Pharmacy professor gets fellowship

Professor Kevin Garey of the UH College of Pharmacy was awarded an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists fellowship this summer during the ASHP Summer Meeting and exhibition June 12.

ASHP fellows are recognized as those who have made significant contributions to scientific literature, research and education.

It just shows that youve done a lot of important work for this large organization, for ASHP, Garey said.

Its a nice thing for me personally and then a great thing for the University of Houston and then Houston in general.

ASHP is a professional organization that represents pharmacists who work in hospitals and health systems. With 40,000 members, ASHP is the largest pharmacy organization in the United States.

Mustafa Lokhandwala, executive vice dean for research in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, states that such an honor would really boost the standards of UH.

We are now a Tier One university and striving to maintain and achieve even higher standards, Lokhandwala said.

Being recognized as a fellow of a society of professional organizations is really important because it adds to the stature of not only the College of Pharmacy but also that of the University of Houston.

For about a decade, Garey has been responsible for coordinating many of the talks and presentations given at the mid-year and summer meetings of the ASHP. Additionally, Garey was awarded the Literature Award in Drug Therapy by ASHP in 2007 and was instrumental in developing a new pharmacy practice initiative that was awarded the Best Practices Award by the ASHP in 2004.

Those two things together were sort of what helped me to get this fellowship status, Garey said.

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