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FOUNDATION MEMBER UPDATE

ACA Foundation Awards Welcome To Our Newest Members

Pharmacy Student Scholarships New ACA Regional Directors and Treasurer

ACA Full Fellows: ACA Full Fellows:
The American College of Apothecaries Squires’s academic and leadership Inducted at Educational Inducted in Absentia
Re-search and Education Foundation achieve-ments while in pharmacy school
presents the recipients of the Fall 2016 have al-ready been recognized as he Conference
Pharmacy Student Scholarships. has been named a Pharmacy Dean’s Michael Bellesine
Scholar, and has been awarded both the Parag Choksi El Dorado TrueCare
The Presidential Scholarship for Academ- James W. and Sarah F. Reid Middleton Advanced Rx Pharmacy
ic and Leadership Excellence has been Endowed Schol-arship and the J. Wayne Pleasanton, California Eldorado, Kansas
awarded to Christopher Squires, a student Beech Memorial Endowed Scholarship.
at Auburn University Harrison School of Kimberly Ferguson Cory Hobson
Pharmacy. The Presidential Scholarship Taylor Schmick, a pharmacy student at the Kim’s Pharmacy Dorneyville
for Academic and Leadership Excellence University of Wyoming, has been awarded Waynesville, North Carolina Compounding Pharmacy
is awarded by the American College of the George Malmberg Student
Apothecaries Research and Education Scholarship for Compounding Excellence. Allentown, Pennsylvania
Foundation to a student with a demon- Jack Korbutov John Walczyk // Region 1 Director Nancy DeGuire // Region 12 Director
strated interest in independent pharmacy, The George Malmberg Student Schol- Christopher Squires // Pharmacy student at The Art of Medicine Russell Melchert
the Auburn University Harrison School of
who shows leadership qualities, extra-cur- arship for Compounding Excellence is Pharmacy // Presidential Scholarship for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University of
ricular activities, and a high level of aca- awarded by the American College of Academic and Leadership Excellence Missouri-Kansas City
demic success. Apothecaries Research and Education with ACA Chairman Jerry Greene Elaine Ladd School of Pharmacy
Foundation to a student with a demon- Innovative Remedy Kansas City, Missouri
Christopher Squires is a student member strated interest in pharmaceutical com- Solutions
of both the American College of Apothe- pounding and independent pharmacy, Boise, Idaho Thomas Magnifico
caries and the American College of Vet- who shows leadership qualities, extra-cur- Keystone Pharmacy
erinary Pharmacists. Squires’s pharmacy ricular activities, and a high level of aca- Michelle Moser
practice goal is to serve the north Alabama demic success. Grand Rapids, Michigan
community. He has a particular interest in Makers Compounding
working in both hospital and independent A student member of the American College Pharmacy Rory O’Donnell
pharmacy to maintain consistent drug of Apothecaries and the National Commu- Burlington, Washington O’Donnell’s Pharmacy
therapies as patients transition from hos- nity Pharmacy Association, Taylor Schmick Derrybeg, Ireland
pital care to a community pharmacy. is interested in veterinary compounding Aaron Smith Suzanne Keyes // Region 8 Director David Stahlberger // Treasurer: appointed
and the innovations it offers. Schmick cur- Owens Compounding Kunan Patel
Squires currently serves as the Auburn rently works at Quality IV Care/Zoopharm Pharmacy Ace RX Specialty
Student Representative for the Alabama Pharmacy in Laramie, Wyoming. Within his Redding, California Pharmacy
Pharmacy Association and as the Student local community, Schmick conducted a Taylor Schmick // Pharmacy student Old Bridge, New Jersey
Ambassador to the Office of Alumni Af - drug take-back program in his hometown at the University of Wyoming //
George Malmberg Student
fairs for the Harrison School of Pharmacy. of Torrington, Wyoming. Scholarship for Compounding
During the Spring 2016 semester, Squires Excellence ACA Fellows Inducted
was a pre-PharmD Graduate Teaching The ACA Research and Education Foun- The American College of Apothecaries at the 2017 Educational
Assistant for a Pharmacy Law and Ethics dation is proud to recognize Christopher Research & Education Foundation was Conference. Pictured
course at Auburn. Squires and Taylor Schmick for their incorporated as a public foundation in are: Aaron Smith,
achievements. 1978. The Foundation promotes the public Kimberly Ferguson,
Michelle Moser, Jack
Squires has participated as a Counselor welfare through development of quality Korbutov, Parag
for a Chambers County Medicare Open Support the future of Pharmacy - services in institutions providing health Choksi, and Elaine Ladd
care, encourages and conducts research
Enrollment event and at health screen- Make a donation to the ACA
ings. Squires is also a member of the Foundation at: to improve health care provided to the Shara Rudner // Region 2 Director
public and encourages health care
Service Committee in the Delta Gamma www.acafoundation.acainfo.org/donate. practitioners to improve the quality and
Chapter of the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical availability of services to the public.
Fraternity.
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