Spring 2022 News and Notes
ACPE accreditation extended to 2030
The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) has completed a comprehensive review of Mercer University College of Pharmacy’s Doctor of Pharmacy Program and has extended our accreditation through June 30, 2030.
Eight years is the maximum allowable term of accreditation renewal. The process included an intensive two-year self-study and a three-day virtual site visit this past November to assess compliance with the standards and recommend re-accreditation to ACPE.
“This is great news for us as we continue to progress toward our strategic goals,” said Dean Brian L. Crabtree. “I especially thank Dr. Jill Augustine and the steering committee members for superb leadership of the self-study process. I also want to thank our faculty and staff for the work they do every day to serve our students.”
PhD Student Honors
Congratulations to two of our Ph.D. candidates who won first place for their poster presentations at the Southeast Regional Clinical & Translational Science Alliance annual conference in early March. Ahasan Hasan won 1st place in the Basic Research category, and Smital Patil won 1st place in the Preclinical Research category.Kudos to Ph.D. candidate Priyal Bagwe, the first place winner of the annual Monroe F. Swilley, Jr. Student Research Award for “Inactivated Gonorrhea Vaccine Induces Immunity Mice.” The award comes with $300.
Research News
Clint Canal, Ph.D., received $50,000 by the FRAXA Research Foundation to support research of how the serotonin 1A receptor functions in Fragile X Syndrome.
He also was a speaker at a January meeting on psychedelics as therapeutics sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Alumni News
Valerie Prince, Pharm.D. ’93, was named 2022–2023 APhA president-elect. She is a professor at Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacy specialist at St. Vincent’s East Family Medicine Residency Program in Birmingham, Ala.
