Fall 2009

New faculty members and residents were honored at a reception in August. Left to right are Snehalata Pawar, Dwight Davis, Renée DeHart, Ashley Stinnett, Jonell Hudson, Lois Coulter, Scott Kaufman and Jeremy Thomas.

Renée DeHart has been named a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and will be officially inducted at a ceremony Oct. 18 at its annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif. Fellow status is the highest honor the College can bestow on its members.

Sarah Frank is the APhA-ASP New Practitioner Member at-large, and will remain until the annual meeting in March.

Dean Gardner recently was guest speaker at the Southern Illinois College of Pharmacy's white coat ceremony. She was the guest of Jim Rankin '62 and his wife Darrell while in Illinois for the event.

Paul Gubbins has been elected president-elect of the Society of Infectious Disease Pharmacists.

Jonell Hudson has joined the faculty at the northwest Arkansas campus in a jointly funded position with the Arkansas Health Education Center. Her primary clinical site is the Northwest Family Medical Center in Springdale.

Scott Kaufman has joined the faculty at the northwest Arkansas campus in a jointly funded position with the Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas. His primary clinical site is Mercy Medical Center in Rogers.

Victoria Miller has joined the College as the e-learning educational technologist, working with Martha Carle to support the e-learning activities of the faculty and staff, and other initiatives for the northwest Arkansas campus.

Kathryn Neill has accepted the position as the College's hospital experiential director. She will recruit and develop sites, maintain a quality assurance plan for institutional experiences, and examine assessment and curricular outcomes.

Michael Shepherd has joined the faculty at the AHEC Southwest in Texarkana. Before joining the AHEC, he was a preceptor at Sparks Regional Medical Center in Fort Smith.

Jon Wolfe presented a lecture titled "The United States Constitution and Health Care" during UAMS's celebration of Constitution Day on September 17.

Daohong Zhou has accepted a position of professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Radiation Health and will join the College in January. He comes from the University of South Carolina and is an internationally recognized expert in stem cell research.