Save the Date:
2023 Alumni Awards Gala
Sunday, February 26th, 2023
WestDrift Manhattan Beach Hotel, Manhattan Beach, CA
Thank you to all who participated in the 2022 Alumni Awards Gala
The Langham
Huntington, Pasadena
1401 S. Oak Knoll Avenue, Pasadena, California 91106
Honoring Leaders:
The 2022 Alumni Awards
Community Service Award
Reda Alhoussayni, PharmD ’00
President, Olive Branch Pharmacy; Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC School of Pharmacy
Dean’s Medallion Award
Edward Martin Lieskovan, PharmD ’85, MBA ’90
CEO, PRL Pharma Group; Adjunct Professor, USC School of Pharmacy
Distinguished Alumni Award
Linh Lee, PharmD ’01
Director of Health and Wellness/Pharmacy, Ralphs Grocery Company; President, Orange County Pharmacists Association
Honorary Alumni Award
Hattie Rees Hanley, MPP
Director and Co-Founder, Right Care Initiative UC Berkeley Center for Health Organizational and Innovation Research, School of Public Health
Innovation in Pharmacoeconomics Award
Robert Popovian, PharmD ’93, MS ’97
Founder of Conquest Advisors, and Chief Science Policy Officer at Global Healthy Living Foundation.
Innovation in Regulatory Science Award
Weicheng Wu, MS ’03
Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs, ASC Therapeutics, Inc.
Research Achievement Award
Hovik Gukasyan, PhD ’04
Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, USC School of Pharmacy
Young Alumni Award
Grace Cheng, PharmD ’13, APh, BCACP, BCGP
Clinical Pharmacist, UCMyRx Program and UCLA Extensivist Program, UCLA Department of Medicine Faculty Advisor, UCLA Hotspotter Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Past Honorees
Community Service Award
2019: Ken Thai
2018: Irv Sitkoff
2017: Roslyn Blake
Dean's Medallion Award
2019: Leonard D. Schaeffer
2018: Dong Koo (D.K.) Kim
2017: Rita Shane
Honorary Alumni Award
2019: Mr. Tony Kuo
2018: Shushma Patel
2017: Michael Hochman
Innovation in Pharmacoeconomics Award
2019: Parvez Mulani
2018: Craig Cheetham
2017: Yong Yuan
Innovation in Regulatory Science Award
2019: Martin (Marty) Solberg
2018: Susan McCune
2017: Peter Lassoff
Research Achievement Award
2019: Li-Jiuan (Rita) Shen
2018: Jason (Jiansheng) Wan
2017: Eric Q. Wu
Young Alumni Award
2019: Debrina Johnson
2018: Gustavus A. Aranda Jr.
2017: Danielle C. Colayco
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
2017: Mel Baron