PharmacyThe College of

Winter 2015

South Dakota State University

DEAR FRIENDS

Greetings

Greetings from the SDSU College of Pharmacy. The college had a very busy andproductive fall semester. This issue of our magazine features many significant events andachievements since the start of the 2014-15 academic year.

In July, the medical laboratory science program moved under the College of Pharmacyumbrella. The transition of the MLS program has been very smooth, and it has been a truepleasure having MLS students and faculty join the College of Pharmacy family. In thispublication, we introduce you to the MLS program and highlight a couple of signatureevents in the program’s history—the first White Coat Ceremony for senior MLS studentstransitioning into the clinical portion of their curriculum and a Lambda Tau Honor Societyinduction ceremony following official recognition of the organization by the SDSUStudents’ Association.

This academic year has also been noteworthy for student achievement. The SDSUAmerican College of Clinical Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacy Challenge team of Alex Olinger,April Pottebaum and Keely Hamann (P4 students) finished as national runner-up in theannual competition. Teams from 104 schools nationwide participated in the challenge. Wewere also quite pleased to learn that P3 student Haylee Brodersen was named recipient ofthe prestigious Reisetter/MME Kappa Psi Foundation Scholarship and that a design shecreated was selected as the logo for the 57th Grand Council Convention of Kappa Psi thatwill be held in Denver.

The college received very good news regarding NAPLEX and MPJE results this pastOctober. During the summer testing window, SDSU had 73 first-time candidates take theNAPLEX with a 100 percent pass rate. The national pass rate for this exam window was95.61 percent. The SDSU mean scaled score was 112.86, which was well above the nationalmean of 102.80. In addition, all Class of 2014 members taking the Multistate PharmacyJurisprudence Examination (MPJE) during this test window passed.

Another major milestone was achieved this past semester with Wenfeng An joining theCollege of Pharmacy as the first Markl Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research. An bringscritical expertise to the college in the area of cancer epigenetics. The story on An in thispublication describes his work and the impact he will have on both the college’s researchand academic programs.

As the college looks forward to the 2015 launch of the master of public health program, Iam pleased to announce that Mary Beth Fishback has accepted the position of MPHprogram coordinator. In this role, she will provide leadership on campus for the MPHprogram that is a collaborative effort between health programs at the University of SouthDakota and South Dakota State University. The rural public health focus of the programwill provide both academic and research opportunities for students and faculty in healthscience disciplines across our campus. Further, we are enthusiastic about the potential tobenefit communities throughout the region by working with them to address public healthchallenges.

In closing, I would like to say thank you to our many volunteer preceptors, loyal alumniand other stakeholders for the outstanding support provided to the college throughout 2014.Your investment of time, talent and treasure has made a positive impact on our studentsand faculty. I hope you enjoy reading about the impact of your contributions on the pagesthat follow.

Best wishes for the New Year!

Dennis D. Hedge, Pharm.D.Dean and Professor

SDSU College of Pharmacy

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College of Pharmacy Advisory Council

Dean: Dennis HedgeAssociate Dean: Jane MortAssistant Dean: Dan HansenAssistant Dean: Xiangming GuanHead of Pharmacy Practice: James ClemHead of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Om PerumalCo-editor: Dan HansenCo-editor: Matt SchmidtDesign: Virginia Coudron

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South Dakota State University

Winter 2015 Issue No. 1

Steve AamotDarrel BjornsonJeff DeRoucheySuzanne HansenVeronica LesselyoungBrian LounsberyMegan MaddoxAnne Morstad

Karen MungerLenny PetrikSue SchaeferGarret SchrammPaul SinclairChris SonnenscheinElse Umbreit

2 Medical Laboratory Science A part of the curricula at South Dakota State since 1948, the program moved under the oversight of the College of Pharmacy July 1, 2014.

3 MLS did you know? The program graduates an average of 18 students per year. Since 2012, there also has been an online class for practicing medical techs.

4 A program first The medical laboratory science program held its first White Coat Ceremony and the charter members of the Rho chapter of the Lambda Tau honor society were inducted Nov. 12, 2014.

6 Fall convocation Students gain a view of personalized medicine from a Florida professor.

8 Honored graduates SDSU graduates Earl McKinstry ’66, Earl Hinricher ’80 and Dan Hansen ’05 were honored at the South Dakota Pharmacists Association’s annual gathering Sept. 20, 2014.

10 Cancer therapy Hemachand Tummala has the lead role in a $90,000, one-year study with Xiangming Guan and two Sanford researchers that looks at the combination of drugs and diet.

11 Finding clues in the thiol Xiangming Guan has received a $327,500, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to look at subcellar levels of thiols, a natural bodyguard for cells.

12 Molly Mack P4 student spends a month in D.C. with American Society of Health-System Pharmacists networking, developing an app for documenting, and learning about informatics.

13 Student news Local chapters of Kappa Psi, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and American College of Clinical Pharmacy make news.

14 Scholarships

16 Department of Pharmacy Practice James Clem reports

17 Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Om Perumal reports.

18 Academic assessment report Jane Mort reports.

18 New faculty Alex Middendorf, Shawn Dalton, Jennifer Ball, Jeremy Daniel, Surachat Ngorsuraches.

19 Sarah Vaa Front office secretary named SDSU Civil Service Employee of Month for September.

20 First endowed scholar on board Aspiring genome scholar Wenfeng An began Nov. 3, 2014, as the Markl Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research, the first endowed position in the college.

21 Hemachand Tummala honored Progress made by the associate professor in a novel vaccine delivery system has resulted in Tummala being named the college’s 2014-15 Faculty Scholar.

22 Craig Schnell The 1965 graduate, who built an impressive resume in academic administration, is back in the classroom and was honored as the college’s Distinguished Alumnus.

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College of Pharmacy Development Council

Mike Semerad, a first-year medicallaboratory science student, draws bloodfrom classmate MacKenzie Pfeifle asinstructor Stacie Lansink looks on. Fallsemester represented the first academicperiod for the program to be under theoversight of the College of Pharmacy.

See story on page 2.

PharmacyThe College of

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The College of Pharmacy gained 100new students this fall, yet its class sizeis unchanged.

Here’s a clue to that head scratcher: MLS.On July 1, the well-established but often

overlooked Medical Laboratory Scienceprogram was moved to the College ofPharmacy after being under the Departmentof Chemistry and Biochemistry in theCollege of Arts and Sciences since itsbeginning at South Dakota State in 1948.

On the surface, it’s not much of a changeat all.

Medical laboratory science continues tooperate its own two-year program whileCollege of Pharmacy students continue toearn a six-year Pharm.D. degree or doctoratein philosophy. They retain their own spacesin the Avera Health and Science Center andtheir faculty will not cross over intoanother’s area.

However, the move offers plenty ofbenefits to the MLS program and fits nicelywith the College of Pharmacy.

Dean Dennis Hedge said, “Pharmacy andmedical laboratory science are both based in

the foundational science of chemistry. It’s anatural fit.” Beyond that, the patient careaspect of both professions creates anopportunity for added collaborativeefficiencies, he said.

Task force stimulated changeIn addition, “there is a lot of similarity in

the courses students in the pre-pharmacyand pre-MLS programs are taking. Theexperiential learning components of the twoprograms also mirror each other to asignificant degree,” said Hedge.

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Hedge and Nancy Fahrenwald, dean ofthe College of Nursing, co-chaired a taskforce in 2013-14 that studied health scienceseducation at SDSU.“One item that emerged was that the

medical laboratory science program betteraligned with the other existing healthprofession programs on campus,” Hedgesaid.

Pat Tille, who has directed the MedicalLaboratory Science program since 2009,remains in charge of the program.

“Abigmotivationto move intopharmacy was to get a higher profile. Plus,pharmacy is a clinical major. That’s more inline with what we do than chemistry,” saidTille, who can accept 24 students per yearinto the program.“Historically, the majority of the MLS

students would come from other majorsbecause students didn’t know about the

program or that the major was available atSDSU,” Tille said.

Program awareness growsThat is changing. Now about half the

students who enter the professionalprogram are coming in as a medicallaboratory science major and this year’sjunior class is full. Since 2009, the numberof majors—from freshmen to seniors—hasgrown from about 50 to 100 and thenumber of traditional college students inthe program is increasing.

This is attributed to specific recruitingefforts at various venues, including “scrubscamps,” one-day sessions put on at highschools around the state by the varioushealth programs at several postsecondaryinstitutions.

Prior to July 1, Tille served as the medicallaboratory science program’s recruiter,admissions committee, adviser, facultymember, academic assessment coordinatorand program administrator.

As the program has grown, switching hatsand providing quality service to the

students became aninsurmountable task that

needed to be addressed,Tille said.

In the College ofPharmacy, she stillmaintains theadministrativeoversight of theprogram asrequired foraccreditation,while workingin conjunctionwith collegesupport

personnel. This provides her

time to addressstudent needs in a

much more efficient andconsistent manner, leading

to a better student experience.She is grateful and pleased with the

improvement of student services that haveoccurred in the short months since thetransition to the college.

Mike Niles, who handles advising andrecruiting for pharmacy, now also overseesthose duties for the medical laboratoryscience program.

Dan Hansen, assistant dean for studentservices in the College of Pharmacy, nowassists with the MLS admission process and

MedicalLaboratoryScienceFinds a new home inCollege of Pharmacy

other student services. The College ofPharmacy administrative staff assists increating student files, collecting studentimmunization records and other necessarydocumentation required in a professionalclinical practice major.

All of these services are similar to what theCollege of Pharmacy has in place for all otherstudents in the college. “In a typical academic year, I would have 40

to 48 professional advisees and then up to 30-plus pre-professional advisees. Managing allof the required administrative needs of aprofessional program and maintainingquality in the classroom and student serviceswas extremely difficult,” said Tille, who holdsa doctorate in biomedical health sciences withan emphasis in microbial genetics.

MLS students embrace move“It improves the services to the student.

Pharmacy has those things in place. I haven’tchanged the program, just adapted it intothem. It’s been a very positive thing. Theseniors are really excited about it,” said Tille,noting that SDSU has the only accreditedfour-year program in the state.

Senior Bridget Parsons, president of theMedical Laboratory Science StudentOrganization, concurs with Tille’s assessment.

Parsons said, “My classmates and I areextremely excited and grateful for the move.We have already seen so many positivechanges for the program. The most importantof which, for us students, was the White CoatCeremony Nov. 12. It had a very significant

meaning to all of us that have put so muchtime and effort into this program. “Also, being a part of the College of

Pharmacy also makes us more visible toincoming students who had no previousknowledge of medical laboratory science.This opens doors for higher enrollment in theprogram as well as opportunities for theprogram to expand.”

Currently, the focus has been on meldingthe programs administratively andcompleting required university and statepaperwork.

Interprofessional education on horizonIn the future, both Hedge and Tille see the

opportunity for interprofessional education.“If you’re having a lesson on toxicology, who

better to talk about toxicology than apharmacy professor?” Tille said. “There is alot of potential for collaborative teaching. Wejust have to get there.”

Hedge observes, “Interprofessional learningwithin all health disciplines is becoming farmore common.”

The pharmacy and medical laboratoryscience professions each have a nationalcertification test, and in recent years both theSDSU pharmacy and MLS programs have hada 100 percent pass rate. Tille said herprogram’s job or graduate school placementrate is 100 percent within four months ofcompletion of the MLS professional program.“One student was offered a job within six

days of being at the clinical site” in the finalsemester, Tille said.

Dave Graves

Dennis Hedge, dean of the College of Pharmacy, poses withPat Tille, head of the medical laboratory science programprior to the program’s first White Coat Ceremony Nov. 12,2014. The college gained oversight of the program July 1,2014, to provide it with better support services.

Since 1948, students have been taking classes at Stateto learn to work in a medical lab.

Originally known as a medical technology program,it became the clinical laboratory science program andlater the medical laboratory science program. This wasdue to changes by the national credentialing agency andthe certification exams for the practicing professional.

Previously a 3 + 1 program that required studentsto complete three years at SDSU followed by one year ata hospital program, SDSU formally became anindependent nationally accredited 2+2 program in2011.

The program is the only medical laboratory scienceuniversity program in South Dakota that is accredited bythe National Accrediting Agency for Clinical LaboratorySciences.

Throughout its history, the medical laboratoryscience program has never been large, but sinceaccreditation the program has been graduating anaverage of 18 students per year and the junior class isfull with 24 students.

Graduates spend their final 22 weeks at a clinical

location, but they are taught much of the neededdiagnostics before leaving campus, Tille said.

“They’re very well versed before they get into aclinical laboratory. The students complete diagnostictesting in the university laboratory that includeshematology, microbiology, chemistry, urinalysis, bloodbanking and molecular diagnostic techniques.

“That’s why we have 100 percent pass rate (on theboard exam), because our students are trained in thenewest techniques with hands-on experience under thedirection of nationally certified laboratory professionals,”Tille said.• Faculty: In addition to Tille, there is one other full-

time faculty member plus four part-timers, including twoonline instructors.•Curriculum: After taking two years of science-

oriented general studies, there is a two-yearprofessional program. The retention rate in theprofessional program is 88 percent; 99 percent after thejunior year.•Demographics: Traditionally, the program has had

a 50-50 male/female split. However, in 2013 it was 3 to

1 males to females. The current senior class is justopposite (4 to 12) while the junior class has one maleand 23 females.• The percentage of traditional students enrolling in

medical laboratory science has grown thanks to recentrecruiting at high school health science programs. Abouthalf enter as medical laboratory science majors whilethe other half transfer from another major or from anoutside institution.•Online upward mobility: Started in 2012, the

program allows practicing medical technicians with anassociate degree to gain a bachelor’s degree by takingcourses online. The first group of 11 recently completedthe work. Another 24 are in the pipeline, most from theMidwest.• Earning potential: The average pay, as projected

by the South Dakota Health Care Work Force Initiative, inthis region is $23 per hour for a certified medicallaboratory scientist with the median pay $57,000,according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The paydifference between a two-year and four-year degreerecipient is around $7 per hour, Tille said.

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The first White Coat Ceremony forseniors in the medical laboratory scienceprogram and the first induction formembers of the Rho chapter of the LambdaTau honor society was Nov. 12, 2014, in theHobo Day Gallery at the University StudentUnion.

Program director Pat Tille called theevening both historic and symbolic of theprogram’s increased stature.

A total of 16 seniors who are headed intothe clinical portion of their trainingreceived their white coat, which is a symbolof professionalism in the health-care field.Nursing, pharmacy and medical schoolprograms have similar ceremonies.

In delivering the inaugural keynoteaddress, Mike Black, vice president oflaboratory services at Avera McKennanHospital, said, “Medical laboratory sciencewill provide multiple career opportunitiesand has excellent growth potential for thesestudents.”

In addition, he said laboratoryprofessionals are in high demand not onlyin South Dakota but also across the nation.He also said the MLS program has amazinggrowth potential.

Tille presented the coats with the pledgeto the profession led by former programdirector Deb Pravecek.

The SDSU Students’ Association officiallyapproved the Rho chapter of Lambda Tau asa student organization Nov. 10. It culminates12 months of working on bylaws and aconstitution, having them reviewed andapplying for a national charter.

Tille, the chapter’s adviser, said, “Thanksgo to Bridget Parsons, our MLS clubpresident, who served as the studentrepresentative to move this forward for theprogram.”

Top group photo: Adviser Pat Tille joins charter inductees of the Rho chapter of the Lambda Tau honor society atthe Nov. 12, 2014, induction ceremony. Pictured, back row, from left, are Tille, program director; Melissa Gerhold,Katie Ludens, Amber Ebben, Bridget Parsons, Zakery Prpich. Front row: Tiffany Montalvo and Erin Fernholz.Bottom group photo:The 16-member senior class is pictured after the inaugural White Coat Ceremony for themedical laboratory science program Nov. 12. They are flanked by instructor Stacie Lansink, left, and program di-rector Pat Tille, right.Upper page photos from left to right: Tiffany Montalvo, a second-year student, prepares a lab sample for test-ing; second-year student Erin Fernholz serves as the patient while first-year student Kae Januschka does a blooddraw and classmate Krista Fleming observes; second-year student Nicholas Adolph tests a blood sample.

Two inaugurals, one ceremony

The University of Florida’s 2011Teacher of the Year, Reginald F.Frye, highlighted the 24th annual

Keo Glidden Smith Convocation Nov. 3following a research poster session.

Frye, a professor for the Department ofPharmacotherapy and TranslationalResearch within the College of Pharmacyat the University of Florida in Gainesville,presented “Pharmacogenomicbiomarkers and personalized medicine:focus on cytochrome P450 enzymes”during the hour-long convocation.

Brittany Williams, president of Tauchapter of the Rho Chi Honor Society,introduced Frye and presented him a giftfrom the college.“Dr. Frye did an outstanding job

introducing the students to the world ofpharmacogenomics and personalizedmedicine,” said Dennis Hedge, dean andprofessor for the College of Pharmacy.

“Our students will now better understandhow pharmacogenetic information canimprove drug therapy decisions resultingin maximized patient response andminimized toxicity.”

Frye spoke about pharmacogenomics,the use of genetics to find the right drugfor the right patient and its use inpersonalized medicine. “Genetic differences may mean a

particular drug will not work in somepatients or may mean that some patientsare at high risk for a severe adverse drugreaction,” said Frye. “Genetic informationis now being used in some hospitals toinform treatment decisions.”

Student connection Levi Hattervig, a second-year

pharmacy student from Carthage, saidthe topics Frye covered in his speechapplied to the material he’s been learningover the past several weeks. “I thought Dr. Frye was very

entertaining,” said Hattervig. “One of thebiggest messages I took away was thatthere are so many possibilities when itcomes to the pharmacy field. Dr. Frye

said something that stuck in my head—‘even if you do not think research is foryou, it is worth looking into.’ I aminspired by what he has accomplished inhis lifetime, and I hope to make asignificant impact on the profession likehe has.”

Hattervig has worked in the retailpharmacy setting and is excited for hisIntroductory Pharmacy PracticeExperiences next summer, where he willwork in a hospital setting. “I think pharmacy found me more than

I found pharmacy,” Hattervig said. “Ialways knew I wanted to impact peoples’lives in health care, but I didn’t knowwhich area. Several of my classmates toldme about the profession, so I decided todo some shadowing and apply. I canhonestly say I have no doubts about mydecision, and I couldn’t be happier than Iam here at SDSU.”

Path to professorFrye earned a bachelor’s degree in

biology from Oglethorpe University inAtlanta, followed by a doctor ofpharmacy degree from Mercer Universityin Atlanta.

He completed a one-year fellowship inclinical pharmacokinetics at theUniversity of North Carolina at ChapelHill before earning a doctorate ofphilosophy in clinical pharmaceuticalsciences from the University ofPittsburgh School of Pharmacy.

After completing graduate work, Fryeremained on faculty at the University ofPittsburgh as an assistant professor andthen an associate professor in theDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciencesfrom 1995 until 2002. He joined thefaculty at the University of Florida in2003, and in 2012, he was promoted toprofessor and named department chair.

At the University of Florida, Frye isinvolved in graduate training in thecollege and teaches a required course onpersonalized medicine in the Pharm.D.program.

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Personalized medicine professor addresses pharmacyKeo Glidden Smithconvocation

He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research publications and severalbook chapters.

Frye is also an editorial board member forPharmacotherapy, Annals ofPharmacotherapy and Frontiers inPharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics.“I hope the audience gained an

appreciation for the current state ofpersonalized medicine and understood howit is being used today to guide drug therapy,”said Frye. “Pharmacists can play a critical role in

many aspects of personalized medicine and Ihope I inspired the pharmacy students toexplore opportunities in pharmacogenomicspractice and research.”

History of Keo Glidden Smith The annual convocation honors Keo

Glidden Smith, the daughter of a WillowLake drug store owner. Smith graduated witha pharmacy degree from South Dakota StateCollege in 1937.

She started at State in general sciences, butwas recruited into pharmacy by a familyfriend. Smith, a trailblazer, was one of twowomen in her pharmacy class. Aftergraduation, she practiced as a pharmacist inPhilip and Madison before returning toWillow Lake, where she met her husbandDwight Smith ’34.

After marrying, the couple lived in severalstates—Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania,Louisiana and Illinois—before laying downpermanent roots in Rapid City in 1965.

Smith did pharmacy relief work until 1987,when she earned her 50-year certificate.

Smith still lives in Rapid City, and stays intouch with friends she made at South DakotaState. In 1989, she provided funds toestablish an endowment in support of theconvocation. “We want to inspire our pharmacy students

to participate in research in their futurecareers through these annual convocationspeakers,” said Xiangming Guan, assistantdean for research and professor for the SDSUCollege of Pharmacy. “When speakers relateto a student’s field and future practice, thestudents grab on to that.”

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Upper left: Reginald F. Frye, personalized medicine professor forthe University of Florida, delivered the keynote address at the 24thannual Keo Glidden Smith Pharmacy Convocation Nov. 3.

Upper right: Second-year graduate pharmacy student MetabAlharbi, left, explained his project to fellow student RakeshDachineni, center, and pharmaceutical sciences associateprofessor Jayarama Gunaje, right.

Lower left: Second-year pharmacy students Lea Telkamp, left,Joshua Ohrtman, right, and mentor and associate dean Jane Mort,center, present at the pharmacy poster session.

Lower right: Third-year graduate student Md Saiful Islam, left, andfirst-year graduate student Mibin Kuruvilla Joseph, center,discussed research topics with professor Omathanu Perumal, right.

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McKinstry, Hinricher, HansenState’s pharmacists honor State grads

Earl McKinstryMcKinstry was commissioned as a second lieutenant out of the

Army ROTC program at SDSU in 1966 and spent the next 26 yearsin the military while also earning a master’s degree in hospitalpharmacy from North Dakota State in 1970.

McKinstry began as a staff pharmacy officer in Aurora, Colorado,and then in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He then served as director ofpharmacy service at U.S. Army hospitals in Fort Riley, Kansas;Landstuhl, Germany; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Aurora, andHonolulu.

McKinstry also was supervisor of inpatient pharmacy services atWalter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., from 1979to 1982.

He retired from the military in 1992. McKinstry was hired in1993 by Western Dakota Technical Institute in Rapid City to start apharmacy tech program. He worked with the program until 2005and became an expert in the field of pharmacy tech training.

He was instrumental in encouraging the Board of Pharmacy andstate legislators to require pharmacy technician registration, formal

education and national certification. McKinstry also wrote testquestions for some of the first board exams for techs.

McKinstry also spent 1992-93 as a staff pharmacist at Rapid CityRegional Hospital and worked as a nursing home consultant for theMedicine Shoppe in Rapid City from 1993 to 1999.

After leaving Western Dakota, he was a staff pharmacist atMedicap Pharmacies in Rapid City and at the ambulatorypharmacy in Rapid City Regional Hospital.

McKinstry closed his professional career as Board of Pharmacyinspector from 2008 to 2011.

In community service, McKinstry is a past president of BlackHawk Kiwanis Club and was instrumental in helping start BlackHills Lutheran Schools (middle school and high school) in RapidCity four years ago. He now serves as the fundraising committeechair.

McKinstry also is president of the Divine Shepherd LutheranChurch congregation in Black Hawk and president of the MeadeCounty Thrivent Board.

He and his wife, Janell (Mann), celebrated 50 years of marriageAug. 30, 2014. They have a son, a daughter and four grandchildren.

Earl HinricherAfter graduation, Hinricher completed a hospital pharmacy

residency program at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls and movedto Huron to provide pharmacy relief work to the area’s small-townpharmacists. He also consulted with local nursing homes, providingpatient med reconciliation reviews.

In 1982, he began teaching pharmacology to nursing students atHuron College. Several years later he accepted an invitation to joina local medical clinic to work to improve its pharmacy operation.There he and his pharmacist wife, Melanie, reorganized thepharmacy into a modern clinic pharmacy.

Their goals included opening the operation to allow physicians todirectly visit with the pharmacists, thus developing a professionalrelationship. This relationship expanded when he was asked tomanage the entire medical clinic operation.

Hinricher has worked on many community projects, includingthe development of one of Huron’s first fitness centers. He alsosecured and developed a location for women’s health services forlow-income women and worked with Our Home to providepharmacy services for troubled youth.

Hinricher also is treasurer of the Huron Rotary Club and doesfundraising in the Huron area for programs such as Little League

Earl McKinstry, left, receives the Hustead Award as South Dakota Pharmacist of theYear, from Lynn Greff, Rapid City, president-elect of the South Dakota PharmacistsAssociation, at its annual meeting at Cedar Shores Resort in Oacoma Sept. 20, 2014.

Three SDSU alums received top awards presented by the South Dakota Pharmacists Association at its annual

meeting at Cedar Shores Resort in Oacoma Sept. 20, 2014. Earl McKinstry ’66, of Black Hawk, received the

Hustead Award as South Dakota Pharmacist of the Year. Earl Hinricher ’80, of Forestburg, received the Bowl of

Hygeia Award for outstanding community service. Dan Hansen ’05, of Brookings, was named the Outstanding

Young Pharmacist. The Hustead is a career award named after pioneer pharmacist Ted Hustead of Wall and cho-

sen by a panel of the recipient’s peers.

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Baseball, the Backpack program for low-income students andmany youth scholarship programs.

He is a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, serving inmany capacities, most recently as president.

From 2002 through 2008, he served as a boardmember/president of People’s Transit of Huron, during which timethe transit tripled its transportation services to adjacentcommunities, providing transportation to local schools, clinics,nursing homes and the Huron Hospital.

Hinricher also has worked extensively with many communityleaders on physician recruitment to rural South Dakota.

After 22 years in medical clinic administration, in 2004 hereturned to his roots in hospital pharmacy at the Huron RegionalMedical Center, where he continues to shepherd pharmacytechnicians in their efforts to achieve national certification.

Hinricher served on the South Dakota Pharmacists Association’sboard from 2006 until 2011 and continues to work with SDSU’sCollege of Pharmacy as a small hospital preceptor. He said heenjoys working with the students and exposing them to the ruralhealth setting.

Dan HansenAfter graduation, Hansen moved to Milwaukee to work as a

pharmacist with Walgreens, rising quickly through the ranks tobecome manager. He is credited with taking a pharmacy incomplete disarray, and changing it into one of the district’s highest-performing pharmacies.

Hansen returned to SDSU in 2007 to work as assistant professorof pharmacy practice and experiential program manager. In thatrole, he worked to implement the college’s new introductorypharmacy practice experiences curriculum and helped with thetransition to an electronic experiential software program.

As an assistant professor, he was responsible for teaching topicssuch as communications, calculations, over-the-counter drugs anddispensing.

In March 2010, he was appointed the assistant dean of studentservices. He is responsible for overseeing the recruitment andretention of students, the admissions process for the Pharm.D.program, student conduct, scholarships, the college’s diversityinitiative and the college’s tutoring program.

Hansen’s teaching responsibilities have expanded to include apre-pharmacy course designed to help students as they transitioninto college and are introduced to the profession of pharmacy. Healso precepts several P4 students every year as they complete anelective focused on academics, allowing them to experience life as afaculty member.

Hansen works as a relief pharmacist at the Jackrabbit Pharmacy.He also assists students with health screenings conductedthroughout the year.

Hansen has served on and/or chaired a great number of college,university and national committees and was awarded the Students’Association Teacher of the Year for the College of Pharmacy in2009-2010 and was SDSU’s Distinguished Young Alumnus in 2013.

In April 2014, Hansen was elected to a three-year term on theBrookings City Council.

He and his wife, Jess, have three children, Maya, 6; Noah, 4; andLeah, 1.

Dave Graves

Earl Hinricher receives the Bowl of Hygeia Award for outstanding community servicefrom Shannon Gutzmer, of Rapid City, president of the South Dakota PharmacistsAssociation, at its annual meeting at Cedar Shores Resort in Oacoma Sept. 20, 2014.

Dan Hansen receives the Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award from LeeAnnSonnenschein from Pharmacists Mutual Insurance, which sponsors the award. Hansen isjoined by his family—wife, Jess, holding Leah, and Noah. Not pictured is daughter Maya.

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COLLEGE

Two researchersin the College ofPharmacy areteaming with tworesearchers atSanford Researchin Sioux Falls inan effort to givecancer the one-two punch.

AssociateprofessorHemachandTummala andprofessor

Xiangming Guan are partnering with cancersurgeon and researcher John Lee andbiochemistry researcher Keith Miskimins ona $90,000, one-year study entitled “Safetyand Efficacy of Sanford Profile Diet Formulain Conjunction with Novel Anti-cancerDrugs for Cancer Therapy.”

Its purpose is to improve the therapeuticoutcomes of cancer patients through acombination of a specially designed dietformula and novel drugs.

Tummala explains, “One’s immune systemplays a critical role in detecting andeliminating abnormal cells, like cancer cells,to keep us healthy. In addition, it is alsoimportant during chemotherapy andradiation therapy in cancer patients.”

However, there are two caveats intraditional approaches.

Scientists already know tumor cells requirehigh levels of glucose (for energy andnutrients) as they multiply rapidly. Thebyproduct of this activity is high levels oflactic acid, which is detrimental to anti-cancer immune responses needed duringchemotherapy/radiation therapy, Tummalaexplained in his project summary. “The other caveat is that Cisplatin, the most

commonly used chemotherapeutic drug inthe world, attacks tumors, but also destroyswhite blood cells in the body’s immunesystem, which play a critical role in the fightagainst cancer,” Tummala said.

Double punch on cancer cells:In this project, the investigators aim to

work around these caveats to boost the anti-

cancer immunity by using diet and betterdesigned drugs.

Working in his Avera Health and ScienceCenter lab, Tummala oversaw thedevelopment of AT-Platin, a derivative ofcisplatin. Unlike cisplatin, AT-Platin does notattack white blood cells and is up to 10 timesmore effective in killing cancer cells in cancercell-based lab model studies, Tummala said.

The data is promising, but it is yet to betested in animal models, cautioned Tummala.

In the study, AT-Platin will be used incombination with SDSF2, which is so namedbecause it is the second drug created bySouth Dakota State (SD) and Sanford (SF)researchers (Guan, Chandradhar Dwivediand Miskimins).

It contains two known safe, anti-cancercompounds (DCA and oxamate) that targetenzymes involved in lactate production.SDSF2 is shown to reduce the lactate levelsin the tumor and enhance the efficiency oftraditional cancer therapy.

Similarly, preliminary studies done atSanford Research by the Miskimins group ontumor-bearing mice using only a speciallydesigned low-carbohydrate diet have shown

“significantly reduced serum glucose levels,reduced tumor lactate levels, reduced tumorgrowth and enhanced survival afterchemo/radiation,” Tummala reported.

In this study, one drug (AT-Platin) isexpected to attack the cancer cells alone andkeep the immune system intact whileanother drug (SDSF2) and a speciallydesigned cancer diet will enhance theenvironment for the effective functioning ofthe immune system to enhance the efficiencyof chemo/radiation. “We expect the drugs and diet to be even

more effective in combination than theywere on their own,” Tummala said.

The low-carbohydrate diet is beingformulated by Sanford Profile, acomprehensive weight managementprogram designed by Sanford Healthphysicians and scientists. The novel drugs—SDSF2 and AT-Platin—have been developedby Guan and Tummala at the SDSU Collegeof Pharmacy.

The study will look at a mouse model ofhead and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Butthe researchers believe results will be

applicable to other solid tumors, includingskin, prostate, breast and lung.

Study time frameThe drugs are synthesized in the SDSU

labs. To obtain a purification rate of 95percent or higher is “very challenging,”Tummala said. “We have achieved that purityand it took 18 months to standardize theprocedures for such high purity.”

A postdoctoral chemist is being hired tosynthesize the drugs, which is projected totake four months. The animal studies willtake six to seven months with a couple ofmonths budgeted for analysis of results.

Drug development: Risky and time-consuming process

In his grant proposal, Tummala explainedthat the worldwide market for cancertherapeutics is $75 billion with an annualgrowth rate of 12.6 percent.

However, drug discovery and developmentis expensive (as much as $1 billion for a newdrug), high risk (the odds of a successfulcommercialized product are one in 10,000),and time-consuming (10 to 15 years),Tummala stated.

Because AT-Platin and SDSF2 are arepurposed structure of existing drugs,development time and costs can be greatlyreduced plus there will be a “quickertranslation to the patient market,” Tummalasaid. “The goal is to take the diet to humans

soon; to have it tested, patented and sold topatients,” Tummala said. “The drugs will taketime.”

Study is a byproduct of regional cancer centerAll four researchers in the study are part of

the regional Translational Cancer ResearchCenter, a collaborative center formed in 2009with funding from the State to facilitate ajoint approach to cancer research. It iscomprised primarily of researchers from theCollege of Pharmacy and Sanford Research.

The founding director, DistinguishedProfessor Chandradhar Dwivedi, wassucceeded by Professor Omathanu Perumalwhen he retired.

Tummala, a member of the center since itsformation, said, “It takes a while to establish

Hemachand Tummala

Cancer researchers studying drug-diet combination for cancer therapy

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Biomedical research of diseases likeAlzheimer’s and Parkinson’s look to thiol levelsin the body for clues toward treatment andprevention.

SDSU pharmaceutical sciences professorXiangming Guan has become an expert in thiolsand is seeking to better understand the organicchemical compounds found in people, plantsand animals. Since 1999, he has received morethan $1.2 million in grants from the NationalInstitutes of Health for his research.

His most recent grant of $327,500 funds athree-year study through April 30, 2017, on

subcellular thiol imaging.Guan, assistant dean for research in the College of Pharmacy, said when

he began work on thiols “numerous reagents had been developed todetermine how much thiol is present in live systems, but we didn’thave a thiol reagent that could be used when the cell was still intact.

“It would be really helpful if we could have a reagent that candetect cellular thiol levels when the cell is still alive, not homogenizedand broken down,” he said.

An analysis of thiol within a living cell would allow researchers todiscover where thiol is within the cell and within living systems, Guanexplained. “Thus you can relay their function better during a diseasestate. It would allow us to explore prevention or treatment methods,”he said.

Thiols—nature’s bodyguardGuan defined thiols as important, endogenous compounds, similar

to alcohols and phenols, but thiols contain a sulfur atom in place of anoxygen atom (SH versus OH).

“Thiols protect our bodies from oxidative stress and toxic species.A lot of diseases are associated with oxidative stress and related tothiol density. Under oxidative stress, thiol density can be decreased.We see that in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, even in the agingprocess,” Guan said.

Thiol plays a role in protein structure and function, but underoxidative stress it is consumed and converted to a disulfide, he said.

Prior grant created new reagentIn September 2013, Guan completed a $430,300 study of more

than three years in which he and his research team and partnerscreated a solid, sulfide reagent that allowed researchers to determinethiol density in live cells through fluorescence microscopy tracking.There is no fluorescence until the reagent reacts with the thiol.

Now Guan and his research team want to quantify thiol density in thecell’s mitochondria and nucleus.

“This will be a very, very valuable tool in biomedical research,” said Guan,who is working in his Avera Health and Science Center lab to create areagent that will selectively target the mitochondria and nucleus. Thatreagent must be thiol-specific and react within minutes of connecting withthiol, he said.

Guan said the biggest challenge will be to create a reagent thatselectively delivers into the cell’s subcellular structure.

Thiols can be broadly classified as protein and nonprotein thiols. Thenonprotein thiols serve as a major protector of protein thiols. Guan said hisbasic research could be used by others in biomedical research.

Guan expects the first half of the grant period to be spent creating aneffective reagent with the second half spent testing it.

Dave Graves

a productive collaboration. First, we need tofind out the strengths of each researcher.” Headded “Now, the collaborations have evolvedinto projects like this and we expectproductive results” in reference to the study.

Tummala’s study was one of five researchstudies selected in early fall 2014 to receivegrant funding through a partnership between

South Dakota State University and SanfordHealth. The collaborative research on humannutrition, weight management and otherdietary-related areas addresses the keyobjectives of Profile by Sanford.

Sanford Health is providing $250,000annually for five years for the seed-grant

program. Also, SDSU obtained an additional$170,000 through the South Dakota Board ofRegents Research and DevelopmentInnovation program to bring the totalcollaboration with Sanford to $430,000 forthe 2015 fiscal year.

Dave Graves

Professor Xiangming Guan's research uses fluorescence microscopy tracking to measure thioldensity in cells. This image shows a control group and three examples of decreasing levels(diminishing green fluorescence) of thiols in live cells. Guan's objective is to quantify thiol density inthe cell’s mitochondria and nucleus.

Guan taking thiol research to deeper level

Latest National Institutes of Health grant brings his total to $1.2 million

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When Molly Mack applied to theAmerican Society of Health-System Pharmacists Experiential

Education program, she knew she wasreaching for the stars, but thought it wasworth a shot.

She applied with the goal of diversifying herexperience as a fourth-year pharmacy student.“I wanted to challenge myself to learn more

about the big picture of pharmacy and thefuture of my career,” said Mack, who wasaccepted for rotation in June.

She started her internship in Bethesda,Maryland, Oct. 6 and returned Nov. 7. Herpreceptor was Allie Woods, director of thesection of pharmacy informatics andtechnology.

Learning informaticsTwo students interned alongside Mack, and

a typical day was spent attending meetingswith preceptors, working on projects andmeeting with staff members.

Mack’s duties with the American Society ofHealth-System Pharmacists includedupdating informatics residencies andfellowships for pharmacists, and updatingwebsite information about the programs.“Before this experience, I had a vague idea of

what pharmacy informatics was,” Mack said.

“I never thought it would be my thing, butsince working with Allie, I discovered that it’san area I can definitely see myself practicingin.“I’ve learned more about what kinds of

careers PGY2 informatics residencies preparea pharmacy informaticist for and what kindsof skills they learn. Some programs focusmore on project management—likeimplementation of bar-coded medicationadministration—and others focus more ontechnical skills, like working on the back-endof software, software optimization andsoftware management.

Networking was an important part of theinternship. “We scheduled networkingmeetings with many of the executives andstaff,” Mack said. “We used the meetings asopportunities to hear about eachprofessional’s education and careerbackground—and they usually offered usadvice.”

Developing pharmacy appMack also helped develop an app for

ambulatory care documentation calledPACT—Pharmacist Ambulatory Care Tracker.The app will allow pharmacists, residents andstudents to document patient encounters andmonitor productivity.

Her team also worked on developing adashboard for pharmacy directors to monitorthe overall productivity of their staff.

The data could potentially be used asevidence to prove the benefit of pharmacists.

“Pharmacists are the most accessible health-care provider for patients, but the currentsystem doesn’t allow us to practice to our fullpotential,” Mack said. “Hopefully, this app willhelp progression.”

Mack is beta testing the app on her phonenow, looking for opportunities to make ituser-friendly and identify system bugs. Thefree app will be available in the iTunes AppStore in 2015. A dashboard will be availablefor administrators shortly after.

Advice from preceptorsMack said the pharmacy market is tough

right now, and residency programs arecompetitive. “Some of my favorite pieces ofadvice thus far are, ‘Always remember thateven on an extraordinarily ordinary day, youare a role model to other pharmacists andstudents,’ ‘Always be honest with yourselfabout what makes you happy,’ ‘Don’t gothrough life with blinders on becausesometimes opportunities knock when we leastexpect them.’”

Mack said she knew pharmacists had a widevariety of career opportunities, but meetingpharmacists with varied backgrounds openedher eyes to an array of possibilities. “Some staff members have worked at the

Food and Drug Administration or NationalInstitutes of Health, some have been clinicalspecialists or pharmacy department directorsin hospitals, some have worked at chainpharmacies—it goes on and on.”

Pharmacist parentsBoth of Mack’s parents are pharmacists,

and growing up, she was continually asked ifshe planned on joining the family business.“At first, I resisted because I wanted to forgemy own path,” she said, noting that herbrother, Murphy, is studying pharmacy atState. “I actually graduated from theUniversity of South Dakota with a businessmanagement degree in 2011.”

Mack’s first plan was to get a businessdegree and attend culinary arts school, butsome of her college friends were preparing forhealth professions, and she was interested intheir classes. “I started take pre-health courses and

thought seriously about dental school, but Iwasn’t sold on it,” said Mack. “My mom wouldsuggest pharmacy from time to time.”

Eventually, Mack latched onto the idea.

Molly Mackselected for American Society of Health-SystemPharmacists rotation

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STUDENT NEWSBrodersen’s design selected for convention

Haylee Brodersen literally lefther stamp on the 57th annualinternational convention ofKappa Psi fraternity eventhough the gathering isn’t untilAug. 4-8.

The P3 student from DeSmet had her design selectedas the logo for the GrandCouncil Convention at the

Grand Hyatt hotel indowntown Denver.

This is thefirst year that

Kappa Psi madethe design of the

convention logo a fraternitycompetition.

The Photoshop veteran used a sunset shot of the Denverskyline and superimposed the Greek letters for Kappa Psi.All of it is in a diamond frame, which includes the wordshigh ideals, industry, sobriety and fellowship, the fourpoints on which Kappa Psi is built.

The convention logo is being used in marketing, inthe Kappa Psi magazine and put on lapel pins.

Brodersen said she entered because it provided anopportunity to exercise her creative side. When the 2009graduate of De Smet High School was notified that shehad won, “I couldn’t even believe it at first. I thought theywere playing a joke on me.”

The prize for winning is free registration to theconvention, which she has never attended before.That Aug. 8, 2014, announcement was the first of twopieces of big news that Brodersen received from KappaPsi. On Sept. 24, she was notified that she was one of 10national winners of the $2,000 Kappa Psi Foundationscholarship.

In addition to membership in Kappa Psi, Brodersen isvice president of Phi Lambda Sigma and secretary-treasurer of Rho Chi.

American Association of PharmaceuticalScientists received an honorable mentionThe SDSU chapter of the American Association of Phar-maceutical Scientists received an honorable mentionaward in the 2014 chapter of the year competition.

The award was received by Ph.D. research scholarFahd Eisa, who attended the Nov. 2-6 national AAPSconvention in San Diego with classmate KaushalkumarDave, who was there to present a poster. The chapterwas officially recognized as an SDSU student organizationin 2006, which is 20 years after the national groupformed.

Associate Professor Teresa Seefeldt advises the 40-member club.

Its accomplishments in the past academic yearinclude arranging 17 journal club sessions, fiveprofessional workshops, a research symposium and anannual retreat, hosting visiting scientist Eric Munson ofKentucky and organizing career exploration camps for120 high school and middle school students.

SDSU finishes secondSDSU finished as national runners-up in the AmericanCollege of Clinical Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacy

Challenge, a fall competition that included more than 110teams.

The participants—Keely Hamann, April Pottebaumand Alex Olinger—will graduate with their Pharm.D.degrees in May 2015.

They were tested on all aspects of pharmacypractice. This particular competition focused on morethan areas of clinical pharmacy practice, includinganticoagulation, critical care, biostatistics,hematology/oncology, pediatrics and dermatology.

The competition consists of three different formats.The first is a lightning round where the teams get 5

minutes to answer 15 questions. The second format is aclinical case in which the students get 8 minutes to reada clinical case and then answer five questions.

The third format is a Jeopardy-style round thatconsists of 15 questions in five distinct clinical areas thathave to be answered in 12 minutes.

The team progressed through four online rounds inSeptember and qualified as one of eight teams competingat the organization’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas, inOctober 2014.

The SDSU group won competitions against teamsfrom the University of Utah and Southern Illinois Universityat Edwardsville before losing to Purdue University in thefinals.

Hamann, Pottebaum and Olinger emerged as theSDSU entry into the contest after beating five other teamsat a local contest in spring 2014.

One year earlier, SDSU became a nationallyrecognized student chapter of the American College ofClinical Pharmacy, making it the newest studentpharmacy organization at SDSU, according to adviserTadd Hellwig.

Gamma Kappa of Kappa PsiGamma Kappa of Kappa Psi received the 2014 NicholasW. Fenney Industry Improvement Award, which isawarded annually to the collegiate chapter with thegreatest percentage improvement in grade point averageover the past year.

It is calculated on the percentage increase in thenumber of P2 and P3 students earning a 3.0 GPA orhigher between spring and fall semesters 2012 andspring and fall semesters 2013.

Posing with their national runner-up plaque at the annualmeeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacyare, from left, Alex Olinger, April Pottebaum and KeelyHamann. The team competed with seven others at theAustin, Texas, gathering Oct. 11, 2014.

“What really appealed to me aboutpharmacy was the example of my parents,”said Mack. “My mom and dad are sourcesof knowledge and compassion for themembers of our Redfield community. It hasalways been the norm in our household toreceive sporadic phone calls fromcommunity members with medicationquestions, or stop at the pharmacy on theway home from church. I aspired to be aprofessional that provided education andcompassion to my community, and I grewup seeing pharmacists fulfill that role.”

Mack also liked that a pharmacy careerwouldn’t pigeonhole her into doing thesame job forever. “I can work in acommunity retail pharmacy, a teachinghospital, a university, in drugmanufacturing or in medical publishing,”she said. “I appreciate that I will haveopportunities to evolve and growthroughout my career.”

Inspiring professorsMack said throughout her time in the

pharmacy program, she has developed anappreciation for her professors.“I appreciate the sincere interest the

faculty and administrators have in thestudents and their willingness to help ussucceed,” said Mack. “Our college reallyexcels in focusing on students. I’ve been aclass representative for three years and seefirsthand how faculty and administratorsstrive to improve the educationalexperience for students.”

Mack said it’s a goal of hers to emphasizeto other pharmacy students that beinginvolved with associations provides valuableresources, networking opportunities andunique educational experiences.“I encourage other pharmacy students to

really explore each association and seewhich ones have opportunities, resourcesand objectives that best fit their interestsand goals,” said Mack.

When she’s not involved in pharmacy-related endeavors, Mack enjoys running,cooking, traveling with her fiancé andfollowing her siblings’ musical and athleticactivities.

Mack hopes to continue her educationwith residency training next year. Aftergraduation, Mack looks forward to achallenging and rewarding pharmacy career.

Karissa Kuhle

Molly Mack stands outside the American Society ofHealth-System Pharmacists Joseph A. Oddis Buildingin Bethesda, Maryland, where she completed a phar-macy internship.

14 SDSU Pharmacy

Steven M. Aamot and Robbie D.Aamot Scholarship in Pharmacy:Brittany Williams

Aberdeen District SDPhAScholarship:Kelsie Wahl

Alcester Drug Store Scholarship inSupport of the JackrabbitGuarantee:Rick Heiman

Oliver G. and Nelle K. AndersonScholarship:Shannon Holler

James A. Armbruster and Nancy E.Armbruster Scholarship in Supportof the Jackrabbit Guarantee:Jacob Maland

Dr. Harold S. Bailey and Barbara A.Bailey Scholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Jade Kutzke

Jack M. Bailey Scholarship:Shannon Holler

Brad and Dawn BargmannScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Casey Goodhart

Tom and Linda BartholomewScholarship in the College ofPharmacy at South Dakota StateUniversity:Kristen Binger

Jean Bibby Memorial PharmacyScholarship:Chelsea Berg

Joye Ann Billow Kappa EpsilonLeadership Award:Lauren Dartois

Darrel and Peggy BjornsonScholarship in Pharmacy:Dacey Beck

Black Hills District (SDPhA)Scholarship:Joseph Berendse

Marlin R. and Linda J. BrozikScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Levi Hattervig

Class of 1957 Scholarship inPharmacy:Katherine Tierney

Gene Van Pelt MemorialScholarship:Heather Nelson

Pharmacy Endowed Scholarships:Elizabeth AndersonNatalie BeiterNicole BucheleTraci EilersTamara GieseAbbey HonseyZachariah IversonMegan Schlinz

Pharmacy Scholarship Fund:Cody BakerBrittany BaileyJoseph BerendseNicholas BuschetteAlicia ChristensenCatherine CreechKiley HylandMichael MeierJacquelyn MilesKatie SchelhaasMollie SlootMikaela SmedsrudMindy StewartLea TelkampKyle Yerks

Lloyd Daniels and Helen DanielsBader Scholarship:Andrew ThiesThomas Jorgensen

Bill R. Darrah Scholarship in Supportof the Jackrabbit Guarantee:Kayte Kurth

Bill R. Darrah Scholarship at theCollege of Pharmacy at SouthDakota State University:Sawyer Smith

Mary M. Pullman Dodge Scholarshipin Support of the JackrabbitGuarantee at South Dakota StateUniversity:Courtney Donnelli

Richard J. Duffner Memorial Scholarship:Carlie Soper

Pundit Abhaya Narayan DwivediScholarship in Pharmacology:Lauren Dartois

E. Keith Edgerton MemorialScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Cassidy Latusek

Clark T. and Alice H. EidsmoeScholarships:Travis Van EdeLuke Klugherz

Fleeger/Lovely Scholarship inPharmacy:Alyson Schwebach

Marvin E. Foss Scholarship inPharmacy:Cassie Heisinger

Lawrence and Winnibert BradshawFrance Memorial Scholarship:Terra Klima

Milton and Elaine Freier Scholarshipin the College of Pharmacy:Amanda Janisch

Shirley and Lyle Glascock PharmacyScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Brianna Jansma

Gross Scholarship in Pharmacy:Haylee Brodersen

Sandra Grover MemorialScholarship:Terra Klima

Dorothy Nelson Haas MemorialScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Andrea Burr

Daniel J. and Jessica L. HansenScholarship in Pharmacy:Mackenzie Klinkhammer

Gerrit Heida Memorial Scholarship:Katherine Tierney

Bernard E. Hietbrink Scholarship:Alexander Olinger

Lloyd D. Highley Scholarship:Chelsea Berg

Nancy and Seth HildebrandScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Alex Ogren

Owen “Woody” and Connie HillbergScholarship at South Dakota StateUniversity:Samantha Wagner

Hoch Drug Scholarship inPharmacy:Janelle A. AndersonErin GullicksonPaige HaraldsonJack KernerSpencer KurtzApril LickMorgan MathieuEmma PeschongAshley ReiersonTrace StecklerNathan SuteraGina Wolles

Ronald Hohenberger Scholarship inSupport of the JackrabbitGuarantee:Rebecca Brust

Ted and Bill Hustead MemorialScholarship:Karen Richart

Kathleen Ingalls Scholarship inSupport of the Jackrabbit Guaranteeat South Dakota State University:Lauren Kuschel

Julie Hanlon-Johnson and MatthewJohnson Scholarship in Support ofthe Jackrabbit Guarantee:Lauren Wilde

Bruce R. Johnson Scholarship inSupport of the Jackrabbit Guaranteeat South Dakota State University:Austin Haugestuen

Ron Johnson Memorial Scholarshipin Pharmacy:Bretton Young

Galen D. Jordre and Ann M. JordreScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Annessa Feder

Juhnke Pharmacy Scholarship:Brittanie Venard

STUDENT NEWS

Scholarships Presented to P1, P2, P3, and P4 students at the Oct. 11, 2014, scholarship luncheon

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Kmart Scholarship for Excellence inCommunity Pharmacy:Kaitlin Bottelberghe

Duwayne and Joan Knauf PharmacyScholarship:Amanda Janisch (Nelson)

Cheri A. Kraemer Scholarship inSupport of the JackrabbitGuarantee:Stephanie Hanson

Kubly Excel Through InvolvementScholarship:Chance Wachholtz

Susan Lahr and Gordon NivaScholarship in Pharmacy:Alyssa LarsonDylan Stoebner

Terry Larvie Scholarship:Cody Maxwell

J. Bruce and Kandi LaughreyScholarship:Alex BeseyKayla Kurtzweg

Floyd LeBlanc Scholarship:Brittany Sykora

Harry M. Lee Scholarship:Sarah Calhoon

Larry Leighton MemorialScholarship:Haylee Brodersen

Gary and Karen Lesch Scholarshipin Pharmacy:Brittany Sykora

Donald M. Lien Scholarship:Taylor Becker

Edgar and Gladys Light Scholarshipin Pharmacy:Kelsie Wahl

Lounsbery Professional ScholarshipIn The College Of Pharmacy:Colleen O'Connell

Robert J. Manning Scholarship inPharmacy:Matthew Gibbons

Barry and Sharon Markl Scholarshipin Support of the JackrabbitGuarantee:Teagan Gustafson

Barry Duane Mellegard MemorialScholarship in Pharmacy at SouthDakota State University:Brittany Sykora

Glenn C. Miiller MemorialScholarship:Chance Wachholtz

Tom and Marie Mills Scholarship inthe College of Pharmacy at SouthDakota State University:Katherine Aman

Carney and Margaret (Maggie)Nelson Memorial Scholarship:Nicholas Young

Robert W. and Ardith OlsonScholarship in Pharmacy:Leah Eckstein

Kay Coffield Pearson Scholarship inPharmacy:Kacy Magnus

Mark Eric Petersen Scholarship inthe College of Pharmacy:Sarah Calhoon

Alford O. and Dolores J. PetersonScholarship in Pharmacy:Shannon Miller

Allen A. Pfeifle Scholarship inPharmacyCourtney Neubert

Pharmacists Mutual CompaniesScholarship:Elizabeth Anderson

Pharmacists Mutual CompaniesBookstore Award:Brittany Sykora

Kenneth and Elizabeth RedmanScholarship:Connor Rumpca

William J. Regan Scholarship:Nicholas BuschetteKiley Hyland

Vincent and Patricia ReillyScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Shannon Miller

Dr. Larry A. and Gretchen RitterScholarship in Pharmacy:Aaron Larson

Rochelle N. Roberts FamilyScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Connor Rumpca

Sanford Pharmacy FacultyScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Margit Hansing

Stanford D. Schmiedt MemorialScholarship in Pharmacy:Terra Klima

Craig and Carolyn SchnellScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Kaitlyn KuskeElizabeth Murray

Sioux Falls VA Practice SiteScholarship sponsored by Katie E.Schartz, Erin S. Christensen,Steffanie M. Danley, Stacy M.Hoitsma, Annette M. Johnson, andKelley J. Oehlke Scholarship inPharmacy at South Dakota StateUniversity:Sarah Ahrndt

Jane and Norbert Sebade JackrabbitGuarantee:Morgan Hemmingson

Chuck and Dorie SendelbachScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Morgan Beckmann

Earl and Daphne Serles MemorialScholarship:Taylor Davis

Shopko Scholarship:Kristen Dierks

Ephriam "Ep" and Hilda Sieler andBeth R. and Justin JoachimScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Kara Stromseth

Dwight and Keo Smith Scholarship:Carlie Soper

Richard A. Smith Scholarship inPharmacy in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Nathan Smith

Merlin J. Snyder Scholarship inSupport of the JackrabbitGuarantee:Aimee CarlsonCrystal Van Iperen

South Dakota PharmacistsAssociation (SDPhA) LegacyScholarship:Leah Eckstein

South Dakota Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Scholarship:Kirre Wold

Dr. Fred and Mary StahmannEndowed Scholarship in Pharmacyand Nursing:Pooja Patel

Statz Family Pharmacy Scholarshipat South Dakota State University:Cassie Heisinger

Lowell T. Sterler Northwest IowaPharmacy Scholarship:Amanda Felten

Julie C. Stevens, M.D., Scholarshipin Pharmacy at South Dakota StateUniversity:Ashley LosingJessica Wahl

Ed and Louise Swanson PharmacyScholarship in Support of theJackrabbit Guarantee:Megan Dorsey

Van Hove Scholarship in Pharmacyat South Dakota State University:Alicia Christensen

Visions for the Future Scholarship:Sachin Puri

Walgreens Diversity Scholarship:Fang Chen

Walgreens Diversity and InclusionExcellence Award:Jenna Donnelly

Walmart Pharmacy ScholarshipAward:April Pottebaum

Watertown District (SDPhA)Scholarship:Amanda Janisch (Nelson)

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It is my pleasure to provide you withan update for the department. It wasa busy and very successful first half

of the academic year.After significant success with our

recruitment efforts during the lastacademic year, we continued recruitingfor a couple of vacant positions and havehired two new faculty members sinceAugust. Alex Middendorf joined thefaculty in August. He received hispharmacy degree and MBA from DrakeUniversity and joined SDSU aftercompleting a community pharmacyresidency at the University of Iowa.Middendorf is championing the college’s

work in the area of community pharmacy practice andalso works closely with the community pharmacyresidency program.

Chamika Hawkins-Taylor joined us in January andcomes to SDSU from the Minneapolis area. Hawkins-Taylor received her doctorate in philosophy from theUniversity of Minnesota in social, administrative andclinical pharmacy and will provide instruction in theseareas. With Hawkins-Taylor on campus, we have filledall of our social and administrative pharmacy facultypositions—a great accomplishment.

The only department faculty vacancy is an internalmedicine faculty position based at Avera McKennanHospital. We are actively recruiting for this positionand are confident it will be filled prior to the start ofthe next academic year. I am truly appreciative of therecruiting efforts made by all.

As I have previously shared, the college’s communitypharmacy residency underwent a site accreditationvisit this past summer, and we will receive word fromthe accreditation council sometime this next spring. Inaddition, the residency continues to move forwardwith a variety of innovative projects, and this year’sresidents have accomplished much to date. As thecurrent residents are transitioning into the second halfof their residency year, the recruitment process fornext year’s residents has begun. All of those individualsinvolved in the residency have been working hard toensure continued success of the program.

Over last summer, several faculty participated in thefirst-ever preceptor education event at Cedar ShoresResort. The turnout was great and the event was quitesuccessful. The plan moving forward will be to provide

similar events covering a variety of beneficial topics forpreceptor development and education. Preceptoreducation and development continues to be a priorityfor the department.

The entire department spent a day at Cedar ShoresResort for a faculty retreat and to finalize work on itsupdated standards document. The updated standardsdocument is a very important document for thefaculty and will provide guidance related to theirfaculty role and outline requirements for tenure,promotion and rank adjustment. Updating thestandards document took significant effort. However,the task force charged with initial revisions did anoutstanding job, and I applaud their great work ingetting this process completed.

The pharmacy practice lab remodel was successfullycompleted over the summer and turned out asplanned. The remodel will allow for an improvededucational experience for our students. As one part ofthe remodel, the faculty will be able to providestudents with a sterile products compoundingexperience that is essentially similar to that found in ahospital with a sterile products compounding area. Inaddition, the remodel called for the installation ofcounseling room-viewing windows giving facultyincreased flexibility with new and innovativelaboratory activities. The last area of the remodelresulted in some additional secured storage space.

The faculty continue to provide the students in theprogram a high-quality education and are continuallyassessing ways to improve on the already greateducational experience. The faculty are also involvedin numerous innovative and impactful scholarlyactivities to continue to advance pharmacy educationand pharmacy practice. I am very proud of all of thethings the faculty have accomplished so far this year.

As you can see, we have been quite busy thisacademic year. I want to close by thanking all of ourpreceptors for their outstanding contributions to ourstudents and the program.

James Clem, Pharm.D.Department Head and Professor

Department of Pharmacy Practice

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I’m pleased to share this update from the Department ofPharmaceutical Sciences. We are excited to have a new facultymember in place for the Markl Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research

position. Wenfeng An joined the department this fall as an associateprofessor. He has a doctorate in microbiology/immunology from theUniversity of Michigan Medical School. An did his postdoctoral workat John Hopkins School of Medicine and was an assistant professor inthe Department of Molecular Biosciences at Washington StateUniversity before coming to SDSU. His research focuses on usingtransgenic animal models to study the role of genetic changes in thedevelopment and progression of cancer. We greatly appreciate thesupport of Barry and Sharon Markl in establishing our first namedfaculty position. The Markl Faculty Scholar position will strengthenthe department’s ongoing research efforts in cancer.

Program UpdatesOur highly dedicated and talented faculty continue to provide high-

quality instruction to our students. This fall, our Pharm.D. graduatesachieved 100 percent pass rate on the NAPLEX and the scores weresignificantly above the national average.

Hemachand Tummala was designated as a Faculty Scholar to leadthe educational and research efforts in compounding pharmacy.

Teresa Seefeldt presented her work on high-fidelity simulation inpharmacology at a minisession at the American Association ofColleges of Pharmacy’s annual meeting, held in Grapevine, Texas. Shealso participated in the Interprofessional Education CollaborativeInstitute in Washington, D.C.

Four doctorate students graduated this fall. These students havetaken postdoctoral or faculty positions at other universities. Ourdoctorate program enrollment has grown to an all-time high of 24.

Research UpdatesXiangming Guan was appointed as assistant dean for research to

lead the college’s research efforts. The department made progress insecuring research/scholarly grants this fall. Tummala and Guanreceived the SDSU-Sanford research grant. This is a collaborativegrant between SDSU and the Sanford Cancer Biology Center to studythe combined effect of the Sanford Profile diet and novel anticancerdrugs in animal models.

In addition, Jayarama Gunaje, Gudiseva Chandrasekher, Seefeldt,Guan and Tummala received scholarly excellence funds from theOffice of Academic Affairs at SDSU.

The university-based startup company, Medgene Labs, which haslicensed the vaccine delivery technology developed by Tummala’sgroup, received federal Small Business and Innovation ResearchGrants and contracts. In addition, one of the drug deliverytechnologies developed in my laboratory and licensed to TranzdermSolutions received the TechConnect National Innovation Awardpresented in Washington, D.C.

Other updatesReginald Frye, professor and

chair of the Department ofPharmacotherapy andTranslational Research from theUniversity of Florida, delivered thekeynote lecture onpharmacogenomics at the 24thannual Keo Glidden SmithConvocation Several graduate andundergraduate studentsparticipated and presented researchposters.

The department faculty andgraduate students participated inthe sixth annual SDSU-AveraResearch Symposium and the second SDSU-Sanford BiomedicalResearch Symposium held on campus this fall. The department hadstrong representation at both symposia.

The department of pharmaceutical sciences, along with thedepartment of biology and microbiology, and department ofchemistry and biochemistry organized the first Hoch Family lecture inBiomedical and Health Sciences at SDSU. The lecture was presentedby Dr. Brian Kobilka, recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistryfor the discovery of G-protein coupled receptors.

The student chapter of American Association of PharmaceuticalScientists received Student Chapter of the Year honorable mention atthe annual meeting of the American Association of PharmaceuticalScientists held at San Diego in November. Graduate studentKaushalkumar Dave was one of the student speakers.

Finally, graduate student Christophina Lynch presented at theTEDx conference in Brookings and gave an inspiring talk to raiseawareness and seek support for the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone.

I would like to thank our faculty, students and staff for theircontributions to the department and college this fall. I would also liketo extend my appreciation to all our stakeholders for their continuedsupport to the teaching and research efforts of the department. Weend 2014 on a high note with many accomplishments and lookforward to a productive new year.

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2015.

Om Perumal, Ph.D.Department Head and Associate Professor

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Experiential Education:The other 30 percentof the curriculum

The experientialcomponent within thePharm.D. curriculum

provides students with anopportunity to integrate andapply the knowledge and skillsthey have acquired in the

classroom. These activities are designed to build from simple tomore complex and assure students are ready to practice pharmacyat the generalist level in a variety of settings.

To achieve this goal, the experiential activities make up nearlyone-third of the credits in our curriculum (48/152 - 31.6 percent)and are composed of introductory pharmacy practice experiencesand advanced pharmacy practice experiences. The IPPEs include acommunity experience (120 contact hours–3 credits) after the firstprofessional year and an institutional experience (120 contacthours) after the second year. Community activities involveassignments on insurance processing, patient interview,compounding, case study, over-the-counter products and patienteducation. The institutional activities include pharmacymanagement, medication reconciliation, law, sterile products and

medication safety. Students also participate in a number ofactivities in the pharmacy practice course sequence (first yearthrough third year) that begins with shadowing and culminateswith care plans/SOAP notes and a quality improvement project.The APPE segment is designed to assure students are “practiceready’’ by graduation and involves eight APPEs for 40 weeks. TheAPPEs entail 20 required weeks (community, institutional,ambulatory care, internal medicine) and 20 weeks of selectedAPPEs to individualize students’ experiences.

More than 130 volunteer preceptors and 30 pharmacy practicefaculty serve as instructors and role models during theseexperiences. Students are actively engaged in direct patient care asevidenced by their 6,200 documented interventions in the 2012-2013 academic year. In addition, students also complete activitiessuch as seminar, leadership reflection and knowledge assessment.

Jodi Heins, assistant department head of pharmacy practice,and Bernie Hendricks, coordinator of pharmacy practiceexperience, oversee the IPPEs and APPEs. During the year, morethan 120 on-site visits are made to assure optimal experiences takeplace. In addition, students provide feedback and variousassessments of students are completed in order to assure theprogram is functioning properly.

Making sure that the myriad activities are coordinated, effectiveand operating smoothly is a necessity for a successful curriculum.All signs indicate that the experiential program is a great success.Thanks to all our preceptors who help make this possible.

Jane R. MortAssociate Dean for Academic Programs

NEW FACULTY Jennifer BallJennifer Ball was hired as an assistant professor inJuly. She primarily focuses on instruction regardingpharmacy practice, patient assessment and publichealth. Her areas of expertise include family medicine,anticoagulation, health literacy and culturalcompetence.

Prior to joining the faculty at SDSU, Ball graduatedwith her doctor of pharmacy from Purdue University in2012 and completed a community pharmacyresidency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital andClinics and an ambulatory care/academia fellowship atPurdue University in 2014.

She chose to pursue a career in an academicsetting because she enjoys working with students and

seeing them develop intoprofessionals. The opportunity tohelp develop students’ interests in afamily medicine teaching clinic is adream come true.

Ball married her husband,Chris, in August and currentlyresides in Sioux Falls.

Shawn DaltonThe opportunities available to students and faculty atState are the reason Shawn Dalton decided to join thefaculty. He is a board-certified pharmacotherapyspecialist with focuses on diabetes, lipids, high bloodpressure, heart failure, anticoagulation, infectious

disease, pain management and psychiatry. As anassistant professor, Dalton’s primary responsibilitiesinclude precepting fourth-year and postgraduatestudents on clinical rotations, teaching therapeuticslectures and advancing scholarship through bothclinical and academic work.

Prior to joining the faculty at SDSU, Daltoncompleted two years of postgraduate studies. The firstyear focused on pharmacy practice while the secondwas an ambulatory care residency. Dalton pursued anacademic career because of the unique challengesand ability to promote lifelong learning with students.Additionally, he feels the college provides excellentsupport for the growth of faculty both academicallyand clinically.

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Assessment reportCOLUMN

A passion for helping students andcreating a friendly atmosphere forall who enter the College ofPharmacy office led Sarah Vaa tobe recognized as the SDSU CivilService Employee of the Monththis September. Vaa has been asecretary for the College ofPharmacy for five years.

“I enjoy working with and helping the students,”she said. “I also enjoy the time spent with my co-workers, as they are a great group of people who arededicated and love what they do.”

Born and raised in Brookings, Vaa graduated fromConcordia College with a bachelor’s degree ineducation studies. In her free time, she is a memberof the Sons of Norway, serves as a mentor with theNordic Nimble Feet dance group and also participatesin bell choir. Vaa would like to extend her thanks andappreciation to everyone involved with her nominationas employee of the month.

When nominating her for the employee of themonth, co-workers said Vaa is an enthusiastic andpositive employee whose welcoming demeanorcreates a friendly environment for all who visit theoffice.

“As coordinator of student services for the college, Ihave had the opportunity to get to know Sarah onboth a professional and personal level,” said TeresaDelfinis. “Sarah is organized, efficient and extremelycompetent. In addition, she has an excellent rapportwith students, faculty and staff within the College ofPharmacy, as well as across the SDSU campus. Infact, students and faculty go to Sarah for advice andassistance because they appreciate her cheerfulsmile and ability to focus on their unique needs.Sarah is never too busy to assist a student, facultymember or colleague and is always willing to shareher expertise.”

Dan Hansen, assistant dean for student servicesin the college, said, “As a secretary for the college,Sarah plays a key role here in the main office and isan integral part of the student services team. Thething I appreciate the most about Sarah is her abilityto work well with others. Sarah is quite patient andalways takes the time to help others out however shecan. When given a new task, Sarah asks appropriatequestions to understand expectations, gets to workand seems excited to have a new opportunity. Shetakes great pride in her work.”

“Sarah is very kind, courteous, patient and helpfulto all of the students, faculty and guests,” said Vickie

Prussman, senior secretary in the college.“Sometimes students are lined up beyond her desk tohand things in or to ask questions. She is always veryprofessional and treats everyone as a friend. You cantell the students enjoy meeting and visiting with her, aquality you want in the first person people see whenthey come through the door.”

All SDSU Employee of the Month selections aredetermined through a nomination process by the CivilService Advisory Council.

Each civil service employee of the month receivesan appreciation monetary gift from the F.O. ButlerFoundation. The trustees of the foundation recognizethe importance of civil service employees and takethis opportunity to thank them for their exemplaryservice.

“I love working at SDSU with the College ofPharmacy, co-workers, students and visitors. There isalways something going on, but that’s what makes itfun,” said Vaa.

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Dalton was raised in Wyoming and graduatedfrom the University of Wyoming with his doctorate ofpharmacy in 2012. Dalton and his wife of seven yearscurrently reside in Hot Springs, and recentlywelcomed a son into their family. In his free time,Dalton enjoys spending time with his wife, son andthree dogs in the Black Hills and visiting family.

Jeremy DanielRecently hired as an assistant professor within thedepartment of pharmacy practice, Jeremy Danieloffers expertise in the area of psychiatric pharmacy.His job details vary slightly from that of a traditionalfaculty member. He works on-site with AveraBehavioral Health in Sioux Falls, teaches psychiatricpharmacy to third-year students and precepts fourth-year students on clinical rotations.

Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, Danielcompleted a Bachelor of Science in medicinalchemistry and molecular pharmacology at PurdueUniversity, in addition to his doctorate of pharmacy,which he earned in 2012. He then completed twoyears of postgraduate training at the Lexington(Kentucky) VA Medical Center. His first year ofpostgraduate training focused on general practicewith the second on psychiatric pharmacy. He pursuedan academic career because he found that he

enjoyed precepting students during his time as aresident.

He has always been involved with volunteeropportunities, both during his undergraduate careerand residency. He looks forward to finding similaropportunities in Sioux Falls.

Alex Middendorf Assistant professor Alex Middendorf has been namedthe advanced pharmacy practice experiencecoordinator for the community pharmacy carerotation. Specifically, he will be involved with thepostgraduate year one community pharmacy practiceresidency to support existing pharmacy services andassist in the development of new ones.

In the classroom, Middendorf will teach first-yearthrough third-year pharmacy students regardingcommunity pharmacy and provide online instructionfor health-care professionals. He will also seekopportunities to advance pharmacy practices aroundthe state and provide clinical services in collaborationwith other health-care professionals.

Middendorf received his doctor of pharmacy andmaster’s of business administration from DrakeUniversity in addition to completing his communitypractice residency with the University of Iowa Collegeof Pharmacy. His passion is to provide direct patientcare to those who truly need it and help others learn

how to offer such care. He is excited about the impacton both patients and future pharmacy practitionersavailable through the SDSU pharmacy program.

Surachat Ngorsuraches An expert in social and administrative pharmacy,Surachat Ngorsuraches recently joined the college asan associate professor. His work consists of teaching,research and service. Ngorsuraches’s primaryresearch interest includes pharmaceutical economicsand policy while his teaching responsibilities includeresearch methodology and pharmaceutical outcomes(pharmacoeconomics and pharmacoepidemiology).Ngorsuraches hopes to work with health-careprofessionals to advance care services for the serviceportion of his position. He held a similar position as aformer faculty member at a university in Thailand.

Ngorsuraches looks forward to seeing thepotential that the college has continually shown andto being a part of the impact on the health-careenvironment locally, nationally and globally.

Andrea Paulson

Vaa named September SDSU Civil Service Employee of the Month

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Aspiringgenomescholar

Wenfeng An hasbegun work in thedepartment ofpharmaceuticalsciences as thecollege’s inauguralMarkl FacultyScholar in CancerResearch.

It is the firstendowed position in the college’s history andbears the name of 1968 graduate Barry Marklwho, along with his wife, committed to acharitable remainder trust in fall 2009 tobenefit the college’s cancer research program.The mothers of Markl and his wife, Sharon(Beastrom) Markl, also a ’68 grad, are cancersurvivors.

An (pronounced “Ann”) comes fromWashington State University in Pullman,where he has had his own lab since 2008.

That lab has now been moved into theAvera Health and Science Center into spacethat had been used by DistinguishedProfessor Emeritus Chandradhar Dwivedi.The Markl gift provides annual funding toenhance an existing budgeted position. Ansaid he used the Markl Fund money topurchase equipment to establish his researchlaboratory.

The list includes low temperature freezers,CO2 incubators, liquid nitrogen tanks, high-throughput thermal cyclers,spectrophotometers and tabletop centrifuges.“It was a large endeavor,” said An, who

began his SDSU employment Nov. 3, 2014,but spent most of his first month preparingfor the move. The shipment of all equipmentand the temperature-sensitive cell and tissuespecimens in freezers and refrigeratorsarrived by truck Dec. 5, An reports.

His collection of more than 30 lines oflaboratory mice arrived the second week ofDecember via a courier that specializes intransporting live animals.

Research studies mobile elements of the genome

An’s research began again in earnest inearly January. His research focus is longinterspersed element type 1. L1, as they arecommonly known, represent 17 percent ofthe human genome and come in different

lengths throughout the genome. Some copiesare full-length and capable of coding for twoproteins that are necessary for theirmovement in the genome, An said.“What’s known so far is these elements are

normally repressed and do not move muchduring development. However, you can findsubstantial L1 movement in the neuronsinside the brain. The implication is that, ifyou have identical twins, the genomes will bedifferent in their brains because of theadditional copies of L1s that are present inone twin but not in the other. Suchdifferences in their brain genomes mayimpact how each of the twins behave,” Ansaid.“The other aspect (of L1 elements) is

probably more profound. There is anincreased expression of L1 proteins in manytypes of cancer. L1 movement has also beenobserved in several cancer types, mostnotably, colorectal cancer and lung cancers.When does L1 move, how frequently does itmove, and how much does it contribute tocancer progression? Finding answers to theseimportant questions is an active area ofresearch. My own lab is very well positionedin this regard. We are one of only a few labsspecialized in mouse models of L1movement.”

He said at this stage his work would beconsidered more foundational research thantranslational research but he seestranslational potential if new compounds areidentified to suppress L1 activities, especiallythrough collaboration with medicinalchemists and pharmaceutical scientistswithin the College of Pharmacy.

Arrives in U.S. in 1998An, a native of China, came to the United

States in 1998 with an interest in virology. Hestudied molecular genetics of the humanimmunodeficiency virus at the University ofMichigan in Ann Arbor and earned hisdoctorate in microbiology.

An began studying L1 elements in 2003 asa Life Sciences Research Foundationpostdoctoral fellow in the Department ofMolecular Biology and Genetics at JohnsHopkins University, where he worked untiljoining Washington State.

Dean Dennis Hedge calls An “a high-performing faculty member and scientistwho brings critical expertise to our team.”Faculty in the department of pharmaceutical

sciences are heavily involved in theTranslational Cancer Research Center, astate-funded effort that partners withresearchers at Sanford Health.

In addition to research, An will teach inthe Ph.D. program and has been directed todevelop an advanced course on molecularbiology and genomics.

Lab to support 4 traineesAn said, “I’m attracted to institutions that

value both research and teaching, not justresearch but also an excellence in teaching.That’s exactly what I found at SDSU. When Iinterviewed I was equally impressed by theteam spirit that is occurring within theCollege of Pharmacy.”

He added that he was also impressed withthe pharmacy practice sites he visited inSioux Falls. “I feel overall it is anenvironment that you can have all thesupport that is needed in order to succeed.”

In his Brookings lab, An will be assisted bya mix of three new trainees—undergrad andgrad as well as possibly a postdoc—andgraduate student Simon Newkirk, whofollowed him from Washington State. “Simonwas a great help in the transition and will beinstrumental in mentoring new peoplecoming into the lab,” An said.

‘Representing the Markl Family’An said he is aware that being the Markl

Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research “is not atypical position. It’s a huge honor. When youhave that signature as part of your title, youare not only representing the faculty and theuniversity, you’re representing the Marklfamily. That is a great privilege.”

Hedge said the Markl gift is “trulytransformational for the college and ourcancer research program. Without suchsupport, recruiting and retaining top facultytalent is a monumental challenge.”

Dave Graves

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Genome scientist Wenfeng An hiredFirst Markl Faculty Scholar begins research

Sharon and Barry Markl

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Researchunderway inthe lab of

HemachandTummala alreadyhas reached thepatent-applicationstage and collegeadministrators wantto see it advancefurther.

The India native,who is in his sixth

year at SDSU, was designated this summer asthe 2014-15 Faculty Scholar Award recipient.The award brings research developmentfunding and is offered through the dean’soffice with an eye toward economicdevelopment and commercialization.

Tummala, an associate professor inpharmaceutical sciences, is the second personto receive the award.

Dean Dennis Hedge said, “A strategicpriority for the SDSU College of Pharmacy isto develop strength and provide leadership inthe area of pharmaceutical compoundingand sterile product research andcommercialization.“In that regard, Dr. Hemachand Tummala

has been designated as a Faculty Scholar forthe 2014-15 academic year.”

Research work explainedOmathanu Perumal was the initial

recipient of the award when it was presentedin 2013-14. Perumal, who now serves asprofessor and head of the department ofpharmaceutical sciences, said, “Dr. Tummalahas developed a novel vaccine deliverysystem using inulin, a plant-basedcarbohydrate.“The studies in his laboratory have shown

that the inulin-based particles outperformedsolutions currently used in vaccines. Aunique aspect of Dr. Tummala’s technology isthat it can be used to deliver vaccines and atthe same time can augment the immuneresponse.“SDSU has filed a patent application on this

technology and it has been licensed toMedgene (a 3-year-old Brookings animalvaccine research firm). “Dr. Tummala’s technology has tremendous

potential for developing new vaccineproducts for both human and veterinary

applications. Currently, Medgene is workingwith leading veterinary companies to sub-license or co-develop this novel vaccinedelivery technology for animal vaccines.”

Tummala, the college’s Researcher of theYear in 2013, said his goal is to develop avaccine to stimulate the immune system tofight against a pathogen that causes a disease.

“We want to make a delivery system thatmimics pathogens by stimulating theimmune system without causing infection.”

Hedge said another point in Tummala’sselection as Faculty Scholar was his “nationalrecognition for the development of newdrug/vaccine delivery technology.”

Tummala, who had five years ofpostdoctoral and research work in the U.S.before coming to State, is the first member ofthe pharmaceutical sciences department toreceive the Innovation in BiotechnologyAward from the American Association ofPharmaceutical Scientists, which he wasawarded in 2013.

Outstanding educator as wellTummala’s success in the laboratory has

not superseded his attention to the classroom.In April, he was named the Teacher of theYear by a vote of pharmacy students.

He completely redesigned the curriculumfor the pharmaceutics II compounding labthat he teaches each spring semester.

Students are expected to be more involvedin their learning. Tummala dubs it POPSICLlearning—Patient-Oriented, Problem-Solving, Inquiring, Cooperative Learning.“I was never satisfied with the traditional

model that is standard throughout the USA,including SDSU,” Tummala said. “Thecurrent compounding lab system is more of acookbook-style training with a recipe andprocedure mainly provided by the professorto prepare various formulations.”

Now, “I give them a problem. I’m nottelling them what to make. I’m also notproviding any formulas. There might bemore than one answer to a problem.“If you know what to do when you read a

question, it’s an exercise, not a problem. Wegive them problems where they have to think,where there isn’t one right answer,” Tummalaexplained.

Even before implementing the newcurriculum model, Tummala was a popularteacher. In the previous four years, he hadbeen nominated for Teacher of the Year threetimes.

Tummala’s designation as Faculty Scholaris an annual award, but it can be renewed.

Dave Graves

Award designed to help commercial research workTummala named college’s Faculty Scholar

Hemachand Tummala, fourth from left, poses in his Avera Health and Science Center lab with his research team. Pictured,from left, are Pratik Muley, Ph.D. student; Abdulrahman Alshammari, Ph.D. student; Siddhardh Kesherwani, Ph.D. student;Tummala; Chad Hovdestad, undergraduate researcher; and Mohammad Ali Bakkari, Ph.D. student .

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Craig Schnell’s resume as a pharmacyeducator and researcher skips 27years, and it’s that gap for which the

professor was honored by the College ofPharmacy.

Schnell, a 1965 SDSU graduate, was fetedas the college’s Distinguished PharmacyAlumnus at its Scholarship Luncheon Oct.11, 2014. In addition to honoring Schnell,about 100 students were recognized for their2014-15 scholarships.

Schnell, a Sturgis native, has been teachingpharmacy at North Dakota State Universitysince 2012, but he has been at the Fargoschool since 1985. He arrived as the dean forGraduate Studies and ResearchAdministration. In 1995, he was tabbed asinterim vice president in the Office ofAcademic Affairs, and in 1997 the interimdesignation was removed.

In 2002, the title of provost was added.Schnell had continued in the same positionfor 16 years—until 2011.

In the classroom againSchnell, 72, resigned as provost in 2011,

spent a year preparing his return to theclassroom, and in fall 2012 began teachingagain. “I didn’t want to retire,” said Schnell,who noted he has worked since getting a jobat a Sturgis drug store while a junior in highschool. “I’ve always worked since then I thought, ‘I

got a job. I don’t want to give it up.’”He added he had always planned to return

to the classroom after he was ready to endhis time in administration.“I started out my career in teaching

pharmacy students. I liked it. I had greatsuccess both at Purdue and the University ofNebraska Medical Center,” Schnell said.

In 1975, he was named OutstandingTeacher at the School of Pharmacy at PurdueUniversity and he was a Burroughs-Wellcome Scholar in Toxicology from 1983to 1988 at Nebraska. Purdue UniversitySchool of Pharmacy named him aDistinguished Alumnus in 1998.

As a pharmacy researcher, Schnell has hadmore than 100 articles on toxicology

published in scientific literature and hegarnered more than $4 million in grants.

The SDSU Alumni Association declaredhim a Distinguished Alumnus in 2004.“From 1999 to 2010, we had an incredible

growth spurt at NDSU,” Schnell said. “Wewent from 19 doctoral programs to 45,enrollment went from 9,000 to 14,000 andNDSU transitioned to Division I athletics.”

However, he said his “most significantaccomplishment was to restore credibilityand integrity to the Office of AcademicAffairs.”

Schnell notes that it is unusual forpharmacists to move into academicadministration beyond the level of dean. Hesaid his research has only found about 15who have ever done so. The first was HaroldBailey, who served as vice president ofacademic affairs at SDSU from 1961 to 1985.

Different mindsetBack in the classroom after more than a

quarter-century, Schnell said more thanfashion and technology have changed. “It’s a very different mindset. When I was a

professor, the students proved themselves tothe professor. Now it’s the other way around.You have to prove yourself. They’re definitelyMillennials.”

Thinking back to his own days at State,Schnell said, “When I went through, theemphasis was on the elegant preparation.Today the emphasis is on the rights—theright diagnosis, the right drug, the rightschedule, the right outcome. The emphasis isno longer on the pill in the bottle but the pillin the patient.”

Schnell’s 37-student class at State was thefirst to go through the five-year curriculum.

He said he remembers being taught byGary Omodt, Kenneth Redman, BernieHietbrink, Robert Knott, John Tanaka and

Clark Eidsmoe, who had retired but cameback for a year to teach dispensing. FloydLeBlanc was the dean until Guilford Grosscame in for Schnell’s senior year.

As for joining his classmates inretirement?“I don’t really know. I had a heart attack (in

August 2013) and triple bypass surgery. Ithasn’t slowed me down. I … made somelifestyle changes. Other than that, it was justa bump in the road,” Schnell said.

Schnell is married to former CarolynJohnson, the daughter of Emory Johnson,the former head of civil engineering at SDSU,where they met. She is associate dean foruniversity studies at NDSU. The Schnellshave two children, Todd and Krista.

Dave Graves

Distinguished AlumnusSDSU Pharmacy honors ’65graduate Craig Schnell

Craig Schnell, left, receives his Distinguished Alumnusplaque from Dean Dennis Hedge at the Oct. 11, 2014,Scholarship and Distinguished Alumni Luncheon.

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Owen “Woody” Hillberg ’70 was named Alumnus of the Year at the SissetonHigh School Alumni Banquet. The 1964 Sisseton grad earned a double major(pharmacy and bacteriology) at State while also being a captain and two-timeall-conference baseball player.

After completing his pharmacy internship, Hillberg was commissioned intothe Medical Services Corps of the United States Army. His 24-year militarycareer included being director of pharmacy services and clinical programs. Heretired as colonel in 1995.

Hillberg then was chief executive officer of ScriptSave, a prescriptionbenefits management company in Illinois; after which he was system directorof pharmacy for Centura Health, a 13-hospital system in Colorado.He retired in 2010 and lives in Colorado Springs with his wife of 42 years,Connie. They have two children and five grandchildren.

Alumni notes

Pass rate excellence continues

All 73 of the 2014 graduates from the College of Pharmacy passedthe North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination, marking the15th time in 17 years that SDSU’s Pharm.D. candidates have posteda 100-percent pass rate.

The national pass rate for this exam window was 95.61 percent. The SDSU grads had a mean scaled score of 112.86, well above thenational mean of 102.80, a major difference even by SDSU’s highstandards, according to Dan Hansen, assistant dean of student services.

Also, the SDSU mean score was above the national mean in allthree areas of the exam.

Additionally, all members of the class of 2014 passed the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination during this test window.

The College of Pharmacy Advisory Council requests nominations for the DistinguishedPharmacy Alumnus Award. This award recognizes a graduate of the SDSU College ofPharmacy who has served and advanced the profession of pharmacy and has been involvedin community service.

The Advisory Council requests nominations come from a colleague in the profession and include the following:

1. A brief cover letter explaining the nominee’s contributions to theprofession of pharmacy (past and continuing) and ways theindividual has shown a commitment to the profession and thecommunity.

2. A brief biographical sketch (resume or curriculum vitae would behelpful).

3. An additional letter of support from a colleague or a member ofthe community.

Send materials to: Dan Hansen, SDSU College of Pharmacy, Box 2202C, Brookings, S.D.57007-0099; or by email at dan.hansen@sdstate.edu. The annual deadline for submittingnominations is March 1, 2015. The College of Pharmacy Advisory Council will select an awardwinner from the nominees based on the above criteria.

The award will be presented at the annual College of Pharmacy Scholarship Luncheon.Nominees not selected for the award are still eligible for three years following the nomination.

Nominations requested for the Distinguished Pharmacy Alumnus Award

Calendar of Events 2015

Jan. 27-28 Legislative Days March 27-30 American Pharmacists Association/Academy of

Student Pharmacists Annual Meeting – San Diego.April 10 White Coat Ceremony – SDSU Performing Arts CenterApril 15 Spring Convocation – SDSU Student UnionApril 15 College Achievement and Recognition Program – SDSU

Student UnionApril 17-18 South Dakota Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Annual Meeting – Sioux FallsMay 8 Hooding Ceremony – SDSU Performing Arts CenterMay 9 Graduation

The Pre-Pharmacy, left, andMedical Laboratory Science,right, clubs were among the 41organizations participating in theannual tree-decorating contestsponsored by the UniversityStudent Union.

Steven M. and Robbie D. Aamot Aberdeen District Pharmaceutical Assn. Anderson Pharmacy Inc.Anderson Pharmacy Inc.- dba Alcester Drug

Arne A. AndersonDrew T. and Margaret A. AndersonJames A. ArmbrusterAvera HealthAvera McKennan Hospital Bob and Becky Baer Harold S. Bailey Jr.Janet G. BairdJohn C. and Patricia Bartholomew Tom and Linda J. Bartholomew Leonard J. and Ruth A. Bassett Wendy S. Jensen BenderOwen G. BenthinThomas L. and Robin Beranek Scott J. and Jessie L. Bergman Bill P. BernhardDarrel C. and Peggy BjornsonBlack Hills District Pharmacist AssociationDuane C. and Gladys S. BloedowJames J. BoehmBoeingJim BregelJames R. and Judith A. BrownPerry W and Jolene A. BrownMarlin R. and Linda J. BrozikMark A. and Julie K. BurggraffRussell W. and Janel BusemanEric J. CardaJodi L. CarlsonJohn A. CarsonTerry F. and Sharon CaseyGary S. and Rosemary L. ChappellNicole R. ChenowethYee-Lai and Carla R. ChiuMarlyn K. and Corinne J. ChristensenLarry L. ChristensenNancy K. Peterson and Richard H. ChunJames and Marilyn Clem Kay Coffield Pearson Complete Home Care Inc.Crazy Horse Memorial FoundationAnthony J. and Jacquelynn D. Cunningham

William R. Darrah Scott B. Deckert Richard L. DemingJeff D. and Susie J. DeRouchey Dian Graves Owen Foundation Dennis A. and Carol L. DingmanMary M. Pullman DodgeChandradhar and Prabha Dwivedi

Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Marny K. EulbergMichael L. and Michele M. EvinkDebra K. FarverWilliam J. and Lyla K. FlohrsSteven R. FloraSharon L. FossTheresa B. FrederickMichele A. and Chad M. FritzHarold E. FrommAndrea B. FuhrerJerry J. and Laurie J. GarryVirginia A. GebhartDouglas R. and Deana L. GeraetsMark and Nancy M. GerdesMary C. GhaffariLyle and Shirley GlascockC. Boyd GranbergKevin C. and Lorie L. Haarberg Paul A. and Paula M. HammondDan and Jessica HansenSuzanne M. HansenRichard C. and Norma J. HansonJ. Rick and Peggy A. HarterThomas D. and Sheila Zukley HartnettDennis D. and Susan J. HedgeLaurilyn D. HehnersBernard E. and Elaine HietbrinkNancy L. HildebrandOwen E. "Woody" HillbergShannon R. HoffWilliam J. and Carol A. HorstmanJoel E. and Rita S. HouglumVicki L. HoweMike T. and Cindy S. HuetherHy-Vee Inc.Kathleen K. Ingalls and William CarlsonJohnson & JohnsonMatthew D. and Annette M. JohnsonDavid J. and Norma M. JohnsonThomas J. and Jodi K. JohnsonSharon D. JohnsonSusan J. JohnsonRandy L. JonesGalen and Ann JordreMichael M. JorgensonRollins E. and LeVuo JulmkeEdward E. and Linda L. KarnolzDouglas D. KapaunJerome R. and Nina M. KappesGary W and Linda L. KarelMargaret T. KellyDeborah L. KleinDavid C. KohlerCheri A. KraemerCarrie A. and Terry A. Krieger

David W. and Irish KrugerJeffrey J. KuperBrad R. and Emily G. LaibleHarlan J. LaugstraatDanny L. and Ferrol J. LattinBruce and Kandi J. LaughreyGary A. and Karen LeschLewis Drugs Inc.Liebe Drug Inc.Daniel M. and Gail L. LienBrian G. LounsberyJoseph A. and Jenna K. LovelyHugh P. and Cari L. MackRichard D. MantheiBarry L. and Sharon J. MarklEarl R. McKinstryMedicine Shoppe-ParkstonMedicine Shoppe-Rapid CityDavid A. MenteleMerck Company FoundationJohn R. and Corliss M. MollerBob MonroeJane R. MortChristine A. MurphyLarry E. and Gail F. NelsonDomld W. and Betty J. NettletonThomas M. and L. Joan NielsenSusan A. Lahr and Gordon D. NivaDouglas S. NoaeillOmnicare of South DakotaRaja L. PatelFern E. Paul-AvilesPharmacists Mutual Insurance Co.Brent A. and Karla PlenderDwayne A. and Cheryl L. PlenderRyan J. and Andrea M. PoppingaJoe RaburnTom and Shirley A. RahillyMark W. and Katie K. RauFlorence M. ReganVincent and Patricia ReillyDaniel D. and Robin L. RemundCurtis RisingLarry A. RitterSanford HealthDavid F. and Betty J. SchmidR. Craig and Carolyn A. SchnellMeri K. ScottNorbert and Jane M. SebadeTeresa M. SeefeldtChuck and Dorie SendelbachJames C. and Rose Ann M. SheetsShopko Stores Inc.Paul A. SinclairLisa A. SmallbrockRichard A. Smith

Zachary P. SmithMerlin J. SnyderSD Pharmacists AssociationMorrell A. SpencerGary E. StachHarlan C. and Dian StaiDon C. StarkSteve and Julie StatzLoren M. and Susan J. SteensonJames L. StehleyLowell T. and Susan SterlerJulie C. StevensJames L. and Pat A. SwainPatricia A. TaborAlice E. TavarezBrian L. and Ann M. TempleLarry A. and Gayla L. TorgusonBarry J. and Lori L. UeckerDeidra J. Van GilderGary C. and Sharon R. Van RiperLouis and Desirae VanRoekelLeon J. and Barbara Vanden BergDale G. Vander HammJanelle A. VarneyWalgreens CompanyWalmart Stores Inc.Wells Fargo Bank NARaymond D. WilkinsKirk S. and Joyce WilsonRaymond A. and Kellie WinselRichard F. and Kathleen M. WojcikWomen's International Pharmacy Inc.Bay M.WuRoger A. Zobel

Dean’s club membership consists of alumni and friends who have contributed $500or more annually to the College of Pharmacy. Dean’s Club members are recognized asdevoted friends of the college who make significant impact on the college’s future.

Member names will be listed in the SDSU Honor Roll and the college newsletters.They also will receive invitations to special college and university functions, updatesfrom the college dean, and an SDSU Dean’s Club car decal.

Thank you January 1, 2013 through November 10, 2014

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Have you moved, accepted a new position, gotten married, given talks in your community, received an advanced degree, had an addition to your family? Everyone at the College of Pharmacy and your classmates want to know what has been happening with you.

Name ____________________________________ ________ Year Graduated______________________

Address _____________________________________________________________________

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Telephone (______) _________________ Email ___________________________________

Send to: Dan Hansen College of Pharmacy Box 2202C South Dakota State University Brookings, SD 57007-0099

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Thank you for your generosity in2014. Your support of South DakotaState University, particularly the

College of Pharmacy and the medicallaboratory science program, has impactedthe lives of our students and faculty.

Your annual support helped ensure thatthe College of Pharmacy and the MLSprogram remain premier academic entities.Private donations provide the resources andflexibility that create the margin ofexcellence. I encourage you to continueyour valued involvement in 2015.

What do your gifts to the Greater StateFund or the Dean’s Club support? Studentorganizations, scholarships, student travelto conferences and activities, and facultydevelopment. Your funds are used directlyand indirectly to benefit students in ourprofessional programs.

Within the next few weeks, you willreceive a postcard from Dean Dennis Hedge,followed by a call from a current SDSUstudent caller (phone Jack) seeking yourfinancial support for the college or MLS.Later in the spring semester you will receivea call from a pharmacy student who will

share updates regarding the college andthank you for your commitment to ourstudents and faculty. Please welcome theircalls.

Our funding priorities in 2015 are:• Annual and Endowed Scholarships;• Faculty and Programs;• Student Organizations;• Endowed Chairs and

Professorships; and• Research.We know you take great pride in your

alma mater. Your support and engagementis critical in helping us take our universityand our college to even higher levels.Without the talents and inspiration ofalumni like you, South Dakota State wouldnot have grown into the world-classuniversity that it is today.

Kindly,

Mike BirgenDevelopment DirectorCollege of Pharmacy

South Dakota State University

Mike Birgen

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IS THE COLLEGEOF PHARMACYIN YOUR WILL?

If not, please consider a bequest. Your gift will make a difference!

For a free Will Information Kit, visithttp://plannedgiving.sdsufoundation.org

Or call 1-888-747-SDSU.

Annual Giving

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