The College of

PharmacySummer 2012

Beastroms, Markls honored for contributions to SDSU — Page 4 A family of female pharmacists — Page 6 Teacher of the Year Tadd Hellwig— Page 14

South Dakota State University About the cover DEAR FRIENDS The College of

The 2011-12 academic year was one filled with numerous achievements by our students, PharmacySummer 2012, Issue No. 1 faculty, and alumni. Within this issue of our magazine, we have highlighted many of these achievements.

The value of exceeding patient expectations Student achievement is featured in this publication as we introduce you to the 69 members of our 2012 Doctor of Pharmacy graduating class. During the Pharm.D. 2 Wall Drug Few stop at Wall Drug to see Cindy Dinger, but the pharmacist is appreciated. Hooding Ceremony, my brief message to the Class of 2012 was that in this era of health- 4 Family of the Year Beastroms, Markls honored for contributions to SDSU. care reform, the ability to adapt to change coupled with hard work is essential as it 6 Female pharmacists It’s a family tradition in the Garry family, dating back to 1945. relates to future success as a pharmacy practitioner. I challenged our graduates to think of new ideas and creative approaches to 8 Making an impact P2 Student Sara Wettergreen named to national education committee. opportunities within the changing health-care landscape and reminded them of the 10 Omathanu Perumal Honored for research work in developing novel carriers for drug delivery. importance of finding new ways to fit in as a valued member of the health-care team. And above all else, I reminded our graduates of the value of exceeding patient 11 Chandradhar Dwivedi Father figure receives State’s first departmental leadership honor. expectations. Cindy Dinger ’01 stands outside the 12 Jane Mort Work with acetaminophen combinations earns recognition from FDA, SDSU. Fortunately for all of us, the Class of 2012 appears to be motivated to contribute to entrance to Wall Drug Apothecary Shoppe, 13 Jodi Heins Professor filling new position tracking the college’s experiential education. our profession in such a manner. a practicing pharmacy in a land of make- believe and curios. While she does sell 14 Tadd Hellwig Students tab pharmacy practice assistant professor as teacher of the year. Faculty recognized for excellence plenty of bottles of Dr. Feelgood’s Amazing 15 Rx errors Elk Point student wants to take down barriers between pharmacists, doctors, patients. Faculty achievement was recognized during the SDSU Celebration of Faculty Excellence Wall Drug Tonic, she also fills an average Military experience helps lead Distinguished Graduate to Veterans Affairs. Awards Banquet and I am pleased to say that the College of Pharmacy was well of 50 prescriptions per day, mostly to local 16 Terry Hoffmann represented during the program. customers. See story Page 2. 17 Pharmacy in a foreign country Atlanta prof tells of his work with the nation of Georgia. Chandradhar Dwivedi, head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, received 18 White Coat Ceremony Record number (750-plus) witness ninth annual event at SDSU. the Harold and Barbara Bailey Award for Excellence in Academic Department Leadership. In addition, Omathanu Perumal received the F.O. Butler Award for 19 Student organization awards Five professional organizations receive, give awards. Excellence in Research and Jane Mort received the College of Pharmacy Distinguished 20 2012 graduates Scholar Award that evening. 23 Amy Doten Preceptor of the Year doesn’t shy away from tough conversations with students. I invite you to read stories profiling these faculty members as well as the college’s Teacher of the Year —Tadd Hellwig. 24 Department of Pharmacy Practice James Clem reports. 25 Department of Pharmaceutical Science Chandradhar Dwivedi reports. Alums continue outstanding support College of Pharmacy The College once again received tremendous support from its alumni throughout the Development Council 26 Academic assessment report Jane Mort reports. year, and it was a true honor for our College to be involved in a couple of special alumni Steve Aamot Earl McKinstry 27 Bill Darrah The 1996 graduate, now of Onawa, Iowa, blesses future students with scholarships. recognitions that are featured in this issue. Tom Beranek Dave Mentele 30 Phonathon This year’s event brings in $86,321 and a harvest of intangibles. The dedication ceremony of the Laughrey Lecture Halls in the Avera Health and James Bregel Daniel Remund Dennis Dobesh Richard Smith Science Center will forever be identified as a great event in our College’s history. Steven Flora Don Stark 31 J. Bruce Laughrey Lecture halls in the Avera Health and Science Center dedicated April 26. Formally placing the Laughrey name on the lecture halls is a very appropriate Dennis Hedge Dale Vander Hamm 33 Development director’s column recognition of Bruce Laughrey’s outstanding career and loyal support of SDSU. Cathie Hegg Gary Van Riper All of us at the College were equally delighted to participate in the recognition of the Bernard Hietbrink Kevin Wurtz Nancy Hildebrand Margaret Zard Bernard Beastrom family as the SDSU Family of the Year. This too was very fitting Galen Jordre Roger Zobel considering the Beastrom family’s loyalty and passion for South Dakota State. Susan Lahr J. Bruce Laughrey An invitation to stop for a visit Finally, this issue of our magazine also contains stories on our White Coat Ceremony, College of Pharmacy Advisory Council spring convocation, student leadership projects, a South Dakota pharmacy family Steve Aamot Karen Munger tradition, and world famous Wall Drug. Darrel Bjornson Lenny Petrik As you will see in the pages that follow, many great things are happening at the SDSU Jeff DeRouchey Sue Schaefer South Dakota State University College of Pharmacy. If you are ever in the Brookings area, I invite you to stop by so that Suzanne Hansen Garret Schramm Dean: Dennis Hedge Writers and photographers: Dave Graves, Dana Hess, we can share our achievements with you first hand. Veronica Lesselyoung Paul Sinclair Associate Dean: Jane Mort Kyle Johnson, Eric Landwehr, Brian Lounsbery Chris Sonnenschein Assistant Dean: Dan Hansen Publications Editor: Andrea Kieckhefer Best wishes, Megan Maddox Else Umbreit Anne Morstad Head of Pharmacy Practice: James Clem Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences: The College of Pharmacy is published each year by Dennis D. Hedge South Dakota State University, College of Pharmacy, Dean of Pharmacy Pharmacy Academic Sponsors Chandradhar Dwivedi Coeditor: Dan Hansen Box 2202C, Brookings, SD 57007-0099. Avera Health Lewis Drug Cigna Home Delivery Omnicare Coeditor: Dave Graves 3,900 copies of this document were printed by the College of Pharmacy with the support of Alumni and Friends. PH015 6/10 Pharmacy Sanford Design: Virginia Coudron Hy-Vee Walmart COLLEGE

Cindy Dinger - Wall Drug Small-town pharmacy amidst big tourist attraction

here’s no doubt about Wall Drug’s her life, Dinger took a high school aptitude role as a tourist attraction. Just look test that told her she should be an Tat all those signs along the highway. accountant or a pharmacist. For the travelers who visit there, it’s a After a year of studying accounting at city block of jackalopes and doughnuts, the University of South Dakota, she was off free ice water and 5-cent coffee, cowboy to the College of Pharmacy at SDSU. hats and Mount Rushmore coffee mugs. “I loved it there,” Dinger says, and she What might be lost in the drive to lure found her calling in pharmacy. tourists is that it really lives up to its name. “I always had an interest in health care,” Wall Drug has a pharmacy. Dinger says. “I liked the retail aspect of it, Nestled in between the Rockhound interacting with people on a daily basis.” Shop and the Country Store and Fudge There was plenty of interaction at Lewis Cindy Dinger ’01 says many tourists are surprised to learn Wall Drug really does have a drug store, but the Shop is the Wall Drug Apothecary Shoppe. Drug and Walmart, so much that it was occasional tourist who forgets to pack his prescription and the community of 800 are plenty glad that Dinger Behind the counter is Cindy Dinger ’01 tough for Dinger to get to know her continues the store tradition begun by its founder, Ted Hustead, in 1931. busily fulfilling the role of professional customers. And there were other aspects of pharmacist at a location that’s likely better the big stores that were unappealing. company and Dinger’s schedule at “Dorothy gets the credit for saving the known for its T-rex and its animatronic “I do not miss the long hours or weekend Walmart sometimes kept her at the store drug store,” Dinger says. cowboy quartet than it is for filling and holiday work,” Dinger says. until 7 or 9 p.m. prescriptions. Her customers these days walk up to the “It was always a challenge,” Dinger says. ‘What America is all about’ store and perhaps some people would “Our children needed us more.” Maybe it’s all the antiques throughout Wall From Sioux Falls to Wall think it odd that in the middle of one of Ryan’s still on the road selling, but Drug or the Old West nature of the place, Dinger has been behind the counter five South Dakota’s largest tourist attractions, Dinger’s schedule allows her more time to but Dinger says many travelers expect her days a week since June 1, 2010, moving to most of Dinger’s customers know her care for Ava, 8; Nora, 6; and Emmet, 4. to stock oddball items. One gentleman was Wall from Sioux Falls where she interned name. If the hours were the job’s initial draw, looking for a “thing you sniff for sinuses,” and then worked at Lewis Drug and where “Wall is kind of a unique community,” now it’s her customers who are the big Dinger recalls, that came in a “Chinese- she spent more than seven years with says Dinger, noting Wall Drug’s ability to attraction. type jar.” Walmart. attract tourists as well the town’s proximity “I know everyone and everyone kind of “They’re looking for the old remedies Even though the pharmacy is part of the to the Badlands and the Black Hills. “It’s a knows me,” Dinger says. they heard about,” Dinger says, or, she adds store’s origin and namesake, it isn’t little busier because of that.” with a smile, they often inquire about the allotted much space. The cold remedy aisle Other than tourism, Wall also has two The curious tourists availability of laudanum, an opium- at Walmart is bigger. But what the store large employers, Golden West The pharmacy at Wall Drug is the only one alcohol mixture popular in the early 20th lacks in size, it makes up for in personality Telecommunications and West River in town. In amidst a sea of summertime century. When that happens, Dinger or and intimacy. Electric Cooperative. tourists, Dinger estimates that 90 to 95 pharmacy technician Lu Ann Garland are Dinger’s professional life has changed “It’s not your typical small town,” Dinger percent of the prescriptions she fills are for quick to offer a bottle of Dr. Feelgood’s quite a bit from the days in Sioux Falls says of the community of 800, though it local customers. Amazing Wall Drug Tonic. The bottle is when it was common for the pharmacy has a small-town feel for the folks who live “You do the occasional tourist thing,” empty, but the label proclaims, “It’ll cure where she worked to fill 700 to 800 there. Dinger says if a traveler has forgotten to what ails ya!” and it’s one of the prescriptions a day. At Wall Drug, she “It’s nice because you go to the post office, pack the right medicine. pharmacy’s top sellers during the tourist averages 50 prescriptions a day, 90 if the and everyone knows you,” Dinger says. Some tourists are attracted to the season. pharmacy gets real busy. “People in a small town approach you in a novelty of having their prescription filled Dinger and her husband have built a Going to work at a smaller store meant a little more neighborly way.” at Wall Drug. Despite the name that house in Wall, where they feel like part of change in culture and an increase in they’ve been reading for miles along the the community and where they’ve chosen responsibility. According to Dinger, Great place for kids highway, many visitors are surprised that to raise their children. Walmart was vigilant about compliance With three small children to raise, Dinger there’s a real pharmacy at Wall Drug. Still, Dinger admits that some people issues. Now it’s Dinger who’s vigilant. and her husband, Ryan ’96, found the pace When visitors express their surprise, she knows wonder why she’d want to live “I’m the one who makes those decisions,” and amenities in Wall to their liking. Dinger has some readily available in Wall. She got a pretty good answer to Dinger says. “It’s challenging that way.” Dinger was first attracted to her job at brochures about the history of Wall Drug. that question recently from a traveler from Wall Drug because of the hours, 8:30 a.m. She’ll point out the pharmacy-related Chicago who was taken with the town and Accounting didn’t add up to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. When antiques in the store as well as the portraits with Wall Drug. Dinger’s first challenge was just figuring their oldest child started school in Sioux of the founders, Ted and Dorothy Hustead. “She just loved it,” Dinger recalls. “She out that she wanted to be a pharmacist. A Falls, it was an ongoing struggle to balance Dinger notes that as the original Wall said, ‘This is what America is all about.’” rancher’s daughter from Midland who their schedules. Dinger’s husband traveled Drug languished during the Dirty ’30s, it Dana Hess wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with as a sales representative for an agricultural was Dorothy Hustead’s idea to lure thirsty travelers with free ice water. 2 SDSU Pharmacy 3 COLLEGE

became senior vice president of store as a retail pharmacist with Jo Prang’s Regional Campaign Committee, which operations before retiring in March 2007 Medicap pharmacy in Rapid City. seeks to raise $200 million to improve after 40 years with Walgreens. At State, she developed a couple close facilities, scholarships and faculty The Markls had two children and both friends in her pharmacy class of 2003. positions universitywide. followed family tradition into pharmacy. They served together in Kappa Epsilon, Barry and Sharon Markl have Brandt is a pharmacist manager with CVS Rho Chi honor society and Phi Lamba contributed to the Jackrabbit Guarantee, a while Ryan is a registered pharmacist/store Sigma leadership fraternity, which she was scholarship program that awards $1,000 manager with Walgreens. president of for one year. per year to qualifying undergraduate “We had a good time, other than having students attending classes on the Krista Stevens found ‘a good fit’ to study all the time for pharmacy,” Brookings campus. The next generation is represented by Ludemann says. Sharon Markl’s two nieces — Krista Resource room now, oncology chair later (Beastrom) Stevens, the daughter of State Study sites change through generations In 2010, the Markls made a sizeable graduate Terry Beastrom, and Brandy She did her studying in the student lounge contribution to the Avera Health and Left: The Beastrom family tours the Avera Health and Science (Beastrom) Ludeman, the daughter of in the Guilford Gross Pharmacy Building. Science Center project. Center Feb. 18, when they were recognized by SDSU Alumni State graduate Jim Beastrom. “It was just a place just for the pharmacy In the Markl Student Resource Room Association as Family of the Year. Above: Sharon and Barry Stevens, who was raised in Pierre, students to hang out. Chairs, table, books, students can use one of the eight Markl, both 1968 graduates, donated funds for the Student pursued pharmacy because “I wanted to be a computer or two. It wasn’t anything like computers to do research or homework, Resource Room in the Avera building. involved in the health-care field and they have now. I wish I was a student there and look to the plasma message board to pharmacy was a good fit for me. I could now,” Ludemann says. catch messages posted by faculty members communicate with the patients.” Markl remembers studying with his about class schedules, deadlines, Her first year of college was at a small, future bride in the pharmacy library on scholarship information and professional Family of the Year private school in Iowa, where she thought the second floor of Shepard Hall. “It was a activities. Markl chose to have his name she would pursue occupational therapy. meeting place for us for a couple years. .... attached to that room because of his fond Beastroms, Markls honored for contributions to SDSU “But it wasn’t a good fit with my Small, but quiet,” he says of the study spot, memories of studying in the pharmacy personality and skills.” Stevens was happy dominated by bays of reference books. library in Shephard Hall. she could get a pharmacy degree at an in- While Beastrom and Markl took their The Markls also are members of Sylvan our pharmacists from three enrolled in what was then a four-year, Just before Markl said “I do,” he state institution. pharmacy classes in the first-floor Circle, which recognizes those who have generations, but one family, each Bachelor of Science program. exclaimed “I did it,” earning his five-year, Plus, “I was proud to go where my classrooms in the Administration Building, contributed a planned gift from their Fhave filled distinctive niches in the Conrad Beastrom served in the military Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy, parents and grandparents went,” says Stevens and Ludemann did their learning estate to the SDSU Foundation. profession. Collectively, the Bernard before entering pharmacy school. After thanks in part to Walgreens providing him Stevens, who earned her degree in 2001 in a new structure to the north of the The generous couple showed their Beastrom family was named SDSU graduation in 1953 he became a $600 per semester for the last three years and was a member of Rho Chi honor Administration Building. The Guilford appreciation to the College of Pharmacy Alumni Association Family of the Year in pharmacist in Marshall, Minn. After with the guarantee of a job and loan society. Gross Pharmacy Building was constructed when in fall 2009 they committed to a February. several years he began to split his practice forgiveness. Stevens has been in retail pharmacy for in 1980 as an extension to Shepherd Hall, charitable remainder trust that will The association annually honors a between Marshall and Wickenburg, Ariz., Sharon Markl earned an associate of arts 11 years, beginning with Walgreens in which housed chemistry and pharmacy establish an enhanced chair with the family during a home basketball game, later working in California and Nevada, degree in secretarial science. Sioux Falls, followed by four years with an labs. College of Pharmacy to benefit the and this year the group and Staters for where he died in 1977. Like his wife’s uncle, Markl started a independent pharmacy in Pierre. For the In 2008, the Guilford Gross Pharmacy college’s oncology research program. State, the student alumni organization, career in retail pharmacy. He began as a last five years she has been with Walgreens, Building was razed and the $51-million Markl notes that both his and Sharon’s had no arguments in accepting the Boy meets girl; Markl & Beastrom retail pharmacist with Walgreens in Beloit, the last three in Spearfish, where she is Avera Health and Science Center was built mother are cancer survivors, and the nomination by Pharmacy College Dean While Conrad Beastrom was in Marshall, Wis. pharmacy manager. with dedication taking place Sept. 9, 2010. college has a strong cancer research Dennis Hedge. Barry Markl was graduating from After nine months of training, it was on program. “So we just felt (the gift) was a The Beastrom connection to South Edgerton (Minn.) High School with a to Kenosha, Wis., as a store manager. Five Brandy Ludemann leads fraternity Markls make a difference good thing to do,” Markl says. Dakota State dates to 1942, when Bernard pharmacy career in his plans. years later (1974) he was transferred to a Ludemann, now of Fort Pierre and The Markls were among the 600 in Prior to the building dedication, Markl Beastrom attended classes in Aggie School, It was in his junior year at State that large store in Odessa, Texas, as a store originally of Pierre, considered being a attendance, and well they should have said, “A plaque is fine, but I’m not one which was established in 1908 for students Markl made his connection to the manager. In 1978, he became a district veterinarian, but knowing that she also been. The couple has been a long-time who likes much limelight recognition. I who were not near a high school or Beastrom family. Sharon Beastrom was a manager in Orlando, Fla., for 1½ years. wanted to raise a family, decided contributor to the college. feel blessed and proud to help in some way.” couldn’t break from farm responsibilities freshman in Pierson Hall while Markl was In late 1979, Markl was transferred to pharmacy would be a better fit for her. Markl served on the College of Hedge says he considers it a blessing to for nine consecutive months. living in nearby Mathews Hall. They met Milwaukee because Walgreens had just Family tradition made SDSU the logical Pharmacy Advisory Council from 1997 to have families like the Beastroms to count while waiting in the food line at Grove bought a chain of pharmacies and needed place for her to pursue a pharmacy 2002, and aided the Pharmacy “Future is on as alumni. Conrad Beastrom started in ’49 Commons. Markl to oversee a district. In 1986, he was education. Now” Campaign Committee in 2002-04, Dave Graves The connection to what was then the Apparently, the cooks seasoned the meal promoted to regional vice president at In her professional career, Ludemann which sought to raise funds for the Division of Pharmacy dates to 1949, when with love potion because two years after corporate headquarters in Deerfield, Ill. worked four years at St. Mary’s Health building. Conrad Beastrom, Bernard’s brother, that lunch-line introduction, the couple Markl served as vice president of store Care Center in Pierre as a staff pharmacist, For the last three years, he also has was married in 1968. operations from 1986 to 2004, when he five years at Walgreens in Pierre, and now served on the SDSU Foundation Phoenix

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amily lines often connect She was a pharmacist at Rolfe’s Drug But then Graham’s son was coming back Ellingson: Mom a good resource pharmaceutical careers, going down Store in Flandreau until marrying Luverne into the business and the pharmacy didn’t But once she committed to pharmacy F50 or 60 years or more. At the source, Jorgensen Feb. 24, 1953, at Luverne, Minn. have a place for her. A position opened up school, Garry was “very helpful with the there is virtually always a male. They farmed in the Flandreau area, except at the Methodist Hospital in Mitchell. whole application process, with preparing That’s not the case in the Garry family, for a year spent in Oregon. In addition to From there she went to St. Joseph’s me for what to expect for the interview, which has four active pharmacists — being a mother and farmer’s wife, Dolly Catholic Hospital in Mitchell. and helpful with classes,” Ellingson says. Emily (Garry) Laible ’03 and her husband, Jorgensen was a relief pharmacist at Family The hospitals consolidated in 1991 and Garry even had a post-finals test for her Brad ’99/’01; Jody (Garry) Ellingson ’06, Pharmacy in Flandreau. became Queen of Peace, where Garry daughter. and the girls’ mother, Laurie (Jorgensen) She continued that role into her 70s. continues to work as a staff pharmacist. “One year I had just finished finals and Garry ’76. The root in this pharmaceutical Laurie Jorgensen was born in 1953. She “I’ve worked full time since I graduated. I came home brain dead. The first thing my family tree is Dolly (Mettler) Jorgensen. remembers that her mom, who died Sept. never regretted it. It worked very well for mom does is hand me a long calculations She was the fifth of six children in the 21, 2010, at age 87, always worked while me,” Garry says. problem she had from work that week and family of John and Amy Mettler, who raising her family. made me do it to see what answer I would farmed near Chester. In addition to doing relief work at Garry stayed away from recruiting have come up with,” Ellingson says. Although Jorgensen’s parents had only a Family Pharmacy’s downtown and clinic Ellingson says she rarely visited her mom Garry no longer asks her daughters to do basic education, John Mettler encouraged locations, she would drive to Dell Rapids, at the hospital pharmacy, but “some of my calculations when they come home, but his children to go to college. “When it was Brookings and Alcester to do relief work. favorite memories growing up were, if she the family does talk shop frequently. my mom’s turn, she really didn’t know “She would quite often drive quite a ways had to work on Sunday, after church we Laible says, “Counting my husband, what to major in,” says Garry, whose career for people wanting to go on a vacation,” would have lunch with her in the hospital there are four pharmacists in the room. We began and continues in Mitchell. Garry says. cafeteria. Sometimes she’d get called back certainly use that opportunity to pick each “One of the neighbor’s sons had started “I know work was really important to her. into work. Sometimes she had to work other’s brains. What new drugs are in the in pharmacy, but didn’t continue. But they Yet she managed to juggle huge gardens holidays. pipeline, how do you manage patients? If had the book — the Remington and canning and all us kids,” she adds. “I remember being proud that she was a you ask my brother-in-law and father, we Pharmaceutical Sciences. Back then it was pharmacist. ... She always told us how she probably talk too much about pharmacy. THE book. It was a big, thick book that Garry lacked confidence early on loved her job and how blessed she was to “But we all like what we do and we covered about everything known about Dolly and Luverne Jorgensen had three have it.” understand the contribution we can make pharmacy,” Garry says. children. Garry was the only one to But she didn’t push her daughters into to the people we are with.” So with a free textbook as a lure, become a pharmacist. “I liked the sciences. pharmacy. “I never ever said a word to Jorgensen marched off to Brookings about I really liked chemistry a lot. My mom said, them about pharmacy as far as a major. … Jerry Garry: Enough pharmacists already the time World War II was forming. ‘You like chemistry, just sign up for Both my daughters like the sciences. They When Brad and Emily Laible became pharmacy.’ I was scared I wouldn’t get just kind of tuned into it (pharmacy) on engaged, Jerry Garry had a talk with his College in the war years through it. their own,” says Garry, who also has a niece younger daughter. He told her she couldn’t Jorgensen graduated from the four-year “When I was first a freshman, it was my in pharmacy school. marry a pharmacy student because “‘I am program in 1945. By then enrollment at declared major. But when anybody asked Laible says, “If anyone encouraged us to running out of people to talk to in this South Dakota State dropped to 343 from me, I didn’t want to say because they go into pharmacy, it was my father. He family,’” Ellingson recalls. 1,301 in 1941 because students were would always say, ‘That’s a tough major.’ I pointed out that at that time it had a lot of Ellingson complied. When she and Mark serving in World War II rather than wasn’t sure I could make it through.” job opportunities.” started dating, her future husband was a studying the Remington. There was one But she did, thanks to a “wonderful class” medical technology graduate from North other graduate, a male, in her and an encouraging mother. Ellingson: Anything but pharmacy Dakota State, though he began as a pharmaceutical class. “Mom said the hardest class she had was Ellingson, three years younger than her pharmacy major. During the school year, she worked in English. I could relate to that. If some sister, says, “Growing up I didn’t really have The couple married in 2007. They have the Jungle in the Pugsley student union as English teacher gave me the assignment of an interest in pharmacy. …. Then when two potential pharmacists — Mason, 3, a waitress while working one summer at a writing a poem and it couldn’t rhyme, that my sister decided to go into pharmacy, and Adeline, 8 months. The Laibles have downtown drug store and another summer would keep me up at night,” says Garry, everybody asked me if I was going to go three candidates — Billy, 6, Joey, 5, and at a Rapid City drug store, where every who also stayed up a few nights with future into pharmacy too. I said absolutely not. I Rose, 2. Friday Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mount husband Jerry Garry, a finance major. swore up and down that I wasn’t going to Remington ready for next generation Rushmore, would drop off pictures he had As her 1976 graduation approached, she be a pharmacist. taken during the week. faced the dilemma of not having job offer. “My first two years I even went to the When they approach college, like their Right after her graduation in 1945, University of South Dakota to prove I great-great-grandfather Mettler, their Garry girls Jorgensen jumped on a bus to Phoenix, Garry’s career began in retail wasn’t going to become a pharmacist.” parents will encourage college. where she would marry local serviceman She dropped off her name with the dean’s But when physical or occupational And like Dolly Jorgensen, there will be a continue a long line of female pharmacists Leo Nelsen. She didn’t take her pharmacy secretary. Soon afterward, Marly Graham therapy weren’t a good fit, Ellingson free book available to help influence their boards, but settled into the life of a farm from Graham Pharmacy in Mitchell called. started exploring other health fields and decision. When the family was sorting wife and raising two children on their He interviewed Garry in the lobby of talked to her sister about pharmacy. “I told through Jorgensen’s possessions after her place near Colman. Young Hall when he came to pick up his her she wasn’t allowed to talk to my mom. death, there was the Remington son. I didn’t talk to my mom about it. I didn’t Pharmaceutical Science book she was Tragedy turns Nelson to pharmacy Garry got the job, started immediately, want her to be disappointed if I decided given 70 years earlier. Posing for a wedding photographer are pharmacists, clockwise from upper left, Laurie Garry, her When Leo Nelson died from cancer Aug. It now sits on Brad Laible’s office shelf daughters, Emily (Garry) Laible and Jody (Garry) Ellingson; and the girls’ grandmother, Dolly Jorgensen. passed her board and worked three years not to go into pharmacy,” Ellingson says. 19, 1951, Dolly Nelson turned to her in retail. with other pharmacy collectibles waiting pharmaceutical training. for a young mind to discover it. Dave Graves 6 SDSU Pharmacy 7 COLLEGE

o far, Sara Wettergreen’s time at Even now, Wettergreen can’t help but internship in Minneapolis at SDSU has been quite eventful. After joke about her first year in Brookings. “It HealthPartners involving a managed care Sbecoming acclimated to the local was like record number of blizzards, research project. climate, this California girl is serving record cold, and record snowfall. When I During the spring semester, she was a notice that she is more than just another told dad, he just laughed and said, ‘We research assistant on a project headed by pharmacy student. didn’t have one blizzard my entire four Assistant Professor Yinka Shiyanbola that “As student pharmacists we are really years there.’ I don’t think he was telling me involved auxiliary labels on prescription proactive about moving the profession of the whole truth, but that’s OK.” bottles. Targeting underserved pharmacy forward, so instead of our With the education committee populations during visits to the Brookings standard roles of dispensing, we are providing the perfect platform, there’s no Library, she had would-be patients look at looking at ways to branch out in the types joking around when it comes to different bottles and documented how of things we can do to improve the Wettergreen expanding her pharmacy well they understood the label instructions. profession,” she says. knowledge. “They filled out forms to assess their Looking to graduate with a Pharm.D. in “Within the student group nationally reading comprehension levels,” she says. 2014, Wettergreen has certainly branched there are four patient care projects and on “Then I had them look at the bottles to see out. the education committee we work to what they thought and I recorded what In January, she was named to the enhance those projects,” she explains. “We they said. It was not only about making American Pharmacists Association- decide what kind of education programs labels easier to understand, but also how Academy of Student Pharmacists National we want students to have and what kind of pharmacists can improve on what they are Standing Committee on Education. The patient outreach they should have. doing.” committee is one of four student “For example, one initiative we have is committees under the national umbrella operation heart, where we do blood Staying involved — and they are selective with only four pressure screenings, which involves Wettergreen hopes time on the education students serving on each one. The last implementing more cholesterol screenings committee, along with the research SDSU pharmacy student named to one of to see what types of things students could projects she has done so far, will help the national committees was Emily be doing more of in terms of outreach.” secure a residency position following Maydew in 2004. graduation in two years. As president of the SDSU chapter of the Busy with position “To do a residency you have to lead your American Pharmacists Association- Elected to the one-year term in January, own research project,” she says. Academy of Student Pharmacists, Wettergreen is constantly busy with “Residencies are really competitive, so all Wettergreen attended the Summer education committee duties with the experiences I’ve had so far will greatly Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C., teleconferences, emails, phone calls, and aid me in getting a residency.” in summer 2011, when she met chapter every couple of months, she travels for After spending her next two years in presidents from every pharmacy school in meetings. Sioux Falls at University Center doing the country along with executive “It’s really a lot of fun,” she says. “There coursework and clinicals, Wettergreen committee members and the four student are four of us and we stay in touch all the expects to have a pretty good handle on committees of the American Pharmacists time. We talk almost every day.” her career path. Association. The first gathering, which occurred in “I’d like to be a clinical specialist at a “They inspired me to apply to be a March in New Orleans, laid to rest any hospital and teach part time at a college committee member,” she relates. “I saw it questions Wettergreen had about her somewhere,” she says. “I want to stay as a way to make a bigger impact so position. involved with students.” pharmacists can enhance their role.” “It’s better than I thought . . . it’s more Kyle Johnson team-oriented than I expected,” she says. Seeking more knowledge “In New Orleans we talked about different Wettergreen was inspired to head east issues in pharmacy and passed some Sara Wettergreen, who was named to the American from her home in Riverside by her father, policies; one was regarding telepharmacy Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists David Wettergreen, a 1986 State pharmacy and why it’s so huge in this state. I brought National Standing Committee on Education, goes over a list of prescription bottles used during a research project that Wettergreen graduate. that perspective to the table and let them targeted underserved populations on how well people “We toured the campus together and I know its importance in rural South understand label instructions. works to better pharmacy profession at national level was impressed,” she says. “I did receive the Dakota.” Briggs Scholarship, which was another Wettergreen, a member of student incentive to come here.” pharmacy chapters Kappa Psi, Rho Chi, and Phi Lambda Sigma, has a summer

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collaboration with other officer and an operations manager and will researchers from SDSU and Sanford soon be hiring Perumal’s post-doc Averineni Research. as the company’s research director. Excellence in Opening of the $51-million In addition, the company also has a Avera Health and Science Center in leading dermatologist and an industrial July 2010 makes this the right place expert as consultants. Departmental for Perumal. Perumal’s delivery technology is being The right people include his used by the company to develop products for Leadership talented team of researchers — the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry. graduate student Satheesh The company works in close collaboration Podaralla, post-doc Ranjith with several leading pharmaceutical Father-figure Dwivedi Averineni and faculty collaborators companies. The company has completed the Chandradhar Dwivedi and Radhey pre-clinical (animal) studies for a drug praised by fellow Kaushik. Podaralla has graduated product and is collaborating with Avera and now is a research scientist at Dermatology Clinic at Sioux Falls for faculty members Stanford Research Institute in initiating a clinical study in patients. California. Perumal serves as chief scientific officer, Perumal also states that the an unpaid consultant. He could be there full success would not have been time or working in industry for a handsome n 2003, Distinguished Professor Team member Teresa Seefeldt, an assistant and 40 percent for service and possible without the “outstanding salary. However, he prefers the creativity and Chandradhar Dwivedi was promoted to professor, says, “Dr. Dwivedi is very administration. support” from Dean Dennis Hedge, freedom found in academia. head of the Pharmaceutical Sciences supportive of new faculty and works hard to In addition to the role of project director mentoring from Department Head “In industry, you have to work within I Department. help them be successful.” for the Translational Cancer Research Center, Dwivedi, and the university boundaries. All is focused on developing a Honored for In an accompanying press release, the Dwivedi is investigating newer administration. certain product for the market. In academia, father of three said, ““It’s just like being a Evidence of research growth chemopreventive agents and improved there is freedom. One day I can work on skin parent, there’s no manual.” Nine years later, Seefeldt also noted his commitment to chemotherapeutic agents for various cancers. research Good thing in small package cancer, one day I can work on prostate Dwivedi continues a family metaphor to advancing the research activities of the He also is co-investigator with Associate Butler awards are made for “lasting cancer, one day I can work on breast cancer. describe his academic leadership. “Every day department. Professor Hesham Fahmy on a $216,250 NIH Right circumstances contributions to the well-being of “The sky is the limit as far as creativity,” is different. You have to deal with the “Research activities have significantly grant on the chemopreventive effects of the people of South Dakota.” says Perumal, who spends 50 percent of his children you have.” increased in his time as the department head. sarcodiol on skin cancer development. Perumal’s work has the potential time teaching with 40 percent dedicated to give Perumal unique And the number of children in Dwivedi’s This includes increased grant funding, new Sarcodiol is a product that comes from to help people far beyond South research and 10 percent to service. new house is growing. laboratory space, a significant enhancement coral in the Red Sea and has commercial Dakota. Using zein, a corn protein opportunity Since his appointment, the number of in equipment, and the development of the development potential, Dwivedi says. widely used in the food industry, Energized to teach faculty members has grown from eight to 11, Ph.D. program. His leadership was Perumal has found a way to “I’m passionate about working with Pharm.D. there are four postdoctoral felllows compared instrumental in all of these activities,” she Following others’ footsteps encapsulate cancer drugs within and Ph.D. students,” Perumal says, adding mathanu Perumal calls it being at the to zero, and 20 doctoral students in a says. Dwivedi is a product of the northern India nanoparticles from the zein and target the that he is fortunate to have some of the O“right place at the right time with the program that didn’t exist until 2007. They’re Ten years ago, the department was village of Uttar Pradesh. He was educated in drug to the disease site. brightest and most talented researchers in right people.” living in the $51-million Avera Health and bringing in about $10,000 per year. Now the India, moving to the United States in 1973 at A key question for cancer researchers is his team. His graduate students have won The associate professor’s research has been Science Center, which opened in 2010. awards are more than $1 million, Dwivedi age 25. Among his role models are his former “How do you target the drug to the tumor cell more than 25 university and national awards. on the fast track almost since he arrived at From all appearances, it is a happy, well- says. professors and his Ph.D. advisor, for whom and not the normal tissues?” Perumal notes that his position requires SDSU in 2005. His work in developing novel bonded and productive family. Several Department of Defense and Dwivedi was the keynote speaker at the man’s Part of the answer to this is knowing that him to be a good teacher, good researcher, carriers for drug delivery has resulted in the Dwivedi’s role earned him the university’s National Institutes of Health grants have 80th birthday gathering in November 2010. cancer cells are rapidly growing, and thus good mentor, and have good organizational filing of three patent applications and the first Excellence in Academic Department been awarded recently, he says. The state The list of role models also includes his have leaky blood vessels. Normal tissue, on skills. “I’m passionate about what I do.” start of a firm to commercialize the work. Leadership Award at the Celebration of designated the Translational Cancer Research father — Pundit (a title equivalent to the other hand, have intact blood vessels. That passion is felt by Preety Sahdev, a Consequently, the university honored Excellence Feb. 21. He says, “I’m thrilled and Center as a 2010 Center of Excellence and reverend) Abhaya Narayan Dwivedi. Perumal’s current research seeks to find the Ph.D. student who has worked with him the Perumal with an F.O. Butler Award for honored,” particularly because the award awarded it $2.3 million from 2009 to 2014. “He’s my inspirational role model. I think I optimum size for lodging in the bad cells last five years. excellence in research at its Celebration of stemmed from faculty nominations. am what I am today because of his instincts and shunning the good cells, he explains. Sahdev adds, “Dr. Perumal has also been Excellence Feb. 21. “If your children honor you, you must have Remains active in lab and his blessings. I started a scholarship in He is dealing with a range of 100 to 300 very encouraging and supportive as a Perumal called this the right time because been a good parent,” the 64-year-old Omathanu Perumal, a researcher with the his name four or five years ago,” says Dwivedi, nanometers, or at least 500 times smaller supervisor. He strongly believes in all- of the recent focus on research and the grandfather says. center, noted it is the most productive of the who was honored last year by his own family than a human hair. around development — professional as well emphasis President David L. Chicoine, an state’s 2010 Centers of Excellence. at the 50th anniversary of his marriage to as personal — of his students. Working with economist by training, has placed on Three major accomplishments Speaking of the department overall, Prabha. Industry & academia him has gradually taught us to think big and knowledge-based economic development He cites three major accomplishments for the Perumal says, “We are probably one of the The Celebration of Excellence provided an Perumal’s research focuses on drug-delivery out of the box. since his arrival Jan. 1, 2007. department: the students’ academic success, smallest departments (in the university), but opportunity for his other family to honor systems for breast, prostate and skin cancer. “We still need to learn a lot from him, In 2008, the university established the first the creation of a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical we do much in research. His (Dwivedi’s) their role model. His research on skin delivery systems is the including his scientific skills, multitasking Technology Transfer Office in the state and sciences, and growth in faculty research. “I footprint is all over this department. He was Dave Graves most developed and resulted in the abilities and organizational skills.” Perumal’s technology happens to be the first take pride in all this. (But) I cannot do all this the one that first started research in this formation of Tranzderm in 2011. Earlier this Perumal also gives back to his profession technology licensed by SDSU through this alone. It’s the team effort. department.” Harold Bailey, left, presented the university’s first year it moved out of his campus lab. through his position as editor-in-chief of new initiative. “I always consider this (team) my family. Dwivedi continues to research, spending Harold and Barbara Bailey Excellence in Departmental Now located in the Biospace complex near two trade publications —the Journal of In addition, the funding of the 2010 My wife is sometimes envious,” Dwivedi says an estimated 40 percent of his time in the lab Leadership Award to Chandradhar Dwivedi Feb. 21. the city’s Swiftel Center, it has 1,250 square Biomedical Nanotechnology and the Journal Translational Cancer Center by the state with a smile. with 20 percent effort dedicated to teaching Before becoming the SDSU academic vice president, enabled Perumal to accelerate his work in feet of fully equipped lab space for carrying of Nanopharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Bailey was a pharmacy department head. out skin product development work. The which will premiere in July. company has a full-time chief executive Dave Graves 10 SDSU Pharmacy 11 FACULTY

For acetaminophen Experiential combinations learning Mort’s study helps FDA Heins oversees write new prescription experiential opportunities

he pharmacy program at SDSU is Pharmacy Practice Experiences, eight Even if the residents don’t lean toward designed so that students never five-week rotations through a variety of classroom teaching, chances are they will Thave to worry about how they’re pharmacy locations. be working with and teaching pharmacy ain from an arthroscopic knee surgery Humana insurance database for a national committee had been voting on various going to fill out the “experience” portion Heins explains that four of the students. five years ago had Jane Mort opening study. proposals since 2009. of a job application. And now the experiences are required and students can “It better prepares them for the role of Pthe bottle for another dose of In both studies, Mort was looking at The FDA didn’t place a second call to department of pharmacy practice has a choose from two assigned and two preceptor,” Heins says. “This will allow Darvocet®, but the pharmacy professor then prescription compounds containing Mort, but Jan. 13, 2011, the board did new assistant department head to oversee elective experiences. them to be much better prepared for the thought about what she was doing. acetaminophen and opioids (i.e. codeine, introduce new guidelines. all of the college’s many experiential “They try to pick areas of particular oversight of students.” “I was taking my third dose (of the day), oxycodone), not over-the-counter Manufacturers of prescription and I said, ‘Wait a second, I’ve already taken acetaminophen tablets. combination products that contain learning opportunities. interest,” Heins says of the electives. “It Heins will continue to be based in my four grams.’ If that could happen to me, The South Dakota data found that 23.3 acetaminophen were asked to limit the Professor Jodi Heins will fill the new helps tailor their education to what their Sioux Falls, where she lives with her what is the likelihood of the untrained percent of prescriptions were written for amount of acetaminophen to no more than position within the department. She goals are after graduation.” husband and three children. Tackling a person taking an accidental overdose,” Mort greater than four grams per day. Nationally, 325 milligrams in each tablet. The FDA also joined the faculty in 1994, splitting her Heins will also be involved in the newly created position and new programs says in her explanation of how she began to 8.1 percent of prescriptions exceeded the required manufacturers to update labels of time between SDSU and the Veterans administration of the college’s first could be daunting, but Heins knows she’ll study acetaminophen prescription practices. recommended maximum. The percentages all prescription combination Affairs Health Care System in Sioux Falls, residency, a post-graduate training have good support. Acetaminophen is widely and effectively were the highest in the Southeast and acetaminophen products to warn of the where she worked as a clinical pharmacy opportunity in a one-year community “Bernie Hendricks will continue to work used in both prescription and over-the- Midwest. potential risk for severe liver injury. specialist. residency program at Liebe Drug in with the preceptors and make site visits,” counter products to reduce pain and fever. These variations may be due to Mort says, “It’s nice to know you’re a part In her new position, Heins will track a Milbank. Heins says. “His contacts and knowledge The problem is acetaminophen is the most differences in the population sampled or of fixing something and hopefully number of experiential educational “It’s an intense year of learning to about the state are invaluable.” common cause of acute liver failure and is patterns of product selection, Mort explains. preventing a lot of people from having opportunities available to pharmacy further define your skills,” Heins says of Dana Hess most often associated with an unintentional In the national study, Mort teamed with acute liver failure.” students throughout their college careers the residency. “They’ll also be looking at prescription overdose. Olayinka Shiyanbola, an assistant professor and even after they have received their the business aspect of running a Mort, an SDSU faculty member since of pharmacy practice at University Center Named outstanding researcher degrees. pharmacy.” 1986, explains how that could easily happen. in Sioux Falls, and Lilian Ndehi, a pharmacy Her studies were instrumental in Mort Some experiential learning The resident will also have an adjunct Scripts for prescriptions like Darvocet are resident in the Competitive Health being named the college’s outstanding opportunities are built into courses in the teaching role at the college. often written: Take one to two tablets every Analytics Department with Humana in researcher at the university’s Feb. 21 P1 through P3 years. After the P3 year, four to six hours. If patients would take two Louisville, Ky. Celebration of Excellence. She also was cited gaining workplace experience is a full- New: teaching certificates to residents tablets every four hours, that is 12 tablets in for her research in student-learning time endeavor for students. The importance of the workplace learning “They’re taking all of what we’ve 24 hours. Each tablet contains 650 Gaining the FDA’s attention outcomes, an area of research for her since Experiential education begins in experience for pharmacy students has led milligrams of acetaminophen. By applying Ndehi presented the findings at the the early 1990s. taught them in the classroom the math, that is 7,800 milligrams of Foundation of Managed Care Pharmacy’s That helps explain why Dean Dennis earnest during the summer after the P1 the college to another innovation: acetaminophen per day. 2010 convention. Hedge appointed her associate dean of year with a three-week experience. There’s offering a teaching certificate to residents. and applying it in the real world,” Earlier research had already established It received the best poster award there academic programs in 2010. another three-week rotation in the The certificate would be available to the the recommended maximum daily dose of and gained the attention of the Food and In that position, she provides leadership summer after the P2 year. college’s resident at Liebe Drug as well as Professor Jodi Heins acetaminophen at 4,000 milligrams. Drug Administration, which was already on curricular assessment and design. In “They’re taking all of what we’ve taught residents at sites throughout the state like Hence, a person could take nearly double studying acetaminophen overprescribing. In addition, she facilitates the evaluation of all them in the classroom and applying it in Avera McKennan Hospital, Sanford USD the recommended maximum dosage and June 2010, FDA officials held a aspects of the College’s mission, fosters the real world,” Heins says. Medical Center, Rapid City Regional still be taking the pain reliever as prescribed. teleconference with Mort and her colleagues. faculty development, and manages the Hospital and Veterans Affairs hospitals. “They asked for us to go over the research implementation of the curriculum. P4 rotations, residency program “It prepares them better for an academic S.D., national data studied and we discussed the findings,” Mort The Pawnee City, Neb., native received Starting in the summer after the P3 year, position,” Heins says. In 2008, Mort sought to find out how often remembers. her Pharm.D. from the University of students take part in the Advanced patients were receiving prescriptions that “It was an eye-opener” to the FDA, Mort Nebraska Medical Center in 1985 and could put them at risk for acute liver failure. says. “One FDA doctor said, ‘Wow! I’ve been completed a residency at the University of She began by studying South Dakota prescribing Darvocet that way for years.’ I Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1986. Medicaid data. Then she gained access to a think we were just validating what they had Dave Graves already studied.” Indeed, its drug advisory Above: Jane Mort and Dean Dennis Hedge 12 SDSU Pharmacy 13 FACULTY STUDENT NEWS

Wurtz works to help reduce errors when filling prescriptions

ith four generations of project needs to be completed by Sept. 14, make the change thinking it will then pharmacy in her family history, a final summation by Dec. 31, and match the clinic records or a pharmacist Wand being a second-year student dissemination of results at the 2013 Spring might believe the physician intended to in the professional pharmacy program, Pharmacy Convocation. prescribe an interacting medication Kim Wurtz has a vested interest in the The study sample will be recruited at the because the benefits outweigh the risks. profession. Elk Point Community Health Clinic, “These situations can occur without the “Pharmacy has had a big presence in my Prairie Estates Nursing Home, Well-Life pharmacist ever contacting the doctor to family,” says Wurtz, who was the recipient Assisted Living Center, and Pioneer Drug. clarify the difference or to double check if of a $1,800 Walmart Leadership “These locations are aware of the planned the doctor is aware of the potential Fellowship to research medication project and have agreed to participate,” interaction. This can happen due to time reconciliation in community pharmacy. says Wurtz. “Participants will be recruited constraints, especially in bigger She stresses that medication use has at the clinic when they come in for any pharmacies where 600 prescriptions are become very complex and indicates the type of health visit, by the pharmacy after filled every day.” challenge in today’s health care is to receiving refill authorizations from provide optimal patient care using prescribers at the clinic, and from the Communication a key effective communication regarding nursing home and assisted living center Assistant Professor Brittney Meyer, medication use among numerous health- when they are admitted.” Wurtz’s advisor, emphasizes the project is care providers in multiple locations over Leading up to her actual hands-on study perfect for the times. Hellwig combines practice with teaching time. in Elk Point, Wurtz came across some “Her research is really covering a gap and Teacher of Year “Inaccurate medication records are one “startling” national statistics. In the United it’s an important subject right now. The barrier to this effective communication States, she found there are about 100,000 more we can collaborate with each other ithout a doubt, the best way to the Mayo Clinic before coming to SDSU in According to Hellwig, he always wanted which leads to medication errors,” she says. deaths every year linked to medication the better it will be, especially when we’re gauge a teacher’s performance 2008. to be a teacher and actually started down a “Many hospitals are trying to prevent errors. talking about improving patient outcomes Wcomes from taking a survey of In the college, he coordinates a teaching track before moving to pharmacy. medication errors by collecting more “Two-thirds of these errors could have and preventing re-admissions. students. pharmacotherapeutics course and teaches “I love being a practicing pharmacist but accurate records through medication been prevented with an accurate “Hopefully, this project will do that and For Tadd Hellwig’s showing, his grade a variety of courses to second- and third- also enjoy being able to teach others,” he reconciliation programs. medication history at admission,” she be a working model for other people who topped the list with students selecting him year students in the professional pharmacy says. “Having the ability to combine the “Let’s say a patient sees a heart doctor reports. “Research continues to prove that want to start a process similar to what Kim 2012 College of Pharmacy Teacher of the program. He also serves as a preceptor to two is very rewarding. It’s very fulfilling to and gets started on a certain medication. medication mistakes are the most frequent is implementing.” Year. It’s a distinction he considers fourth-year students during their internal help students learn or understand Well, a problem occurs when the patient’s cause of harm for patients.” Discrepancy and outcome forms surprising since he has been in his present medicine one and two rotations. information. primary doctor isn’t informed of this And, says Wurtz, keeping an open line of following conclusion of the medication position for only four years. At Sanford, Hellwig provides “I always like teachers who take questions change. That doctor may prescribe communication seems like a natural thing reconciliation program will be kept for “It’s a great honor especially coming pharmaceutical services to inpatients and that students ask and then turn them back something that interacts with the to do, but it’s not always the case. statistical analysis, according to Wurtz. from the students since it lets me know I works with the Center for Family to the class to make them think about the medication—so that’s what this research is “The problem is a pharmacist might find Kyle Johnson might be doing something right. It’s a Medicine on a daily basis. “This scenario and answer it themselves. This trying to prevent.” a difference in the pharmacy record and great feeling to know that you have an opportunity allows me and my students to job also forces me to stay up to date on Wurtz points out that most hospitals impact and may be responsible for work with physicians in the current information.” cannot keep up with the time demand students learning complex disease- interdisciplinary care of patients at the Kayley Lyons, who graduated with her required to perform a thorough management topics that will stay with hospital,” he notes. Pharm.D. in May, was greatly impacted medication reconciliation and it has been them throughout their careers.” with Hellwig’s dual roles of teacher and documented that hospital medication As an assistant professor in the Dedicated to students practitioner. records are not as accurate as community Department of Pharmacy Practice, Elizabeth Gripentrog, a third-year student, “When I think of Dr. Hellwig, I think of pharmacy records. Hellwig splits his time between teaching, cites Hellwig as a professor who has found dedication. He is always donating his extra “This project aims to utilize community advising, scholarship in the college, and as the right balance to engage students time to ensure the optimal education of pharmacy medication profiles to perform a practicing pharmacist at Sanford USD without losing the ability to push them to each pharmacy student. an innovative medication reconciliation in Medical Center in Sioux Falls. think critically. “He is a student advocate by continually a community pharmacy,” she says. Hellwig received a Bachelor of Science “We all enjoy Dr. Hellwig’s classes solicitating our feedback and enrolling “With records based on actual purchases, degree at Chadron State College, before because he makes unique connections in students in the solutions. I will carry his community pharmacy-based programs graduating from Texas Tech University his lectures to help us retain the material,” ideal model of pharmacist and educator may provide even greater patient safety Health Sciences Center with a Pharm.D. in she says. “He is a highly skilled clinical into my future endeavors.” than achieved with hospital programs.” 2006. He completed a pharmacy practice pharmacist and professor, but he doesn’t Kyle Johnson residency at Christiana Care Health take himself too seriously. He relates great Study in Elk Point System in Newark, Del. Following the with his students and inspires us all to Wurtz will conduct the research this residency, he was a clinical pharmacist at excel in our pursuit of pharmacy.” Kim Wurtz, a second-year student in the professional pharmacy program, examines a prescription bottle with summer in her hometown of Elk Point. Assistant Professor Brittney Meyer. Wurtz received a $1,800 Walmart Leadership Fellowship to research According to the fellowship timeline, the medication reconciliation in community pharmacy. 14 SDSU Pharmacy 15 STUDENT NEWS

Distinguished Graduate Terry Hoffmann Military experience helps lead Distinguished Graduate Award winner to VA

t’s something of a tradition that the courage he needed to apply for A reunion and a farewell whenever Terry Hoffmann graduates pharmacy school. Another draw to the residency in Ifrom State, he gets more than a degree. Nashville was Hoffmann’s familiarity with In spring 2001, Hoffmann received his Next stop: VA Nashville the area. Originally from Sleepy Eye, degree in health promotion as well as his With his newly minted degree, Minn., Hoffman and his wife, Natalie, ROTC commission and his bars as a Hoffmann’s next stop will be the were both stationed at nearby Fort second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Campbell so they still have friends in the spring 2012, he received his doctor of Valley Healthcare System in Nashville. area as well as his wife’s sister. pharmacy degree and another mark of Hoffmann admits that his experience in While he’s looking forward to the new distinction, the mortar and pestle that the military was at least partially adventure in Nashville, Hoffmann says signifies Hoffmann’s selection for the responsible for his selection of a residency he’ll miss his classmates and professors. Distinguished Graduate Award. in the Veterans Affairs system. “It’s getting to know people that makes Contacted a few days after the hooding “It did have an element that drew me to the experience more tangible,” Hoffmann ceremony where the award was presented, the VA,” Hoffmann says of his military says. Hoffmann was still a little dazed by the experience and his own use of the VA After all that experience, it’s the advice honor. health care system. “I’ve seen how the VA of an Army sergeant major that will help Every time he walks past the award, has positively evolved and changed their guide Hoffmann into his new profession. Hoffmann says he asks himself, “Is that approach in health care delivery to our Talking to a room full of newly really my name on the base? It’s still a nation’s veterans.” commissioned officers, the sergeant major Opportunities and successes continue to make the humbling feeling to be recognized.” Another aspect of the position that told them to “remember where you come Achieving College of Pharmacy at South Dakota State University Hoffmann’s award, given by the college drew Hoffmann to Tennessee was the from.” According to Hoffmann, the lesson an exciting place to learn about pharmacy. The college to the graduate who excels in multiple variety and flexibility in the yearlong for the new leaders was to always would like to highlight some of the accomplishments areas, wasn’t his first distinction of the residency. remember that they were all once Excellence that have come to the forefront in the past year. night. He was also chosen by his peers to “It’s a highly intensive training followers. These include: give the student address at the hooding experience,” Hoffmann says, noting that Hoffmann has modified that advice for in the College • Continued growth in students studying abroad with ceremony. during his residency he will receive an his work in pharmacy, saying he always more than a quarter of the students participating in From the beginning of his second overview of the entire system. wants to remember to ask himself, “If I of Pharmacy at these activities in the last six years; tenure at State, Hoffmann stood apart Three options for specialization include was a patient, how would I want to be • The third highest pass rate in the nation on the from his classmates. He started his ambulatory care or outpatient care, treated?” South Dakota pharmacy licensure exam based on data from 2007 to pharmacy studies four years ago at age 30 talking to veterans to review and optimize Dana Hess 2011; with two tours in Iraq under his belt as a their medications; geriatric care, State University • A dramatic increase in the intellectual property platoon medical leader, overseeing the managing the medication needs of the innovations receiving patents and invention disclosures; reconstruction of gutted Iraqi hospitals elderly in long-term care facilities; or a Terry Hoffmann, right, is honored by Dean Dennis Hedge as • Success and growth based on the Pharmacy and clinics, and mastering the logistical hospital setting, managing medication the Class of 2012 Distinguished Graduate at the May 4 Curriculum Outcome Assessment results of the second hooding ceremony. The Army veteran is beginning his year pharmacy students; skills for creating supply convoys that regimens of hospitalized patients. second career with the Veterans Affairs in Nashville, Tenn. would meet the operational needs of six “It lets you get your feet wet before you • Initiation of multiple interprofessional experiences;

battalions in the field. go on to specialize in an area that fits your and 2012 Highlights College of Pharmacy Hoffmann says he jokes with friends interests,” Hoffmann says. • A leadership program that has two-thirds of the that it took two tours in Iraq to build up students planning to participate in pharmacy organizations after graduation.

16 SDSU Pharmacy Students Travel Abroad to Learn About Pharmaceutical Science Faculty Members’ Pharmacy and Health Care Intellectual Property Increases Rapidly Students at South Dakota State University College of Pharmacy may spend an advanced pharmacy practice experience in another country learning about health The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences along with Sanford care and often participating in the health care process. During the last six years, 105 Research was awarded funding for Translational Cancer Research students (27.5 percent of all Center by the South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic graduates) have traveled to Denmark, Development as one of the 2010 Research Initiative center. One of Ireland, England, France, Honduras, Advanced Pharmacy Practice the expectations of this Center is to perform research leading to the or Australia. Experiences in Other Countries commercialization of products/processes for the economic development of the state. This Center has produced the following Experiences have included: Year Country/Continent Students Faculty* innovations: • Providing pharmaceutical care in remote villages of Honduras. 2012 Australia 3 • Formation of Tranzderm Solutions, a start-up company • Talking with community Europe 9 1 • Two platform technologies pharmacists in European countries. Honduras 6 • A novel prodrug for the improved treatment of head and neck • Observing how health care systems 2011 Europe 10 1 cancer function in other countries. Honduras 7 • Examining the nature of pharmacy 2010 Europe 13 1 Additional Year Patents Provisional Invention education outside the United States. Honduras 6 intellectual Patents Disclosures • Learning about challenges facing 2009 Europe 8 1 property successes 2012 0 2 2 the profession of pharmacy in other Honduras 11 have been countries. 2008 Europe 16 2 achieved over the 2011 2 1 1 Honduras 5 last five years 2010 0 2 2 Interest in these opportunities has 2007 Europe 7 1 (Table). 2009 2 0 4 grown from 11 students participating Honduras 4 2008 1 0 0 in 2007 to 18 in 2012, an increase of TOTAL 105 7 Pharmaceutical 63.6 percent. Continued growth is Science faculty TOTAL 5 5 9 expected in these study abroad *Preceptors oversee all other experiences members are experiences. diligently working on projects which will lead to more invention disclosures, provisional patents and patents in addition to peer reviewed publications in respected journals. South Dakota State University Graduates Have the Third Highest Pass Rate in the Nation During the last five years, 311 South Dakota State University Pharmacy Curriculum Outcome Assessment: pharmacy graduates have taken the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) and 309 have passed (99.36%). A National Exam to Evaluate Curricular Success Only two colleges in the nation have a higher pass rate for this time frame. The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has created the Pharmacy Curriculum • In addition, SDSU’s pass rate Years Reported National Ranking Outcome Assessment (PCOA) to help schools evaluate their curricula. The exam exceeds the average for colleges in includes 220 questions covering topics in the four areas of basic 1 the region (97.85 percent) and peer biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, 2 colleges (96.57 percent) . 2007-2011 3rd social/behavioral/administrative sciences, and clinical sciences. PCOA Trends at South Dakota State University • Since the National Association 2006-2010 4th Twenty-eight colleges administered the exam in 2012. The of Boards of Pharmacy started Category SDSU National SDSU Percentile 2005-2009 5th College of Pharmacy at SDSU administered the exam to second year publically reporting NAPLEX results, pharmacy students. A total of 831 second year students took the exam Scale Score (% correct) the college has been among the top 2004-2008 6th from schools across the country. 2012 357 (67) 328 (62) 64 10 colleges and has continued to 2003-2007 6th For the third year, the College of Pharmacy exceeded the national move up in the rankings. 2011 343 (60) 311 (53) 69 2002-2006 8th average on the exam and achieved a high percentile ranking. This data has helped guide curricular improvements, and the 2010 339 (57) 321 (54) 62 1. Creighton, Drake, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, University of Montana, University of College looks forward to future evaluations. Nebraska, North Dakota State University, University of Wyoming 2. Ferris State, North Dakota State University, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, University of New Mexico, Washington State University STUDENT NEWS Interprofessional Education Flourishes The College of Pharmacy at South Dakota State University is achieving significant gains in the area of interprofessional education (IPE) activities. Spring Convocation • Six new interprofessional activities/experiences have been added or made available since 2009. • Collaborators now include medical, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, social work, physician assistants, dietician, alcohol and drug studies counselors, speech language pathology and audiology, dental hygiene, Students learn from expert on helping a foreign country health services administration Interprofessional Education Activities Year of Portion of students Year Initiated t was a mutual admiration society at in the United States to developing just extremely and medical laboratory science Pharmacy Student the College’s Spring Convocation April countries,” he says. “The work that my impressed. They express students. 11 in the Volstorff Ballroom at the colleagues and I have done in the country themselves very well.” • Activities are integrated I Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences P-4 100% From beginning University Student Union. of Georgia serves to illustrate that point. throughout the curriculum (APPEs) Of program The keynote speaker, Kenneth Walker, “Emory has been deeply involved in Reservation internship and are designed to was just as impressed with the students he health-care reform, AIDS, tuberculosis, Although it’s not overseas, Ashley Potter, a Palliative Care P-4 14 per year 2005 sequentially develop team addressed as they were concerning his nursing, emergency medicine, and health- first-year student from Hector, Minn., will skills. Interprofessional Training Workshop P-3 50% 2010 message on foreign health-care care administration in Georgia. get a taste of Walker’s message when she • Optional activities allow intervention. “Ethnic warfare and separatism have does an internship this summer on the students to expand and tailor SD Disaster Training Workshop P-3 100% 2010 “Dr. Walker’s presentation was good in played a large role in the nation’s health Pine Ridge Indian Reservation through their interprofessional the fact that you are seeing an application care,” continues Walker, who notes the Indian Health Services. experience. Virtual World Interprofessional Simulation - P-2 100% 2011 internationally,” says Corey Hunter, a country “is a fertile environment” for “I realize it’s not international, but it’s a The College is committed to Second Life third-year professional pharmacy student establishing collaborative and sustainable totally different culture with totally the development and from Gillette, Wyo. development programs in regions different problems,” she says. “Apparently, evaluation of IPE to ensure SDSU College of Pharmacy and Nursing P-2, P-1 100% Starting in 2013 “When he emphasizes what he’s doing in characterized by diversity and instability. it’s been one of the poorest counties in the Interprofessional Simulation that the graduating pharmacy a small country, he’s also talking about Walker, who was named an honorary country for many years, and their health- students are prepared to work how to do small things here. We’ve been citizen of Georgia in 2004, gives speeches care problems are more consistent with with other health care Rural Education Healthcare Program Students P-2 6 per year 2011 (REHPS) trying to do rural outreach programs here about the ongoing work in Georgia several those seen in Third World countries.” professionals to provide safe with some of the things he talked about.” times a year around the country, but on Anticipating her pending work on the and effective patient or Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) P-4, P-3, Chapter Walker, professor of medicine and this particular occasion, feels his talk on reservation, Potter greatly appreciated population based care. Open School P-2, P-1 Participation 2011 associate professor of neurology at Emory the Brookings campus hit home due to the Walker’s presentation. University and deputy chief of medicine at nature of the listeners and the panel “I was very impressed,” she says. “I think Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, discussion that followed, he says. international problems are something we spoke on “The Health-Care Work Force in “I thought in an overall sense that this is have in the back of our mind and we don’t Developing Countries of the 21st Century.” one of the best educational enterprises see how it’s directly happening and what Leadership by Design “It was really interesting for me, because that I’ve ever seen. The faculty members the direct issues are. last summer I spent three weeks in Africa,” are bright, interested, talkative, and the “Dr. Walker made a great point in that Students in the PharmD program go through a set of experiences designed to help develop their leadership talents. points out first-year student Ashley Weber students showed no sign of you can take the little things you learn and • P2 - Leadership Interview — Leadership begins with students recognizing their responsibility to serve as a from Armour. “I was exposed to their intimidation—in fact the exact opposite. everyday work or experiences and apply leader and the benefits of serving as a leader. This activity is designed to foster understanding of these aspects by health-care problems and lack of health “They are bright, articulate young people them — it’s not impossible.” requiring students to interact with a leader in pharmacy. care, so it was interesting to get more who are interested in outreach activities, Kyle Johnson • P3 - Leadership Report — Students are required to describe information and he re-enforced some community work and other people. I was two leadership experiences during the PharmD program and Percent of Students Recognizing things to me about health care.”

reflect on the experience. Their Leadership Potential Walker is co-director of the Atlanta- • P4 - Professional Meeting Activity — Students attend and Tbilisi Health Care Partnership, a reflect on a professional organization meeting in order to develop collaborative effort between institutions in an appreciation for the role pharmacy organizations play in the 80% 59.4% the independent nation of Georgia and profession. 52.2% 60% their Atlanta counterparts. 40.6% Established in 1992, the partnership Upon completion of these experiences: 40% contributes medical expertise, manpower, • 66.7 percent of students hoped to participate in a pharmacy and supplies to Georgia, whose health care organization meeting (district or regional) 20% and medical systems have been devastated • 73.9 percent plan to attend a state pharmacy convention by civil war and economic crisis since the 0% P2 Leadership P3 Leadership P4 Organization dissolution of the Soviet Union. The profession of pharmacy needs pharmacists that are engaged Interview Report Attendance and willing to serve. In this way, these curricular elements are Impressed with audience helping to shape the future. Under Walker’s leadership, more than 20 teams of Emory faculty and staff have Conclusion traveled to Georgia to assess and address health inequities, and dozens of Georgian These highlights represent only a glimpse into the innovations and successes medical students have come to train at occurring within the College of Pharmacy at South Dakota State University. Emory’s School of Medicine. Ashley Potter, left, and Colleen O’Connell, first-year students in the professional pharmacy program, visit with The college looks forward to continued work in these and other areas. “Poor health is pervasive throughout the Kenneth Walker, after his keynote address at the Spring Convocation in April. Walker, professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, centered his message on health-care intervention in a foreign country. world, from rural counties and inner cities 17 STUDENT NEWS

Record crowd witnesses White Coat event Student organization awards

rom Jacqueline Adams to Amber A new use for chemistry Kudos for Karel’s career continue Last province conclave second and third professional years Association-Academy of Student Zemlicka, the P1 students that form Robinson arrived at State right out of The future pharmacists heard a succinct highlights student news earning 3.0 grade point averages during Pharmacists chapter during his or her the Class of 2015 hit its first Kearney High School, but for Kirre Wold, message from a graduate who has years of F It was a closing to something the fall and spring semesters. There are 82 entire pharmacy education. Lyons served milestone en route to becoming the journey has been longer. The Rapid experience to summon. big and a beginning to Kappa Psi collegiate chapters in the United as chapter president in 2010. professional pharmacists. City Central graduate went to college in State grad Gary Karel ’73 was honored something very exciting. States and Canada. As the students neared the end of their her hometown and received a chemistry at the Health-System Pharmacists’ annual That’s how second-year In addition, Gamma Kappa was named Members of the year first year of pharmacy education, Friday degree from South Dakota School of meeting March 30-31 with the inaugural professional student and the sixth best chapter in the nation based At the Pharmacy Spring Convocation in evening, April 20, was set aside for the 80- Mines in 2009. Gary W. Karel Lecture Award for brother Megan Bechen on a judging of annual reports that grades member class to receive their personalized, She went to work as a hydro tech at outstanding contributions to the practice April, five members of the Academy of described the last conclave of Province chapter activities, community service, bright white, just-off-the-rack professional Black Hills National Forest but found that of health-system pharmacy. Student Pharmacists were honored as VIII that was hosted by the brothers of public activities and organizations that laboratory coat. water quality wasn’t for her. That’s right. Karel is the namesake of the members of the year. They were: Tom Gamma Kappa April 20-21 in Brookings. members belong to and offices they hold. The event drew an estimated 750 family, Then heritage came into play. Wold has award, which is considered the highest Sundling (pre-pharmacy), Aaron Larson It was one of several pharmacy student friends and faculty members to the an aunt, uncle and cousin that are lifetime achievement honor in South (first professional year), Megan Bechen organizations making news this past Members cite president Volstorff Ballroom on campus. graduates of the SDSU pharmacy program. Dakota health-system pharmacy practice. (second professional year), Andrea New school year. Dean Dennis Hedge called it by far the So she prepared to follow them. Wold got Karel served 26 years as director of Phi Lambda Sigma’s Member of (third professional year) and John Gamma Kappa is the local chapter of largest attendance for the event, which has a job in the Rapid City Regional Hospital pharmacy at Sanford USD Medical Center. the Year was Walker Darkow, a Weitgenant (fourth professional year). been held for nine years at SDSU. The pharmacy and applied for admission in For the five years previous to that he was Kappa Psi International, which is divided third-year professional student Kappa Epsilon honored Dana Merkel as significance wasn’t lost on the students. the pharmacy school. assistant pharmacy director at what was geographically into regions known as from Owatonna, Minn., who member of the year, while Kacy Magnus “Everybody always compares it to It was 1 ½ years before she was accepted then known as Sioux Valley Hospital. provinces. served as president of the was saluted as new member of the year. graduation. To me, it’s more important and nearly another year passed before she Since retiring from Sanford in July 2011, With the growth in the number of chapter. The pre-pharmacy member of the year because it marks the beginning of could don her white coat. he has been an inspector for the South collegiate and graduate chapters, Province “I was surprised,” says Darkow. “It’s award went to Amber Olson. something. To me, it’s more meaningful,” The White Coat Ceremony “solidifies Dakota Board of Pharmacy. VIII was dissolved and will be part of the always an honor, especially coming from a says Eric Robinson, of Kearney, Neb., that I made the right choice. I like working But rather than tell war stories or Northern Plains Province that includes vote by your fellow members.” whose White Coat Ceremony fan club with people and have the knack for recount his honors, Karel’s message current members of Province VIII Darkow, who received a certificate and a included his parents, a brother, a niece and chemistry. I’m excited to use my ability to focused on the key traits of the white coat. (University of Minnesota, Minnesota- gift card, points to the annual bowl-a-thon a nephew. help people with their medical condition,” Duluth, Drake, Iowa, North Dakota State, for cystic fibrosis as a major highlight “This is drawing to a close my previous says Wold, who this spring was named a White coat: a powerful symbol Creighton, University of Nebraska Medical during his one-year term in office that Center, SDSU and graduate chapters from ended January 2012. years of college and moving on to student representative to the South Dakota Karel, of Sioux Falls, spoke about trust, The American Association of something more professional,” he adds. Society of Health-System Pharmacists relationship with the patient, ethics, North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, “We raised the most money ever for that Pharmaceutical Scientists’ member of the board. leadership and compassion. His emphasis South Dakota) along with two additional particular event,” he says. “We also did a year award was given to Satya Sai Sadhu. was on trust. chapters: the University of Wisconsin- Hoops for Hunger for the Brookings Food The association also presented awards “As you wear the white coat, you are in Madison and the Wisconsin graduate Pantry and that went very well. All in all, it from the Life Sciences Graduate Student essence saying to others ‘trust me.’ As you chapter. was a very successful year.” Research Symposium. They were: Ruth know, pharmacists are one of the most The first meeting of the Northern Plains Guillermo (first place senior category), trusted professionals in America. Trust Province will be held in Omaha, Neb., in Video honored Jiashu Xie (second place senior category), involves honesty and ethics. fall 2012. The American Pharmacists Swetha Pothula (third place senior “Patients, physicians and others will have “While we will be beginning the new Association-Academy of category), Pratik Muley (first place junior the right to expect the best from you province and a new constitution, the Student Pharmacists category), Kaushalkumar Dave (second because over the next four years you will overall meaning of the province will not received honorable place junior category) and Kangming become skilled and knowledgeable in change,” says Bechen. “Kappa Psi has a mention in the PharmFLIX Chen (third place junior category). matters related to medications, diseases strong foundation and our goals will be the same. We’re looking forward to competition, which evaluates videos Kyle Johnson and health. The decisions you make and produced by academy chapters on various the words you use will carry significant welcoming the new chapters and starting new traditions together.” pharmacy topics. weight. This year’s theme was “Share Your Story,” “(Patients) will depend on you to help which had students create a video sharing solve their problems and to protect them. Winning streak continues Gamma Kappa made headlines in other why they selected pharmacy as a career. If you keep these tenets in mind, your The video was shown in March at the ability to care for patients will be areas. For the third consecutive year, and fifth overall, the chapter received the Frank academy’s national meeting in New profoundly enhanced.” Orleans. Karel, who graduated 20 years before H. Eby Scholarship Tray Award. The award goes to the collegiate chapter At the May 4 Pharmacy Hooding any school was doing white coat Ceremony, the senior recognition award ceremonies, gave this challenge: of Kappa Psi with the highest percentage was given to Kayley Lyons, who graduated “As you step forward into your white of its eligible members receiving with her Pharm.D. The award recognizes a Students in the 80-member Class of 2015 recite the Pledge of Professionalism at the coats, do so with confidence, but be scholarship honor certificates for the graduating student who has contributed conclusion of the ninth annual White Coat Ceremony at Volstorff Ballroom. humble.” academic year in question. It’s calculated the most to the American Pharmacists Dave Graves using the number of brothers in their 18 SDSU Pharmacy 19 STUDENTS Sixty-nine Meet our fifteenth class of six-year Success stories Doctor of Pharmacy graduates

Jenifer Abrahamson Ian Alverson Ashley Barta Elizabeth Batchelder Lisa Becker Elizabeth Bohls Sara Krueger David Laffrenzen Erik Lambrechts Ashley Landenberger Rachel LeBrun Lance Linderman Ashton Madison Sioux City, Iowa Fairbault, MN Yankton Rapid City Blue Earth, MN New Ulm, MN Milbank Pierre Dell Rapids Timber Lake Pharmacist at Kmart Pharmacy manager at Pharmacy resident, Sanford, Pharmacist at Walmart Pharmacy resident at Avera Staff pharmacist At Winner Pharmacist, Sanford Ambulatory care resident at Community pharmacy Staff pharmacist at Shane's Pharmacist at Lewis Drug Pharmacist at State Veterans Madison Community Hospital USD Medical Center McKennan Hospital and Regional Healthcare Worthington Medical Center Marshall Regional Medical resident, Liebe Drug Pharmacy Home University Health Center Center

Kayla Borgstrom Amy Brandner Caitlin Brannen Natalie Brown Reina Bruinsma Anna Cutler Sarah Luettel Kayley Lyons Michael Magbuhat Timothy Magnuson Jessica Nelson Lindsay Neugebauer Lino Lakes, MN Pierre Denison, IA Slayton, MN Beresford Sioux Falls Adrian, MN Mankato, MN Rapid City Brookings Arlington Mitchell Pharmacist at CVS Pharmacy Pharmacist at Cigna Pharmacist at CVS Pharmacy Pharmacist at Lewis Drug Pharmacy resident at Rapid Pharmacist at Snyder Drug Pharmacist at Avera Heart Pharmacy administration Pharmacist at Rapid City Pharmacy resident at Avera Community pharmacist at Pharmacist at Lewis Drug City Regional Hospital Hospital resident at University of North Regional Hospital McKennan Hospital and Northside Pharmacy Carolina University Health Center

Ryan Durant Jessica Eischeid Charles Elroy III Marisa Erlandson Kara Estabrook Scott Fjeldheim Sarah Neuhauser Jonathon Nickolas Laura Nielsen Melissa Olson Stephanie Petersen Kelsey Postma Rapid City Carroll, IA Depoe Bay, Oregon Spirit Lake, IA Yankton Herreid Pierre Aberdeen Wilmar, MN Bruce Brookings Ireton, IA Float pharmacist at Walmart Pharmacist at Hy-Vee Pharmacist at CVS Pharmacist at Lewis Drug Pharmacist at Genoa Undecided Pharmacy manager at Kmart Pharmacist at Rapid City Undecided Pharmacy resident at Rapid Float pharmacist at Target Pharmacy resident at St. Healthcare Regional Hospital City Regional Hospital Louis VA

Tracy Haan Timothy Habeck Katie Hagen Sean Harms Elliot Hinricher Nicholas Hite Marie Potthoff Ryan Rekow Chris Reynolds Andrea Roche Sara Rosburg Joseph Rose Aberdeen Cherokee, IA Milbank Albert Lea, MN Huron Rapid City Sturgis Langford Sheridan, WY Spearfish Estherville, IA Owatonna, MN Float pharmacist at Walmart Specialty pharmacist at Cigna Pharmacist at Target Pharmacist at Medicap Pharmacist at Huron Regional Undecided Pharmacist at Kmart Staff pharmacist at Sanford Pharmacist at Omnicare Pharmacy Resident at Avera Pharmacist at Kmart Pharmacy Resident at Sioux Pharmacy Medical Center Medical Center McKennan Hospital and Falls VA University Health Center

Terry Hoffmann Joshua Holstein Carrie Jansen Stephanie Jones Brandon Kirchner Ashley Kling Randi Sandbulte Amanda Schmig Christine Schroeder Jennifer Sheeley Hillary Siebels Brianna Siefkes Sleepy Eye, MN Corsica Foley, MN Madison Sioux Falls Harrisonville, MO Sioux Center, IA South Shore Brooklyn Park, MN Volga Britton Bath Pharmacy resident at VA Pharmacist at Landmann Pharmacy resident at the VA Pharmacist at Walgreens Pharmacist at Yankton Undecided Pharmacy Resident at Sioux Pharmacy resident at Salem Pharmacy Resident at St. Pharmacist at Walmart Pharmacist at Walmart Clinical pharmacist with Tennessee Valley Health Care Jungman Memorial Hospital Black Hills Healthcare System Medical Center Falls VA (Va.) VA Medical Center Cloud VA Indian Health Services System

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New pharmacy graduates Awards presented at hooding ceremony Preceptor of the Year Top preceptor doesn’t shy away from tough conversations APhA-ASP Senior Recognition Certificate: Kayley Lyons, Mankato, MN ut of necessity, Amy Doten spends Doten doesn’t shy away from telling knows that there is more to patient care plenty of time on the sidelines as a students what she thinks when she sees than just textbooks. My preceptor really Avera Behavioral Health Center and Sanford School of Medicine Osports fan. On her home court, them developing bad work habits. helped my experience become more than I Clay Sloan Corrie Thurmer Jillian Tucek Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychopharmacology: however, she has proven to be an “It’s important to have conversations expected for this rotation.” Belle Fourche Spirit Lake, IA Brandon Elliot Hinricher, Huron indispensable coach. with students when they’re not Another student was grateful that Doten Pharmacist at Lynn’s Pharmacy Resident at Staff Pharmacist at HyVee With three young sons, Doten spends performing,” Doten says. “I need to be had gone “above and beyond while setting Dakotamart Sanford USD Medical Center Facts and Comparisons-Award of Excellence in Clinical much of her free time going to athletic truthful with them about their up different areas of the hospital that I Communication: events. As the pharmacy program performance.” could see and she always asked for my Melissa Olson, Bruce manager and clinical coordinator at the Throughout the process, Doten has a input. She challenged me to think Black Hills Veterans Affairs Healthcare clear understanding of her role. critically and to try to tie everything that I Lilly Achievement Award: Stephanie Jones, Madison System at Fort Meade, Doten’s ability to “My goal is not to be their friend, it’s to have learned in pharmacy school together work with pharmacy students has led to be their preceptor,” Doten says. “There is a with clinical thinking to come up with the Merck Award: her selection as the Preceptor of the Year. difference.” best treatment for patients.” Jenifer Abrahamson, Ashton, and Reina Bruinsma, Beresford “Amy’s service as a preceptor has been Doten says students are generally invaluable to our students and the College Rotation instills confidence impressed with the Black Hills facility, Rhianna Tuchscherer Emily Vitek Chelsea Weiland Milbank Yankton Sheffield, IA Mylan Excellence in Pharmacy Award: of Pharmacy,” says Bernie Hendricks who Doten’s commitment to the program is which has more than 20 pharmacists Pharmacy resident at Retail pharmacist at St. Pharmacist at HyVee Randi Sandbulte, Sioux Center, IA oversees the preceptor program. “She takes evident to Hendricks and to the students fulfilling a variety of clinical roles. During Beaumont Health System Michael's Avera Hospital her responsibility as a preceptor seriously.” that she guides. the course of a day students may be called Patient Care Award: Originally from Spearfish and currently “She promotes a desire in students to on to help with many of those duties. Corrie Thurmer, Spirit Lake, IA living in Sturgis with her husband and question and learn,” Hendricks says, “and “Their typical day is not typical,” Doten sons, Doten graduated from the University she challenges our students to think and says. Pharmacist’s Letter-Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database of New Mexico in 2002, completed a critically analyze issues related to disease And, when the rotation is over, Doten Recognition Award: managed care residency at HealthPartners states and medication therapy problems hopes her students’ new experiences have Anna Cutler, Sioux Falls in Bloomington, Minn., and started and solutions to prepare them for their instilled a healthy dose of confidence. working at the Black Hills facility in 2003. future as pharmacists.” “They demonstrate to themselves what Teva Pharmaceuticals USA—Outstanding Student Award: Her work as a preceptor started shortly Her students are also appreciative. One they can do,” Doten says. “They realize, Ashley Barta, Sioux City, IA after her arrival back in South Dakota. commented this year: “My preceptor was ‘Hey, maybe I can do that, too.’” John Weitgenant Greg Wollman Erica Zimprich “It just seemed kind of natural to me,” incredibly knowledgeable and Dana Hess Worthington, MN Freeman Chamberlain Pharmacist at Target Undecided Clinical Pharmacist with Doten says of teaching and helping encouraging, yet pushed her students, and Lower Brule Indian Health students. “That’s my favorite thing about Service my job.” Doten works with 10 SDSU students per year as well as students from the University of Wyoming. Part of her responsibility is developing projects for the students. “I try to pick projects that are helpful to them and to the institution,” Doten says.

Preceptor, not friend Doten explains that she works to make sure that students get something out of STUDENT NEWS the rotation that they can use in their professional life. For example, a student Nicholas Goodhope, a P2 student from Sturgis, cellular functions, including mitosis. It is that role who learns about radiology may choose to was one of 12 undergraduates to display research that makes them a target for the development of work in a retail setting but be able to use projects at the state Capitol Feb. 29. The dozen anticancer agents, and has already been used that radiology experience to answer were chosen from public, private and tribal against human melanoma cells. questions from patients. colleges in South Dakota. Goodhope’s research was to see if that target “Everything here is a learning experience,” Goodhope’s research was done under the would also be effective against other human Doten says. oversight of Professor Xiangming Guan. cancer cells. Sometimes that experience can be a Amy Doten, seated, works with South Dakota State University pharmacy students Iman Badawy, left, and Anna Microtubules are involved in a diverse range of little uncomfortable. Jastorff, right. Doten was chosen by the SDSU College of Pharmacy as the Preceptor of the Year for her work with pharmacy students at Black Hills Veterans Affairs Healthcare System at Fort Meade.

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Department of Pharmacy Practice Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

am pleased to provide you with a Anita Ou also will be leaving this summer after a he department is very pleased with the faculty members this summer. Two report from the Department of short time with the college. Ou was offered a faculty performance of our P2 students on the national French interns are joining the IPharmacy Practice. We had a busy position at a top university in Taiwan and will be TPharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment department in July. Two students are spring semester and the summer is moving back home this summer. Ou has expertise in the examination. Our students performed higher than the supported by the Joseph Nelson moving by quickly with the P4s area of pharmacoepidemiology and national average in almost all subject areas. I Undergraduate Mentorship, and the starting their advanced pharmacy pharmacoeconomics and we will be seeking approval to congratulate the faculty members for providing remaining students are supported from practice experience and preparation rehire this position. excellent instruction and support for student’ success. grant funding. for the fall semester. We have been busy preparing for the start of the community pharmacy residency program that started Faculty honors Research advancements New positions accepted this July at Liebe Drug in Milbank. We are excited at the The department was honored to have three faculty Collaboration with Sanford Research I would like to begin by letting you prospects of this new program and what we hope to members recognized at the Faculty Recognition Day in on the Translational Cancer Research know that Jodi Heins has accepted the achieve in the first year of the program. February by the university. I am extremely honored to Center is progressing well. Professor new assistant department head receive the Harold and Barbara Bailey Award for Xiangming Guan and I have filed a position within the department. This Promotions for Van Gilder, Kutscher Excellence in Academic Leadership. joint invention disclosure with Sanford position will be responsible for managing the Two faculty within the department were successful in Associate Professor Omathanu Perumal received the Research, potentially leading to a provisional patent experiential portions of the curriculum — Advanced the promotion (rank reassignment) process this past F.O. Butler Award for Excellence in Research. Radhey S. application. Guan, Perumal and Assistant Professor Pharmacy Practice Experiences and Introductory year. Deidra Van Gilder was promoted to associate Kaushik, an adjunct faculty in the department, received Hemachand Tummala have previously filed provisional Pharmacy Practice Experiences. professor effective this summer. Eric Kutscher was the Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students Award. patents for their inventions. Experiential education makes up thirty percent of the promoted to full professor this summer. Teresa Seefeldt was granted tenure and promotion to professional program curriculum, so having someone in Congratulations to both Deidra and Eric in their the rank of associate professor effective fall 2012. Thank yous a position to manage this aspect of the curriculum is reassignments. Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Seefeldt for achieving I sincerely thank Jolene Landmark and Rita Schulz for very important for the college. The faculty within the department continue to be an important milestone in her professional career. their diligent effort for the efficient operation of the In addition, Heins will be responsible for directing the productive in the area of research and scholarship. Associate Professor Omathanu Perumal and I department. I thank Brent Meredith for his help in newly established community pharmacy residency Faculty have been very successful during this past attended the Minnesota Cancer Consortium in Austin, submitting grant applications for the department. I program. I look forward to working with Dr. Heins in academic year with publications of textbook chapters Minn., in May. appreciate the cooperation from all faculty members in her new role. and many journal articles. the department; Dr. James Clem, head, Department of With Heins’ transition to her new position, we have In addition, faculty have presented numerous posters Equipment additions Pharmacy Practice; and support from Dean Dennis replaced her clinical faculty position based at the Sioux at national meetings throughout the year. I am very The department and college have recently invested Hedge. Falls VA Healthcare System. proud of the scholarly efforts of the faculty and their more than $300,000 to acquire new equipment for the Tarryn Jansen, a 2011 graduate from SDSU, has contributions in this area. We have also had success with research laboratories. The department along with other Chandradhar Dwivedi, Ph.D. accepted this position. She will begin in her faculty role being awarded grants for projects in a variety of areas. departments on campus received $150,000 for a laser Distinguished professor and head in July 2012 after completion of her residency at the I would like to end by again thanking all of our scanning confocal microscope from Regental Sioux Falls VA Healthcare System. I welcome Dr. Jansen outstanding preceptors who do an incredible job with Performance Funding Allocations for SDSU. to the faculty and look forward to working with her as our students. Your efforts and contributions are truly she begins her academic career. appreciated. Student news Ruth Guillermo successfully defended her Ph.D. Ritchie, Ou leave positions dissertation and passed oral examination in April, and We had a few faculty leave the College at the end of the James R. Clem, Pharm.D. graduated in May. She has accepted a postdoctoral contract year to move on to other endeavors. Kristen Professor and department head position at the University of Colorado School of Ritchie will be relocating to the Omaha area due to her Pharmacy in Denver. husband being transferred. Her position is in the area of Guoqiang Ai joined the department as a graduate oncology ambulatory care and is based at the Avera student in May. Two Fulbright Scholars and three new Cancer Institute in Sioux Falls. I appreciate Kristen’s graduate students are expected to join the department contributions to the college during the time she was in the fall. here. We continue to recruit to rehire this faculty Eleven professional/undergraduate/high school position. students are working in the research laboratories of

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Assessment report Donor’s gratitude expressed in scholarship

Evolving fourth-year GPA not good indicator of board success The task force examined a variety of approaches to knowledge assessment achieve these goals and settled on a pilot program that “I’m impressed he has he College of Pharmacy admits 80 philanthropically to do what he feels is right involved students taking the Pre-NAPLEX and stretched himself students each year. It’s a relatively for the college and the university. I have deep There are key points in the curriculum subsequently completing a set of questions from the Tsmall class with a voracious appetite admiration of his commitment to SDSU.” when it is critical to assess the students’ American Pharmaceutical Association (APHA) online philanthropically to do for scholarships. That commitment got its start when ability to perform practice aspects or NAPLEX Review exam question bank. what he feels is right for Because of the program’s high standards Darrah was in his 30s and had been working demonstrate sufficient knowledge to Evaluation of the students’ results from this pilot and the academic achievements of the in a pharmacy in Columbia, Mo., for six the college and the provide care. project showed a modest correlation between both of students who apply, virtually all of them are years. Getting a pharmacy degree was the The fourth year (P4) of the these exams and the students’ grade point average (GPA) university. I have deep eligible for Jackrabbit Guarantee scholarships only way to move up the pay scale. curriculum represents a crucial through the P2 year. A co-worker with a degree in biology was (r=0.43 for both). This implies that GPA is not a good admiration of his opportunity for students to apply their predictor of who will do well on these exams. One pharmacy alumnus has done his best also looking into pharmacy schools but knowledge and practice their clinical Students who did not pass the Pre-NAPLEX had a commitment to SDSU.” to make sure that pharmacy students have couldn’t find a program that suited him. skills. Because it is the final step in their the scholarships they deserve. “He gave me his applications,” Darrah says. higher average score on the APHA exam than students Dean Dennis Hedge education and all didactic work has who passed the Pre-NAPLEX (78.2% versus 73.9% Bill Darrah ’96 took advantage of the 2010 After getting accepted at SDSU, a spring been completed, we have sought to correct), suggesting that students studied harder if they Challenge that offered matching funds from visit to campus clinched the deal for Darrah. assure students’ knowledge base is competent for practice struggled on the first exam (Pre-NAPLEX). an anonymous donor to fund scholarships. “I came for a visit in May and the weather at this point. Darrah used the matching funds to create was just so pleasant,” says Darrah, who didn’t In the past we have had students participate in an oral New plan puts emphasis on exams three one-time $1,000 Jackrabbit Guarantee miss Missouri’s humidity. “I knew the case study. This involved students reviewing a case, Based on the experience from this pilot year, a final plan scholarships as well as create a $25,000 winters would be brutal, though.” preparing a pharmaceutical care plan, and presenting the emerged for the coming year. Fourth-year students will endowment that will fund another At times the pharmacy courses were as plan to two faculty members. The high stakes assessment complete 800 questions from the APHA NAPLEX online scholarship in perpetuity. tough as the winters for Darrah who, like required students who did not pass to remediate and take review question bank during the summer and fall. This While Darrah’s efforts have made an many students, was challenged by the the oral exam again. Failure on the second try will serve as a formative assessment process with the impression on the college, they don’t impress rigorous curriculum. necessitated completion of an additional advanced online resource providing study materials and guidance the donor. “Dr. Chappell stood by me,” Darrah says. practice experience. for improvement in students’ areas of weakness. “ When I consider how much my education “I’ve always been very grateful for that.” Limitations to this approach included a very finite In the spring, all P4 students will complete a Pre- has radically changed my life it does not feel For Darrah, that gratitude manifested itself examination of knowledge, variations in the case NAPLEX exam. Students not meeting a preset pass score like I have returned that much,” says Darrah in endowing a scholarship. complexity, and a high utilization of faculty resources. on the Pre-NAPLEX will be required to remediate and of Onawa, Iowa. “I am very grateful for the “I feel very fortunate to have gotten a then be retested with the APHA NAPLEX review exam opportunities that my education has given to degree,” Darrah says. “I just want to make it How to evaluate P4 students questions. Failure on the second exam again will me.” possible for someone else.” Last summer we formed a P4 Assessment Task Force, necessitate an additional advanced pharmacy practice The college begs to differ. The philosophy that guide’s Darrah’s which was charged with determining the optimal method experience. “All gifts are appreciated,” says Dean Dennis generosity is a simple one. for evaluating P4 students. The Task Force identified The P4 assessment process will continue to be Hedge, “no matter what the size. And Bill’s “I either believe I’m blessed or I don’t,” goals of the P4 assessment: examined to assure it meets the intended goals. We generosity has been significant. I’m Darrah says. “It’s the least I can do.” 1. Guide students’ improvement, anticipate that there will be adjustments and changes impressed he has stretched himself Dana Hess 2. Evaluate the curriculum in developing students’ over time to improve the process. Future plans are to knowledge, include more skill based assessment in the P4 year. 3. Assure all students meet a set standard of knowledge, 4. Facilitate students’ success on the NAPLEX. Jane R. Mort, Associate dean for academic programs IS THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY IN YOUR WILL? If not, please consider a bequest. Your gift will make a difference!

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3M - St. Paul Bruce D. and Louise M. Bogenrief Dusty I. Crouse Amy J. Fitch Thomas D. and Sheila Zukley Matthew D. and Annette M. Larry V. Kueter and Susanne C. Timothy A. Mc Kinstry Fern E. Paul-Aviles James D. Rolfs Steven M. and Robbie D. Aamot Bill G. and Marilyn M. Bradfeldt Dana M. Culver Susan E. Fletcher Hartnett Johnson Propst Keith A. McKay Timothy J. and Mary E. Pearson Delores A. Roll Aberdeen District Pharmaceutical Jeff Hayward and Carlene Brams Daniel M. Cummins William J. and Lyla K. Flohrs Steven C. Hatch Ronald F. and Caroline P. Johnson Jeffrey J. Kuper Kristi J. McKinney Henry and Diane M. Pecheny Jayna M. Rose Assn. Hayward Anthony J. and Jacquelynn D. Steven R. Flora Marcia J. Hauan Dean A. Johnson Stacey A. Kutil Edith A. Mechelay Ann E. Pederson William J. and Susan R. Rosenau Edna Abler Kevin T. and Rebecca L. Branick Cunningham Marvin E. Foss Kirby L. and Paulette Hay Douglas H. and Gail Johnson Eric C. and Shannon Kutscher Medicine Shoppe-Mitchell Jeffrey A. Pederson & Sandra K. Gordon E. Rosenthal Donald G. and Marlyce D. Jim Bregel Sharon Dady Donald Frank Shawna R. Heck James D. Johnson Steven C. and Rexene K. Kvien Medicine Shoppe-Parkston Seifert-Pederson Richard B. and Kelli A. Rotert Abrahamson Kathryn E. Bremmon Kasey C. and Steffanie M. Danley Theresa B. Frederick Dennis D. and Susan J. Hedge Jim and Kay Johnson Jay C. LaBay Medicine Shoppe-Rapid City Raymond J. Pederson Adam E. and Jacquie K. Roth Elizabeth A. Abramson-Brendsel LaVonne M. Brennan Bill R. Darrah Jessica D. Frederiksen Annie M. Hegg Kari A. Johnson Jeff A. Lachelt Harlan C. Meier Bryan and Bea Peeke Michael D. and Patricia A. Roth Academy of Student Pharmacists Andy B. and Christine A. Breuer Cole J. Davidson Alan J. and Charlene A. Freiberg Michael S. and Amy L. Heiberger Phillip S. and Lola R. Johnson Brad R. and Emily G. Laible Eric W. and Julie K. Meintsma Candy S. Peskey Stanley R. Roth Adams Drug Store R. George Brockway Diana L. Davis William E. Freiberg Allison M. Hein Matthew Johnson & Julie Hanlon- Wilson C. and Amy J. Lane Jamie M. Meister Earle J. Peters Kip and Lea K. Rowe Bradley A. and Kathleen Alfred Bart D. and Becky A. Brost Kirk E. and Stephanie Dean Michele A. and Chad M. Fritz Garrett L. Heitmann Johnson Harlan J. Langstraat Anton E. Melin Dale K. Henning and Stacy J. Lynda A. Rus Paul R. and Beverly J. Allen Perry W. and Jolene A. Brown Scott B. Deckert Harold E. Fromm Thaddaus Hellwig Nicole A. Johnson Kenneth A. and Vicki J. Lanier Merck Company Foundation Peters Michael J. and Helen Russell Carnie R. Allex Marlin R. and Linda J. Brozik Richard L. Deming R. Wayne Frost Laurilyn D. Helmers David J. and Norma M. Johnson Todd M. Larimer Carmen D. Mertens Jen A. Petersen Melissa S. Rybak Travis L. and Angie M. Anderberg Mary J. Buchholz Kirwan Amanda M. DeSchepper Andrea B. Fuhrer Bernard D. and Julie A. Hendricks Steven and Rebecca Johnson Myron W. Larsen Estate Kim A. Messerschmidt Leonard A. and Marijean Petersen Tara L. Sandoval Maurice G. Andersen Marlin E. Buchholz Patricia K. and Duane Deurmier Christie A. Gabel Mary E. Hendricks Susan J. Johnson Craig D. and Kelli J. Larson Nichole Metzinger Tracy C. Petersen Sanford Health Anderson Pharmacy Inc. - dba James A. Buechler Al and Beth Devitt Ardyce and Dean D. Gackstetter Kyle L. Hendry Thomas J. and Jodi K. Johnson Douglas C. and Shirley Larson Brittney A. Meyer Michael G. and Carol J. Peterson Krista J. Sarvis Alcester Drug Brian J. and Kendra K. Bunkers Jeff A. and Kimberly R. DeVries Clifford E. and Karen M. Garrett Nicole M. Hepper Thomas R. Johnson Robert H. and Karyl L. Larson David E. and Erika Meyer Jeffrey M. and Marcie J. Peterson Annette M. Scanlan Anderson Pharmacy Inc. - dba Mark A. and Julie K. Burggraff Dian Graves Owen Foundation Jerry J. and Laurie J. Garry James R. Hersrud Wade A. Johnson Michael W. Larson J. Paul Meyer Vernon E. and Cheryl Peterson Jodi L. Scanlon Haisch Pharmacy John E. and Candace C. Burnett Dennis A. and Carol L. Dingman Elizabeth A. Gau Wayne Wiebe and Cynthia L. Jack H. Jones Danny L. and Ferrol J. Lattin Kathryn A. Meyer Leonard J. Petrik Ryan L. Scarborough Arne A. Anderson Jack H. Burns John M. Dobbs Wayne C. and Terrie Gaughran Hespe Kenneth B. and Loretta Jones The Laughrey Family Foundation Lou F. and Leona Michalek Michael A. Pfeiffer Dennis J. Schaefbauer Ellen A. Anderson Russell W. and Janel Buseman Dennis D. and Arlene C. Dobesh Gerald E. Gebhart Gina M. Hieb Kristin K. Jones Bruce and Kandi J. Laughrey Jeffrey A. Mikkelson Pfizer Foundation Tara E. Schafers Rich K. and Jan A. Anderson Robert P. and Audrey J. Byers Paul P. and Stacey L. Dobesh Virginia A. Gebhart Bernard E. and Elaine Hietbrink Larry D. and Pamela N. Jones Joo Hyok Lee Kelsey L. Miller Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Co. Rachel A. Schardin Jeremy P. and Gina A. Anderson Anthony T. Cacek Kevin A. and Stefanie A. Douglas R. and Deana L. Geraets Nancy L. Hildebrand Randy L. Jones Wang S. Lee Jesse C. and Susan L. Mogen Pharmacy Specialties, Inc. Allison H. Schatzke Kent L. Anderson Rod and Colleen Campbell Dockendorf Mark and Nancy M. Gerdes David C. and Julie V. Hilderbrand Galen and Ann Jordre Elizabeth M. Lechner John R. and Corliss M. Moller Michael D. Pierson Carolyn Schaunaman Paula D. Anderson Eric J. Carda Murray A. Doeden Mary C. Ghaffari Jerry L. and Kathleen S. Hill Glenn T. Jorgensen Brent L. and Cassi L. Leiferman Clyde J. Mork Jayson M. and Jaclyn M. Plamp Douglas A. and Donna Scheller Teresa M. Anderson Cardinal Health Philip J. and Evelyn Dohn Lori L. Giedt Danielle Hlavka Rollins E. and LeVuo Juhnke Tim D. and Patricia Leischner Fredric E. Moskol Blake J. and Marcia J. Plender Edward J. Schlachter Chad D. and Carol L. Arends Jodi L. Carlson Sean R. Donahoe Andrew J. Gillen Shannon K. and Kristi N. Hofer Brian L. and Joyce A. Kaatz Jeffrey A. and Melissa A. Lembke Kory A. and Laurie A. Muller Brent A. and Karla Plender Leland and Virginia Schlemmer James A. Armbruster Thomas M. and Lynn T. Carlson Jennifer M. Drexler Douglas L. and Judy Gjesdal Terence G. Hofer Edward E. and Linda L. Kamolz Gary A. and Karen Lesch Luke M. and Stephanie R. Muller Dwayne A. and Cheryl L. Plender Richard K. and Marlene A. Donald C. Asbjornson, DDS Todd J. and Roberta J. Carr Kallie M. Dunlap Lyle and Shirley Glascock Shannon R. Hoff Ralph E. Kane Allen W. and Marilyn K. Leske Bernice Mullett Harry A. Poletes Schlenker AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Kenneth W. Carroll Robert W. Dvorak GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Karen M. Hoffman Douglas D. Kapaun Jerome R. and Maxine A. Leslie Christine A. Murphy Ryan J. and Andrea M. Poppinga David F. and Betty J. Schmid Maurine Auchampach John A. Carson Ben R. and Kristi L. Dwire Shannon M. Goblirsch Ronald J. Hohenberger Jerome R. and Nina M. Kappes Veronica L. Lesselyoung Shawn M. Murphy Prescription Shop, Inc. James R. and Claire L. Schmidt Emilly A. Austin Larry E. and Elaine L. Cartwright Chandradhar and Prabha Dwivedi Roshelle R. Goertz Craig A. and Patrice M. Hohn Gary W. and Linda L. Karel Harvey R. and Barbara A. Levenson Nicole M. Musfelt Robert W. and Mary L. Puffer Briana J. Schneider Avera Health Steven J. Case Dale K. Eads Kendall R. and Stacey J. Goetz Derek F. and Stacy M. Hoitsma Mary A. Kees Lewis Drugs, Inc. Darrel L. Mutchler Mary M. Pullman Dodge R. Craig and Carolyn A. Schnell Avera McKennan Hospital Casey Corporation Donald K. Eddy C. Boyd Granberg Donalene A. Hoke Margaret T. Kelly Robert L. and Patricia A. Lewis NACDS Foundation Phil A. Qualey Lesley M. Schoenhard Bob and Becky Baer Terry and Sharon Casey Bill and Cheryl Edelen Marie A. Grant David and Barbara Holt Jacob P. Kemen John M. Lichty Satoshi Nagano Joe Raburn Chad R. Scholten Harold S. Bailey Jr. Danial E. Castle Thomas J. Ehrhardt Robin L. Grant Matt D. Holt Louise M. Kemen Liebe Drug, Inc. Carney C. Nelson Edward W. and Patricia Rada Jeff and Deborah Schutts Janet G. Baird Caterpillar Foundation Marion F. Ehrich Georgia Green William J. and Carol A. Horstman Larry D. and Connie J. Kenyon Arvid R. and Janet Liebe John F. and Elizabeth Nelson Marsha A. Raebel Todd E. and Jeanine Schweer Gregg B. and Rebecca S. Bakker Gary S. and Rosemary L. Chappell Bob and Mary Lou Ehrke Robert L. Gregg Joel E. and Rita S. Houglum Lynn E. and Sheri Ketelsen Daniel M. and Gail L. Lien Larry E. and Gail F. Nelson Mary P. Rahilly Melissa R. Schweiss Christopher D. Ball Nicole R. Chenoweth Richard D. Eitreim Bryan L. Gregor Vicki L. Howe Calvin E. and Terri Ketterling Steven E. Lienemann Michele L. and Jason P. Nelson Tom and Shirley A. Rahilly Kari A. Sckerl Rhonda S. Baltzer Chet Johnson Drugs, Inc Donald L. Ekdom Gregory Drug Patricia E. Howell Samuel J. and Crystal L. Kezar Milo V. and Sally J. Lines Jon D. and Julie K. Ness Everett S. and Lodema Randall Charles L. Scofield Gregory L. Bartels Marcia K. and David L. Chicoine Jack R. and Marcine M. Elder Duane A. and Debra L. Grimm Daniel J. and Patty Huisenga Daniel M. and Heather M. Khali Michelle M. Litzen Donald W. and Betty J. Nettleton Mark W. and Katherine K. Rau Joyce K. Scott John C. and Patricia Bartholomew Yee-Lai and Carla R. Chiu Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Chad B. and Alisa B. Grismer Thomas P. Koch and Lora L. Lee S. Kim Keith E. and Linda Locke Network for Good Florence M. Regan Meri K. Scott Stacey A. Bartholomew Marlyn K. and Corinne J. Erin M. Ellingson James G. and Martha G. Grosenick Hummel-Koch So Young Kim Robert C. Loe Barbara A. Nitsch Paul M. Reilly Norbert and Jane M. Sebade Tom and Linda J. Bartholomew Christensen Jody A. Ellingson Garrett J. and Carol A. Gross Adam M. and Amy L. Huntimer Richard M. King John and Jodee R. Lomheim Susan A. Lahr and Gordon D. Niva Vincent and Patricia Reilly Teresa M. Seefeldt Leonard J. and Ruth A. Bassett Larry L. Christensen Sara J. Ellis Robin C. Grossenburg Chad M. and Jill K. Huntington Richard E. Kingdon Christine A. and Brian G. Jay M. and Sandra K. Norberg Michael J. and Annie L. Reiner Kevin A. Sell Beach Professional Pharmacy Gerald A. and Jo Dee Christenson Gregory J. and Ann M. Endres Frank Grover Larry L. and Sherry Hurd Juli A. Kinzer Lounsbery Steve and Jane Norby David L. and Debra K. Reinke Chuck and Dorie Sendelbach Scott M. and Jessica A. Bebensee Bessie and Louie Christodoulopou Gregory C. and Renae S. Endres Gary G. and Lori A. Gruber Barry C. and Heather J. Hutchinson Kasey J. Kirschenmann Janelle K. Louwagie Joanne B. Norris Chet M. Reinking Claudia M. Shaffer Robert D. and Winnie H. Behrend Donald A. Christopherson Donald J. and Arlis Entwisle Jeffrey M. and Tanya M. Gruntmeir Yvonne S. Hutchinson Deborah L. Klein Joseph A. and Jenna K. Lovely Christina M. Odens Katie S. Reis Derald F. Shaw George J. Belbas Nancy K. Peterson and Richard H. Neva J. Erickson Marian R. Gunderson Jerry J. Hutchison Matthew D. Klein Melanie M. Lunn Thomas J. and Kristy K. Oelberg Charlene H. Reith Stanley M. and Excellda J. Shaw Owen G. Benthin Chun Richard E. and Lynette M. Erickson Randy L. Gunderson Hy-Vee, Inc. Jesse I. Kleinhesselink Timothy A. Mach Erin E. O'Leary Col. John M. Rembold, USA(Ret) James C. Sheets Thomas L. Beranek Soon-Riang Chung Steven P. Erickson Jerri A. Haak Kathleen K. Ingalls and William John C. and Donna M. Kluczny Hugh P. and Cari L. Mack Olivet Presbyterian Church Nancy C. Remund Brown Tara L. Sheldon Keith M. Bergman Cody J. Church Jason D. Ernster Kevin C. and Lorie L. Haarberg Carlson Jenilee and Kory Kludt Rob J. and Leslie D. Mader Ryan M. and Lori L. Ollerich Daniel D. and Robin L. Remund Shopko Stores, Inc. Marlen L. and Charlene Bergman CIGNA Foundation John O. Eaton and Audrey L. Jean Haas Saballus Ingersoll-Rand Company Robert F. Knapp Gregory I. and Mary F. Madsen Byron C. Olson Roger A. Renner Larry D. Shroyer Scott J. and Jessie L. Bergman Shane J. Clarambeau Estebo Jerry Haas Tom D. and Beth A. Iverson Del W. Knobloch Kenneth R. Maertens Cheryl A. Olson Erin K. Revier Scott M. amd Amanda M. Sibson Bill P. Bernhard Shannon W. Clark Linda E. Evenson Stephen N. and Judith C. Haas Michael K. and Colleen M. Morris and Donna Knutson Roger E. Maertens Leman E. Olson Rho Chi Society of SDSU Rodney K. and Robbi R. Siegling Jeffrey D. and Cathy J. Bertsch James and Marilyn Clem Michael L. and Michele M. Evink Rick A Habeck Jacobsen Steven G. and Connie M. Koenecke Edward M. Mahlum Vernon G. Olson Randy J. Ring Ephriam Sieler Michael J. and Telene D. Bettcher Kay Coffield Pearson Rosemary L. Evjen Trace L. and Diann M. Hafner Sandra A. Jacobson James J. Kolars Arlo D. and Kathryn L. Manfull Mary B. Ommen Marshall L. and Mary J. Ringling Ronald M. Sieve Beverly Plaza Pharmacy Robert L. and Delores J. Colwell Express Scripts Foundation Jill Y. Haiar Susan R. Jacobson Diane L. Konechne Timothy A. Mangin Omnicare of South Dakota Krystal R. Ripperda Jean L. Silverman Joye Ann Billow Complete Home Care, Inc. Nicole L. Eye John F. and Mary E. Halbkat Tarryn A. Jansen Steven A. and Ila M. Kool Richard D. Manthei Mike J. and Jo Ann M. Oster Curtis Rising Jeffrey A. Simmons Birthday Club Ronald and Rachel Conkling Arthur W. Fairfield Mary A. Hall Eric J. and Michelle K. Jennings Jack H. Koopman Thomas E. and Beverly A. Maples Jason D. and Sheri J. Otta Larry A. Ritter Elizabeth A. Sinclair Darrel C. Bjornson Julie H. Cook Lindsey L. Fast Paul A. and Paula M. Hammond Wendy S. Jensen Bender Curtis K. and Junella K. Kost Samuel Y. Mari Le Roy J. and Nancy S. Otterness Kathy H. Roberts Paul A. Sinclair Black Hills Dist. Pharm Assn. William and Lynnette Coolidge Terry and Bonnie Felland Ashley A. Hansen George A. and Gail Jensen Cheri A. Kraemer Cornelius Maris Terry H. and Teena Otterness Steven L. and Marian L. Roberts Sixth Avenue Pharmacy, Inc. Pat Blase Ben J. Cooper Janet R. Fenske Dan and Jessica Hansen Julie A. Jensen Carrie A. and Terry A. Krieger Barry L. and Sharon J. Markl Jeffrey R. and Linda M. Oyen Scott M. Roby Lisa A. Smallbrock Duane C. and Gladys S. Bloedow Patrick W. and Laura L. Cosgriff Helen L. Fiechtner Jess J. and Gina R. Hanson Zhu-Qiu Jin Kalpana S. Krishnamurthy Chris A. Marquardt Bo W. Park John P. and Connie L. Roche Cynthia P. Smith Richard E. Bloemke Sheldon E. and Carolyn Cotton Jerome C. and Mary E. Fiedler Richard C. and Norma J. Hanson Justin J. and Beth R. Joachim Melvin G. Kroon Johanna R. Martens Ronald P. Park Rockwell Automation Charitable Douglas M. Smith Blythe Drug Charles M. Coyne Elizabeth A. Fincel Sarah E. Hanson Douglas R. and Colleen F. Joens Paul and Shirley Kruiter Arielle J. Martin Parkston Drug, Inc. Corporation Matt D. Smith James L. Boblit Jennifer J. Cramer-Landis First Interstate BancSystem Carla J. Hardy Smith John's RX Drugs, Inc. David W. and Trish Kruger Richard W. and Jalene S. Martin Lt. Col. Bruce D. Patterson, USA James W. Roeman Rhonda L. Smith James J. Boehm Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation Foundation J. Rick and Peggy A. Harter Johnson & Johnson Fay Kubert William R. Matzke (Ret.) Susan R. Roerig Richard A. Smith Boeing Gary N. Crosby Janet R. Fischer Andrew M. and Janet J. Kubly Marion J. Mc Cormack Albert H. and Lynn R. Paul Randall L. Roggow Zachary P. Smith

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Merlin J. Snyder Susan Sterud Kimberlee A. Thuringer Dale G. Vander Hamm C. Robert and Margaret C. Nominations requested for the Calendar of Events 2012-2013 Steven R. and Katie A. Solem Julie C. Stevens Laurie A. Tidemann Janelle A. Varney Willardson Craig R. and Melanie D. Sommers Adam M. and Laura K. Stoebner Steven J. Timmerman Vernon-Central Botica Pharmacy Paul A. Williams Distinguished Pharmacy Alumnus Award Dan L. and Barbara Somsen Carol A. Stoll Nanette R. Tinker Constance A. Vihovde Randall D. and Vickie L. Williams Aug. 28 P1 Orientation – SDSU Student Union Christopher L. and LeeAnn Stacey A. and Damon L. Stormo Maurice V. Tobin Linda Lea M. Viken Stephen D. Willis The College of Pharmacy Advisory Council requests nominations for the Sept. 21-22 South Dakota Pharmacists Sonnenschein Donald A. and Leah E. Strahl Matthew J. Toennies DeAnna K. Visser Patricia A. Wilson Pease Association Annual Convention – Kenneth and Joan Sorensen Joe D. Strain and Sarah M. Stacie L. Tomkins Kris R. Vogel Joshua O. Wilson Distinguished Pharmacy Alumnus Award. This award recognizes a graduate of the SDSU College of Pharmacy who has served and advanced the profession of Deadwood Darrell Sorenson Sterzinger Andy R. Tonneson Tamara M. Vollrath Kirk S. and Joyce Wilson Sept. 29 College Advisory Council Sarah J. Sorrell Gail C. Strand Brad A. Tople Walgreens Company Rebecca Wilson pharmacy and has been involved in community service. Steven J. Soukup Heather J. Strobel Larry A. and Gayla L. Torguson Walmart Stores, Inc. Raymond A. Winsel Sept. 29 College of Pharmacy Scholarship SD Pharmacists Association Jim R. Strunk Randolph E. Treis Faye and Roger Wassenaar Robyn K. Wintersteen Luncheon – SDSU Student Union SD Society of Health System Peter W. and Mardell G. Stuerman Valerie J. Tritz Michael L. Watson Paula A. Winther The Advisory Council requests nominations come from a colleague in the Oct. 26 College Development Council Pharmacists Jim A. and Diane L. Sturdevant Elaine Tucker Eric M. and Christine C. Weaver Nanette S. Wittenberg profession and include the following: Oct. 27 Hobo Day Morrell A. Spencer Daniel M. and Stephanie J. Tyler J. and Kristin J. Turek Marlene M. Weber Dennis B. and Jan F. Olson Wolfe 1. A brief cover letter explaining the nominee’s contributions to the profession Oct. 29 Research Day/Keo Glidden Smith Fall Terry L. and Ann Spitzenberger Svoboda Donald W. Turgeon Bethany M. Weinmeister Women's International Pharmacy, of pharmacy (past and continuing) and ways the individual has shown a Convocation – SDSU Student Union Robert L. Sprecher James L. and Pat A. Swain Barry J. and Lori L. Uecker Thomas P. Weismantel Inc. commitment to the profession and the community. Nov. 2-4 Kappa Psi Fall Conclave – Lawrence P. Springsteen Edward F. and Louise M. Swanson Glen E. and Beth M. Uken Nicole M. Welch Kari L. Wrightsman Omaha, Neb. John W. and Paulene C. Staben Dawn J. Swart Nancy W. Underwood Wells Fargo Bank, NA Bay M. Wu 2. A brief biographical sketch (resume or curriculum vitae would be helpful). Kenneth H. and Marlene M. Stacey Kimberly D. Swingler Pat Underwood Dick O. and Arlene Wells Kevin G. Wurtz 3. An addition letter of support from a colleague or a member of the Nov. 13-15 Pharmacy Days 2012 Dec. 2-6 American Society of Health-System Gary E. Stach Robert K. Sylvester Paul F. Van De Rostyne Andrew L. and Lisa M. Westberg Yankton District Pharmacy community. Harlan C. Stai Patricia A. Tabor Tammy J. Van Der Werff Western Highland Management Association Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting Conley J. Stanage Brian L. and Ann M. Temple Ryan and Deidra Van Gilder Company Kim A. Youngsma – Las Vegas, Nev. Tasha D. Standing Soldier Tracy J. Tennant Katie S. Van Hecke Ted A. and Brigid A. Westley Margaret A. Zard Send materials to: Dan Hansen, SDSU College of Pharmacy, Box 2202C, Jan. 13-17 Pharmacy Phonathon Brett A. and Mary B. Stark Lisa L. Thelen Charles E. and Kathleen S. Van David V. and Amy F. Wettergreen Scott D. and Melaine Zeigler Brookings, SD 57007-0099; or by e-mail at [email protected]. The annual Jan. 30-31 Legislative Days Don C. Stark Gary A. and Emogene J. Thibodeau Hove Dirk T. White Yan Zhang deadline for submitting nominations is March 1, 2013. The College of Pharmacy March 1-4 American Pharmaceutical Tyrone L. and Deidra J. Steen Mary J. Thoennes Clifford E. Van Hove James R. White Joanne Ziarek Association/Academy of Student Loren M. and Susan J. Steenson Mary J. Thomas John J. Van Moer Vern Scott Whitley Roger A. Zobel Advisory Council will select an award winner from the nominees based on the Jared E. and Melissa M. Steger Ben G. Thompson Gary C. and Sharon R. Van Riper Murray D. and Kay Widdis above criteria. Pharmacists Annual Meeting – James L. Stehley Sandra J. Thompson Louis and Desirae Van Roekel Jerome D. Wiederrich The award will be presented at the annual College of Pharmacy Scholarship Los Angeles Lowell T. and Susan Sterler Charles W. Thornton Leon J. and Barbara Vanden Berg Robert D. Wik Luncheon. Nominees not selected for the award are still eligible for three years April 10 Spring Convocation – SDSU Student Union following the nomination. April 10 College Achievement and Recognition Program – SDSU Student Union April 12-13 South Dakota Society of Health- System Pharmacists Annual Meeting Phonathon offers funding, lessons – Rapid City The annual phonathon is a key fundraising The difficulty of making those connections April 12-14 Kappa Psi Spring Conclave – event for the college, but Dean Dennis has been felt by phonathon fundraising Des Moines, Iowa Hedge says there’s more going on than events across campus. Hedge says the April 19 White Coat Ceremony – SDSU collecting pledges. College of Pharmacy is exploring ways to Performing Arts Center “The phonathon is also a very valuable expand its fundraising strategy through May 3 Hooding Ceremony – SDSU opportunity to create a philanthropic culture social media. Performing Arts Center among our students,” Hedge says. “Getting While the phonathon presents some May 4 Graduation students involved serves us well.” challenges, it continues to pay dividends There were 99 pharmacy student for students and faculty. For students, volunteers making the calls during the phonathon funds are invested in student phonathon. Their participation, according to organizations, scholarships and learning Hedge, helps them make the connection infrastructure. Members of the faculty between gifts from alumni and benefit through travel opportunities and opportunities for students such as the staff development programming that can ability to attend a national meeting or listen be brought to campus. Laughrey Lecture Halls dedicated to a noted speaker on campus. “We look at the phonathon as an Those filling the seats in the Laughrey Lecture Halls “It helps them understand the opportunity to generate dollars that can be Thursday afternoon, April 26, were a little older than on importance and value of alumni and friends invested in our students and our faculty,” most days. of the college who give their support. Hedge says. The occasion was the dedication of the Laughrey Without such support, many academic The dean believes that students are Lecture Halls in the basement of the Avera Health and experiences would not be available to quick to make the connection between the Science Center. It included friends of former Brookings them,” Hedge says. generosity they’ve seen in others through High School and South Dakota State (1963) graduate J. This year’s phonathon brought in the phonathon and their own responsibility Bruce Laughrey as well as university leaders. $86,321, down about 6 percent from last to the future. He notes that one of the During presentations, Laughrey, of Windermere, Fla., year’s total. Keeping the phonathon vibrant groups with the highest percentage of received a mounted mortar and pestle from the SDSU has been an ongoing challenge as more phonathon donors is graduates who are in Foundation (far left). Laughrey was joined at the alumni disconnect their landline phones in their first year of pharmacy employment. presentation by his wife, Kandi, and Dean Dennis Hedge favor of cell phones. “They’re already paying it forward a (far right). “It’s becoming more and more difficult little bit for the next generation,” Hedge Laughrey began taking an active fundraising role for the to maintain telephone contact with alumni,” says. “I believe they learned that from college in 1996-97. In late 2011, he made a $1-million gift Hedge says. “We are now seeking ways to many of their experiences here.” better connect with people.” Dana Hess toward the two 90-seat, tiered lecture halls in the $51- million building that was opened in July 2010.

30 SDSU Pharmacy 31 DEAN’S CLUB DEVELOPMENT COLUMN Capital campaign: One question remains Thank you Jan. 1, 2011, to June 12, 2012 Dean’s club membership consists of alumni and friends who have contributed $500 Member names will be listed in the SDSU Honor Roll and the College newsletters. he College of Pharmacy was an enthusiastic SDSU is working to move forward with a or more annually to the College of Pharmacy. Dean’s Club members are recognized They also will receive invitations to special College and University functions, updates partner when the decision was made to Community Pharmacy Residency program to as devoted friends of the College who make significant impact on the College’s future. from the College dean, and an SDSU Dean’s Club car decal. Tproceed with It Starts with STATE: prepare those students interested in running their A Campaign for South Dakota State University. own pharmacy. It is our way to ensure that areas 3M - St. Paul Bill R. Darrah Margaret T. Kelly Steven L. and Marian L. Roberts The campaign opportunities included a new throughout the country maintain the benefit of a Steven M. and Robbie D. Aamot Kirk E. and Stephanie Dean Lee S. Kim Sanford Health home for the College, with expanded space for trained professional in or near their community. Aberdeen District Pharmaceutical Assn. Scott B. Deckert Cheri A. Kraemer Douglas A. and Donna Scheller Academy of Student Pharmacists Richard L. Deming Carrie A. and Terry A. Krieger David F. and Betty J. Schmid classrooms, teaching and research laboratories and The college is fully committed to further Anderson Pharmacy Inc. - dba Alcester Amanda M. DeSchepper David W. and Trish Kruger R. Craig and Carolyn A. Schnell faculty offices. The dedication of the Avera Health expanding its capacity in cutting-edge research. Drug Dian Graves Owen Foundation Fay Kubert Norbert and Jane M. Sebade and Science Center in 2010 remains a signature Promising work in already under way regarding Anderson Pharmacy Inc. - dba Haisch Dennis A. and Carol L. Dingman Jeffrey J. Kuper Chuck and Dorie Sendelbach achievement of the campaign. cancer and other aspects of health science, and Stacey Kutil Pharmacy Dennis D. and Arlene C. Dobesh Stacey A. Kutil Stanley M. and Excellda J. Shaw The goal that alumni and friends have been private gifts will need to be a significant source of Arne A. Anderson Chandradhar and Prabha Dwivedi Eric C. and Shannon Kutscher James C. Sheets James A. Armbruster Donald K. Eddy Brad R. and Emily G. Laible Shopko Stores, Inc. working toward for 5 ½ years is tantalizingly close. revenue to continue this research. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Harlan J. Langstraat Ephriam Sieler Very soon, someone’s gift will officially push It While the College of Pharmacy is proud of all Avera Health Jason D. Ernster Danny L. and Ferrol J. Lattin Paul A. Sinclair Starts with STATE beyond the $200 million goal. that’s been accomplished thanks to the Avera McKennan Hospital Michael L. and Michele M. Evink The Laughrey Family Foundation Sixth Avenue Pharmacy, Inc. But that will occur only because of gifts that have extraordinary generosity of alumni, friends and Bob and Becky Baer First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Bruce and Kandi J. Laughrey Lisa A. Smallbrock already come from more than 21,220 different corporate partners, we are just as enthusiastic Harold S. Bailey Jr. William J. and Lyla K. Flohrs Joo Hyok Lee Richard A. Smith donors. about the opportunities that exist today as we were Janet G. Baird Steven R. Flora Wang S. Lee Zachary P. Smith John C. and Patricia Bartholomew Marvin E. Foss Gary A. and Karen Lesch Merlin J. Snyder Knowing that we will reach the goal several 5 ½ years ago when the new building was on the Tom and Linda J. Bartholomew Alan J. and Charlene A. Freiberg Lewis Drugs, Inc. SD Pharmacists Association months before the scheduled end of the campaign, drawing board. Leonard J. and Ruth A. Bassett Michele A. and Chad M. Fritz Liebe Drug, Inc. Morrell A. Spencer there’s the obvious question: What then? We need to celebrate all that we’ve done Beach Professional Pharmacy Harold E. Fromm Arvid R. and Janet Liebe Gary E. Stach Scholarships will always remain a high priority together and set our sights on the new Owen G. Benthin Jerry J. and Laurie J. Garry Daniel M. and Gail L. Lien Harlan C. Stai for students who enter one of SDSU’s most opportunities that will take one of SDSU’s oldest Thomas L. Beranek Mary C. Ghaffari Christine A. and Brian G. Lounsbery Brett A. and Mary B. Stark rigorous fields. Students face a six-year academic colleges to the next level. Scott J. and Jessie L. Bergman Lyle and Shirley Glascock Joseph A. and Jenna K. Lovely Don C. Stark Bill P. Bernhard GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Hugh P. and Cari L. Mack Loren M. and Susan J. Steenson commitment to earn their Pharm.D. More than 20 Stacey A. Kutil Beverly Plaza Pharmacy Kevin C. and Lorie L. Haarberg Richard D. Manthei James L. Stehley are enrolled in the Ph.D. program. More College of Pharmacy Joye Ann Billow Jean Haas Saballus Barry L. and Sharon J. Markl Lowell T. and Susan Sterler scholarships are needed to help alleviate the cost. Development Director Darrel C. Bjornson Jerry Haas Marion J. Mc Cormack Julie C. Stevens Black Hills Dist. Pharm Assn. Stephen N. and Judith C. Haas Medicine Shoppe-Mitchell James L. and Pat A. Swain Duane C. and Gladys S. Bloedow Paul A. and Paula M. Hammond Medicine Shoppe-Parkston Edward F. and Louise M. Swanson Blythe Drug Dan and Jessica Hansen Medicine Shoppe-Rapid City Patricia A. Tabor James J. Boehm Richard C. and Norma J. Hanson Merck Company Foundation Brian L. and Ann M. Temple Boeing J. Rick and Peggy A. Harter John R. and Corliss M. Moller Gary A. and Emogene J. Thibodeau Jim Bregel Thomas D. and Sheila Zukley Hartnett Christine A. Murphy Laurie A. Tidemann Perry W. and Jolene A. Brown Dennis D. and Susan J. Hedge NACDS Foundation Larry A. and Gayla L. Torguson Marlin R. and Linda J. Brozik Laurilyn D. Helmers Satoshi Nagano Valerie J. Tritz James A. Buechler Bernard E. and Elaine Hietbrink Carney C. Nelson Barry J. and Lori L. Uecker WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Mark A. and Julie K. Burggraff Nancy L. Hildebrand Larry E. and Gail F. Nelson Nancy W. Underwood Russell W. and Janel Buseman David C. and Julie V. Hilderbrand Donald W. and Betty J. Nettleton Pat Underwood Have you moved, accepted a new position, gotten married, given talks in your community, received Send to: Eric J. Carda Joel E. and Rita S. Houglum Network for Good Charles E. and Kathleen S. Van Hove Dan Hansen an advanced degree, had an addition to your family? Everyone at the College of Pharmacy and your College of Pharmacy Cardinal Health Vicki L. Howe Susan A. Lahr and Gordon D. Niva Clifford E. Van Hove classmates want to know what has been happening with you. Jodi L. Carlson Hy-Vee, Inc. Omnicare of South Dakota John J. Van Moer Box 2202C John A. Carson Kathleen K. Ingalls and William Carlson Bo W. Park Gary C. and Sharon R. Van Riper South Dakota State University Casey Corporation Ingersoll-Rand Company Fern E. Paul-Aviles Louis and Desirae Van Roekel Name ______Year Graduated ______Brookings, SD 57007-0099 Terry and Sharon Casey Wendy S. Jensen Bender Leonard A. and Marijean Petersen Leon J. and Barbara Vanden Berg [email protected] Gary S. and Rosemary L. Chappell Justin J. and Beth R. Joachim Vernon E. and Cheryl Peterson Dale G. Vander Hamm Address ______Nicole R. Chenoweth Johnson & Johnson Pfizer Foundation Janelle A. Varney Chet Johnson Drugs, Inc Matthew D. and Annette M. Johnson Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Co. Vernon-Central Botica Pharmacy City/State/Zip______Yee-Lai and Carla R. Chiu David J. and Norma M. Johnson Pharmacy Specialties, Inc. Walgreens Company Marlyn K. and Corinne J. Christensen Thomas J. and Jodi K. Johnson Jayson M. and Jaclyn M. Plamp Walmart Stores, Inc. Telephone (______) ______E-mail ______Larry L. Christensen Matthew Johnson & Julie Hanlon- Dwayne A. and Cheryl L. Plender Kirk S. and Joyce Wilson Nancy K. Peterson and Richard H. Chun Johnson Ryan J. and Andrea M. Poppinga Raymond A. Winsel ______Soon-Riang Chung Susan J. Johnson Prescription Shop, Inc. Nanette S. Wittenberg Cody J. Church Randy L. Jones Mary M. Pullman Dodge Women's International Pharmacy, Inc. ______CIGNA Foundation Galen and Ann Jordre Tom and Shirley A. Rahilly Bay M. Wu James and Marilyn Clem Rollins E. and LeVuo Juhnke Mark W. and Katherine K. Rau Kevin G. Wurtz ______Kay Coffield Pearson Brian L. and Joyce A. Kaatz Florence M. Regan Yankton District Pharmacy Association Complete Home Care, Inc. Edward E. and Linda L. Kamolz Vincent and Patricia Reilly Margaret A. Zard ______Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation Ralph E. Kane Charlene H. Reith Roger A. Zobel Anthony J. and Jacquelynn D. Douglas D. Kapaun Daniel D. and Robin L. Remund ______Cunningham Jerome R. and Nina M. Kappes Curtis Rising Sharon Dady Gary W. and Linda L. Karel Kathy H. Roberts ______

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