Categories: Honors and Awards

2016 Mentor of the Year: Francis Szoka

The American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education(AFPE) announced Francis C. Szoka, PhD as the 2016 recipient of The Mentor of the Year Award. Szoka, professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, is the founder of Sequus Pharmaceuticals.

Celebrating the 100th birthday of Edward Leong Way

Edward (Eddie) Leong Way, BS, MS, PhD, celebrated his 100th birthday on July 1, 2016, with more than 70 colleagues, friends, and family at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center.

Benet presents commencement address and wins the 2016 Outstanding Mentor Award

PSPG faculty member Les Benet, PhD, presented the 2016 commencement address and was also the recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Mentor Award conferred by the Associated Students of the Graduate Division Alumni Association.

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Commencement Celebration 2016

Fulton receives Innovation in Education Award

The 2016 Dean’s Innovation in Education Award was presented to Tracy Fulton, PhD, on Thursday during the School of Pharmacy faculty meeting on the Parnassus campus.

Classroom pharmacogenetics, post-hospital medications, and post-brain-surgery drugs take top honors

Studies of pharmacogenetics testing of pharmacy students as a teaching tool, an improved system to resolve medication issues after patients go home from the hospital, and the prophylactic use of an antiseizure drug for brain surgery patients took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy...

PSPG student Chan receives the AAPS Graduate Student Fellowship

Congratulations to PSPG Student Rosa Chan who has received one of five 2016 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Graduate Student Fellowships. Election to fellow status is based on the individual’s documented sustained level of superior and distinguished professional achievement...

Majumdar receives ISMRM Gold Medal

Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco, has been awarded the 2016 Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in M

Dong honored as 2016 PPSI/Stan Hartman Distinguished Person of the Year

Betty J. Dong, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, AAHIVP, FAPhA, professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the UCSF School of Pharmacy, has been honored with the 2016 PPSI/Stan Hartman Distinguished Person of the Year Award by Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc.

Burchard receives Health Equality Award from Thoracic Society

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH, has received the Innovations in Health Equality Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed by the American Thoracic Society's Clinicians Advisory Committee and Health Equality Subcommittee.

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