Capsule 2007
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Capsule Spring 2007 University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Magazine for Alumni and Friends
AN UNCOMMON MAN LEAVES A LEGACY TO BUILD ON After leading 18 years of progress at the School of Pharmacy,Pharmacy, David A. Knapp, PhD, steps down as dean Dean’s University of Maryland MESSAGE Capsule School of Pharmacy Alumni Magazine ON MAY 18, I HAD THE PLEASURE of hooding 120 new PharmDs at the School of Pharmacy Honors Convocation held at the Kraushaar Auditorium at Goucher Spring 2007 College. The event was attended by hundreds of family members, alumni, and Contents friends who watched and applauded as the faculty awarded praise and recognition for the accomplishments of these gifted graduates. Later that day, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore commencement ceremonies at the 1st Mariner Arena, I congratulated each graduate as I presented the diploma—the coveted document that verified the passage from student to status as a “Maryland Brand” pharmacist. Another dozen graduates received their PhDs that afternoon. 2 Many of these graduates will begin practice immediately, while others will SCHOOL NEWS continue their education by pursuing residencies, fellowships, graduate studies or another degree in law, public health or business administration. But for each, a major life goal has been reached in the successful completion of the professional 6 doctorate. This Maryland education will pave the way for success in whatever career THE LEGACY OF DEAN KNAPP path is eventually realized. For the remainder of their professional lives, these Bold, Innovative, and Revolutionary graduates will carry the brand of their Maryland education and, of this, we can all BY ROBYN FIESER be proud. You are well aware of the rigor of our program. You understand the commit-
ment and effort required of these graduates. But you also realize—as do they—that Photograph by Peter Howard their education will not and cannot ever stop. Much of the content that they have 10 learned over the course of four years is already out-of-date or obsolete. Many of the TECHNOLOGY DEPENDENT AND skills that they have obtained must still be honed from experience and with the PEGGY FUNK, Capsule Editor TECHNICIAN DRIVEN guidance of their colleagues. It will be up to you to step forward to guide and Interim Director, Marketing A New Rx for Pharmacy Education mentor these newly “hatched” pharmacists as they take their place in the profession. and Communications BY RANDOLPH FILLMORE They are well prepared and ready to contribute. Please welcome them into our School of Pharmacy profession! SUSIE FLAHERTY, Senior Editor This is my last “Dean’s Message” for Capsule. MARY SPIRO, Editor 13 I have seen this alumni publication grow from an eight-page, in-house newsletter TRACY BOYD, Senior Designer SIX ALUMNI. ONE ALMA MATER. to the full-color magazine that it is today. In some ways, the evolution of Capsule has Office of External Affairs mirrored changes in the School of Pharmacy over the past 15 years—it is larger and Infinite Possibilities multifaceted, yet always striving to improve its excellence. Special thanks to the BY GWEN NEWMAN The School is now undertaking a growth initiative that includes a substantial following contributors: increase in the number of our faculty, the construction of a new building, and the Michele Ewing enrollment of more students to meet the insatiable demand for patient-centered Executive Director, Development 16 and Alumni Affairs pharmacy services by an aging population. We are innovating by extending our ACADEMIC NEWS PharmD program to the Universities at Shady Grove in Montgomery County. With Alison Davitt your continued enthusiastic support, the years ahead are destined to be great for the Major Gifts Officer University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and for Maryland Brand pharmacists. Kelly Priest 22 Director, Development for ALUMNI NEWS With best wishes, Special Gifts and Programs Emily Lovald Development Associate Mimi M. Wasti We welcome your comments, news, and suggestions for articles. Send your ideas to Peggy Funk David A. Knapp, PhD Coordinator, Office of the Dean at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, 20 N. Pine St., Suite 752, Baltimore, MD 21201. Dean E-mail: [email protected]; Telephone: 410-706-1690; Fax: 410-706-4012. (1991-2007) www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu Copyright © 2007 University of Maryland School of Pharmacy SCHOOL
news Featured speaker Robert McGlotten, assistant secretary for business development at the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, at left, and Associate Professor Hamid Ghandehari, PhD, director of the Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery Assistant Dean Announced for Shady Grove Minorities in Pharmacy Forum n February, the Student National Pharmaceutical Association as it could be in addressing issues because the people doing the PharmD Program work don’t communicate with colleagues in other fields. The result eather Brennan Congdon, PharmD, has been appointed Ihosted the forum, “Past, Present, and Future: The Changing is a “silo” effect, in which research in particular fields accumulates, assistant dean of the PharmD program at the Universities at Faces of Pharmacy in the Minority Community.” The distinguished H but doesn’t get shared or integrated across other fields. Ramsay, in Shady Grove. Congdon earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at panel of speakers included Ramona Hawkins, RPh; Capt. Jo Ann a brief address at the opening of the conference, said his strategy the University of Pittsburgh and completed her residency in phar- Spearmon, PharmD ’97; Gina McKnight-Smith, PharmD ’97; and in approving the CNCD as an Organized Research Center was to “try macy practice with an emphasis in community care at the Latasha Weeks, PharmD ’07. to get out of the way as much as you can, and try to break down silos.” University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Hawkins began her career at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1952 Progress in nanomedicine—which uses microscopic particles in 2003. She served as an assistant profes- and stated that she has witnessed a tremendous evolution in the for diagnostics, targeted therapies, and drug delivery, among other sor of clinical pharmacy at West Virginia profession—pharmacists now have an infinite number of possibili- things—can only be achieved if researchers in fields as varied as University (WVU), beginning in 2003. She ties available to them. Now a retired pharmacist for the U.S. Food Nanomedicine Research Day materials engineering, chemistry, biology, pharmacy, and medicine was the first pharmacy faculty member and Drug Administration (FDA), Hawkins remains active with the he School of Pharmacy’s Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular collaborate. appointed at the Eastern Division satellite Maryland Pharmaceutical Society. The University of Maryland Delivery (CNCD) hosted its inaugural Nanomedicine Research William E. Kirwan, PhD, chancellor of the University System of campus of WVU, where she developed and School of Pharmacy Alumni Association honored her in 2005 as T Day on March 23 and offered scientists a chance to learn about Maryland and another keynote speaker at the event, said that implemented an ambulatory care practice an Honorary Alumnus. some of the latest developments in nanomedicine research in the nanomedicine has the “potential for revolutionary advances in site, as well as identified and enrolled new Spearmon, president of the National Pharmaceutical state. The CNCD, recently designated a campus Organized Research medicine,” and it “can be one of the biggest science-based economic Heather Brennan fourth-year PharmD rotation sites in West Association, currently serves as director of health promotion for Congdon, PharmD Center by University President David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil, includes development engines.” Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle. She had sub- MedWatch, the FDA’s safety information and adverse event report- researchers from different schools at the University, as well as Only a few countries have the capability to develop this emerg- stantial administrative experience at the ing program. Spearmon advised students not to be intimidated by researchers from different universities in the state and private compa- ing technology, he said, and the Baltimore/Washington corridor— WVU satellite campus and is familiar with distance learning through challenges but to embrace them. nies working to bring developments in nanomedicine to the market. with its concentration of federal agencies, academic research giving lectures via an interactive video conferencing system to the McKnight-Smith is a founding member of the University of The discussions that took place during and after Nanomedicine centers, and research parks for private companies—has “an unfair main campus in Morgantown, W.Va. She practices at Harpers Ferry Maryland School of Pharmacy’s Beta Lambda Chapter of Phi Research Day among presenters and the nearly 100 scientists in advantage” in becoming a hub for the industry. “Partnerships like (W.Va.) Family Medicine. Lambda Sigma. She sits on the School of Pharmacy’s Board of attendance were precisely what its organizers, Hamid Ghandehari, this,” Kirwan told participants, “will be key to building our region The Universities at Shady Grove is located in Rockville, Md., Visitors and serves as a clinical assistant professor for the School. PhD, and Anjan Nan, PhD, hoped to achieve. Topics of discussion into the powerhouse in nanomedicine research.” and will welcome a cohort of 40 first-year PharmD students when included challenges facing the industry—from the unknown conse- Robert McGlotten, assistant secretary at the Maryland it opens in the fall. quences of having nanoparticles in the human body for extended Department of Business and Economic Development, echoed periods, to regulatory and liability issues, to environmental concerns. Kirwan’s call to make the state a leader in the industry. He said the “All the ingredients are here to propel Maryland to a leadership state’s priorities include creating an executive-level life sciences position,” Ramsay said. advisory board and expanding the bioscience research and Too often, conference organizers said, research isn’t as effective development tax credit. —Jeff Raymond Partners in Pharmacy Education or the fourth consecutive year, Lynette Bradley-Baker, PhD ’99, BSP ’92, at right, Fmanager of professional and college relations for CVS/pharmacy, presented a check for $20,000 to Dean David A. Knapp, PhD, and Associate Dean for Student Affairs Jill Dean’s Hall of Fame Morgan, PharmD (not pictured). CVS/pharmacy is a Titanium sponsor for the School’s In May, John Gregory, DPS (hon.) ’02, BSP ’76, center (with his wife, Partners in Pharmacy Education Program. Joan), was inducted into the Dean’s Hall of Fame of Distinguished Through its commitment of $100,000, CVS/pharmacy has made many programs Community Pharmacists. Dean David A. Knapp, PhD, recognized possible such as the White Coat Ceremony, the graduation banquet, student travel to Gregory for his life’s work and dedication to community service, which professional conferences, and student participation in the interdisciplinary patient began in independent pharmacy practice and continued through several management competition. Faculty, staff, and students once again extend their sincere successful entrepreneurial ventures. As part of the program, students appreciation to CVS/pharmacy for its continued support, dedication, and commitment had the opportunity to hear Gregory and his brother, Jefferson Gregory, to the School as a Partner in Pharmacy Education. JD ’85, BSP ’79, left, share their experiences as entrepreneurs.
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Paul A. Pumpian Endowed Lecture Laurels Faculty members Cynthia Boyle, recognize specific distinctive ment organization that seeks to James Trovato, PharmD, was PharmD, and Robert Beardsley, accomplishments and achieve- inform top-level executives from appointed a member of the José Hernandez, PhD ’07, PhD, along with David Holdford, ments in the area of education. public and private sectors about American Journal of Health- standing at right, recipient of the PhD, of Virginia Commonwealth critical issues, challenges, and System Pharmacists editorial Dr. Arthur Schwartz Award for University, edited Leadership and The following School staff have opportunities facing the state of board for the American Society Academic Advancement, receives Advocacy for Pharmacy, published earned degrees over the past Maryland. of Health-System Pharmacists. congratulations from members of by the American Pharmacists year: Erica Chaffin in the Dean’s the Schwartz family. Association (APhA). The book Office, an MBA; Barbara Hunter Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, Angela Wilks, PhD, has been deals with issues affecting health in the Department of Pharmacy was featured in The Daily Record appointed to the Committee on care delivery that require effec- Practice and Science, a BA; and article, “Roll Up Your Sleeves for Macromolecular Structure and tive leadership, political advocacy, Tracie Jones in the Department a Flu Shot at the Pharmacy.” The Function, a study section of the and a high level of professional- of Pharmaceutical Sciences, an article described how Layson- National Institutes of Health’s ism. It advocates that develop- MBA. Wolf advocates the efforts of Center for Scientific Review. Her ment of these skills should begin pharmacists and students in the term will run from July 1, 2007, in pharmacy school and continue Thomas Dowling, PharmD, PhD, area of immunization. to June 30, 2011. throughout the pharmacy career. was elected a member of the Featured speaker for It contends that student pharma- American College of Clinical Alex MacKerell, PhD, received the Paul A. Pumpian cists will be the voice of the pro- Pharmacology. He was also fea- the 2006 Maryland Chemist of Former classmates enjoy an impromptu mini-reunion follow- Endowed Lecture, ing the Pumpian Lecture on March 6. Seated in front from the fession in the future and must tured recently in a Medscape the Year Award from the Henri Manasse Jr., left are Betty (Wagner) Cohen, BSP ’49, and Phyllis (Wagner) PhD, ScD, at left, joined be prepared not only to advocate (from WebMD.com) spotlight American Chemical Society Brill Wingrat, BSP ’50. Standing from left are Donald Fedder, School of Pharmacy for the patients but also for their program focusing on kidney dis- (ACS). The award was estab- Accreditation BSP ’50; Paul Pumpian, JD ’53, BSP ’50; and Jerome Schwartz, Professor Frank Palumbo, PhD, JD, profession. ease. The 55-minute video offers lished in 1962 to recognize and Council Visits DDS ’59, BSP ’49. outside the newly relocated and reno- Beardsley also co-authored pharmacists 1 credit of continu- to honor a member of the vated Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research. Communication Skills in Pharmacy ing education. Maryland Section of ACS for A site visit in March from Practice, 5th Edition, published outstanding achievement in the the Accreditation Council by Williams & Wilkins in January Stuart Haines, PharmD, was field of chemistry. for Pharmacy Education’s 2007. installed as a Fellow of the evaluation team has been Academy of Pharmacy Practice Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, deemed a success. The Cynthia Boyle, PharmD, will and Management at the 2007 PharmD, was the recipient of School’s accreditation chair the 2007 APhA House of APhA meeting in Atlanta. the APhA 2007 Community hinges on a comprehensive Delegates’ New Business Review Pharmacy Residency Program Committee. The committee Margaret Hayes, MS, director of Excellence in Precepting Award. evaluation of its entire reviews the items of new business Student Educational Services With more than 50 community academic program, both submitted to the APhA House of and Outreach at the School of residency programs in the coun- at Baltimore and the Delegates and recommends Pharmacy, recently completed an try and hundreds of community Universities at Shady Grove. action on those items. eight-month leadership develop- residency preceptors, Rodriguez The evaluation team was ment program sponsored by de Bittner has been singled out. pleased with the commit- Nicole Brandt, PharmD, was Leadership Maryland. Hayes and This is great recognition of her ment and effort made in awarded the American Society of her classmates were honored at work and mentorship of numer- preparation for the launch Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) a black-tie reception and banquet ous community residents at the of the Shady Grove DuMez Lecture Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) 2007 Leadership in Education held in December at the School. She is chair of William Ellis, RPh, MS, executive The AMCP student chapter won first place at the National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Competition held in San expansion of the PharmD director and CEO of the American Diego. The competition is designed to engage PharmD students nationwide in evidence-based pharmacy, including Award. The award was estab- Renaissance Harborplace Hotel the Department of Pharmacy program. Pharmacists Association Foundation, the application of pharmacy and outcomes research to real world situations from the perspective of managed care lished to honor the unique and in Baltimore. Leadership Practice and Science. was the keynote speaker at the decision makers. This was the second consecutive year that a School of Pharmacy team captured first place. From innovative educational endeav- Maryland is an independent, Andrew G. DuMez Memorial Lecture left, Sherief Shaaban; Fadia Shaya, PhD, MPH (faculty advisor); Jeanne Lim; Jeff Lee; Jean Brown; John Watkins; ors of ASCP members and to educational leadership develop- held March 27. Darlene Mednick; Matthew Casciano; Raymond Bleu-Lainé; and Samuel Lee, chapter president.
4 capsule SPRING 2007 5 BY ROBYN FIESER
“ OOLS RUSH IN, WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD,” THE SONG GOES. AND THOUGH IT WAS APRIL 1, 1989, WHEN DAVIDFA. KNAPP, PHD, STEPPED IN TO SERVE AS ACTING DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY—INITIALLY JUST A TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT—THE LEGACY HE LEAVES TODAY AFTER
18 YEARS AS THE SCHOOL’S LEADER CAN BE DESCRIBED AS BOLD, INNOVATIVE, AND REVOLUTIONARY.
Soon after assuming leadership, As a graduate student at Purdue, changing to a PharmD program had Knapp led the School to become the Knapp spent a summer working for the been debated in pharmacy schools across first in the Northeast to offer a four-year late William Apple, the executive director the country since the 1950s, no East pharmacy degree—the PharmD. of the American Pharmacists Association Coast school had made the change by Eighteen years later, the School is one in Washington, D.C., where he was 1989. As acting dean, Knapp saw prob- of the largest and most selective pharmacy charged with studying the pharmacist lems with the three-year curriculum. schools in the United States, accepting work force and the distribution and use “It had become a very rigorous program just 120 of 1,000 applicants each year. It’s of pharmacists. It is an issue that has with no room to breathe and no electives,” ranked eighth in the country among influenced much of his work and many he says. pharmacy schools by U.S.News & World of his decisions as dean. Staking his early career on the Report and has a burgeoning research “The shortage issue is an issue that change, he went to bat for the doctoral community growing up around it. keeps coming back,” Knapp says. “We program. There was controversy and But ever humble, Knapp is not one to never seem to solve these problems.” opposition to lengthening the curriculum claim the spotlight for these achievements. He came to the University of from three to four years and requiring “I’ve always taken it one day at a time. Maryland School of Pharmacy in 1971, students to pay more tuition. But Knapp I came into this position by accident,” subsequently serving as chair of the looked beyond the controversy, focusing Knapp says. As he sets to retire this year, Department of Pharmacy Administration, instead on how the changing role of colleagues say it is Knapp’s vision that the Department of Pharmacy Practice pharmacists would require enhanced has helped turn the School into one of and Administrative Science, and associ- pharmaceutical care and therefore an the world’s best. ate dean of research before being named education more focused on clinical THE “Deans are supposed to be leaders, acting dean in 1989. He was appointed services and patient care. and this dean has been an exceptional dean of the School of Pharmacy in “He championed the PharmD program leader,” says Richard Penna, PharmD, 1991 and is now the senior dean on the in the face of an awful lot of opposition, chair of the Board of Visitors for the University of Maryland, Baltimore and he was able to get it implemented. School of Pharmacy. campus. That took a lot of work behind the Knapp began his academic career Knapp’s first initiative as acting dean scenes,” says Harold Chappelear, DSC in 1964 as an assistant professor at was to reform the professional curricu- (hon.) ’98, BSP, one of the founders of Legacy The Ohio State University College of lum and move to the PharmD program, UPM Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (UPM), Pharmacy. He completed his PhD in which took the School from a three-year formerly known as University Pharma- OF DEAN KNAPP pharmacy administration from Purdue baccalaureate program to a four-year ceuticals of Maryland. University a year later. Doctor of Pharmacy program. Although Chain drugstore leaders feared the
6 capsule Photograph by Peter Howard SPRING 2007 7 move to the PharmD program would dry up Pharmacy Center for Nanomedicine and attention on the center’s work, and they have that would make many deans envious,” says their already limited pool of pharmacy Cellular Delivery is a campuswide Organized allocated $2.2 million in additional state Penna, who has known Knapp for more graduates, so they proposed state legislation Research Center focused on revolutionary funding to the center during the most recent than 30 years. Our success to block it. nanosystems and devices to treat disease. In legislative session. That momentum will manifest again this “Dean Knapp and I worked together for addition to bringing in federal research Another innovative program that Knapp fall, when the School opens a satellite cam- was pivotal in six months on that,” says T. Sue Gladhill, dollars, the centers give the School a foot- helped to win state money for this year is the pus at the Universities at Shady Grove in MSW, vice president for External Affairs for print in national health care issues such as Maryland P3 (Patients, Pharmacists, Partner- Montgomery County with a cohort of 40 the national debate the University. Working behind the scenes, Medicaid. ships) Program, an innovative diabetes first-year students—expanding the size of Knapp and Gladhill managed to get their According to Chappelear, even UPM management program being piloted in the School’s incoming class to 160 students, about the doctoral “ opponents’ bill defeated by one vote. came about as a result of research initiatives Allegany County. The voluntary program—a or by one-third. Knapp has already set in program as a “The issue had come to a head, and we on Knapp’s watch. Working to develop the partnership among patients, pharmacists, motion an initiative to double the size of the needed some leadership,” Penna adds. technology that drug makers use to create physicians, and employers—provides Doctor of Pharmacy program during the requirement for “Dean Knapp was instrumental, and the rest time-released drugs so that patients take employee incentives aimed at helping next decade. To accomplish this, 24 new is just history.” fewer pills, UPM today is a flourishing people manage their diabetes with support faculty members will join the School over graduation and The School gained national prominence business. But there were times when UPM from pharmacists trained by the School of the next three years, mostly at the Baltimore practice as a at that point and was viewed across the country relied heavily on Knapp. Pharmacy. campus, which will allow the School to as a leader in advocating for the PharmD “We had no money. We started on a boot- Also under Knapp’s direction, the School maintain a low student-to-faculty ratio—a pharmacist. program, Knapp says. “Our success was piv- strap, and we started offering our services,” provides services to the University of Maryland hallmark of its professional programs. otal in the national debate about the doctoral says Chappelear, adjunct professor at the Medical System and the Veterans Affairs “The thing about this growth initiative is program as a requirement for graduation School. “We were close to bankruptcy more Maryland Health Care System, as well as to that the new dean will be able to build on a and practice as a pharmacist.” than once. I mean, there were times when several mental health hospitals in the state. great faculty and a good group of students,” The School admitted its first PharmD we had to pass the hat on Friday just to pay “We’ve developed excellent programs and Knapp says. class in 1993. Within six years, the American the employees. But the dean stuck it out.” clinical service,” Knapp says. “Every practice In what could serve as Knapp’s most ” Council of Pharmaceutical Education (now Six years after it began, UPM was able to faculty member is an active practitioner.” significant achievement yet, the University called the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy secure venture capital with the help of a loyal With so much growth and activity, space has gained initial funding to construct an Education), which accredits schools of phar- alumnus and become independent, although has been an ongoing issue for the School of 80,000-square-foot addition to Pharmacy macy, mandated that all schools move to the the University remains a shareholder. Pharmacy. But Knapp has been able to find Hall that would double the School’s space, PharmD as the sole entry-level pharmacy Today, UPM employs about 50 people and creative ways to grow the School. In 2003, providing additional instructional areas and degree by 2000. is housed in a facility in East Baltimore. for example, the School of Pharmacy’s expanded research facilities. The building, a In recent years, Knapp’s vision has helped Knapp’s momentum also has developed Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences longtime Knapp project, is in the planning the School grow its research base through the School’s involvement in the community moved to the top two floors of the new stages. Although a second round of pharma- recruitment and faculty development. Last and in clinical service. “I don’t know anyone Health Sciences Facility II. This 101,000- cy funding was deferred in the most recent year, the School received about $15 million who is more loyal and understands giving square-foot, $78 million state-of-the-art legislative session, Knapp is confident that in extramural funding, a six-fold increase and getting like Dean Knapp,” Chappelear research facility doubled the amount of lab he will see the building’s construction. since Knapp took over as dean, says William says. and research space available for the School’s “We’ve fought very hard to get the Cooper, MBA, associate dean for finance and Central to its commitment to the study of the biology of disease, mechanisms money,” Knapp says. And it is that type of administration. community is the School of Pharmacy’s of drug action, and drug design. commitment to the School and its progress Focusing on high-impact areas, the Maryland Poison Center. Founded in the Last year the Department of Pharma- that Knapp’s colleagues say has left the School has initiated several centers in recent 1970s, the poison center has grown signifi- ceutical Health Services Research moved biggest impact. years. For example, the Peter Lamy Center cantly while Knapp has been dean, making it onto an entire floor of the Saratoga Building, “Dean Knapp has always had a vision of for Drug Therapy and Aging works to a statewide public health resource. With a relieving overcrowding and providing expan- a pharmacy profession in change,” Penna improve drug therapy for the elderly through mission to provide up-to-date information to sion space for the department for years to says, and Gladhill adds, “It’s been Dean innovative research, education, and clinical the public and health care professionals come. And as Knapp retires this summer, Knapp who has led the School of Pharmacy initiatives, and its director, Bruce Stuart, about potential poisons, the center answers the School begins instruction of its largest to become one of the top schools of pharmacy PhD, holds the Parke-Davis Chair in as many as 65,000 telephone calls a year. incoming class ever. in the world. This I believe with all my Geriatric Pharmacotherapy. The School of Knapp has been able to focus lawmakers’ “He leaves the School with a momentum heart.”
8 capsule SPRING 2007 9 Technology Dependent and Technician Driven: A New Rx for Pharmacy Education
BY RANDOLPH FILLMORE
arla and Tony move along the corridors of the institutional partners, the University of Maryland Medical Center ROBOTIC RX FOR IMPROVED PATIENT CARE Along with the TUGs, Vaidya also oversees the Intellifill i.v.™ University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), and the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System (VAMHCS), The use of robots to perform some of the more routine pharmacy system that automates vial and syringe filling from bags in its faithfully delivering medications accurately and cost are working together to incorporate these new technologies into tasks seems to be the prescription for increasing the amount of automation deck and prepares small volume intravenous medica- efficiently. And, they don’t mean to be rude by not the training of 21st-century pharmacists—including the time that pharmacists and technicians can spend in direct tions in an aseptic environment in high-speed batches. Robotic stopping to chat with their co-workers as they per- introduction of pharmacoinformatics, automation, robotics, and patient care and interaction. steps are also carried out for labeling, bar code scanning, and Cform their slate of routine pharmacy tasks such as drug delivery, pharmacogenomics in the classroom and the clinic. In so doing, “Robotic dispensing not only reduces error rates to less than visual confirmations. Not only does the system reduce errors and counting, and labeling—it’s just that Carla and Tony are robots. the “Maryland Brand” pharmacists of the 21st century will have one-hundredth of 1 percent, it allows the pharmacist to shift to relieve staff shortages, the system reduces the cost of preparation The use of robots to deliver medications, or perform any of the at their disposal the most comprehensive knowledge and the more patient-centered activities,” Summerfield adds. “Technology and the need for large inventories of medications. other pharmacy duties previously carried out by humans, is proba- most leading-edge tools of the trade so that they can focus on allows the technician to do things formerly done by the pharma- bly one of the most visible indications that the practice of pharmacy the patient care and compassion for which they are so well cist, which leaves the pharmacist free to do things he or she did INFORMATION MANAGEMENT HOLDS THE KEY has undergone a revolution in recent years. From the education of known. not have time to do before.” Another essential addition to the foundational training of today’s new pharmacists to the delivery of services at the patient’s bedside “By the end of the decade, we expect to be a national leader in But robots like Carla and Tony, referred to as TUG robots, are pharmacists is in the overarching area of pharmacoinformatics, or retail store counter, the advent of technologically advanced phar- employing new technology to enhance efficiency, improve medica- still somewhat of a novelty. which is central to the management of drug information, drug macy products and services aimed at improving patient safety and tion safety and security, improve quality of care, and advance “We were the first in the country to use the TUG robots to interactions, and prescription data, among other information relat- error-free medication delivery is transforming the profession. An clinical practice,” says Marc Summerfield, MS ’76, RPh, adjunct deliver medications to the floor,” says Neelesh Vaidya, PharmD ’05, ed to patient care and safety. Best practices in pharmacy rely on the explosion in the study of genetics and genomics also has presented professor at the School of Pharmacy and director of the UMMC BSP ’88, operations manager at the UMMC pharmacy who ability to document, store, and easily retrieve medical information. the pharmacy profession with the challenge of educating practition- pharmacy. “Technology is the key to this goal” where the new, supervises the robots. The robotic delivery system can operate The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education now also ers who understand how biotechnology impacts drug delivery. high-tech institutional pharmacy is “technology dependent and 24/7, Vaidya adds, greatly increasing efficiency. And there are requires training in informatics. The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and its technician driven,” he adds. other systems in place to help pharmacists out. “Pharmacoinformatics is where medication meets technology,”
10 capsule Illustration by Emery Pajer SPRING 2007 11 explains Sandi Mitchell, RPh, MSIS, clinical assistant professor at the vials that are, in turn, checked visually by a pharmacy techni- the School of Pharmacy. “By designing and installing clinician- cian and the pharmacist. friendly applications that communicate the right information about “A scan of the patient bar code displays all of the patient’s other the right patient at the right time and in the right format, the prescriptions into an open window on the computer screen,” says health care system is ready to optimize patient outcomes based on Soetje. “This locks out other technicians and pharmacists from evidence-based medication decisions. Pharmacists need to be working on the same patient, reducing the likelihood of a patient leaders in informatics.” receiving another patient’s medications.” Six Alumni. For example, pharmacists at VAMHCS use computerized med- ical records to ensure patient safety and better clinical decision THE ROLE OF GENETICS making. As one of the School of Pharmacy’s partners, VAMHCS Advances in the field of genetics and genomics have required One Alma Mater. provides clinical training for pharmacy students who have the 21st-century pharmacists to learn to manage sophisticated biotech- opportunity to experience state-of-the-art patient care using a com- nology, gene therapy products, and diagnostic agents. The answers puterized system to track medications, symptoms, and outcomes. to questions on how these innovations will change the face of the Infinite Possibilities. Janelle Gustinucci, PharmD, clinical assistant professor at hospital and health care system pharmacy work force remain, but the School of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacy specialist for forward thinking has suggested that pharmacy education will need BY GWEN NEWMAN VAMHCS, acquaints students with the Computerized Patient some retooling to meet new needs. Record System. The system has not only replaced paper-based “Biologics, vaccines, contrast media, gene therapy materials, patient charts, but also can run comparative reports so that the and imaging techniques are incredibly complex and have huge wo cousins. A husband and wife. A father and son. Phyllis grew up working in her father’s store, Wagner & Wagner, pharmacist can see, for instance, when a blood pressure medicine implications for institutional pharmacy,” says Henri Manasse Jr., Six individuals. Six pharmacy professionals. One alma mater. and saw her future in the same field practiced by an uncle, her was administered as well as fluctuations in blood pressure that PhD, ScD, executive vice president and CEO of the American These School of Pharmacy graduates, along with their respec- cousin, and brother. She began her career working side by side correspond to dosing times. Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and former mem- t with father, became a partner, and later took ownership of the busi- tive loved ones, each have vastly different stories. Yet they all share Another component of pharmacoinformatics is bar coding both ber of the School’s Board of Visitors. “These technologies must be a similar conviction: that their pharmacy education provided the ness when he died. She also worked for more than 15 years at the medications and patients, which greatly reduces medication error treated differently than drugs, as many have unique public policy firm foundation from which they have pursued their lifelong University of Maryland and Sinai hospital pharmacies, respectively. rates. “We have also added bar implications, supply chain management issues, and preparation personal and professional dreams. She particularly enjoyed direct contact with physicians and coding to our outpatient pre- requirements. Pharmacists will need to pay attention to those patients and liked the opportunity to remain active in continuing “By designing and scription program,” says Fred issues and bring unique training and skill sets to their use and the TRAILBLAZING COUSINS education courses, vital to keeping pharmacists current in an ever- Soetje, RPh, MS, clinical assis- more direct patient care involvement that they require.” etty (Wagner) Cohen, BSP ’49, and Phyllis (Wagner) Brill changing environment. “It’s an entirely different field from when I installing clinician- tant professor at the School and Rising to meet the challenges that these new treatment modali- BWingrat, BSP ’50, entered the pharmacy profession at a time started,” says Phyllis, who retired in 2004. chief of pharmacy services at ties bring will cause pharmacy education to adapt, he adds. And when there were few women in the classroom. Betty was one of friendly applications VAMHCS. while Manasse doesn’t think the PharmD curriculum will extend eight women to graduate out of a class of 50. Phyllis was just one A CUSTOM FIT FOR A COUPLE VA medical centers nation- beyond four years, “Postdoctoral training and residencies in these of five women in a class of 75 and the only one to earn her degree. elix and Terry (Nayer) Gyi, who both earned BSPs with the that communicate wide have been bar coding and areas will be in higher demand, and new and sound credentials They say they never intended to forge a path for women in FClass of 1983, have also witnessed the transformation of the matching medications to inpa- will be required,” he says. pharmacy. Rather, it seemed perfectly natural to them. pharmacy profession. the right information tients for some time. VAMHCS Manasse says the ASHP has long-range visions for the institu- Betty was attracted to the field because it seemed to offer more Terry Gyi, PharmD ’06, BSP ’83, began her career with the also recently implemented the tional pharmacy work force in the changing environment. flexibility for working moms than a customary four-year college Maryland Poison Center (MPC). For 10 years at MPC, she offered about the right patient ScriptPro 200 Central system to “ASHP’s position is that pharmacists with technology and degree. She began her career at the Read’s, Inc. drugstore chain for emergency assistance and provided poison-related information in at the right time and process the state’s 1.58 million informatics expertise will be crucial influencers of choice and use the “princely salary of $2 an hour,” and she later joined her brother crisis situations. She worked as a pharmacist at the Howard annual outpatient prescriptions technologies to ensure patient safety, effectiveness of care, and at Arcade Pharmacy in Baltimore, where she structured her hours County General Hospital for three years filling prescriptions, mak- in the right format, and ensure that the right efficiency,” Manasse says. “Most new graduates entering hospital around her three children’s school schedules. She eventually made ing intravenous solutions, and preparing total parenteral nutrition outpatient gets the and health-system practice will continue to require further learning her way to Chase Pharmacy, where she was employed for 25 years, solutions. For the next 10 years, she worked as a scientific abstrac- the health care system correct drug. and sound credentials to function in highly specialized clinical retiring in 1999. tor for the journal International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, locating According to Soetje, settings. “Pharmacy has been very good to me,” Betty says with a smile, cutting-edge literature from all over the world and compiling sum- is ready to optimize the automated system “Pharmacogenomics tries to predict how drugs may behave in and notes some highlights of her career include being one of the maries for reprint. selects the right drug individual patients,” adds Manasse. “Who is better than the phar- first assistant pharmacists at Read’s, witnessing the introduction of “I loved it,” says Terry, who, because she worked from home, patient outcomes and displays a visual macist to bring unique skills to this responsibility?” antibiotics to the pharmacy shelves, and seeing women executives was able to arrange her schedule around that of her growing image of the product Who better, indeed, than the Maryland Brand pharmacist excel in the pharmaceutical field. “We’ve come into our own, I daughter and was also able to immerse herself in her chosen pro- based on evidence- on the computer trained in the most technologically advanced pharmacy products, guess you would say.” fession. “It really kept me up to date with the happenings in the screen. It then fills, and using services aimed at improving patient safety and error-free Like Betty, Phyllis was surrounded by relatives in the health sci- pharmaceutical and health fields, not only in the U.S. but around based medication labels, and bar codes medication delivery. That’s who. ences, most of them in pharmacy. Her father was a pharmacist, the world.” and when Phyllis was in high school, her mother attended college Abstracting became automated, so she returned to school to decisions.” classes to pursue her own interest in the field. “I knew all about earn her PharmD in 2006, also from the School of Pharmacy. She drugstores,” she says. “It was very familiar to me.” is now re-entering a job force that offers even greater potential.
12 capsule SPRING 2007 13 “I also enjoyed collecting money, bringing it back, the business end Eric says he was prompted to pursue a profession that he had only of things,” Irvin says. watched from the sidelines. The day he learned that he’d been Pharmacy school was challenging but rewarding, he recalls. “I accepted to the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy—his survived chemical pharmacology,” he jokes. After graduation, Irvin 21st birthday—was “the best night,” Eric recalls. worked for the Read’s, Inc. drugstore chain, where he earned $3.30 His parents were proud. “I knew the business inside and out,” an hour. He then took a job at Giant pharmacy, where he was Eric says. “And the patients loved him,” adds Irvin. And while Eric employed for 11 years. He loved the job, but his wife saw greater and Irvin share similar motivations despite the 30-year difference potential and suggested that he strike out on his own. in their graduation dates, they have been presented with profoundly HUSBAND It wasn’t until 1975—with some misgivings about giving up the different outlooks on the landscape of their profession. AND WIFE three weeks of vacation that he had finally earned—that Irvin Today’s pharmacy practice is more technologically driven and opened Family Pharmacy in Hampstead, Md. “I closed my eyes has veered from its roots of personal compounding. Through Felix & Terry Gyi and jumped with both feet.” compounding, pharmacists can customize medications and make Indeed, Irvin and his wife did not take a vacation that first year, prescriptions not available at other stores. They can also convert COUSINS as both worked long hours in their 3,000-square-foot store. But drugs from one form to another or make multiple-dose, heat-sealed their two children were always on the scene. As Irvin’s customer blister packs containing complex prescription regimens for Betty Cohen & base grew steadily, he maintained his one-on-one service. And, he patients in assisted-living facilities. Phyllis Brill says, he will forever cherish the opportunities he had to train, Eric wanted to offer this customized service. He purchased his Wingrat observe, and mentor. “I enjoyed bringing in School of Pharmacy father’s Hampstead pharmacy and reopened it in May 2007, in a externs who were getting their first on-site experience in the field. new, more visible location (shown below prior to opening) around They transformed so much in two years.” the corner from where his father had first opened the store some It came as a surprise when young Eric announced his inten- 30 years earlier. Along with compounding, the store features a Terry is carefully weighing her options, and seeking challenge, tions to enter the profession. Eric was 8 years old when Irvin drive-through window, “It’s something other pharmacists don’t while she watches her husband’s pharmaceutical enterprise develop. opened the Family Pharmacy and, at the time, he regarded time do,” Eric says. “I love the uniqueness and the individuality of it.” A native of Burma who moved to the U.S. at the age of 12, Felix spent at the pharmacy as a hindrance to time better spent with And that, it seems, is what keeps the field of pharmacy forever Gyi, PharmD, MBA, BSP ’83, CIP, was raised in a family where friends or in front of the TV. fresh, from one era to another and from one generation to the both grandfathers practiced medicine. “And my mother would tell But Eric was inspired by his mother’s volunteer work in the next. In fact, Eric’s 9-year-old son, Brendan, has already declared stories of how she helped her father with the compounding of emergency room of a local hospital. And when a fraternity brother his intent to follow into pharmacy. “It’s a legacy that’s being passed medicines he prescribed,” he says. These experiences fueled Felix’s experienced an allergic reaction, and he did not know how to help, down,” Eric says. “I love watching it grow in new directions.” passion to pave his own path in a field that was quickly growing and that also provided the perfect outlet for his interest in merging the worlds of clinical care, pharmaceutical development, and research advances. Today, Felix is founder and chief executive officer of Chesapeake Research Review, Inc., (CRRI), the Maryland-based company he founded in 1993 that provides Institutional Review Board services to clients engaged in biomedical and social science research. Felix started the company because he realized that patients participating consult for the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services on the in clinical studies often knew little about the studies or the drugs Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections they were taking. In addition, professionals needed support and (SACHRP). He continues to serve as co-chair of a subcommittee expertise to perform the studies in the most effective, efficient, and charged by SACHRP to evaluate the role and impact of current safe manner. CRRI consults for clients in the pharmaceutical, regulations as they relate to enhancing human subject protections. biotechnology, and medical device industries and is considered a SON AND leader in the field of human subject protection oversight and regulation. FOOTSTEPS TO FOLLOW FOR FATHER AND SON FATHER Deloitte and Touche LLP has recognized CRRI as one of the rvin Yospa, BSP ’61, and his son, Eric Yospa, BSP ’91, beautifully “Top 500” fastest growing technology companies in North Ibridge the 30-year gap that separates their respective gradua- Eric & Irvin Yospa America. The company employs more than 80 people and is fully tions from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human When he was a youth, Irvin Yospa was delivering groceries in Research Protection Programs. CRRI serves researchers based in Park Heights, Md., by bicycle when a local pharmacist asked him the community, at hospitals, and in university settings. Staff mem- to also help take prescriptions to area residents. Irvin obliged, and bers deliver consultation and educational services worldwide and for 30 cents an hour, he traversed hilly terrain, back and forth from are often invited to consult or serve on public policy task forces. community residents to the in-store pharmacy. A profession that Recently, Felix was appointed by President George W. Bush to specialized in health and dealt directly with people intrigued him.
14 capsule Photographs by Robert Burke (top) and Tracy Boyd (bottom) Photograph by Robert Burke SPRING 2007 15 ACADEMIC news PLS Banquet Twelve initiates were welcomed into the Phi Lambda Sigma, Beta Lambda Chapter during the annual Banquet and Initiation Ceremony held March 28 at the Admiral Fell Inn in Baltimore’s historic Fells Point. Capt. James Bresette, PharmD ’97 (not pictured), a founding Laurels member of the chapter, was the keynote speaker. The Rite Aid Corp. John Watts IV, a Class of 2007 leadership skills and service to Foundation Boyle Family Professor Cherokee Layson-Wolf, excellence, and leadership sponsored the event. graduate and former president the profession of pharmacy and/ Scholarship. The scholarship, PharmD, presented the poster, involvement in a pharmacy of the University Student or the community, and who is a established by Cynthia Boyle, “Measuring Missed Opportunities organization. Government Association, received role model and mentor to others. PharmD, director of experiential for Pneumococcal Vaccinations.” the Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS) In addition, the University of learning at the School, recog- Trudy Smith, PSC graduate National Pharmacy Leadership Maryland School of Pharmacy nizes full-time student pharma- Mark Borgman, a doctoral student, won first place at the Society Founder’s Award. Watts chapter of Phi Lambda Sigma, cists who help shape the future student in the Department of Second Annual PROMISE was chosen by the PLS national Beta Lambda Chapter, was named of their profession by maintaining Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSC), Research Symposium held at the award’s committee from among the 2006 Chapter of the Year. active involvement in their received the Pharmaceutical University of Maryland, College many applicants at other schools Other students who earned school’s American Pharmacists Sciences Graduate Student Park in January. The symposium of pharmacy nationwide. The awards or who made presenta- Association-Academy of Student Excellence Award from the was sponsored by the Maryland Members of the Class of 2008, award was presented to Watts tions during the APhA Annual Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) chapter. American Foundation for Alliance for Graduate Education from left Sejal Patel, Richard at the PLS banquet during the Meeting include: Pharmaceutical Education. and the Professoriate (AGEP). Velasco, Kelly Gray, and Kajal Patel • Lisa Clayville, Class of 2007, American Pharmacists Association Smith’s poster presentation won • Michelle Horn, Class of 2007, was chosen as a member-at- (APhA) Annual Meeting in Elizabeth Nolte, Class of 2007, in the category of biomedical, placed fourth in the National large for the executive committee Atlanta in March. The Phi Lambda is the recipient of the Maryland health, chemical, and life sciences. Patient Counseling Competition, of the APhA-ASP. Sigma National Pharmacy Society of Health-System becoming the first student in the Leadership Society Founder’s • Melanie Belcher and Jason Pharmacists Student Achievement Matthew Casciano and Samuel history of the School to be hon- Award was established in 2003 Katcoff, both of the Class of Award 2007. Criteria for the Lee, both of the Class of 2008, ored in this competition. to recognize a collegiate Phi 2008, along with Assistant award include interest in health- and Andrew Levine and Reena Lambda Sigma member who has • Jessica O’Kane, Class of 2008, system pharmacy, academic Varghese, both of the Class of demonstrated exemplary is a 2007 recipient of the APhA 2007, won first place in the Academy of Managed Care Class of 2007 President Sareh Pharmacy national Pharmacy Seyedkazemi, at left, with Amy Chung and Therapeutics competition and Dean Howell, also of the Class at Eli Lilly and Co. in Indianapolis of 2007 with their presentation “Olanzapine/fluoxetine Combination for the Treatment of Bipolar Depression: A Case Study of Efficacy and Cost- Effectiveness.”
Yanjue Wu, PSC graduate student, was lead author for the article, “Amyloid-β-Induced Pathological Behaviors are Suppressed by Ginkgo biloba Extract EGb 761 and Ginkgolides NCPA Spring Banquet in Transgenic Caenorhabditis The student chapter of the National Community Pharmacists Association held its annual spring banquet May 3 at elegans,” published in The Journal of Neuroscience. the BWI Airport Marriott. In honor of the late alumna Diane Wills, PharmD ’00, friends of the School of Pharmacy, From left, Sarah Robin, Class of 2009, Monica Healy, Class of 2008, Gary Haas, RPh, and his wife, Sally, donated $7,500 for the Haas Student Scholarship. The couple (not pictured) Tina Kasliwal, Class of 2008, and Lisa Wohl, Class of 2009, president- are owners of the Boonsboro (Md.) Pharmacy. Three students from the Class of 2008 were chosen to receive the elect of the PLS, Beta Lambda Chapter scholarship: Min-Li Wu, Stephanie Duck, and Monica Healy (also not pictured).
16 capsule SPRING 2007 17 Thank You to Our Corporate Sponsors! ACADEMIC Thank you to our many corporate sponsors who, throughout the year, have so generously contributed to the enrichment of the student experience and ongoing professional development news through our many events.
SEPTEMBER SGA Fall Boat Cruise Giant of Maryland SGA Organizational Gala Walgreen Co. Kappa Psi Barbeque Walgreen Co. Kappa Psi Casino Night Safeway Inc.
OCTOBER Rho Chi Banquet SGA Fall Picnic Partners in Pharmacy Education The 77th Annual Rho Chi Honor SGA Diabetic Halloween Anonymous donor Society, Omicron Chapter, Banquet Lambda Kappa Sigma Fall Forum Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD and Initiation Ceremony was held Kappa Psi Province Assembly CVS/pharmacy, Walgreen Co., Target Corp. April 13 at the BWI Airport Kappa Psi Spelling Bee CVS/pharmacy Marriott. Faculty, family, and Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Fair Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. friends came out to welcome Phi Lambda Sigma Faculty CVS/pharmacy 46 initiates. This event was Appreciation Breakfast sponsored by Walgreen Co.
NOVEMBER Lambda Kappa Sigma Catonsville Pharmacy/Finksburg Myron Weiner, PhD ’72, BSP ’66 (from left), Rho Chi faculty advisor and School of Business Etiquette Dinner Pharmacy/Linthicum Pharmacy Pharmacy associate professor, with keynote speaker Marc Summerfield, MS ’76, RPh, director of pharmacy at the University of Maryland Medical Center and School of JANUARY Pharmacy adjunct professor; and student officers of Rho Chi: Jae Ryu, James Papadatos, Phi Lambda Sigma Internship Fair Rite Aid Corp.; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; Ohita Asein, and Tanya Telegadis (president), all members of the Class of 2008. Shoppers Food & Pharmacy; NeighborCare, Inc.
FEBRUARY SGA Winter Retreat Walgreen Co. 2007 Convocation and Graduation SGA 4th Year Welcome Back Giant of Maryland SGA Geriatric Fair Mayer Handelman/Pfizer Inc. The 2007 School of Pharmacy Honors Convocation and Commencement Exercises were held the morning of May 18 at Kraushaar Auditorium on the MARCH campus of Goucher College, celebrating those receiving the Doctor of Pharmacy degree, as well as those students receiving the PhD degree. Rosalyn King, PLS Dinner and Awards Reception Rite Aid Corp. PharmD, MPH, RPh, a distinguished member of the pharmacy and public health communities and director of the Pharmacists and Continuing Education Center APRIL at Howard University in Washington, D.C., delivered the keynote address. SGA Spring Picnic School of Pharmacy, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Academic excellence awards were presented to Amy Chung, Michele SGA Dinner at Velleggia’s Velleggia’s Restaurant Friedman, and Reena Varghese. Eighteen additional awards and prizes were Phi Lambda Sigma, Beta Lambda Chapter Rite Aid Corp. presented to graduates. Banquet & Initiation Ceremony The following three outstanding preceptors were recognized for their contri- Rho Chi Honor Society, Omicron Chapter Walgreen Co. butions to the education of student pharmacists: New Preceptor of the Year, Banquet & Initiation Ceremony Kelly Gable, PharmD; Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience Preceptor of the Year, John Ness, PharmD ’93; and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience MAY Preceptor of the Year, Capt. James Bresette, PharmD ’97. NCPA Spring Banquet EPIC Pharmacies, Inc.; Sharpsburg Pharmacy; Commencement exercises for School of Pharmacy graduates at the University of Maryland, Baltimore were held at the 1st Mariner Arena in the Catonsville Pharmacy; Deep Creek Pharmacy; afternoon. University President David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil, introduced keynote Mrs. Anne Leavitt; Northern Pharmacy; James speaker Francis X. Kelly, Jr. A former state senator, member of the University Pharmacy; Apple Discount Drugs; Hereford System of Maryland Board of Regents, and chair of the University of Maryland, Pharmacy, Inc.; Mount Vernon Pharmacy; Baltimore’s Bicentennial Committee, Kelly has been an advocate for the Tuxedo Pharmacy; Voshell’s Pharmacy; University for more than 25 years. ;‘ Manchester Pharmacy; Feldman’s Medical Center Pharmacy; MedPark Pharmacy
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As Reliable As The Corner Drugstore school, Dyke knew that pharmacy would be and who will take care of them.” the career path he’d follow. Dyke is proud of his alma mater and has Wayne Dyke’s Old-School Ways He studied, secured an internship, and served on multiple boards, finding satisfac- was hired by Read’s—later acquired by Rite tion shepherding the next generation of Aid in 1977. His first decade as a pharmacist pharmacists and administering to the needs Still Innovative After 40 Years was spent behind the bench, dispensing med- of a new era of patients. He has been an ications as well as overseeing marketing, mer- active member of the Maryland Pharmacists and tact; he is someone who relates well to chandising, and managing retail operations. Association, the Maryland Association of others and is always ready to assist. “You have to be an astute business person Chain Drug Stores, the Kappa Psi Pharma- Harold Holmes, Dyke’s preceptor when he as well as a pharmacist,” says Dyke, whose ceutical Fraternity, and the Maryland Board of first graduated, recalls meeting the aspiring career has included managerial, administra- Pharmacy. young pharmacist 40 years ago. Dyke sported tive, and field supervisory posts. He also “He is ‘Mr. Pharmacy,’” says John Balch, a neatly shaven crew cut, shiny shoes, and worked as a recruiter, traveling to schools BSP ’68, a classmate and president of was impeccably dressed. He was courteous, along the East Coast. He witnessed changes PharmaCare of Cumberland. The two jointly inquisitive, responsive, and always a gentle- to the profession in pharmaceutical develop- served on the Maryland Board of Pharmacy in man. As he quickly rose through the ranks at ment, patient volume, insurance coverage, the early 2000s. what was then Read’s, Inc. drugstore chain, and payment processing, as well as the “If you wanted God to make a perfect Dyke earned a reputation for being open and expansion of pharmaceutical training, a pharmacist—committed, dedicated, unpre- Fred Abramson, BSP ’56, at left, with Wayne accessible to customers, yet professional in growing percentage of female graduates, tentious—that would be Wayne,” says Balch. Dyke, BSP ’68, in Abramson’s student lab. matters dealing with patients, employees, and and a continuing shortage of practitioners. “He epitomized what pharmacy was in the personnel issues. For instance, laser-printed bottle labels 1960s and whom we would like to hire today. “If I said anything to Wayne, I knew it wasn’t soon replaced the hand-held Bates stamp He’s been one of Rite Aid’s shining stars over medications until long after they’ve left the going anywhere else,” says Holmes. “He didn’t method that had been in use since the late the years because of his dedication and com- doctor’s office and are standing at the pharmacy talk about other people or share anything 1800s. Manila folders took a back seat to mitment to pharmacy.” counter. better held in confidence. That’s one thing computerized records. But the ever-present Dyke has demonstrated his commitment Dyke also sees a field filled with career that he taught me.” supply of patients needing care, medication, by helping Rite Aid and other chain pharma- options that can be tailored to an aspiring The two seasoned pharmacists today and direction never changed. cies establish the School of Pharmacy Practice student’s interests—from counseling, to hold a mutual respect and admiration for “I dispensed for 13 years of my career Laboratory, outfitted with an automated dis- developing software, recruiting, leading one another. The colleagues still talk twice a directly at the bench. I enjoy patient contact,” pensing system, automated medication sys- research or teaching. “There are so many week, although Holmes retired six years ago, says Dyke. Even as an administrator, Dyke tem, prescription processing software, and opportunities available,” he says. “You are and Dyke will follow suit in about a decade. remains accessible and uses his problem- robotic tools. It also includes four private going to make a good living as a pharmacy “You are the corner drugstore, wherever you are.” — Wayne Dyke, BSP ’68 When he does retire, many acknowledge solving skills daily. A thank-you note written counseling rooms with video capabilities that professional no matter what you choose. So Dyke’s legacy will be his love for what the long ago sums up Dyke’s impact: “Because I allow students to practice and finesse their pick something you have a passion for, some- business of pharmacy is all about—serving knew you and was able to solve the problem patient counseling skills. thing that—every day when you get out of bed nassuming—that is how Wayne patients. quickly, I became a hero in the office,” the “Wayne is known for his ethics,” says Fred and your feet hit the floor to go to work— you Dyke, BSP ’68, would describe Dyke’s intention to go into pharmacy was note reads. “For almost 35 years, I have Abramson, BSP ’56, assistant professor at the want to do with a passion.” BY GWEN NEWMAN himself, and his colleagues would cemented by childhood trips to the corner counted on you. Never have you let me down.” School and director of the student lab. “The Though Dyke regrets that he missed the U agree. In fact, it’s the adjective one drugstore, which was more like the conven- Dyke hasn’t wavered in his commitment thing he wants most out of pharmacy is for opportunity to work in a student lab like the classmate penned in his graduating yearbook ience stores of today. When stopping in to to ensuring the best patient care that phar- pharmacists to care about patients, to take one at the School, he says he wouldn’t change from the University of Maryland School of buy a snack or meet some friends, he says he macists can deliver. “You are the corner care of people.” his experiences in pharmacy for anything. Pharmacy. was always impressed by how the local phar- drugstore, wherever you are,” says Dyke. “It Dyke predicts that the pharmacist’s role as “You know pharmacists are appreciated Today, others might add that Dyke, now a macist was quick to help each of the customers doesn’t matter what the sign says. Patients counselor will become more crucial as physi- when you’re available on Thanksgiving, and pharmacy district manager with the Rite Aid with any questions they had about their will go out of their way to go to find the cian caseloads increase. Patients often don’t someone returns with a thank-you dinner on Corp., also displays great influence, diplomacy, medications. By the time he’d reached high pharmacist with whom they feel confident even formulate their questions about their a plate,” he says with a grin.
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Class Notes 1980 1994 Inpatient Care Practitioners for ioral health hospital in Newark, A Message from the Alumni President Patrice Palmer, BSP, works with the American Society of Health- Del., and Ly is a pharmacist at a Geoffrey Christ, JD, RPh ’94, This is a pivotal time in our School’s history, the Veterans Health Administra- System Pharmacists in Bethesda, Happy Harry’s store. graduated magna cum laude in and therefore it is a pivotal time for all alumni tion as a staff pharmacist. Md. 2002 from Widener University of the University of Maryland School of Manisa Tanprayoon, PharmD, is School of Law in Wilmington, Pharmacy. The expansion of our pharmacy 2004 a clinical pharmacist for Saint 1982 Del., and was admitted to the program to the Universities at Shady Grove, Theresa Justice, BSP, recently Kelly Park, PharmD, and her Michael’s Medical Center in Delaware State Bar Association the continued struggle regarding funding for joined NeighborCare Pharmacy husband, Patrick Park, PharmD, Newark, N.J. in that same year. In September a pharmacy hall addition at our current cam- in Baltimore as a pharmacist welcomed their son, Frederick 2007 – 2009 2006, the governor of Delaware pus, and perhaps most importantly, the manager. Jinwoo Park, on Sept. 24, 2006. appointed him to a three-year 2005 change of leadership at our School with the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Frederick weighed 8 pounds, Honesty Peltier, PharmD, started Lynette Bradley-Baker term as a professional member retirement of Dean David A. Knapp, PhD, 1984 of the Delaware Board of 2 ounces. a new position as a medication after 18 years are just some of the issues that OFFICERS Karim Anton Calis, PharmD ’86, Pharmacy. He and his wife, safety pharmacist at St. Joseph will define the legacy of the School in the 21st century. Lynette Bradley-Baker, PhD ’99, BSP ’92 BSP ’84, and his wife, Maria, Debra, have two children. Heather A. (Robinson) Kehr, Medical Center in Towson, Md. Our alumni can, and should, be at the forefront to continue to President welcomed their first child, PharmD, took a position as an build upon the great traditions of our campus and status that our Angelina Sofia Calis, on Aug. 6, assistant professor of pharmacy 2006 1997 School currently holds. You can become more active in your Alumni Doris Voigt, PharmD ’04 2006. at Wingate University School of Thomas Williams Jr., PharmD, is Nicole Brandt, PharmD, and her Association by providing your thoughts, ideas, service, and participa- President-Elect Pharmacy in Wingate, N.C. an assistant manager for a Wal- husband, Niklas, welcomed their tion in a variety of signature and new events. You can become a pre- Mart pharmacy in York, Pa. 1986 son, Lukas Niklas Brandt, on ceptor or mentor to current students and share your knowledge and Hoai An Truong, PharmD ’05 Rebecca Finley, PharmD, MS ’86, Kaitlyn Ly, PharmD, and Adams Aug. 11, 2006. He weighed 7 enthusiasm for our profession. You can certainly make a phone call or Vice President was named the founding dean of Solola, PharmD, were married Sharon Zappa, PharmD, works pounds, 10 ounces. Nicole is an send an e-mail to your legislators when asked to affect a positive the Thomas Jefferson University, Sept. 23, 2006, in Wilmington, as a pharmacist for a Wal-Mart Capt. James Bresette, PharmD ’97 associate professor of geriatric change for our School and the pharmacy profession. Jefferson School of Pharmacy at Del. Solola is director of pharmacy pharmacy in Hampstead, Md. Co-Treasurer pharmacotherapy in the Depart- As alumni, we owe an enormous debt of gratitude to all of the past the Jefferson College of Health at the Rockford Center, a behav- ment of Pharmacy Practice and and present faculty, administration, and staff. As alumni, we all have Professions in Philadelphia, Pa. Science and director of Clinical Cynthia Boyle, PharmD ’96 been touched in a positive manner by the hard work and tremendous Co-Treasurer and Educational Programs at commitment of Dean Knapp, and we wish him well as he moves to the Francine (Wistreich) Danon, the Peter Lamy Center on Drug next phase of his personal and professional life. As alumni, we all are BSP, is a staff pharmacist at Therapy and Aging. very proud of the development and continued growth of our Alumni COMMITTEE CHAIRS Brooks Pharmacy in Essex Do You Have Great News to Share? lease send us information about your personal and Association over the past two years under the direct leadership of Charles Sandler, BSP ’62 Junction, Vt. Judy Lapinksi, PharmD, and her professional life. Have you changed jobs, had a recent Past-President Joseph DeMino, BSP ’84. Chair, Graduation Banquet husband, Mark, celebrated the P promotion, received an honor or appointment? Did you Regardless of how you choose to continue your School’s legacy, 1988 birth of their fourth child, recently get married or celebrate the birth of a child? Do you remember that you are a part of it every day—how you choose to craft, Tony Guerra, PharmD ’97 Gary Cook, PharmD ’95, BSP ’88, Marcus, in August 2006. Marcus have an interesting hobby or participate in community service mold, and expand upon it is up to you! I look forward to helping to Chair, 10th Year Reunion earned a Master of Business has three older sisters: Maya (8), projects? shape your Alumni Association as your president from 2007 to 2009, Administration from Loyola Joslyn (6), and Madelena (2). Edwin Balcerzak, BSP ’57 Please let us know by completing the School of Pharmacy’s and I look forward to receiving your feedback, comments, and sugges- College in Maryland in Lapinski works as a pharmacy Chair, 50th Year Reunion new online class notes form at www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/ tions. September 2006. operations manager for alumni. PharMerica in Baltimore. Sincerely, 1991 All alumni who submit a class notes update by Aug. 31, Joseph DeMino, BSP ’84 2007, will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a David Johnson, PharmD, works Teresa Rubio, PharmD, and her Past-President University of Maryland School of Pharmacy sweatshirt and an as a clinical pharmacist for husband, Ted Watkins, welcomed invitation to a private lunch with a faculty member! The Dean David A. Knapp, PhD Mount Nittany Medical Center in their second son, Logan, on May winner will be notified by Sept. 28, 2007. Honorary President State College, Pa. 16, 2006. They have another son, Lynette R. Bradley-Baker, PhD ’99, BSP ’92 Brendan, who is two. Rubio is President director of the Section of
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corner of Monroe Street and Edmondson naval intelligence officer and worked as an Melbourne, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Beirut. In Memoriam* Avenue. Between Uncle Clarence and instructor in the Navy’s intelligence school Finally, the international whirlwind Circles, Straight Lines, Anstine’s father—not a pharmacist—the specializing in anti-submarine warfare. ended in the 1980s. They made a straight Marjorie S. Abramovitz, MS ’66, family owned several pharmacies in the Meanwhile, sitting in church one line back to the United States, where BSP ’63 Pimlico and Mount Washington neighbor- Sunday morning in Virginia, Anstine saw Anstine worked for a variety of health care Ursula T. Biermacher, MS ’49 and Interesting Angles hoods. Cecelia Knight for the first time and knew organizations, including American Medical Abraham Bliden, BSP ’37 It was expected that the younger that he was going to marry her. It was International, Inc., and Tenet Healthcare Samuel H. Cohen, BSP ’36 Anstine would follow suit and join the another straight line, from meeting point Corp., cutting a trail from Atlanta to Gordon M. Crispens, BSP ’52 hen C.L. “Bob” Anstine, BSP ’58, was pharmacy business. Uncle Clarence set the to the altar in February 1962. Tampa, from Dallas to New Orleans, and How a Pharmacy Leonard Freedman, BSP ’39 a high school student at Baltimore geometry of Anstine’s career path on track “It has been a wonderful partnership back to Atlanta. Today, they visit their chil- Education Shaped Owen J. Gilliece, BSP ’57 City College, he displayed an uncanny when he raised a commotion at his flag- because we have done everything together. dren and grandchildren in Tampa, complet- Leonard Goldberg, BSP ’57 the Geometry understanding of geometry without ship pharmacy on Monroe Street. Our lives have been about us, not about ing the triangle. W Irving J. Harmatz, PhG ’34 of a Life any prior instruction. And, it seems that “Across the street from my uncle’s store me, but about we,” Anstine says. “I was often able to create my own job lines, angles, and shapes have played an was a hardware store,” Anstine recalls. The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 title,” says Anstine about his career of John B. Harmon, MS ’52 important role in the geometric pattern of “When my uncle added paint to his phar- extended Anstine’s stint in the Navy. After straight lines, angles, and shapes. That title, Jerome J. Karpa, BSP ’37 Anstine’s life as a pharmacist. macy inventory, the hardware store owner he was discharged, he took a sales job more often than not, was senior director of George L. Kelly, BSP ’50 Anstine’s uncle, Clarence LeRoy threatened to sell his store to Read’s, Inc. with Eli Lilly and Co. His territory stretched planning and implementation. Elmer C. Koller Jr., MD, BSP ’51 Anstine, for whom he was named, was a drugstore chain. He did, but I later worked from Philadelphia, to Norfolk, Va., and he “A lot of planning can break down in Betty Luber, PhG ’33 BY RANDOLPH FILLMORE pharmacist with an engineering degree in and closed that Read’s store.” and Cecelia made their home in the implementation phase,” explains James H. Lyon, BSP ’50 from Johns Hopkins University. Shortly A circle—it was to be one of Anstine’s Winchester, Va. Anstine. “What pharmacy school did for Robert W. Mahoney, BSP ’57 after World War I, Uncle Clarence opened earliest of many “geometric” experiences. Eventually, he was promoted to a territory me was to teach me how to do things in an Albert M. Mattocks, PhD ’45 his first pharmacy in Baltimore on the After graduation from high school, he that included the federal government and orderly, step-wise way—correctly—and to M. Victor Mayer, BSP ’40 made a straight line to the University of the White House, where he sold medica- be able to assess things quickly and operate Katherine A. Montalbano, BSP ’74 Maryland School of Pharmacy. He attended tions to Janet Travell, MD, personal in different environments as if I had been Howard Paul, PhG ’33 on a military deferment; after graduating in physician to President John F. Kennedy. there for years.” Kim-Binh N. Rardin, BSP ’81 1958, instead of going to work behind a Some of his wares were likely used to treat Semi-retired since 2003, Anstine has counter in Baltimore, Anstine went to work Kennedy’s persistent back pain. (Anstine once more come full circle. He is back at Ruth W. Resnick, BSP ’37 for the federal government. He applied to would come back to the White House—a the White House—but not to sell pharma- Catherine P. Ricci, BSP ’80 the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and the full circle—40 years later.) ceuticals. He is helping facilitate the Jacob L. Richman, BSP ’38 U.S. Public Health Service for work as a Living in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, nation’s best and brightest to enter the Michael B. Rinde, BSP ’90 pharmacist. and then Atlanta, the Anstines often White House Fellowship program. Sylvan L. Sachs, BSP ’50 “The Army and Air Force were not enjoyed vacation travel to England in the “It’s an exciting, nonpartisan, nondis- Milton John Sappe, PharmD ’26 interested,” says Anstine. “The U.S. Public mid-1960s. They enjoyed England so criminatory program in which a broad Melvin G. Scherr, BSP ’37 Health Service said they had no record of much, they relocated there so that Anstine range of talented people work for one year Albert A. Shapiro, BSP ’50 my application. So, I joined the Navy and could work for Whittaker Life Sciences, directly with the president and his Cabinet Nathaniel Sharp, PhG ’34 was accepted for Officer Candidate School. based in London. He worked at providing secretaries,” Anstine says. Robert Simonoff, BSP ’40 However, when I got home from joining the personnel to staff hospitals and a health He screens, interviews, and recom- Robert S. Sinker, BSP ’54 up, there was a telegram from the U.S. care system for Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul mends applicants to the program and is Diane K. Wills, PharmD ’00 Public Health Service telling me that I was Aziz Al Saud, then Saudi Arabian minister now determined to recruit a pharmacy- assigned as a pharmacist to the Indian of defense and aviation, who wanted an related person to excel in the White House reservation at Pine Ridge, S.D.” American company to build and run the Fellowship program. He owes his current But it was not to be. His enlistment hospitals for the Saudi air force. and past achievements to his knowledge of contract with the U.S. Navy was binding, The nature of the work meant that the pharmacy, which shaped the geometry of so he was diverted from one path onto Anstines traveled the world—from London, his life and career—from his personal life another—an obtuse angle—and that path radiating in all directions, to Copenhagen, to his professional experiences—helping C.L. “Bob” Anstine, BSP ’58, with his wife, Cecelia proved intriguing. Anstine trained as a Paris, Sydney, Dublin, Belfast, Rome, him reach the very apex of success. * For the period 11/1/06 to 3/30/07
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Alumni Bruce Gordon, BSP ’79, PharmD ’82, at right, and his wife, Mari Kim, BSP ’88, PharmD ’90, pose with their Standing from left to right: Co-treasurer Capt. James daughters in Anaheim, Calif. Bresette, PharmD ’97; Vice President Hoai An Truong, PharmD ’05; Past-President Joseph DeMino, BSP ’84; Members of the Class of 2006 reunite! Honorary President Dean David A. Knapp, PhD; President Lynette Bradley-Baker, PhD ’99, BSP ’92; and Brian Hose, PharmD ’06 Associate Professor Magaly Rodriquez Seated from left to right: Matt Shimoda, PharmD ’84; de Bittner, PharmD, and Taher President-Elect Doris Voigt, PharmD ’04; Anne Leavitt; Sheybani, PharmD ’84, of California, and Co-Treasurer Cynthia Boyle, PharmD ’96 take time to chat.
Graduation Banquet The 2007 Alumni Association Associate Dean for Student Affairs Jill Morgan, PharmD, Graduation Banquet was held and 2007 PharmD graduates, Lisa Deal and Michelle May 17 at the BWI Airport Assistant Professor Cynthia Boyle, PharmD ’96, at right, Horn, relax at the ASHP Reception. Marriott. During the event, the with former faculty member, David Moore, PharmD, newly installed 2007-2009 center, and his wife, Susan Porter, at left Alumni Association Executive Board was recognized. American Pharmacists Association Reception
Capt. Kathleen Downs, BSP ’84, presents the Joe DeMino is thanked by Lynette Bradley- USPHS Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Baker for his term as president of the Alumni Practice Award to John Watts, PharmD ’07. Association.
DHHS Employees Alumni Reception
Board of Visitors member Alex Taylor, BSP ’76; Alumni Association President-Elect Lynette Bradley-Baker, PhD ’99, BSP ’92; and Capt. Jo Ann Spearmon, PharmD ’97 David Diwa, PharmD ’97, MS, at left, and Barry Poole, BSP ’71, and Mary Kremzner, Jae Hyung “Samuel” Wu, PharmD ’98, at the PharmD ’98, BSP ’87, hosted the event, John Watts, PharmD ’07, and Stuart Haines, PharmD, first U.S. Department of Health and Human sponsored by the Alumni Association and a recently installed Fellow of the APhA Service (DHHS) Employees Alumni the Maryland Pharmacists Association.
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David Stewart Associates Dinner Message from Development
As the School of Pharmacy prepares for the departure of its dean, David A. Knapp, PhD, and the changing of the guard after 18 years, it Dixie Leikach, BSP ’92; Brian Hose, PharmD ’06; Stacey Hose; and Neil seems appropriate to reflect on the evolving face of retirement. Leikach, BSP ’92, pause before entering the Corinthian Room. Retirement has long been synonymous with the “Golden Years”— traveling the world and investing quality time in what may have been your weekend passion. To some, it signifies the culmination of a life’s Alumni Events work or commitment to a particular profession. To others, it may mean the end of one career and an opportunity to focus in a new direction. Founding member Samuel Lichter, Board of Visitors Dinner Still, others see it as the finish line of a marathon. Whether you have BSP ’60, and his wife, Barbara, visit already begun your retirement journey or retirement is years away, it is As an expression of its appreciation for his 18 years of service to the Fred Abramson, BSP ’56; Liz with Suzanne Caplan, BSP ’65, and never too early to start planning for it. School of Pharmacy, the Board of Visitors presented Dean David A. Warrington; Clay Warrington, Yale Caplan, PhD ’68, BSP ’63. Knapp, PhD, at right, with a print of the painting, “Cardinal and Sumac,” Nowadays, retirement is more dynamic than ever, enriched by BSP ’58; and Magaly Rodriguez by Canadian artist Robert Bateman. The gift, shown at right, was present- opportunities for lifelong learning, community involvement, and the de Bittner, PharmD ’83, enjoy Dean David A. Knapp, PhD, at left, ed by Richard Penna, PharmD, at left, chair of the School’s Board of need to stay connected to friends and your profession. The University a great evening at the annual received the Key to Pharmacy Hall Visitors, who also announced the establishment of the David A. Knapp David Stewart Associates Dinner from University President David J. of Maryland School of Pharmacy can be your partner, so that you stay Faculty Development Fund. held April 10 at the Tremont Ramsay, DM, DPhil. in contact and remain tied to these areas all of your life. Become a Grand in Baltimore. mentor or a preceptor to current pharmacy students, volunteer to help with a School program or event, attend a School-sponsored lecture and From Beauty Aides to learn what’s new in your profession, or visit friends and colleagues at one of the many alumni events held regionally and nationally through- Beauty Schools out the year. he School of Pharmacy has a tradition Most importantly, take advantage of information provided through Tof producing committed professionals our development and planned giving offices about financial invest- Founding member Mayer who have an entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy ments and creative ways that will enable you to give back to your alma Handelman, BSP ’54, and a challenge. This is true of Bernard “Bernie” mater, regardless of your age or financial status. Whether you graduated his wife, Donna. Heyman, BSP ’57, who served as president last year or 50 years ago, now is the time to invest in your future! of his class for three of his four years at the For more information on planned giving opportunities, visit Bernie Heyman Class of 1957 School. Immediately after graduation, he www.umaryland.edu/plannedgiving. threw himself into his work at the Read’s, Inc. drugstore chain, which So as we bid Dean Knapp a fond farewell, I encourage all of you was purchased by the Rite Aid Corp. in 1977. “aspirational” retirees to take a lesson from those who have taken the During his 26-year career, Heyman served as vice president of leap into retirement before you: Get involved and invest now, so you merchandising at Read’s and launched a division focused on health too can enjoy the Golden Years. and beauty aides. After a five-year stint as part owner of four pharma- cies, he joined Peoples Drug as vice president of marketing for Ohio, Regards, and then moved back to Alexandria, Va., as the vice president of purchasing for more than 550 stores. What does a pharmacist do after 40 years in the drugstore business when he wants a break? In Heyman’s case, he and his wife, Harriet, Michele Y. Ewing decided to go into the business of opening cosmetology schools. Executive Director Fifteen years ago, they opened the Aspen Beauty Academy in Silver Development and Alumni Affairs Spring, Md., and another in Laurel, Md. As Heyman prepares for retirement, we congratulate him on his The Class of 1957 held a private reunion dinner on May 16th at Ruth’s Chris Class of 1957 alumni (left to right) Dr. Ray Bahr, Ed Steak House in Pikesville. Amid the enthusiastic greetings and buzzing Balcerzak, Richard Greenberg, Erwin Deitch, and long and successful career. Bernie Heyman is an inspiration to all 28 capsule conversation, they paused to capture the moment as a group. The Honorable Donald B. Elliott, Jr. young entrepreneurs. save the date Jazz Reunion Brunch
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