End-of-the-year awards highlight successes
Binghamton University’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences held its annual Awards Ceremony virtually on May 13, recognizing a number of students as well as preceptors, faculty and staff with honors from external organizations and from the School of Pharmacy itself.
External awards
U.S. Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award
- Katherine Felix (2021)
- Amandeep Kaur (2020)
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Award Student Recognition Certificate
- Raisa Nishat
The Merck Manual Award for Academic Excellence
- Lamiyah Kamal
- Oluwafemi Popoola
Viatris Excellence in Pharmacy Award
- Tahsin Imam
Wolters Kluwer Clinical Drug Information Award of Excellence in Clinical Communication
- Elizabeth Laughlin
Phi Lambda Sigma Chapter Member of the Year Award
- Stephanie Schwartz
APhA-ASP Senior Recognition Award
- Stephanie Schwartz
PSSNY 5-Year Award
- Elizabeth Laughlin
Internal awards
Founding Dean Award
- Keri Mastro
SOPPS Academic Achievement Award
- Cinthia Chang
- Austin Cheung
- Kush Grover
- Tahsin Imam
- Amandeep Kaur
- Elizabeth Laughlin
- Alicia Letizio
- Keri Mastro
- Raisa Nishat
- Oluwafemi Popoola
- Yvonne Xu
Research Track Certificate of Recognition
- Brianna Flint
- Elizabeth Laughlin
- Oluwafemi Popoola
- Mostafizur Rahaman
- Jesslyn Zhang
SOPPS Bearcat Award
- Lamiyah Kamal
SOPPS Leaders in the Pharmacy Award
- Caitlyn Brown
- Maggie Filja
- Tahsin Imam
- Amandeep Kaur
- Elizabeth Laughlin
- Keri Mastro
- Raisa Nishat
- Stephanie Schwartz
SOPPS Professionalism Award
- Amandeep Kaur
- Elizabeth Laughlin
- Keri Mastro
- Oluwafemi Popoola
- Stephanie Schwartz
Dean’s Advisory Council Award for Community Service
- Jessica Corbett
COVID Vaccinator Award
- Marisa Ferber
- Laraib Khan
SOPPS Class Merit Award (P3)
- Tony Feng
- Emily Gibson
- Anthony Hopkins
- Brian Kam
- Rachel Karasek
- Evan Miller
- Julia Paterson
SOPPS Class Merit Award (P2)
- Katherine Bradley
- Jeffrey Cole
- Tyler Hecox
- Keith Hughes
- Leah Kowalsky
- David Mastro
- Dominick Patafio
- Jenna Stasko
SOPPS Class Merit Award (P1)
- Haytham Avdel
- Madison DeStefano
- Shannon Gallo
- Bryce Heller
- Edisson Ospina Sanchez
- Ciara Sherling
- Eric Smith
- Grace Vaca
- Brady Wisniewski
APPE/IPPE Student Awards
Best in Ambulatory Care APPE
- Katherine Felix
Best in Community Pharmacy APPE
- Shabeli Farooq
Best in Administration/Institutional APPE
- Ashley Oshiro
Best in Internal/General Medicine APPE
- Amandeep Kaur
Best in Elective APPE
- Cinthia Chang
- Jesslyn Zhang
P3 IPPE Award
- David Fama
Excellence in Hospital Pharmacy IPPE
- Elizabeth Rubiconti
Excellence in Community Pharmacy IPPE
- Emily Gibson
Preceptor/Teacher/Staff Awards
APPE Ambulatory Care Preceptor Award
- Megan Lam, Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Northwell Health, Lake Success, N.Y.
APPE Community Pharmacy Preceptor Award
- Mehdi Rajani, Supervising Pharmacist, Norden Drugs, Flushing, N.Y.
APPE General Medicine Preceptor Award
- Karen Williams, PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Director, Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pa.
APPE Institutional Pharmacy Preceptor Award
- Thomas Demundo, Pharmacy Operations Manager, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, N.Y.
APPE Direct Patient Care Elective Preceptor Award
- Jinjoo Kang, Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator, Pediatric Oncology/Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, N.Y.
APPE Non-Direct Patient Care Elective Preceptor Award
- Michelle Calabrese, Compounding Pharmacist, The Medicine Shoppe, Binghamton, N.Y.
IPPE Community Pharmacy Preceptor Award
- Nicole Beavers, Pharmacist, Rite Aid, Sayre, Pa.
IPPE Community Pharmacy Preceptor Award
- Alexis Pawlewicz, Pharmacist, CVS Pharmacy, Walton, N.Y.
IPPE Institutional Pharmacy Preceptor Award
- Corrine Sherwood, Pharmacist, UHS Wilson Medical Center, Johnson City, N.Y.
Faculty Preceptor of the Year (2020)
- Emily Leppien, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Faculty Preceptor of the Year (2021)
- Amanda Mogul, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Teacher of the Year (2020)
- Aaron Beedle, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Sarah Lynch, Director of Skills Education and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Teacher of the Year (2021)
- Bennett Doughty, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
- Leon Cosler, Associate Professor of Health Outcomes and Administrative Sciences
Staff Member of the Year (2020)
- Amanda Padwa, Administrative Coordinator, Student Affairs and Administration
Staff Member of the Year (2021)
- Andrea Snyder, Skills Education Associate