2015 Student Awards & Recognition Dinner

many awardees and guests gather for a group pose.
Rick Trujillo

Student pharmacists honored at the 2015 Student Awards & Recognition Dinner are listed below:

Award Recipients

Community Pharmacy Scholarships
  • Elaine Chiang
  • Johnny Chin
  • Alysha Fahmi
  • Rebecca Hudock
  • Danning Ma
  • Oscar Merino
  • Dang Tran
  • Liuqing Yang

Cardinal Health Scholarship
  • Amorette Jeng
  • Arefeh Orouji

Walgreens Diversity Scholarship
  • Alysha Fahmi
  • ​James Go
  • Esther Yi

Walgreens Diversity Inclusion Award
  • Shauna Santiago

Regents Scholars, Class of 2018
  • Brandon Conley
  • Mario Delgado
  • Bryan Hunt
  • Rahat Mawlavzada

Dean’s Scholarship, Class of 2018
  • Jeremy Borbon
  • Kyle Brown
  • Renee Castillo
  • Rebecca Hudock

Kelly P. Hales Endowed Scholarship
  • Charisma Urbiztondo

Lisa Chun Rodondi and Kevin M. Rodondi Chancellor’s Endowed Scholarship
  • Timothy Mok

Roger G. Ketcham Endowed Scholarship
  • Michael De Guia
  • Thomas Lee
  • Kathyrn Salvadora

Dohmen Life Science Scholarship
  • Thomas Lee

CHIH Foundation Research Award
  • Stephanie Hutsell

Frank M. Goyan Award
  • PharmD students:
    • Adonia Eskandari
    • Michael Taylor
  • PhD student:
    • Idelisse Ortiz

Vince Angell Community Health Service Award
  • Adele Feng
  • Marlina Mansour
  • Tiffany Nguyen
  • Esther Oh

Minnie Levens Award for Excellence in Patient Care
  • Jennifer Koehl

2015 AMCP Pharmacy & Therapeutics National Competition Finalist
  • Ashley Kim
  • Kevin Nguyen
  • Erin St. Angelo
  • Jennifer Tran

2015 NCPA National Business Plan Competition – 3rd Place
  • Jay Barcelon
  • Chris Shahrooz-Foo
  • Nancy Wong
  • Mariko Yokokura

2015 AMCP Annual Meeting: Best Student Poster
  • Dalga Surofchy
  • Aashish Surti

Dean’s Pathway Project Award
  • Health Services and Policy Research: Brittany McGalliard
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences: Allison Komirenko

Bowl of Hygeia Nominee Recognition
  • Katherine Gruenberg
  • Timothy Mok
  • Benjamin Parcher
  • Patricia Pepa
  • Amanda Sugay

Recognition of student achievement and previously presented awards and scholarships

AACP Walmart Scholars Program
  • Cindy Banh
  • Stephanie Hsia

AFPE Gateway to Research Scholarship
  • Nadya Hristeva

Albert Schweitzer Fellow
  • Isabel Fong

AMCP National Student Pharmacist Committee
  • Oscar Merino

AMCP Poster Session Bronze Ribbon
  • I-Chen Fong
  • Leann McDowell

Apple Teaching Award Recipients
  • Nona Chamankhah
  • Katherine Gruenberg
  • Tamara Ly
  • Daniel Polchinski
  • Dang Tran
  • Michael De Guia
  • Anna Gruzman
  • Marlina Mansour
  • Inara Sipols
  • Dorothy Wang
  • Calvin Diep
  • Marissa Hom
  • Tiffany Nguyen
  • Joseph Styers
  • Adele Feng
  • Allison Komirenko
  • Esther Oh
  • Daryush Tabatabai

2014 CAPSLEAD Team
  • Richard Duong
  • Alysha Fahmi
  • Isabel Fong
  • Kimberly Lau
  • Malini Madhusudhan
  • Christine Vu
  • Felicia Wong
  • Gaohlie Yang

2015 CPhA Know Pain, Know Gain Patient Counseling Competition – 2nd Place
  • Kari Ehm
  • Valdy Tjong

2015 CPhA Quiz Bowl Winners
  • Kari Ehm
  • Valdy Tjong

2014 CSHP Board of Directors
  • Ronika Kalpage

2014 CSHP Quiz Bowl - 1st Place
  • Tiffany Chang
  • Randal Du
  • Stephanie Hsia
  • Sohail Khodabakhshi
  • Allison Komirenko
  • Timothy Mok
  • Raymond Ngo
  • Patricia Pepa
  • Lexi Reynolds
  • Roger Wu
  • Bo Yen

CSHP Student Leadership Award
  • Stephanie Hsia

Dean’s Student Leadership Group
  • Tiffany Buckley, EPC Representative
  • Jennifer Chang, EPC Representative
  • Edna Cheung, President-Elect, SNPhA
  • Brandon Conley, EPC Representative
  • Matthew Cummings, President, GPSA
  • Mike De Guia, Worthy Chief Counselor, PDC
  • Cheick Diarra, President, Class of 2017
  • Kimanh Duong, President, SNPhA
  • Uyen Duong, President, CSHP
  • Adele Feng, EPC Representative
  • I-Chen Fong, President, NCPA
  • Anna Gruzman, EPC Representative
  • Scott Hampton, Regent, Kappa Psi
  • Leann McDowell, President, ASSP
  • Oscar Merino, President-Elect, AMCP
  • Timothy Mok, EPC Representative
  • Benjamin Parcher, President, Class of 2015
  • Luis Perez, President, LAPS
  • Daniel Polchinski, President, Rho Chi
  • Jean Rao, EPC Representative
  • Kathyrn Salvadora, President, APhA-ASP
  • Steven Samuels, President, Class of 2018
  • Lucille Sun, President, AMCP
  • Dalga Surofchy, President-Elect, NCPA
  • Shannan Takhar, EPC Representative
  • Leanne Thai, President-Elect, APhA-ASP
  • Christine Tran, Director, COSA
  • Stephanie Truong, President-Elect, CSHP
  • Charisma Urbiztondo, President, Class of 2016
  • Daisy Wong, Director, COSA
  • Esther Yi, President-Elect, ASSP
  • Colin Yu, SCCP
  • David Yu, President, PLS

San Francisco Hepatitis B Collaborative Hep B Free Hero
  • Iris Chen
  • Stephanie Ho
  • Christine Szeto
  • Fiona Wong
  • Edna Cheung
  • Kerry Kuang
  • Steffie Tu
  • Jenny Zhang
  • James Go
  • Jenny New
  • Jade Vitug

UCSF SNPhA Clinical Skills Competition Winners
  • Lexy Reynolds
  • Katherine Gruenberg

UCSF SNPhA Clinical Skills Competition Team
  • Nozomi Giese
  • Katherine Huynh

National Consumers League Script Your Future Finalist
  • Niki Arab
  • Trisha Halim
  • Jeffrey Morimune
  • Lien Truong
  • Yulia Byakina
  • Elaine Mac
  • Neda Noori Nassr
  • Charisma Urbiztondo
  • Alysha Fahmi
  • Yuumi Miyazawa
  • Katherine Tran
  • Stephanie Wong

Paul Ambrose Scholars Program
  • Hyojin Sung

Pharmacists’ Society of San Francisco Student Pharmacist of the Year
  • Daryush Tabatabai

Rite Aid/SNPhA Chapter Excellence Award Qualifier
  • Kimanh Duong
  • Amy Hassenberg

San Mateo County Pharmacists Association 2014-15 Local Representative Senate Certificate of Recognition
  • Sierra Young

Julian Weiss Scholarship
  • Cindy Banh
  • Stephanie Hsia
  • Timothy Mok
  • Pin Xiang

VPhA-USA Scholarship
  • Peter Truong

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