{"id":4666,"date":"2019-07-01T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2019-07-01T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:29:08","slug":"class-of-2019-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/2019\/07\/01\/class-of-2019-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2019 Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Friday, June 14, 2019, OSU\/OHSU College of Pharmacy conferred 96 Doctor of\u00a0Pharmacy\u00a0degrees (Pharm.D.), and 4 Doctor of\u00a0Philosophy degrees (Ph.D.). Four of the Pharm.D. graduates\u00a0also received their Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree\u00a0from the OSU College of Business.\u00a0Interim Dean Mark Leid began the ceremony by welcoming family and\u00a0friends\u00a0to the 19th Annual OSU College of\u00a0Pharmacy\u00a0Commencement ceremony.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNotably, 80% of the 2019 graduates are resident Oregonians however, other states represented\u00a0included Arizonia, California, Maryland,\u00a0Michigan, Nevada and Washington. Internationally the class represented\u00a0Vietnam. Class of 2019 is 49% female while 51% is male with an average age of 30 years of old, reflecting the increasing maturity of our students. Nearly all have accepted positions in a variety of practice settings with 28 of the graduates moving on to pursue postgraduate training in the form of a pharmacy residency.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Class Representative, Sonya Lee (’19) addressed graduates and guests with stories from pharmacy school about perseverance, collaboration, teamwork, and friendship. Sonya stated “this is not the end but only just the beginning.”<\/p>\n

Oregon\u00a0Health & Science University Provost and Executive Vice President Dr. Elena Andresen, honored graduates with inspiring words of congratulations and excitement for the future. Provost Andresen\u00a0spoke about the unique partnership between OSU and OHSU which fosters the collaborative nature of patient focused care and prepares our pharmacy graduates to\u00a0move into their careers as drug experts and capable clinicians. OSU\u00a0Provost and Executive Vice President Dr. Edward Feser, congratulated graduates on their hard work. Provost Feser spoke of the graduates entering the pharmacy profession as leaders and valuable partners to a diverse and collaborative healthcare team.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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All graduates were celebrated during the graduation ceremony, and\u00a0a few exceptional students were recognized for their outstanding work over the last four years. Dr\u2019s. Theresa Filtz and Jon Furuno presented the following 13 students with 12 distinguished awards for their accomplishments in the classroom, clinic, and community:<\/p>\n

Mylan Excellence in Pharmacy Award<\/strong>
\nRebecca Guise (’19)<\/p>\n

Excellence in Clinical Communication Award sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Health<\/strong>
\nOdaisa Igwe (’19)<\/p>\n

USPHS Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award<\/strong>
\nKevin Christy (’19)<\/p>\n

Merck Oustanding Student in Pharmacy Award<\/strong>
\nRusti Neukam (’19)
\nJason Wang (’19)<\/p>\n

Eli Lilly Achievement Award<\/strong>
\nPeter Atkins (’19)<\/p>\n

APhA-ASP Senior Recognition Certificate<\/strong>
\nNathan Wong (’19)<\/p>\n

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Plaque<\/strong>
\nShannon O’Leary (’19)<\/p>\n

College of Pharmacy Award for Excellence<\/strong>
\nLeah Isip (\u201919) –\u00a0Excellence in Health Education\u00a0<\/em>
\nShannon O\u2019Leary (\u201919) –\u00a0Excellence in Leadership\u00a0<\/em>
\nLing Zhan (\u201919) –\u00a0Excellence\u00a0in Professional Engagement<\/em>
\nCameron Cargile (\u201919) –\u00a0Excellence in Patient Care & Advocacy<\/em>
\nLaura Abell (\u201919) –\u00a0Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Inquiry<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Left to Right: Interim Dean Mark Leid, Stephen Certo, Paul Wachter & Paige Clark (’85)\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Left to\u00a0Right: Interim Dean Mark Leid, Steve Bass, his awesome son & Paige Clark (’85)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Thank you to our corporate partners who have a longstanding history of graciously sponsoring our student events throughout the year. Joining us for graduation included some of our corporate Pharmacy Partners, Steve Bass from Fred Meyer and Stephen Certo & Paul Wachter from Albertsons Co.<\/p>\n

Following the ceremony, graduates reunited with their friends and families outside LaSells Stewart Center for a dessert reception in celebration of their
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Be sure to check out the full Graduation article in the BEAVERx Magazine coming early September! Full Graduation pictures<\/a> will be available by June 28th!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, June 14, 2019, OSU\/OHSU College of Pharmacy conferred 96 Doctor of\u00a0Pharmacy\u00a0degrees (Pharm.D.), and 4 Doctor of\u00a0Philosophy degrees (Ph.D.). Four of the Pharm.D. graduates\u00a0also received their Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree\u00a0from the OSU College of Business.\u00a0Interim Dean Mark Leid began the ceremony by welcoming family and\u00a0friends\u00a0to the 19th Annual OSU College of\u00a0Pharmacy\u00a0Commencement ceremony.\u00a0 Notably, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1717,963957,82,1505,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-events","category-features","category-student-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}