Faculty Accomplishments and Highlights

Dr. Rondall Allen ● Appointed to the Board ofDirectors forPeninsula Regional Medical Center

Dr. James L. Bresette

● In 2019 awarded a grantbyMHEC forthe UMES Opioid Response Program

Dr. Yen Dang ● Appointed to serve as the pharmacistmemberin the Maryland Medicaid Pharmacyand Therapeutics (P&T) Committee fora 3-yearterm ● Earned the Leadership Principles Certification at Harvard Business School ● Accepted for3 presentations with Federation of International Pharmacists (UnitedArab Emirates and Scotland) andAsian Conference on Clinical Pharmacy (Philippines)

Dr. Tosin Da vid

● Drs. David & Rodriguez-Wellerpartnered with Dr. Klima in Physical Therapyin the Stepping On program atMAC centers. Theyreceived a grantfrom the CommunityFoundation ofthe Eastern Shore to supportthese efforts

Dr . Richard Debenedetto ● Installed as the PresidentofMaryland Pharmacist Association ● Appointed as ChairforMaryland State Prescription Drug Monitoring ProgramAdvisoryBoard

Dr. Dana Fasanella ● Appointed Section Editorin Obstetrics and GynecologyforAPhAPharmacotherapyFirst

Dr. Tim Glad well ● Received the UMES SOP SP-2 Facultyofthe Year Award in May2019 ● Appointed Section Editorin DermatologyforAPhA PharmacotherapyFirst ● Recertified as a Board CertifiedAmbulatoryCare Pharmacist(BCACP) in December2018

Dr. Bill Harbester ● Served as co-authoron the PulmonologyChapter with Dr. Tosin David inAPhA’s PharmacotherapyFirst Book ● Co-Presented the continuing education session “Integrating the PharmacistPatientCare Process” at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Dr. Khaled Hasan

● One publication in theArab CenterforAuthorship and Translation ofHealth Science (ACMLS) Medicine Arabization ● 3 Oral presentations atUMES Symposium 2018 - 2019

Dr. Victor Hsia ● Obtained USDA/NIFAand MIPS Grants for$500,000 in directcosts ● T wo publications in Journal ofVirologyand Journal of Neurochemistry

Dr. Pa trice J. Ayotunde ● 3 publications in Int. J. Environ. Res. PublicHealth, Side Effects ofDrugs, and Open Journal ofPhysical Chemistry. ● 4 posterpresentations atAACP, APhA, andAmerican EpilepsySociety ● Serves as the SecretaryfortheAAPS Women in Pharmaceutical Sciences Community

Dr. J ohn Jordan ● Promoted to SeniorDirectorofPharmacyServices at Peninsula Regional Medical Center

Dr. Adel Karara ● Appointed as a memberofthe FDAAdvisory Committee forOncologicDrugs ● Appointed as a memberofan ad hoccommittee of NationalAcademies ofSciences Engineering and Medicine

Dr. Madan Kharel ● 2 publications inAppl Microbiol Biotechnol and Studies in Natural Products Chemistry ● Presentations atThe Teaching ProfessorConference (NewOrleans) and UMES Regional Symposium (PrincessAnne) ● 2 grants received through The Maryland Open Source Textbook(M. O. S. T.) and Course Redesign

Dr. Dennis Killian ● Promoted to Vice PresidentofClinical Operations at Peninsula Regional Medical Center

Dr. Marie Oy alowo ● Presentation with Dr. Zoumenou (Human Ecology) attheAgriculture, Food, and Human Values Society conference inAlaska in June 2018 on Well Connected Communities Initiative thatis funded through a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant

Dr. Miriam Purnell

● One publication inAm J Pharm Educand one poster presentation atAmericanAssociation ofColleges of PharmacyAnnual Meeting (Boston) ● Dr . Purnell, Rodriguez-Weller , 2 pharmacystudents, and middle school students atWicomico DaySchool in Salisburywon 2nd place in the NationalAmerican Association ofColleges ofPharmacyPharmacy4Me Innovations Challenge (March 2019) ● Serves on theAmericanAcademyofColleges of PharmacyChampionsAdvisoryCommittee

Mrs. Nancy R odriguez-Weller ● Appointed to serve as a memberofthe Virginia I. JonesAlzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Council on September30th, 2019

Dr. Gre gory Shaeffer ● Published “Optimize Capture Rates in the Outpatient Pharmacy” with Drs. Killian and Cooperin Pharmacy Purchasing and Products

Dr. Lana Sherr ● Elected board secretaryatthe Eastern ShoreArea Health Education Center(ESAHEC) and appointed memberofthe interprofessional and nomination committees ● Initiated the interprofessionalAHEC Scholars collaboration with ESAHEC. 6 SP-2s from UMES SOP are currentlyenrolled in the program. ● Co-authored “Beyond Insulin: NovelApproaches to Treating Type 1 Diabetes” with Drs. Twigg, Forrest, and Haroon. The article, published inAADE in Practice

● Appointed asAlumniAffairs Co-Director, along with Drs. Ayotunde and Truong, ● Selected to serve as anACPEAccreditation Site Team Evaluator. ● Serves as Program EvaluatorforSomersetCounty’s Opioid Misuse Prevention Program (OMPP)

Dr. Hoai-An Truong ● Appointed bythe Maryland Governoras a memberof the Maryland DepartmentofHealth (MDH)Advisory Committee on MinorityHealth (ACMH) fora one-year term ● Serves as Chairofthe PharmacySection ofthe American PublicHealthAssociation (APHA) ● Serves as Chair-Electofthe Continuing Professional Development(CPD) Section oftheAmerican Association ofColleges ofPharmacy(AACP)

Dr. Sean Vasaitis ● Served on the PharmacyPlanning Committee forthe Governor’s Health ScienceAcademy, Prince George’s CommunityCollege DepartmentofNatural Sciences AdvisoryBoard, and Prince George’s CountyPublic SchoolsAcademyofHealth ProfessionsAdvisory Board ● 2 peer-reviewed journal and 3 bookchapter publications in Cancers and Pharmacology, an Essential Textbook2nd edition

Dr. La tasha Wade

● Publications in Publichealth in pharmacy practice: a casebookand PharmacyLibrary’s PharmacotherapyFirst ● 8 presentations including atInnovations in Teaching and Learning Conference. (PrincessAnne), Maryland DepartmentofHealth National Rural Health Day Webinar, NationalAssociation ofEducational Procurement(NAEP) DistrictII Annual Meeting and Exposition (Ocean City) MD ● PeerEvaluatorforthe Middle States Commission on HigherEducation

Dr. Bi-dar Wang

Rx TIMES > UMES 23 ● Publications in Mol CancerRes, Cancers, and PLoS One ● 4 posterpresentations in SOT58thAnnual Meeting and ToxExpo (Baltimore) andASHP MidyearClinical Meeting (Anaheim and Las Vegas) ● 2 NIH grants (NIH 1SC1GM127256 and NCI R01 CA204806) forprostate cancerresearch awarded