Michael Jackson This award is presented each year to a non-alumnus who has made significant contributions to the UF College of Pharmacy and to the pharmacy profession. Michael Jackson serves as executive vice president and CEO of the Florida Pharmacy Association. His dedication to the pharmacy profession through his…
Roger Accardi This award is presented each year to an alumnus who has made significant contributions to the pharmacy profession. Roger Accardi, Pharm.D., a third-generation pharmacist, graduated from the UF College of Pharmacy in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy. In 1999, he earned the Pharm.D. degree through the college’s Working Professional Pharm.D.
Indra Reddy This award recognizes an alumnus whose lifetime contributions have been truly extraordinary with lasting benefits to the profession. Indra Reddy, Ph.D., is a professor and founding dean for the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy at the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Before his 2004 appointment, he was a professor…
The UF College of Pharmacy held its 27th research competition on Feb. 20, with nine graduate student presenters in the oral competition, and a record 67 posters were entered in three categories; graduate students, professional students, and postdoctoral fellows. Organized each year by William J. Millard, Ph.D., associate dean for…
Dean Julie Johnson cordially invites you to the to join her at the “Dean’s Night In with Students” during the APhA Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida Sunday, March 30, 2014 Hyatt Regency Orlando Silver…
News4Jax VIDEO (Jan 16): When you open your medicine cabinet, do you find what you need easily or do you just close the door right away? The start of the New Year is a good time for you to conduct your annual medicine cabinet makeover.
Student pharmacists invited a U.S. Congressman to the University of Florida College of Pharmacy on Feb. 7, for an exchange on pharmacy education and national policymaking. As leaders in the American Pharmacists Association’s Academy of Student Pharmacists, Amy Kiskaddon, past president, and Amy Shook,…
For patients prescribed multiple drugs for a variety of chronic health conditions, adherence — staying on track with daily medications — can be challenging, and when doses are missed or stopped, a cycle of dangerous health risks can begin.
Marcus Brewster, Nicholas Bodor and Hartmut Derendorf Graduate Research Professor Emeritus (active) Nicholas Bodor, Ph.D., D.Sc., was honored in February on his 75th birthday for more than 30 years of service to the UF College of Pharmacy. Bodor, executive director of the UF Center for Drug Discovery, joined…
A University of Florida pharmacy researcher is the first to establish that 4 months old is the age threshold for preterm babies to receive preventive treatment for a common viral respiratory infection. Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is the most common cause of lower respiratory infection in children under…
