OUR VALUES
Karissa O'brien Valubility of the Month Nominee June 2022

Karissa O’Brien – Research Administration

Valubility of the Month June 2022  Nominated by Yonina Robinson for Serve Others First Our team walked to Tuk Tuk Thai to celebrate our new coworker's first day on the team. Unbeknownst to any of us, rain was in the forecast, and none of brought any rain gear. As we left the restaurant, everyone walked…
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Anne-Marie Brun – Pharmacology and Neuroscience

Valubility of the Month June 2022  Nominated by Stacy Curry for Serve Others First I would like to nominate Ann-Marie Brun. She performs histology for our group as well as many others. Recently, one of her tissue processors went down. She was able to locate a refurbished unit and we worked together to get it…
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Sabrina Cangas, Catherine Ironbar, Gage McInturff, Brittany Palasik, Jonathan Rivera, Lauren Robertson, Payton Simpson, Dr. Annesha White and Storee Yzaguirre – College of Pharmacy

Valubility of the Month May 2022 Nominated by Haley McKeefer Hearn for Serve Others First Catherine, Sabrina, Payton, Johnny, Gage, and Storee are the founding students of a new student pharmacist mental health initiative led by Drs. Brittany (Palasik) Torres and Annesha White. The pandemic has uniquely affected health professional students, and this amazing group…
Lauren Robertson Valubility of the Month Nominee May 2022

Lauren Robertson – College of Pharmacy Student

Valubility of the Month May 2022  Nominated by Haley McKeefer Hearn for Be Visionary Lauren has made an immense impact on the College of Pharmacy and its student pharmacists with the most notable recent achievement being planning our first Pharmacy Formal (or "Pharmal") in 2 years. During our virtual year in '20-21, Lauren dutifully served…
Andrea Lenear Valubility of the Month Nominee May 2022

Andrea Lenear – Student and Academic Affairs

Valubility of the Month May 2022  Nominated by Pharmacy Class of 2024 for Collaboration Andrea Lenear served as our Pharmacy Student Government Association Class of 2024 Curriculum Liaison this last academic year. Despite numerous, immediate changes in our curriculum due to the Delta and Omicron COVID-19 variants, snowstorms, and other external events, Andrea was a…
Abby Hulsizer Valubility of the Month Nominee May 2022

Dr. Abby Hulsizer – Pharmacotherapy

Valubility of the Month May 2022  Nominated by Elizabeth Hearn for Collaboration Abby has showcased an extraordinary effort to unite our pharmacotherapy department. We have recently undergone a massive move to a new building, leading us to new offices in an unfamiliar building. Additionally, our department has grown quickly. In 2021, we added five new…
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Cory Brewer, David Lipe and Zachary Zanetich – Facilities Administration

Valubility of the Month May 2022  Nominated by James Renfro for Serve Others First I am so very appreciative of David, Cory, and Zach in their unwavering dedication to not only a phenomenal Facilities team, but in supporting the campus community in all of its endeavors. These team members quite literally "dropped everything" to come…
Susanna Luk Jones Valubility of the Month Nominee April 2022

Susanna Luk-Jones – Geriatrics

Valubility of the Month April 2022  Nominated by Dr. Sarah Ross for Respect Susanna does a wonderful job at exemplifying all of our HSC Values, but the behaviors listed under 'Respect' are descriptive of what Susanna does every day! She is a dependable team member and I would choose her for my team any day!…
Roda Cotanay Valubility of the Month Nominee April 2022

Roda Cotanay – Institute for Health Disparity

Valubility of the Month April 2022  Nominated by Dr. Riyaz Basha for Collaboration Roda is coordinating the Health Science Center Scholars in Cancer Research Program that includes the activities involving faculty, undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral Fellows. She is participating in this program since its recent inception and coordinating in such a nice way that we…
Dr. Brandy Schwarz Valubility of the Month Nominee April 2022

Dr. Brandy Schwarz – Physical Therapy

Valubility of the Month April 2022  Nominated by Ana Rodriquez for Serve Others First Dr. Schwarz has served as the Director of Clinical Education for the PT department for 11 years. I've gotten the privilege to "collaborate" with her for 3 years now, she's never made me feel like I work for her but we…