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THE GIVING CENTER Greg Collins, PharmD ’00 and Bill Burrows at CPh A Outlook 2012 in Sacramento, California. Alumni Giving up 75% in 2012! Thank you, College of Pharmacy alumni! The numbers are in for fiscal year 2012, and you, the WesternU College of Pharmacy (COP) alumni have made this, far and away, the best year of COP alumni fundraising support to date! You have increased giving to the COP by over 75%, and more of you have given larger gifts this year than ever before. Thank you for your growing support, and remember that every gift of any size truly does make a positive difference in the course of our students’, your future alumni colleagues’, lives. Please peruse the list of generous COP alumni below, all of whom have given in support of their alma mater. Thank you for your support! Bill Burrows Director of Development, College of Pharmacy All Alumni Donors to the College of Pharmacy Giang Chieu Nguyen, PharmD ’01 Gene W Kim, PharmD ’03 Jae Wook Yang, PharmD ’06 Kim-Hong T Nguyen, PharmD ’00 Tina H Rizzolo, PharmD ’09 Siem M Woldemariam, PharmD ’10 Ajay Roberts, PharmD ’09 Michael Srapion Najarian, PharmD ’06 Yelena McElroy, PharmD ’07 Narine Bleu Gevorkian, PharmD ’01 Su-Fen Chen, PharmD ’08 Kamaljit Kaur Bhangoo, PharmD ’07 Dara Bai Abacan, PharmD '09 Jerry Wei Yang, PharmD ’08 Azeem A Syed, PharmD ’08 Eun Sook Kim, PharmD ’07 Aaron W Houpy, PharmD ’04 Elizabeth Marie Basteguian, PharmD ’10 Yen Xuan Luong, PharmD ’08 Young Ran Lee, PharmD ’07 Nishant Bipin Thakkar, PharmD ’08 Reagan R Lee, PharmD ’05 Panit Pollavith, PharmD ’04 Anthony Le, PharmD ’04 Myung Hee Shin Park, PharmD ’99 Sean A Pendley, PharmD ’04 Zhaoying Amy Liu, PharmD ’08 Katie So Lai Hui, PharmD ’08 Katherine Yen Le, PharmD ’08 Vicky Kim-Anh Vu, PharmD ’05 Rouzanna Papoyan, PharmD ’02 Richard Tri Nguyen, PharmD ’05 Eun K Yang, PharmD ’00 Haikui Parsamyan, PharmD ’10 Luis A Aguilar, PharmD ’00 Jong Chul Lee, PharmD ’01 Hyun Soo Cho, PharmD ’01 Bony Ma Kari, PharmD ’05 Long-Shyang Chang, PharmD ’08 Helen Y Lam, PharmD ’04 Ann M Gutierrez, PharmD ’04 David Gordon Bosch, DO ’11 Suong T Vu, PharmD ’04 Oanh Tran Trinh, PharmD ’10 Zhanna Rubinova, PharmD ’04 Elana Mossazadeh, PharmD ’11 Sarah Sang In Kim, PharmD ’09 Maggie Hanh Tran, PharmD ’10 Tzu-Chi Hsu, PharmD ’10 Laurel Rachelle Shea, PharmD ’06 Nicole Lynn Orrell, PharmD ’01 Kuan-Chih Lin, PharmD ’07 Alan Joslin DeMartini, PharmD ’10 Tiffany Lana Chong, PharmD ’10 Mehdi Amiri, PharmD ’11 Connie Lew Cheng-Pham, DO ’01 Helen Xu, PharmD ’08 Amy Wong, PharmD ’06 Ann Wiwithes Vu, PharmD ’07 Shereif S Sorial, PharmD ’04 Andy Duy Pham, PharmD ’01 Lisa Q Ngo, PharmD ’03 Madina K Muy, PharmD ’02 Wendy Michelle Morimoto, PharmD ’09 Chang S Lee, PharmD ’07 Maximillian Woojin Jahng, PharmD ’09 Jayne Y Han, PharmD ’02 Ann Chung, PharmD ’04 Margaret E. Boyden, PharmD ’01 Mahshid Akhavan-Naderi, PharmD ’03 Sandra Jurado, PharmD ’02 Nguyet Tammy Lam, PharmD ’01 Stephanie Roberta Duggan, PharmD ’10 Ivy Pui Shan Chan, PharmD ’09 26 | RxBound WesternU, College of Pharmacy
Generous Support for College of Pharmacy Scholarships & Student Programs Corporate and Association Support Jan. ’12 – June ’12 Thanks to our corporate and association partners for their continued generosity. • $25,000 from Rite Aid for the Rite Aid Diversity Scholarship Support Fund. Pledge payment towards their $100,000 endowment. • $11,000 from CVS in support of several College of Pharmacy programs and events ($5000 for annual scholarships, $1000 in support of the 2012 Ray Symposium, and $5000 in sponsorship of the 2012 Commencement Banquet). • $5500 from Walgreens in support of 2012 Commencement Banquet ($3000) and the 2012 Phi Lambda Sigma Student Leadership Retreat ($2500). • $5000 from the California Korean American Pharmacists Association for the CKAPhA Scholarship Endowment Fund. • $4000 from McKesson in support of the College of Pharmacy’s Pharmacy Faculty Practice Plan Fund ($3000) and the 2012 Towne & Gown Golf Classic ($1000). • $4000 from Albertsons/SUPERVALU in support of the 2012 Commencement Banquet ($1000) and the College of Pharmacy General Scholarship Fund ($3000). • $3500 from Ralphs in support of the 2012 Ray Symposium ($1000) and the annual Ralphs Pharmacy Scholarship ($2500). • $2000 from Glenn Etow, PharmD, President & COO of Comprehensive Pharmacy Services (CPS), in support of the 2012 Ray Symposium. • $2000 from the Vietnamese Pharmacists Association in the U.S.A. for the VPhA Scholarship Fund. • $1000 from Walmart for the annual Walmart Pharmacy Scholarship. OptumRx Continues Support The Pomona Health Career Ladder (PHCL) program received another generous gift of $7,500 this past May 2012 from our generous partner at OptumRx (formerly Prescription Solutions). John Jones, Senior Vice President, Professional Practice and Pharmacy Policy with OptumRx, contacted COP administration in late April with the good news that OptumRx would be able to make a gift again this year. With this gift, OptumRx has made gifts in total of $27,500 over the past two years. John Jones is a member of the College of Pharmacy’s Dean’s Advisory Council, and is a former Executive in Residence at College of Pharmacy as well. “We at OptumRx definitely admire your PHCL program,” Jones has said, “and we want to support it when we can.” John D. Jones, RPh, JD, FAMCP Senior Vice President, Professional Practice and Pharmacy Policy OptumRx Please check out the interactive website, “Pharmacy Is Right For Me,” (www.pharmacyforme.org) launched by OptumRx. It features brief interviews with WesternU College of Pharmacy students and some of the PHCL ninth grade students from Pomona as well. As one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the United States, OptumRx specializes in the delivery, clinical management and affordability of prescription medications and consumer health products. OptumRx provides retail pharmacy network claims processing, mail order pharmaceuticals and specialty pharmaceuticals management in concert with its pharmacy benefit management programs. The company also provides retail network contracting, rebate contracting and management and clinical programs, such as step therapy, formulary management and disease/drug therapy management programs that assist customers in achieving a low-cost, highquality pharmacy benefit. ■ WesternU College of Pharmacy students address PHCL students at a Saturday Academy. WesternU, College of Pharmacy RxBound | 27
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