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Jon C. Schommer, MS, PhD, RPH, associate department head and professor, Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, will receive the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding, meritorious achievement in any of the pharmaceutical sciences.

The Public Health Advocacy Student Alliance (PHASA) is an interprofessional student group at the University of Minnesota that aims to inform and empower health professional students about public policy legislation that affects their patients and their careers. The group includes students from pharmacy, physical therapy, nursing, and medicine, as well as a few undergraduate students.

This distinguished award recognizes her service to education, the profession, research and the community.

Robert Turesky, PhD, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, has been appointed as the Masonic Chair in Cancer Causation.

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) University of Minnesota chapter recently received recognition by being named chapter of the year at the AMCP Nexus 2018 in Orlando, Florida.

Natalia Tretyakova, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

This is the first diagnostic method developed to detect signs of Alzheimer’s well before plaques form in the brain and patients begin to exhibit outwardly observable symptoms.

Pamala Jacobson received the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/ Leader Award from the University of Minnesota Women’s Center, Office for Equity and Diversity and was honored at their Celebrating Changemakers Awards event on October 11, 2018.
 

This is the highest recognition of excellence in the practice or provision of health care by AHC faculty.