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David Holdford, Ph.D., professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science, School of Pharmacy

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy will honor Holdford with the 2015 Rufus A. Lyman Award during the association’s annual meeting in July. The award is presented annually to the author of the best paper published in the previous year in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.

Holdford’s paper, “Is a Pharmacy Student the Customer or the Product?” explores the relationship between students and institutions, asserting that the ultimate customer of pharmacy education is the patient. When pharmacy schools maintain this patient-centered focus, Holdford posits, academic entitlement and student consumerism is discouraged, and emphasis is placed on learning how to serve the medication-related needs of the patient.

Nominated papers are judged by utility and significance to pharmacy education, originality, research methodology and writing style.

“The selection committee recognized the thoughtful analysis that Dr. Holdford provides in considering whom is the customer of our efforts as educators,” said Gayle A. Brazeau, Ph.D., editor of AJPE and professor and dean of the University of New England College of Pharmacy.

Earlier this year, Holdford also received the 2015 Wiederholt Prize from the American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science. The award recognizes the best paper published in the Journal of the American Pharmacist Association describing original investigation in the areas of economic, social or administrative sciences. Holdford’s paper, titled “Adherence and Persistence Associated With Appointment-Based Medication Synchronization Program,” assessed the impact of an appointment-based medication synchronization program on medication adherence and persistence with chronic mediations.

 

Faye Belgrave, Ph.D., professor, Department of Psychology, College of Humanities and Sciences

Belgrave has been named co-recipient of the American Psychological Association's Charles and Shirley Thomas Award.

The award is given by the APA's Division 45, the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, and recognizes significant contributions in the areas of student mentoring and development, as well as contributions toward making psychology responsive and relevant to the needs of the African-American community.

Belgrave is the author of “African American Girls: Reframing Perceptions and Changing Experiences” and co-author of “African American Boys: Identity, Culture, and Development,” among other works.

 

 

 

 

John M. Pellock, M.D., professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine

Pellock accepted the Epilepsy Foundation’s 2015 Champion of Epilepsy Award on April 23 at its “Race for Results” reception in Washington, D.C.

A pediatric neurologist, Pellock is an internationally recognized expert in epilepsy drug therapy and clinical care. He has been principal investigator for more than 100 trials evaluating epilepsy treatments in children and adults, and has been involved in anti-epileptic drug development and studying epilepsy in children for more than 30 years.  

“Dr. Pellock’s pioneering work is a testament to his lifelong commitment to serving the epilepsy community and passion for the mission we all share,” said Philip M. Gattone, president and CEO of the Epilepsy Foundation in a news release. “We are grateful for his longtime support of the Epilepsy Foundation and individuals living with seizures, and we are privileged to honor him.”

Pellock, who completed housestaff training in pediatrics on VCU’s Medical College of Virginia Campus in 1973, has been on the VCU faculty since 1978 and served as chairman of the Division of Child Neurology from 1995–2014. In 2004, he received the J. Kiffin Penry Award for Excellence in Neurology from the American Epilepsy Society.

 

Celeste Powers, M.D., Ph.D., Saul Kay Professor in Diagnostic Pathology and chair of the Division of Anatomic Pathology, School of Medicine

Powers accepted the L.C. Tao Educator of the Year Award from the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology at the society’s annual meeting in Boston in March.

The L.C. Tao Educator of the Year Award is presented to a pathologist in recognition of meritorious service and contributions to the field of cytopathology education. In 2002, Powers’ MCV Campus mentor William “Jack” Frable, M.D., also received the award.

Powers is the co-author of two textbooks. She also has authored numerous book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in head and neck surgical and cytopathology. Powers has developed and directed regional and national courses, workshops and symposia and has served as an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous pathology journals. She was associate editor of Cancer Cytopathology at its inception in 1996, and she became its editor-in-chief in 2009.

Powers is currently president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology and has served the American Society of Cytopathology as an executive board member and president in the past. In 2008, she received the American Society of Cytopathology’s highest honor, the Papanicolaou Award.  

Powers received her fellowship training in surgical and cytopathology on VCU’s MCV Campus under Frable’s directorship.

 

Arnold Joseph Kemp, chair and associate professor, Department of Painting and Printmaking, School of the Arts

Soloway, a Brooklyn gallery, is presenting a solo exhibition of Kemp’s “HEADLESS” through May 23.

“HEADLESS” attempts to find the body by displaying devices for a body that will navigate today's and tomorrow's increasingly mechanistic, efficient and brutal existences, in order to find the poetry of garbage, pesticides, ghosts and cyber, astral and biological pollution. Poised against the myriad senses and identities possible in our globalized situation, “HEADLESS” approaches the spirit of transgressing the limits of the body.

Kemp, a Guggenheim Fellow in Visual Arts (2012), is also a poet whose recent “Company” can be read on Soloway’s site at http://www.soloway.info/

Kemp has shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Berkeley Art Museum, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Wattis Institute, Disjecta, Rocks Box Fine Art, PDX Contemporary and the Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center. He has performaned at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California College of the Arts and The Banff Centre. Kemp’s poems have appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, MIRAGE #4 Period(ical), River Styx, Nocturnes, Art Journal and Tripwire.

 

Catherine Ingrassia, Ph.D., professor, Department of English, College of Humanities and Sciences

Ingrassia edited the book, “The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789,” which was published in April.

“Women's Writing” explores the significant role that women writers had on Britain between 1660 and 1789. The book features 15 original essays that speak in-depth about the importance of women writers, cross-examination of key genres that women excelled in at the time and a chronological guide to the period. Ingrassia and Rivka Swenson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Englisht at VCU, are among the contributors.

For more information, visit tinyurl.com/ocj6ata.