to help establish a home-care business. The position provided Zage an opportunity to expand the pharmacist’s role in patient care beyond the hospital environment and to indulge his entrepreneurial interests.

However, his role changed when American Hospital Supply was acquired by Baxter in 1986. Then Zage’s work became all business.

“My role in the clinical, financial and all other aspects of running a home-care company were revised in a way where I was only doing business development,” says Zage. “I went from the service side of the business in home health care to the chance to work with product development.”

Despite the end of his clinical involvement, Zage admits that building joint ventures and developing business relationships at Baxter marked an exciting time in his career. He credits those experiences, along with a pivotal mentor at Baxter, for fueling his entrepreneurial spirit.

By 1993, Zage was ready to strike out on his own, and did so by founding the Alpha Group, a business development firm. Besides wanting to advance his career, Zage was looking to fulfill some personal goals as well.

“My family needed a husband and father more full-time than part-time,” explains Zage. His participation in the Alpha Group provided him with an ideal opportunity: it allowed him to successfully capitalize on his expertise and to make his own schedule. “I was able to be part of what was going on at home.”

After helping to build a number of successful companies with the Alpha Group, business began to slowly fade in the wake of 9/11 and the dot-com era. In 2003, Zage dissolved the Alpha Group and began to seek other opportunities. Within two years, he had established himself as president and CEO of Kirby Lester.

>>Transforming�an�industrySince taking the helm in 2005, Zage, the only pharmacist CEO of a pharmacy

automation company, has traveled the nation to better understand challenges facing his peers.

As a result, in 2009, Kirby Lester unveiled its first robotic dispenser, the KL60. Unlike its behemoth competitors, which house hundreds of drugs and require a large installation area (something that few pharmacies have available), the KL60 is more compact and affordable.

To Zage, however, pharmacy automation is not just about increasing the bottom line; it’s about improving the quality of service in “one of the most trusted professions.” Zage attributes his approach to patient care to his parents, who operated a small, family-owned grocery store.

“My dad made sure that he took care of the customers better than anybody,” Zage recalls. “You [need to] do that with patients.”With many pharmacies focusing on expanding patient services in the way of screening, vaccinations and disease management, Kirby

Lester’s affordable and accessible solutions continue to gain popularity. But before pharmacies automate, Zage urges them to “think about services they’re going to provide and an overall strategy. If they free up labor, what are they going to do with it?”

Besides cutting costs, reducing errors and optimizing workflow within the pharmacy industry, Zage views Kirby Lester’s mission as having a nobler purpose: Elevating the pharmacy profession.

“I have an opportunity to provide a tool [to help] pharmacists be recognized as health care professionals. When technology allows you to be more productive in patient care—what’s better than that?”

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Garry Zage shows off the KL30, which combines hands-free dispensing with double-count accuracy.

Kirby Lester’s first robotic dispenser, the KL60, is the most compact system in the industry.


A staff pharmacist at Hinsdale Hospital, Tom Marks, BS ’71, received an alert at 2 a.m. during an on-call overnight shift. A patient

had been admitted after injecting himself with cyanide—his second suicide attempt.

“His doctor told me, ‘I have no clue how to treat this,’“ Marks recollects. “But if he dies, it’s on me, not you.”

Fortunately, Marks recalled from his training that cyanide poisoning could be treated with sodium thiosulfate.

“I went up to the lab, got out [some] dirty-looking sodium thiosulfate powder, filtered it and prepared the IV.”

The following afternoon, Marks received another call from the hospital. The patient had briefly regained consciousness, then re-entered his coma.

“They asked if I could send them more,” says Marks. That evening, he prepared a stronger solution.

The patient eventually emerged from his coma and, ultimately, survived.

That’s when Marks had his epiphany, and decided to focus on the art of compounding, which is what he does full-time at his Martin Avenue Pharmacy in Naperville. “I wanted to do it in a way where I knew things were done properly—using quality, FDA-approved chemicals with no impurities.”

Back to the ApothecaryReminiscent of the mortar-and-pestle days, compounding

is often considered the original pharmacy practice, and consists of combining drugs to meet the needs of an individual patient. This bridge between health care and chemistry allows the pharmacist to tailor dosage, form, and as Marks strives to do, medication purity.

At Martin Avenue Pharmacy, Marks serves patients with unique health-care needs for whom shelf-ready prescriptions may be inadequate. This population often includes veterinary patients; pediatric and geriatric patients who require age-specific dosing; and individuals with drug absorption issues or sensitivities to particular dosage forms.

“Many people are allergic to chemicals—like fillers or colors—in prescription drugs,” explains Marks. A compounding pharmacist such as Marks can create colorless, flavorless, unadulterated forms of FDA-approved drugs, or re-create formulas that have been discontinued.

Marks, whose son is diabetic, has experienced very personal benefits from compounding.

“When Lilly stopped making [protamine zinc] insulin in the late ‘70s/early ’80s, I called them and asked, ‘How can you do this? People need this. Veterinarians need this,’“ Marks says. “They told me they could help me make it, but I couldn’t tell anyone else the formula.”

And he hasn’t. But Marks is able to continue using it to compound unique dosages of insulin for his son and patients.

A Growing Niche“At one time, we thought [compounding] might just

disappear,” says Ron Koch, BS ’70, PHD ’76. An associate professor in of pharmaceutics at the UIC College of Pharmacy, Koch oversees the required compounding course in the Pharm.D. program. He attributes the practice’s survival, in part, to physicians continuing to seek individualized treatment for their patients.

As a result, compounding has experienced something of a resurgence in recent years. During the flu pandemic in 2009, for example, many pharmacies—including Walgreens—trained their staffs on how to compound different versions of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to meet the demand that its manufacturer was unable to keep up with.

“Pharmacists are being asked to compound more dosage forms,” says Koch, particularly in the veterinary field, where more veterinarians are writing prescriptions to be filled rather than maintaining an in-house dispensing pharmacy.

“People are now beginning to realize that veterinarians are just not trained to do that, just like physicians are not trained to do compounding,” says Koch.

Walgreens even offers its own training to staff through its Compounding Resource Center in Tempe, Ariz., which also acts as a repository for the company’s medication formulas. Both Walgreens and CVS have started doing some compounding at their 24-hour locations.

Koch believes another reason behind the revival of compounding is an increase of data supporting the stability and efficacy of compounded medications. In fact, the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board, founded in 2004, now offers a mechanism for maintaining drug standards and ensuring patient safety among compounding pharmacies.

Another advantage for independent pharmacies, which specialize in compounding, is that payment generally is cash up-front (no insurance accepted) This means less time

spent handling third-party billing.But despite its rise in popularity, compounding still

comprises only a fraction of the market.“In general, you don’t see that many compounding

dosage forms,” says Koch. In the average chain drug store, he notes, less than one percent of all prescriptions fit that bill, amounting to a handful of prescriptions.

For pharmacists like Marks or Larry Frieders, BS ’71 who specialize in the practice, however, the demand can result in nearly 200 prescriptions daily. Frieders and his wife Patricia, BS ’71, own and operate, along with their children Joel and Lydia, The Compounder in Aurora.

After years of working in and owning conventional pharmacies and dabbling in compounding, he recognized a need for creating customized products for patients.

Compounding “meets a person’s specific needs rather than one size fits all,” says Frieders.

He and his wife received what he terms their “wake-up call” after using compounded versions of progesterone to treat a pair of twin sisters. The twins came to see the couple after experiencing serious repercussions, including amenorrhea, as a result of long-term oral contraceptive use, according to Frieders. After treatment with a progesterone cream, one sister eventually resumed her periods and was able to have children. The other did not.

“Pat and I realized that some of the drugs we were dispensing were causing irreversible effects,” Frieders recalls. “We looked at this as a good reason to further investigate compounding.”

Not long after closing his conventional pharmacy in 1996, Frieders decided to open The Compounder, a 6,000-square-foot facility that includes laboratory space, a clean room and a retail shop.

Back to BasicsTo Frieders, compounding is a return to COP basics.“We’re getting back to what we did as students,” he says.

“[UIC] taught us how to do this.”Among schools of pharmacy in the United States, UIC

remains distinctive in its compounding curriculum.Because compounding remains only a fraction of

pharmacy practice, many pharmacy schools have eliminated or significantly decreased their compounding components

curriculum. However, because some states include compounding in their board exams, a number of pharmacy schools feel obligated to offer it.

“But we are unique in the amount of training we provide,” says Koch.

At UIC, all first- and second-year students do some compounding through all four semesters, culminating in a semester of contemporary pharmacy practice, which introduces dispensing and counseling.

The compounding courses “prepare students for practice by giving them a unique skill that most pharmacy students don’t graduate with,”

explains Koch, who admits that, at one time, the College contemplated eliminating its compounding curriculum as well.

“That really puts our students in high regard, because patients will realize that not all pharmacists can [compound].”

The added skill also makes COP alumni more marketable to employers.

Though compounders such as Frieders and Marks both enjoyed successful careers working for others, the knowledge they gained at UIC and developed afterward has allowed them to indulge an independent streak and practice pharmacy exactly as they wish.

“The goal is to be the best pharmacist there ever was,” says Marks.

The Compound SolutionCOP alumni usher in a comeback of compounding pharmacy with a solid foundation in basics and focus on customized care.

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“The goal is to be the best pharmacist there ever was.”

iThe Compounder includes 1,000 square feet of retail space and offices.

iThe Compounder is family-owned and operated by Frieders, his wife Pat, their son Joel and daughter Lydia.

iIn 2003, Marks was named National Pharmacist of the Year by the Professional Compounding Centers of America.

iAt Martin Avenue Pharmacy, nearly 200 prescriptions are compounded daily.

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Keynote speaker Mike Maddux, Executive Director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, is a former COP resident and faculty member. Keynote speaker Mike Maddux, Executive Director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, is a former Keynote speaker Mike Maddux, Executive Director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, is a former COP resident and faculty member.

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Commencement 2010On May 6, the College congratulated 219 graduates as they made the transition from being students to becoming alumni. Former College of Pharmacy resident and faculty member Mike Maddux, Executive Director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, served as the evening’s guest speaker. Pharmacy Alumni Association President Jim Dorociak, BS ’81, PHARMD ’83, led the students in reciting the Oath of a Pharmacist.

Photos courtesy of UIC Photo Services

Degrees awarded166�Doctor�of�Pharmacy

27 Doctor of Philosophy6 Biopharmaceutical Science7 Medicinal Chemistry10 Pharmacognosy3 Pharmacy Administration1 Pharmaceutics

26�Master�of�Science18 Forensic Science1 Medicinal Chemistry7 Pharmacy Administration

Pharmacy Alumni Association President Jim Dorociak, Associate Dean Marieke Schoen and Assistant Professor Charles McPherson participate in the evening’s festivities.

Kana Shah (center left) celebrates with her family.

Rockford Vice Dean Dave Bartels, Assistant Professor Michael Federle, commencement speaker Mike Maddux and Provost R. Michael Tanner look on during the ceremony.

Associate Dean Steve Swanson, Professor Greg Thatcher, Assistant Professor Joanna Burdette and Professor Judy Bolton prepare for the ceremony.

Brittany Allen and Nanette Gamazon celebrate the culmination of years of hard work.

Keynote speaker Mike Maddux, Executive Director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, is a former COP resident and faculty member.

210 COP graduates were joined by their family and friends at the UIC Forum.

Penny Bankhead, former staff member in pharmacy practice, leads the way with the UIC banner.

Faculty take the stage during the ceremony.

Sarah Smith (center) proudly displays her diploma while surrounded by fellow alumni (from left to right) Nicholas Mezera, Sarah Smith, Lena Soldayeva and Jaspreet Singh.

Associate Professors Fran Schlemmer and Joan Stubbings join graduates Rijo Alex and Shilpa Patel.

Ashtar Najor, Rijo Alex, Hanan Shahbain, Kevin Pecheco, Orchid Kahvand and Juni Guerrero join the ranks of College of Pharmacy alumni.

Susan Suh (center) and her family soak in the evening’s excitement.

UIC Library Specialist Teauria Brown (left) and Assistant Professor Charles McPherson congratulate Iyobosa Oviawe-Osagio on his accomplishment.

Pedro Abreu proclaims victory after his hooding.

Dean Jerry Bauman offered 10 points of deanly advice to the Class of 2010.


GALLERY

Student�Category�1st�Place:�Melanie�Köllmer, Biopharmaceutical SciencesTitle: Porous Hydrogel Scaffolds Support Chondrogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem CellsMentor: Dr. Richard A. Gemeinhart

2nd�Place:�Pulkit�Gupta, Center for Pharmaceutical BiotechnologyTitle: Antibiotic-mediated Ribosome Stalling is not the Sole Mechanism Responsible for Induction of the Antibiotic Resistance Gene ErmCMentor: Dr. Alexander S. Mankin

3rd�Place:�Tsui-Ting�Ho, Biopharmaceutical SciencesTitle: Changes in MicroRNA Expression in Response to Short-term Chemotherapeutic Exposure are Associated with Transient Anticancer Drug ResistanceMentor: Dr. William T. Beck

Postdoctoral�Category�1st�Place:�Lauren�Mashburn-Warren, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Title: Evidence of Extracellular Communication Peptides in Pathogenic Streptococci Mentor: Dr. Michael J. Federle

2nd�Place:�Scott�Benken, Pharmacy PracticeTitle: Effect of Exogenous Erythropoietin in Neonates on Decreasing the Number of Donor ExposuresMentor: Dr. Kirsten H. Ohler and Dr. Jennifer Pham

3rd�Place�was�a�tie�and�is�presented�in�alphabetical�order:3rd�Place�(tie):�Milind�Gandhi, Biopharmaceutical SciencesTitle: Fabrication, Characterization and In Vivo Assessment of Superporous HydrogelsMentor: Dr. Richard A. Gemeinhart

3rd�Place�(tie):�Dr.�Jason�Hickock, Medicinal Chemistry and PharmacognosyTitle: Physiological Parameters of DNIC Formation and DegradationMentor: Dr. Douglas D. Thomas

Student�Choice�Award:�Chuan�Bai, Medicinal Chemistry and PharmacognosyTitle: Scyllo-Phosphatidylinositol-Specific Phospholipase C Mentor: Dr. Karol S. Bruzik

Research day highlights College achievement

On Feb. 26, nearly 60 College of Pharmacy students showcased their work through poster sessions on Research Day.

Morning events included a guest lecture by John J. Kopchick, Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar & Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences of Ohio University. Posters were judged in the afternoon by a panel composed of alumni, faculty and pharmaceutical industry experts. The day concluded with an awards ceremony that included a Students’ Choice category, in which presenters voted for their favorite presentations by peers.

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At their end-of-year banquet on May 5, the Pharm.D. Class of 2010 celebrated their achievements and honored faculty and alumni who helped them succeed.

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Bauman Triumphs at Challenge of the Deans

With a combined free-throw score of 19 baskets, Dean Jerry�Bauman,�BS�’76,�RES�’77, and third-year professional student Tommy Chiampas defeated seven other colleges to win the 2010 Challenge of the Deans on Feb. 4. Held during halftime during Flames men’s basketball, the annual competition features college teams comprised of deans and students who attempt to sink the most shots from the free- throw line in a limited time period.

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Norm�Farnsworth, professor of pharmacognosy and director of the UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, was joined by his wife Priscilla at the Farnsworth Botanical Symposium, held on March 23 at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza. The day’s events included a series of lectures on scientific developments in botanical dietary supplements research and regulation since 1994,

when the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act was passed. The symposium concluded with a dinner celebration honoring Farnsworth’s 50 years of contributions to the field of natural products and his 80th birthday.

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At the� 38th� Annual� Albert� Ebert� Memorial�Lecture, held at the College on April 16, students of Rho Chi Society, Phi Chapter, along with 200 students and faculty, welcomed keynote speaker Dr. C. Edwin Webb from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

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>>The UIC College of Pharmacy National Advisory Board includes leaders from various industries and public institutions who are interested in furthering the mission of the College. Members gain insight into specific areas of the College and influence key decisions by making recommendations to the dean.

>HealtH care experts comprise dean’s advisory board

Sharon�W.�Ayd,�PhD�’97,�MBAVP,�Global�One�2�One�R&D�-�HospiraAyd, Ph.D., MBA, is vice president of Global One 2 One R&D and has been with Hospira since 2004. One 2 One leverages Hospira technology to manufacture products for third parties and is one of the most profitable parts of Hospira. With scientific teams located in North America, Europe and APAC,

Ayd’s organization provides R&D support and services to customers located around the world. She has significant scientific and business experience from having worked in drug discovery, Pharma, biopharmaceutical and generic drug development. Prior to joining Hospira, she was chief operating officer at Advanced Life Sciences, a start-up biopharmaceutical company. Prior to joining Advanced Life Sciences, she was director, R&D at Apotex Corporation, Canada’s largest generic drug corporation. Ayd also was a founding employee and member of senior management at Transcend Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based biopharmaceutical company spun off from Baxter International. She is a published author, invited speaker, adjunct professor to the UIC College of Pharmacy and a recipient of numerous academic and professional honors and awards.

William�Fitzsimmons,�BS�’83Senior�Vice�President,�Astellas�Pharma�Global�Development�Inc.Fitzsimmons currently serves as senior vice president of U.S. development for Astellas. He previously served as vice president of business development. Prior to the merger forming Astellas in 2005, Fitzsimmons was with Fujisawa

Healthcare for 15 years. He also currently serves on the executive committee of the board of directors for the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO).

Michael�Flavin,�PhD�’83CEO,�Advanced�Life�Sciences�Inc.Flavin, chief executive officer and chairman, founded Advanced Life Sciences Inc. in 1999. Prior to that, he was the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of MediChem Life Sciences Inc., a drug discovery technology and services company. Flavin took MediChem from start-up in 1987 through

many stages of development including the completion of MediChem’s private placement, the acquisition and integration of the ThermoGen and Emerald Biostructures as MediChem subsidiaries and MediChem’s initial public offering in October 2000. Flavin received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Notre Dame, a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from UIC and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Flavin is an adjunct professor for the department of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at UIC College of Pharmacy. He was featured on the cover of the UIC Alumni Magazine’s May/June 2006 issue and is a past recipient of the Sister Margaret Wright Graduate Award. Flavin is the brother of John L. Flavin and Patrick W. Flavin.

Steve�Karagiannis,�BS�’76Owner,�Norwood�PharmacyKaragiannis is a distinguished alumnus of UIC College of Pharmacy. An independent pharmacy owner and benefactor, Karagiannis is a President’s Council member. He and his family were featured in the Fall 2008 issue of UIC Pharmacist.

William�R.�Larsen�MD�’61,�RPh.,�BS�’57Former�VP�and�Medical�Director,�Humana�and�CIGNA�CorporationsLarsen, a 1957 graduate of the UIC College of Pharmacy, has spent his entire career in the health care industry. Upon completion of his undergraduate degree in pharmacy, he entered the UIC College of Medicine, and received his

M.D. in 1961. After completing his residency in obstetrics and gynecology, Larsen practiced that specialty for 20 years in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. In 1985, he accepted a position as VP and medical director of CIGNA Corporation for Illinois, and subsequently held similar positions with them and Humana Corporation at various locations throughout the country. He was a member of the UIC College of Pharmacy Dean’s Advisory Board from 2002-06.

Larsen has been involved in the analysis of health care trends, and the future staffing needs of communities.

Mike�Maddux,�RES�’79Executive�Director,�American�College�of�Clinical�PharmacyMaddux is executive director of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). He received the Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed residency training at UIC.

Maddux then joined the University of Illinois clinical pharmacy faculty where he developed and maintained a clinical practice and residency/fellowship training program in solid organ transplantation. In 1991, he moved to the St. Louis College of Pharmacy as professor and director of the division of pharmacy practice, a post he held until joining the ACCP staff in October 2003. Throughout his professional career, Maddux has been active in ACCP, serving as a member of the Board of Regents and as ACCP’s first representative on the board of directors of the Council on Credentialing in Pharmacy. He chaired the ACCP Clinical Practice Affairs Subcommittee that authored ACCP’s 2000 white paper on pharmacy’s future, and also served as chair of the writing group that developed the 2005 JCCP Future Vision of Pharmacy Practice. Maddux lives in St. Louis, with his wife Susan and daughter Rachel.

Henri�Manasse,�BS�’68,�PhDExecutive�Vice�President,�American�Society�of�Health-System�PharmacistsManasse, PhD, ScD, is executive vice president and chief executive officer of the American Society of Heath-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and a highly respected educator and leader in pharmacy and health care. He was recently

named a fellow of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). He currently serves on, and has chaired, the board of directors of the National Patient Safety Foundation. He also represents ASHP at the National Quality Forum, where he co-chaired the Safe Practices Steering Committee. He chaired the Sentinel Event Alert Advisory Group at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO). He was recently appointed to the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2005, he was elected professional secretary of the Board of Pharmaceutical Practice of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). He also is serving on the board of advisors of the Association of Academic Health Centers project on the Future of Health Professions Work Force. He presently serves as a senior policy fellow with the Center on Drugs and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. In 1996, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Manasse is recipient of the 2007 Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award. He also is the author of several books and has published extensively in health sciences literature. From 1981-93, he served as dean at the UIC College of Pharmacy. He is a President’s Council Member and a life member of the University of Illinois Alumni Association.

Scott�McKibbinPrincipal,�The�McKibbin�GroupThe McKibbin Group Inc. is a health care consulting firm that provides expertise on public policy initiatives, global best practices, procurement support and employee health benefits. Clients include health care-related trade associations, government contractors, pharmaceutical benefits managers,

international pharmaceutical wholesalers and pharmaceutical supply-chain organizations. It is a woman-owned business enterprise based in Naperville, Ill. Some 47 million Americans have no health insurance. According to the World Health Organization, U.S. residents spend more money annually for health care than residents of any country in the world. Yet their overall health outcomes are not consistent with that spending. Americans have shorter life expectancies, higher infant mortality rates and higher child mortality rates than a number of developed countries, including Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. “It’s not the money that makes the difference,” says McKibbin Group Principal Scott McKibbin. “It’s doing the right thing.”

Mark�Pilkington,�BS�’84,�MS�’88Vice�President�Managed�Care�Product�Strategies,�Cardinal�Health�Inc.Between 1990 and 1997, Pilkington served as executive director of the Illinois Pharmacists Association. He was director of pharmacy affairs at Pharmacia Corporation, where he was responsible for building relationships with

pharmacy professional groups from 1998 to 2003. He is past president of the UIC Pharmacy Alumni Association board of directors and was voted Alumnus of the Year in 2003. He currently serves as the Sesquicentennial Development Subcommittee chair.

Anthony�Provenzano,�PharmD�’92Director�of�Clinical�Programs,�SUPERVALU�Pharmacies�Inc.Provenzano is currently director of clinical programs for SUPERVALU Pharmacies. Provenzano graduated as valedictorian from the UIC College of Pharmacy in 1992. He began his career as a pharmacist at Osco Drug

in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, he helped develop and grow their Diabetes Care Program, which is now recognized by the American Diabetes Association. He also has developed and implemented other clinical programs and services, including those that focus on the provision of medication therapy management services and adult immunizations. Currently, more than 1,500 pharmacists that participate in his programs provide services to hundreds of thousands of patients each year. He also oversees three community pharmacy residency programs with five current residents.

Provenzano is a certified diabetes educator and a fellow of the GlaxoSmithKline/Wharton Business School Executive Management Program for Pharmacy Leaders. He has served on numerous pharmacy-association advisory panels and currently serves on the Pharmacist Services Technical Advisory Coalition, the Pharmacy Quality Alliance and the Coalition to Expand Pharmacist Medication Administration. He also is the 2003 recipient of the APhA/APPM Distinguished Service Award in Administrative Practice. Provenzano is a member of the UIC Pharmacy Alumni Association board of directors. In 2002, he received the College’s Rising Star Award. His specialty is in community pharmacy-based clinical services.

Ahnal�Purohit,�PhD�President�and�CEO,�Purohit�NavigationPurohit received her Ph.D. in psychometrics at the University of Delaware and settled in Illinois where she spent seven years as a professor at the UIC College of Pharmacy, teaching research methodology, statistics and pharmacy administration. In 1982, she gave up her tenure at the university

and transitioned naturally into health care marketing, ultimately becoming vice president of market research for a major company. It was here she found that the deeper she delved into marketing, the more apparent it became that her scientific prowess provided a solid basis for her intuitive and creative insights. Ahnal’s innovative spirit is what led her to leave and take her next big step: co-founding the company now known as Purohit Navigation, one of the largest independent health care communications companies led by a minority woman.

While Ahnal blazes distinct paths for each of her clients’ brands, she manages to remain grounded by supporting many charitable, humanitarian and environmental causes. She is the recipient of many industry and organizational awards, including being named one of PharmaVOICE’s 100 Most Inspiring People in the Life Sciences Industry.

Russell�Secter,�BS�’78President,�OraPharma�Inc.Secter has 22 years of sales and marketing/business experience in the pharmaceutical industry, spanning traditional medical markets, generic pharmaceutical markets, dental pharmaceutical markets and biopharmaceutical company start-ups. He has been at OraPharma for the

last 10 years, five as president. Prior to that, Secter was executive director of the Oncology Franchise at Searle Pharmaceuticals and held a variety of commercial roles at Novartis/Ciba Geigy. Secter earned a master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University-J.L. Kellogg School of Management, a Pharm.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from UIC.

J.�Russell�Teagarden,�BS�’78Vice�President,�Clinical�Practices�&�TherapeuticsMedco�Health�Solutions,�Inc.J. Russell Teagarden currently serves as vice president of clinical practices and therapeutics at Medco where he is responsible for managing a group involved in various clinical development functions of the company. Prior to joining Medco in 1993, he served for 12 years as a drug information

specialist and as a clinical pharmacist specializing in critical care in the Chicago teaching hospital community.

Dr. Teagarden currently holds academic appointments at several universities. He serves as a Trustee of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and as a member of the Oversight Body of the American Medical Association Ethical Force Program.

Dr. Teagarden received a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy, and he completed a residency in hospital pharmacy at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in research methodology from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Doctor of Medical Humanities degree from Drew University. He has published several papers on significant medical, pharmacy and ethics issues.

Tom�Temple,�BS�’75Executive�Vice�President�and�CEO,�Iowa�Pharmacy�AssociationTemple has been with the Iowa Pharmacy Association (IPA) for more than 30 years. As EVP and CEO, he is responsible for staff development and management, strategic planning with the IPA Board of Trustees, business

development, government relations programming and liaison with national pharmacy organizations. He also is CEO of the Iowa Pharmacy Foundation. Temple was named UIC Alumnus of the Year in 1998 and currently serves as co-head of the Sesquicentennial Steering Committee.

Claire�Thom,�BS�’75,�PharmD�’82Senior�Vice�President,�Portfolio�Management�and�Clinical�Development�Operations,�Millennium:�A�Takeda�Oncology�Co.Thom brings 20 years of drug development and new product planning experience to the board, including product planning in Takeda

Pharmaceutical Co.’s oncology, urology and gynecology sectors. She also has held senior research and development roles at Takeda Global Research & Development and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. in Japan. Prior to working at Takeda, Thom held positions of increasing responsibility at G.D. Searle and Company in the areas of global new product planning and U.S. oncology marketing.

Ronald�Weinert,�RPh,�BS�’83Director�or�Government�Relations,�Walgreens�CompanyWeinert joined Walgreens as a pharmacist in 1987, was promoted to pharmacy manager in 1988 and became pharmacy supervisor for the Des Moines district in 1994. He joined the corporate headquarters in 1997 as manager of pharmacy operations for loss prevention, became manager of

pharmacy services for e-commerce in 1999 and was promoted to director of e-commerce in 2000. He was named director of patient services for Walgreens Health Services in 2003, vice president of patient services in 2005 and has held his current position since 2007.

His prior experience includes supervising the out-patient pharmacy at Westlake Community Hospital, Melrose Park, Ill., from 1983 to 1986 and working as an assistant manager and pharmacist for Doc’s Drugs, Fox River Grove, Ill., from 1986 to 1987.

Garry�Zage,�R.Ph.,�BS�’77President�and�CEO,�Kirby�Lester,�LLCZage has overall responsibility for Kirby Lester, with primary focus on the company’s strategic planning, investor relations and pharmacy industry relations.

Zage has 25 years experience in the pharmacy industry, including 10 years in pharmacy automation. Prior to his pharmacy automation experience, Zage held several business development and corporate sales and marketing roles with Baxter International. He also served as president of the Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists and sat on the board of directors of the Illinois Pharmacists Association.


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OBITUARIES

1944Marian�(Dulla)�Harris,�BS,�of Arlington Heights, March 30. A native of Cicero, Marian and her late husband, George�Harris,�BS�’47, met at the UIC College of Pharmacy, where they shared a chemistry class. At the time, Marian’s graduating class included only six women. In 1950, Marian and George established Harris Pharmacy in Arlington Heights. She is survived by her three children.

1949Harry�Wilson,�BS,�of San Jose, Calif., Feb. 15. Born in Lake Forest, Wilson served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Trained as an airplane mechanic, he earned his certification as a sharpshooter and was a member of the Army Band before his honorable discharge in 1945. He and his late wife, Lillian V. Hosendove, are survived by their five children.

1950Clark�Moreland�Jr.,�BS,�of Rushville, Dec. 9.

1955Norbert�Bartnicki,�BS,�of Minocqua, Wis., Feb. 24. Born in Chicago, Bartnicki served in the U.S. military from 1957-59 as a pharmacist in Wurtzburg, Germany. After relocating to northern Wisconsin, he was director of pharmacy for Peterson Health Care in Rhinelander for 20 years. After retiring, Bartnicki also worked for Walmart and Marshfield Clinic. He and his late wife, Peg, are survived by their four children.

1955 Donald�Tune,�BS,�of Galesburg, Feb. 6. A native of Joliet, Tune graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1949 and Joliet Junior College in 1951. After graduating from the UIC College of Pharmacy, Tune served as a pharmacist in the Army from 1955-57, stationed in St. Louis. In 1960, he purchased North Side Drug in Galesburg. Tune also came to own Medical Arts Pharmacy, Plaza Pharmacy and the Snack Shack. He sold North Side Drug in 1992 and was employed at Eagles Pharmacy until retiring in 1998. He is survived by his wife, Ruby Wewerka, and their three children.

1960Kenneth�Kot,�BS,�of Harvard, Jan. 15. Born in Chicago, Kot was a graduate of Steinmetz High School. He is survived by his wife, Cherry, and their two children.

1963Nancy�Sue�(Beilman)�Anfinsen,�BS,�of Batavia, April 11. An Aurora native, Anfinsen graduated from East High School in that town before attending the UIC College of Pharmacy, where she was named Outstanding Senior Woman in her class. While at UIC, Anfinsen was a member of Lambda Kappa Sigma and a student member of the American Pharmaceutical Association. After earning her degree, Anfinsen practiced pharmacy in hospitals and retail stores throughout the Chicago and Aurora areas, most recently working as a staff pharmacist at Hankes Clinic Pharmacy in Aurora. She and her late husband, Laurel, were married for 36 years.

1998Mei-Huei�Mary�Spangler,�PHARMD,�of San Diego, Aug. 7. Born in Tokyo, Spangler immigrated with her family to the United States in 1966, settling in Kansas City, Mo. She attended the University of Kansas, where she met her husband Dale. Spangler started her career in pharmacy as a staff pharmacist at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif., where she advanced to become director of pharmacy. Spangler moved to Illinois to accept a position with Takeda Abbott Pharmaceuticals and eventually became director of clinical research there. In 2003, Spangler and her husband retired to San Diego, where she continued to work part-time as a consultant. She is survived by her husband and their two sons.

1952Bill�Arkins, BS, of Oglesby, retired in 2000 upon closing his family-run pharmacy after 65 years. He and his wife, Kaye Marie, have been married for 54 years and are the proud parents of six children and grandparents of five. Arkins now works part-time and enjoys travel, golf and gardening in his free time.

1975Tom�Temple, BS, of Urbandale, Iowa, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association during the organization’s annual meeting this past March. He serves as executive vice president and CEO of the Iowa Pharmacy Association in Des Moines.

1977Cindy�Flores, BS, of Chicago, was recently featured in the February issue of the Via Times, a local Filipino-American publication. She is currently retired.

1986Ted�Parker, BS, of Saipan, U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, is co-owner of Brabu Pharmacy. He has been practicing pharmacy on Saipan since 1989, when he and his wife, Kathy, relocated there. After briefly returning to the United States to earn their master’s degrees, the couple returned to Saipan in 1996, when Parker helped found Pacific Health Inc. PHI operates the island’s only retail drugstore, located in Saipan’s government-run hospital. In 2008, Parker left PHI and formed a partnership with a colleague to open Brabu Pharmacy in June 2009.

1987Philip�Mahalik, PHARMD, of St. Charles, has worked for the Illinois Department of Human Services for 22 years. Currently serving as deputy director of pharmacy services, he oversees 15 facilities across the state and 104 pharmacy staff members that focus on serving those with mental health and developmental disabilities. In addition to ongoing site inspection and accreditation

responsibilities, his past projects include the implementation of a state contract for the UIC College of Pharmacy Drug Information Center’s drug interactions for the DHS unit dosing system. His current focus is serving on a task force to select and implement an electronic medical record for DHS hospitals.

1998Sophie�Wimberley, PHARMD, of The Woodlands, Texas, is employed as medical science liaison for Millennium Pharmaceuticals. She also is co-founder of Dive Pirates Foundation, an organization that teaches people with disabilities how to scuba dive, particularly returning veterans who have been injured in Iraq or Afghanistan. For more information, please visit www.divepirates.org.

2002Joene�(Van�Craenenbroeck)�Murphy, PHARMD, of Des Plaines, works as a pharmacist at Holy Family Medical Center in Des Plaines. She and her husband, Thomas, welcomed the birth of their third son, Timothy Steven, on March 8. His proud big brothers are George, 3-½, and Joey, 2.

2006Rebecca�(Scholz)�Krauter, PHARMD, of Franklin, Wis., and her husband, Matthew, celebrated the birth of their first child, Isla Sophie, on June 30, 2009. Krauter works as a staff pharmacist at Roundy’s Pick’n Save Pharmacy.

Zita�Molnar, PHARMD, of Chicago, is a pharmacy manager at CVS.

2007Christi�(Cumba)�Jen, PHARMD, BS ’02 LAS, of Phoenix, and her husband, Will, welcomed the birth of their first child, Ava Caitlin, on Aug. 20. Jen works as a clinical pharmacist in the emergency department at Banner Boswell Medical Center in Sun City, Ariz. Prior to joining Banner Boswell, she

completed her residency at the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix.

Jessica�Niemeier, PHARMD, of South Bend, Ind., and her husband, Fred, celebrated the birth of their first child, Logan Fred, on Jan. 29, 2009.

James Dorociak, BS ’81, PHARMD ’83, receives the 2010 UIC Constituent Leadership Award from the University of Illinois Alumni Association. Left to right: UIC Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares; Dorociak; Arlene Norsym, BA ’67 LAS, MBA ’85, vice president of alumni relations, UIC campus.

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August�P.�“Gus”�Lemberger, former dean of the Chicago College of Pharmacy from 1969 to 1980, died Feb. 16 in Madison, Wis. He was 84.

At the time of his departure from the College to return to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Lemberger called his tenure at UIC “very fruitful.” He was instrumental in establishing the Investigational Program for Self-Directed Study (IPSDS), an undergraduate program that allows students to learn and progress on their own.

At the time, Lemberger said: “We are the only school of pharmacy to conduct such an educational experiment, which placed us under the nation’s microscope. We demonstrated that a self-directed program was feasible, but at the same time identified the limitations of that approach to education for the average student.”

Besides the IPSDS experiment, Lemberger counted among his many accomplishments the establishment of the College as a national role model for clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting, the creation of a doctoral degree program and the development of a solid core of young faculty members “who are coming into their own as both educators and researchers.”

The College’s faculty grew from 50 when Lemberger began his tenure as dean in 1969 to 71 when he left UIC in 1980. He was responsible for the recruitment of future deans Henri Manasse, BS ’68, and Jerry Bauman, BS ’76, as well as Norman Farnsworth, professor of pharmacognosy and director of UIC’s Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Lemberger was born Jan. 25, 1926, in Milwaukee. He graduated from Milwaukee’s Marquette High School and earned both his bachelor of science and doctorate degree in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His father also was a pharmacist.

A World War II veteran, Lemberger served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946, and was stationed in Japan. He rose to the rank of first lieutenant. In 1947, Lemberger married Charlyne Ann Young in Sparta, Wis. They were married for 62 years and raised seven children.

Lemberger joined the University of Wisconsin pharmacy school as a faculty member in 1953. He served in that capacity until 1969, when he was named dean of UIC’s pharmacy school. He returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, where he served as dean of the pharmacy school until his retirement in 1991.

Among the many honors Lemberger received during his professional career are the University of Wisconsin Kiekhofer Memorial Teaching Award; the Rho Chi Lecture Award; selection as the first Takeru and Aya Higuchi Memorial Lecturer by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan; and the Distinguished Service Profile Award of the American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education.

He also was a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Pharmaceutical Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association.

Along with his wife, Charlyne, Lemberger’s survivors include seven children: Michael Lemberger, of Spokane, Wash.; Mary Wright, Ann Kasten and Peter Lemberger, all of Madison, Wis.; Thomas Lemberger, of Worthington, Ohio; Terrence Lemberger, of Verona, Wis.; and Kathryn O’Keefe, of Park City, Utah; 12 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Esther Weitekamp and Cecilia Hawley.

Services were held Feb. 22 at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Madison.

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Dorothy Bradley AtkinsMedicinal Plant Garden

833 SouthWood Street, Chicago(Corner of Wood and Polk Streets)

Garden Walk 2010: “Plants for Health”Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24, 2010

Please join the University of Illinois at Chicago College of

Pharmacy as we host the2010 Alan Lesniewicz Memorial

Lecturer Steven Fosterand celebrate the first and only urban

medicinal plant garden in the city of Chicago.

Tour - 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. each dayLecture - 11:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. each day

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July 23-24Garden Walk 2010: Plants for Health10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. tour both days11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. lecture both daysDorothy Bradley Atkins Medicinal Plant GardenCorner of Wood & Polk StreetChicago, Ill.See page 21 for details.

August 18 & 19 White Coat CeremoniesUIC College of PharmacyChicago and Rockford campusesTo volunteer, contact Deb Fox,[email protected]/(312) 996-0160.

September 116th Annual APhA Golf OutingOdyssey Country ClubTinley Park, Ill.For details or sponsorship inquiry:[email protected]/(309) 236-0603

November 5-6Pharmacy Alumni Reunion 2010Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza350 N. Orleans StreetChicago, Ill.Events include CE sessions and alumni awards. See inside front cover for details.

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