40 Gators under 40
In 2020 and 2021, the UF College of Pharmacy celebrated these outstanding young alumni.
While it wasn’t possible to gather in person, the UF Alumni Association continued its annual recognition of 40 Gators Under 40. In 2020 and 2021, the UF College of Pharmacy celebrated these outstanding young alumni.
2020 Winners
Ryan Haumschild
Ryan Haumschild, Pharm.D., earned his pharmacy doctorate from UF in 2013, before completing two years of postgraduate residency training at The Ohio State University. He went on to serve in several clinical leadership roles at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. Haumschild has changed the way pharmacists provide care for patients in the ambulatory setting since joining Emory’s pharmacy leadership team. With his 100-plus-member team, he helped create a patient-centered model that enables pharmacists to provide care directly in the clinic. This model also provides structured follow up for patients throughout the continuum of their medication therapy.
Maryam Khazraee
Maryam Khazraee, Pharm.D., is a regulatory health project manager with the Federal Drug Administration and a 2015 graduate of the UF College of Pharmacy. Khazraee plays a critical role in our nation’s health system, both in the FDA’s oversight of cancer drugs and treatments and for the U.S. Public Health Service. As the regulatory health project manager for the FDA’s Office of Hematology and Oncology Products, Maryam has received an achievement medal for her extensive work in expediting access to medications for emergency oncology cases and for supporting oncology drug approval. She is also a lieutenant in the U.S. Public Health Service, which deploys her to protect our nation’s health during natural disasters, acts of bioterrorism and public health emergencies.
2021 Winners
Karen Berger
Karen Berger, Pharm.D., is a neurocritical care clinical pharmacy manager at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center. After receiving her Doctor of Pharmacy from UF in 2009, she went on to complete her PGY1 pharmacy residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and her PGY2 critical care residency at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, where she served as chief resident. Berger currently serves as a member-at-large for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section, and is a member of the Neurocritical Care Society Pharmacy Section Leadership Committee.
Daniel Gonzalez
Daniel Gonzalez, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor in the division of pharmacotherapy and experimental therapeutics at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He also has an adjunct appointment within the department of pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine. He joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2014, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship through the UNC-Duke Collaborative Clinical Pharmacology T32 Postdoctoral Training Program. Gonzalez received his Pharm.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in 2008 and 2012, respectively. His research interests include pediatric clinical pharmacology and the application of mathematical modeling and simulation techniques to characterize the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs, guide drug dosage selection and improve drug safety in children.
