Alumni, Donors, Friends

Ilisa Bernstein, PharmD’87, JD, FAPhA, has been named the 2023 Alumni Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award winner. This award honors alumni who have made significant lifetime contributions to their profession or society through practice, research, education, or public service.
Dr. Bernstein is the interim CEO and executive vice president at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). Prior to […]

Jay Carter, BSPharm’81, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of healthcare agency AbelsonTaylor, has been named Industry Person of the Year for 2022 by the editors of Med Ad News. He received the award on April 21 at the 33rd Annual Manny Awards in New York City.   
In April 2018, Mr. Carter received the […]

We are thrilled to announce the eight (8) U-M College of Pharmacy alumni that were elected by fellow classmates to represent them on the College’s Alumni Society Board of Governors. These individuals will serve a three-year term with the opportunity to run again.
The roles of the Board are to foster communication between the College and its […]

Two College of Pharmacy graduates received Distinguished Alumni Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 2022 commencement ceremony. 
Peter Labadie, BSPharm’79, MBA, and Lynda S. Welage, BSPharm’81, PharmD, FCCP, received the awards for their significant career achievements. Both recipients thanked the College for the honor during the April 23rd commencement ceremony.
After graduating from Michigan College of Pharmacy with […]

Donald G. Therasse, BSPharm’78, MD, passed away on Sunday, February 13 at his home in Spring Lake, Michigan. Dr. Therasse joined the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy Dean’s Advisory Committee in 2003 and served for over 18 years.  He was awarded the College’s Alumni Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
Read Dr. Therasse’s obituary. 
Dr. Therasse […]

The U-M College of Pharmacy is currently accepting new member nominations for the Alumni Society Board of Governors.
Collecting nominations is the first step to the College’s election process that is completed before the start of their first term in June of 2022. Board members must be a College of Pharmacy Alumni and are elected to three-year terms. […]

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 scientific questions […]

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 my development […]

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 favorite extracurricular activity?
Dr. […]

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 valuable insight […]