College of Pharmacy alumni contribute extensively to the professions of medical laboratory science, occupational therapy and pharmacy, to health care, and to the larger society. We invite you to meet some of our notable alumni and learn more about their unique leadership and their commitment to improving their communities.
Alumni News
Alumna Kimberly Vandiver knew before she graduated high school that she wanted to work in medical laboratory sciences (MLS).
Pharmacy is commonly considered a “left-brain” profession, rooted in logic, analysis, reason, and mathematics. Alumni of the College of Pharmacy are multifaceted and contribute to society in a multitude of ways — Norrie Thomas and John Benson are two such alumni challenging that binary.
Alumnus Dan Albrant, PharmD ‘87, was a licensed pharmacist for 30 years. At the age of 50, he decided to go to seminary. Now, he’s a pastor at two United Methodist churches in rural Virginia and co-host of the podcast The Clinic & The Person.
Brittney Mikell: Alumna draws from pharmacy background to found MN’s first Black woman-owned brewery
Brittney Mikell graduated from the 2020 PharmD cohort into a global pandemic. While she began homebrewing beer as a COVID-era hobby, it’s now blossoming into a much larger project; she’s opening Bubble Line Brewing Company, Minnesota’s first Black woman-owned brewery, in the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul.
ECP alumnus Vijay Ivaturi, PhD ('10), is the new president-elect of the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP). He will serve a one-year term as President-Elect prior to assuming the role of President in 2024.
Nicole Mai Bentz, Nan Wang, and Conrad Fihn each successfully defended their PhD thesis this summer to become our program's most recent graduates.