Honors Day, April 5, <strong>2012</strong> THE PRESIDENT’S SOCIETY AWARD Established in 1994 by the President’s Society to recognize academic excellence, financial need and service to the <strong>University</strong>. Michael Trillanes, PharmD 2013 Special Award USPHS EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH PHARMACY PRACTICE AWARD Established to recognize pharmacy students’ contributions to public health pharmacy practice. Lusineh Keshishian, PharmD 2014 TEACHER OF THE YEAR Awarded to a College <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy faculty member who exhibits excellence in teaching within the pr<strong>of</strong>essional pharmacy curriculum. Patrick Chan, PharmD, PhD Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy Practice and Administration 20 | RxBound <strong>Western</strong>U, College <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy
Student Honors & Awards ALBERTSONS/SAV-ON SCHOLARSHIP Carrie Bitterlich, PharmD ’13 Cindy Fan, PharmD ’13 Dhwani Shah, PharmD ’12 ALBERTSONS/SAV-ON FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP Vanessa Diaz, PharmD ’15 Natasha Gonzalez, PharmD ’15 Alana Zapata, PharmD ’15 CALIFORNIA KOREAN AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION Annie Song, PharmD ’13 CVS CHARITABLE TRUST, INC. Reem Karkar, PharmD ’15 Solmaz Naghsh, PharmD ’12 Joanne Nguyen, PharmD ’12 Jasmine Rahimian, PharmD ’14 Nancy Shabani, PharmD ’14 EAST WEST SCHOLARSHIP *Jinoo Lee, PharmD ’13 Eva Chung-Levbarg, PharmD ’14 Joanne Nguyen, PharmD ’12 Annie Song, PharmD ’13 Bich Tran, PharmD ’15 Amy Trieu, PharmD ’14 *Awarded the Melanie S. Lim Scholarship GOOD NEIGHBOR PHARMACY/ THE INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY PHARMACY SCHOLARSHIP Tiffani Emerson, PharmD ’13 Aida Oganesyan, PharmD ’13 Drupad Parikh, PharmD ’13 Youkavet Samih, PharmD ’13 Mayur Yadav, PharmD ’13 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHAIN DRUG STORES FOUNDATION PHARMACY PARTNERS SCHOLARSHIP Tram Khuong, PharmD ’12 Erik Kirakosyan, PharmD ’14 Jack Lam, PharmD ’13 Kathy Truong, PharmD ’12 RALPHS PHARMACY SCHOLARSHIP Mayur Yadav, PharmD ’13 RITE AID FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP Abigail Arguijo, PharmD ’15 TARGET CASE COMPETITION SCHOLARSHIP Linda Danh, PharmD ’14 Danielle Kim, PharmD ’14 Charles Lam,PharmD ’13 Mark Sabillo, PharmD ’13 VIETNAMESE PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION (VPhA IN THE USA) Tracey Ngo, PharmD ’12 Hazel Tran, PharmD ’13 Nhu Vo, PharmD ’13 WALGREENS DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP Tom Li, PharmD ’13 WALGREENS SCHOLARSHIP Priti Amin, PharmD ’15 Jonathan Baharvar, PharmD ’12 Carrie Bitterlich, PharmD ’13 Samuel Bonilla, PharmD ’15 May Chaivasin, PharmD ’13 Eunah Cho, PharmD ’12 Eva Chung-Levbarg, PharmD ’14 Jeff Dai, PharmD ’15 Nogie Demirjian, PharmD ’13 Cindy Fan, PharmD ’13 Wen-Hsin Jiang, PharmD ’13 Karen Lai, PharmD ’13 Johnny Lee, PharmD ’15 Felicia Molina, PharmD ’13 Ryan Ngov, PharmD ’14 AnhDao Nguyen, PharmD ’14 Triet Nguyen, PharmD ’15 Van Pham, PharmD ’15 Pauline Phan, PharmD ’13 Sangeeta Salvi, PharmD ’13 Queena Sun, PharmD ’15 Alidz Talatinian, PharmD ’13 Danny Tang, PharmD ’15 Michael Trillanes, PharmD ’13 Huong-giang Vu, PharmD ’15 WALMART PHARMACY SCHOLARSHIP Pauline Phan, PharmD ’13 Jasmine Rahimian, PharmD ’14 Gopalkumar Sojitra, PharmD ’13 Dhwani Shah, PharmD ’12 Shreya Shah, PharmD ’12 WESTERN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP Stephen Kang, PharmD ’14 Faculty and Staff Honors & Awards FACULTY SERVICE AWARD Awarded to paid faculty who have provided outstanding service to the College <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy. Donald Hsu, PharmD Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy Practice and Administration Kabir Lufty, BPharm Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Pharmaceutical <strong>Sciences</strong> Mark Nguyen, PharmD Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy Practice and Administration PRECEPTORS OF THE YEAR AWARD Awarded to recognize paid and volunteer College <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy faculty preceptors for their excellence in teaching students during their clerkships. Rudy Mireles, PharmD Director Patient Care Center Pharmacy, Pomona, CA Grace Magedman, PharmD Children’s Hospital <strong>of</strong> Orange County, Orange, CA Vishal Gandhi, PharmD Comfort RX, Costa Mesa, CA Mark Nguyen, PharmD St Mary’s Medical Center, Long Beach, CA STAFF SERVICE AWARD Awarded to a College <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy staff member who has contributed outstanding service to the College. Tara Barthol Laboratory Manager, Department <strong>of</strong> Pharmaceutical <strong>Sciences</strong> <strong>Western</strong>U, College <strong>of</strong> Pharmacy RxBound | 21