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Garey’s
Infectious Disease Paper Garners
2 National Awards Kevin
W. Garey, Pharm.D.,
associate professor and interim
chair of the Department of Clinical
Sciences & Administration,
has received two national awards
for an article published in
the July 2006 issue of Clinical
Infectious Diseases. The article
won the 2007 Literature Award
in Drug Therapy Research from
the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists Research & Education
Foundation and the 2007 Pharmacotherapy
Paper of the Year Award from
the Society of Infectious Diseases
Pharmacists. Garey was first
author on the study examining
the impact on mortality for
patients with candedemia fungal
infection based on when fluconazole
therapy was initiated.
Asghar Secures
NIH Funding for Aging and Exercise
Research Mohammed
Asghar, Ph.D., research
assistant professor, has secured
a $149,000 grant from the National
Institutes of Health to study
the role, effects and connections
between dopamine and exercise
in the aging process. With the
ranks of elder Americans expected
to rise dramatically in the
next few decades, Asghar’s
research seeks to determine
how exercise may play a critical
role in reversing such age-related
abnormalities as increases in
oxidative-stress and inflammation
and improving drug responsiveness.
UH Picks
Up 8 Awards at Health Services
& Outcomes Conference
Several
UHCOP students, faculty members
and recent alumni were among
the award winners at the 8th
Annual Health Services and Outcomes
Research Conference hosted by
Kelsey Research Foundation in
November. UH Pharmacy Administration
students took home eight of
the 18 total possible awards,
including a first- through third-place
sweep in the Patient Safety
division and first place in
the Effectiveness division.
UHCOP
Closes Out Year with 9 New Endowments
Established
Alumni,
friends, faculty members and
– for the first time in
the College’s history
– a current student have
shown their support for future
generations of students by setting
up nine new scholarship endowments
in 2007. New scholarships have
been set up in name of Bruce
& Ann Biundo, Houston Area
Pharmacy Association, Ohia-Edet
Memorial (by Sunny E. Ohia and
Ekanem O. Ohia), Gary K. &
Linda Rice, Scholz Family (by
Robert L. Scholz), Mark Shadle,
Andrea L. Smesny, Judge Kenton
Lloyd Smith Pharmacy Ethics
(by Jef Furtado), and Suzanne
W. Woo Honorary/William M. Woo
Memorial (by May Woo).
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