Alumni, Donors, Friends

Caleb Bates, PhD’10, shares his experience and advice as a patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.   U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Bates: My most memorable learning experience was attending group meeting. The lab worked on the interface of chemistry and biology, and seeing how different scientists with different backgrounds approached […]

James Patrone, PhD’10, shares his experience and advice as a tenure-track professor of chemistry at Rollins College.  U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Patrone: I had many memorable experiences and impactful faculty members at U-M. If I had to pick one, I would choose Garry Dotson, the person most responsible for […]

Deanna Montgomery, PhD’19, shares her experience and advice as a manager of the Communication Lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT.  U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Montgomery: Hank Mosberg, my dissertation advisor, was incredibly supportive of both my research and other endeavors. U-M Pharmacy: What was your […]

Morgan Giles, PhD’18, shares her experience and advice as a Senior Scientist at Merck in the Sterile and Specialty Products group.  U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Giles: Two of the most impactful faculty mentors were Dr. Greg Amidon and Dr. Duxin Sun. Both were on my committee and provided […]

Adam Loyson, PharmD’14, shares his experience and advice as an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service.  U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Loyson: My most impactful faculty mentor was Dean Jim Stevenson. Among University of Michigan’s vast network of alumni, he was able […]

John Andrew Lee, PharmD’13, shares his experience and advice as a Medical Science Liaison.  U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Lee: Collectively, the most memorable learning experience has been the PharmD P4 Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) Experiential rotations. The College has an amazing network of in-state and out-of-state APPE […]

Tiffany Porter, PharmD’12, shares her experience and advice as a staff pharmacist at CVS pharmacy and Olympian.   U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Porter: The late Dean Valener Perry had a profound impact on my journey to pharmacy. She helped me prior to pharmacy school to understand what the requirements […]

Ashley Wester, PharmD’14, shares her experience and advice as a Pediatric Cardiology Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.  U-M Pharmacy: What was your most memorable learning experience or impactful faculty mentor? Dr. Wester: I had many memorable learning experiences and impactful faculty mentors, many of whom I have the pleasure to continue to work with today. […]

JoAnn Sanborn, BSPharm’77, received the prestigious Bowl of Hygeia Award during the 2021 Michigan Pharmacists Association (MPA) virtual Annual Convention & Exposition held Feb. 26-27. The Bowl of Hygeia Award, presented in cooperation with the American Pharmacists Association Foundation and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations, is given to a pharmacist who has made […]

Dinesh Patel, PhD’79, has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology Lifetime Achievement.  Dr. Patel co-founded Utah-based TheraTech Inc., pioneering technologies used to administer controlled, time-release medicine, ultimately leading to a 1999 $350 million acquisition. Dr. Patel then co-founded Salus Therapeutics, a Utah biotechnology company that developed anti-sense pharmaceuticals, also ending […]