STUDENTS Going Greater
UF College of Pharmacy students took home multiple honors at the APhA Annual Meeting.
UF’s APhA-ASP chapter won the National Chapter Achievement Award for Division A.
The American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting and Exposition was held in person for the first time in three years, and students from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy made their presence known by winning multiple national awards in San Antonio, March 18-21.
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The 2020-21 UF American Pharmacist Association — Academy of Student Pharmacists, or APhA-ASP, chapter won the National Chapter Achievement Award for Division A. The Chapter Achievement Awards Program recognizes outstanding activities of APhA-ASP chapters at colleges of pharmacy in the United States and Puerto Rico.
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Shirly Ly, a fourth-year student pharmacist and president of the UF APhA-ASP chapter, was one of four national recipients of the 2022 APhA-ASP Student Leadership Award.
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Ronald Levinson, a fourth-year student pharmacist, was elected as the APhA-ASP National Speaker of the House. As speaker, he will guide student pharmacists through the policy process and work with national, regional and chapter officers to ensure student pharmacists are prepared to write effective resolutions and policies.
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Megan Backus, a fourth-year student pharmacist, finished second runner-up in the APhA-ASP National Patient Counseling Competition, which encourages student pharmacists to become better patient educators.
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Theresa Tolle, a 1988 graduate of the UF College of Pharmacy, was sworn in as president of the APhA. The owner of Bay Street Pharmacy in Sebastian, Florida, will serve a one-year term leading the largest association of pharmacists in the U.S.
Jacksonville students place second nationally in NCODA competition
Charles Burke and Lucy Phipps, fourth-year pharmacy students from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy’s Jacksonville campus, placed second in the inaugural National Community Oncology Dispensing Association, or NCODA, Professional Student Organization Positive Quality Interventions Competition. Nearly 40 teams from pharmacy schools in the United States and Canada participated in the contest.
The competition was online and had two phases. The first phase required Burke and Phipps to develop a positive quality intervention on the management of hypertension associated with vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors. The top 5 scoring teams advanced to the final round, where they created a short clinical educational video focused on patient counseling.
Graduate student Zachary Greenberg wins AAPS Best Abstract and Poster Awards
Zach Greenberg
Zachary Greenberg, a rising third-year graduate student in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy’s department of pharmaceutics, earned two national honors at PharmSci 360, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, or AAPS, annual meeting in Philadelphia.
Greenberg won the 2021 AAPS Best Abstract Award by scoring in the top 10% of all submissions. He also received the 2021 AAPS Best Poster Award for his innovative research and contribution to the pharmaceutical sciences.
Greenberg’s research used artificial intelligence to identify novel molecules capable of directing exosomal traffic towards any specific cell or tissue in vivo. These AI-deduced molecules were evaluated against other experimentally well-known molecules and determined to be superior in their directing efficacy.
Chris Hall selected as one of 12 ASHP Student Leadership Award winners
Chris Hall
Chris Hall, Pharm.D., a 2022 graduate of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, was one of 12 recipients of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy, or ASHP, Student Leadership Award. The national award recognizes student pharmacists who have demonstrated leadership and represent the very best attributes and accomplishments of ASHP student members.
As a UF student pharmacist, Hall held multiple leadership roles while participating in 10 different student organizations as well as completing internships at UF Health in Gainesville and Jacksonville. After graduation, Hall moved to Kansas City to begin a combined PGY1/PGY2 health-system pharmacy administration and leadership residency with the University of Kansas Health System.
