The new program facilitates a deeper understanding of career paths in academic pharmacy.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Maureen Thielemans, 703-408-6140
Arlington, Va.—The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has selected 20 student pharmacists from across the country for the inaugural cohort of the AACP Aspiring Academics Program.
The program, designed to facilitate a deeper understanding of career paths in academic pharmacy, engages the chosen students through asynchronous learning modules, mentorship, networking, a group project, involvement with AACP, and attendance at Pharmacy Education 2024 and the Teachers’ Seminar in Boston.
The 2023 Aspiring Academics are:
- Ivann Agapito, University of California, Irvine
- Esther Albuquerque, The University of Texas at Austin
- Lama Almutairi, Medical University of South Carolina
- Diego Benavides, The University of Tennessee
- Theodore Blum, University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Milton Childs, Roosevelt University
- Mira Haddad, The Ohio State University
- Donald Hagen, University of Illinois Chicago
- Kaitlyn Healy, University at Buffalo–SUNY
- Peter Hiller, University of South Carolina
- Haley Morrill, University of New England
- Andrea Perez, University of Texas at El Paso
- Emerson Rafuse, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences–Boston
- Holly Seyler, University of Washington
- Michal Stout, University of Texas at Tyler
- Tamanna Talwar, University of Colorado
- Tazche Turner, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
- Joshua Wilson, Samford University
- Alyssa Woodall, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- Sarah Zamiela, South College
