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 […]

Jolene R. Bostwick, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, is the recipient of the 2022 Teaching Excellence Award. This award recognizes exceptional teaching in the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy’s PharmD and PhD programs.
Dr. Bostwick is the assistant dean for co-curriculum and professional development and clinical professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. She received […]

When Nour Kadouh, P4, joined Jolene Bostwick, PharmD’04, assistant dean for co-curriculum and professional development and clinical professor of pharmacy, for an independent study, she didn’t know the result would be steering a new course, Pharmacy 617: Foundations of Pharmacy Leadership, from concept through to the end of its first semester.
The idea for the course […]

March 16th, 2022 marks Phase 1 of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) annual Match Results Day. The ASHP Resident Matching Program provides an orderly process to help pharmacy students obtain positions in residency programs of their choice, and to help programs obtain applicants of their choice. Similar matching programs are in use in many […]

Beatriz Manzor Mitrzyk, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, clinical assistant professor, has won a 2022 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy New Investigator Award. Sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the New Investigator Award provides start-up funding for the independent research programs of early-career pharmacy faculty.
Funds from the award will support the creation […]

With the 2020 Advance to Candidacy ceremony postponed, the College recognized both those who earned candidacy in 2020 and 2021 in a joint ceremony. Thirty-seven students from the Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medicinal Chemistry, and Clinical Pharmacy departments were celebrated for their academic achievement.
Reaching candidacy is an important milestone and accomplishment, signifying that a student has completed […]

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 […]

On February 12, 2022, the College of Pharmacy hosted Research Forum, our yearly exposition of student and postdoctoral fellow-led research. Held both remotely and in person, the event included virtual platform presentations, an alumni networking and panel discussion, and poster presentation exhibition. 
Dean Vicki Ellingrod hosted the morning’s virtual session, welcoming those in attendance and introducing […]

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. […]

Originally posted on the Michigan News Services website. 
FACULTY Q&A
The FDA will consider authorizing two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5 on an emergency basis, with the possibility for a third.
It’s anticipated that a third dose may be needed because the antibody response with two doses in some of these youngest kids was […]