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CDER News Along the Pike
September 15, 2006
Volume 12, Issue 1
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CDER ceremony
honors 70 individuals, 31 groups
Dr. Galson cites
resourcefulness, innovation, teamwork
By Jackie Barber Washington
During CDER’s
Fall 2005 Honor Awards Ceremony, the Center’s top managers presented
70 individual awards and 31 group or team awards. The ceremony was
opened by the PHS Honor Corps, and Tracy O’Neill sang the National
Anthem.
Opening remarks
presented by Center Director Steven K. Galson, M.D., MPH,
encompassed CDER’s move to the new White Oak Campus and the
deployment of many employees to assist with the hurricane and
disaster relief effort and the implementation of organizational
changes and new initiatives. He said that these additional
responsibilities and challenges have been met with resourcefulness,
innovation and teamwork by the CDER community Dr. Galson and Deputy
Center Director Douglas Throckmorton, M.D., presented the
awards along with CDER’s senior staff. The awards presented at the
ceremony were:
FDA Outstanding
Service Award
Frederick
Blumenschein
Gerald Dal Pan, M.D.
Barbara Jones
Myong-Jin Kim, Pharm.D.
Cindy Kortepeter, Pharm.D.
Joyce Korvick, M.D., MPH
Kooros Mahjoob, Ph.D.
Eileen Navarro, M.D.
Kelly Phelan
Meiyu Shen, Ph.D.
Yi Tsong, Ph.D.
NSAID
Scientific Review Team: Renan Bonnel, Pharm.D., MPH, Jonca Bull,
M.D., Gerald Dal Pan, M.D., Jane Dean, Barbara Gould, Laura
Governale, Pharm.D., David Graham, M.D., MPH, Brian Harvey, M.D.,
Ph.D., Sharon Hertz, M.D., John Jenkins, M.D., Lauren Lee, Pharm.D.,
Coralee Lemley, Qian, Li, Sc.D., Aaron Mendelsohn, Ph.D., MPH,
Robert Meyer M.D., Robert O’Neill, Ph.D., Joel Schiffenbauer, M.D.,
Judy Staffa, Ph.D., Robert Temple, M.D., Yi Tsong, Ph.D., Maria
Villalba, M.D., James Witter, M.D., Joann Zhang, Ph.D. PHS
officers nominated for companion award: CAPT Sandra Kweder, CAPT
Paul Seligman, CAPT Anne Trontell.
Ortho-Evra
Team: Evelyn Farinas, R.Ph., and Rita Ouellet-Hellstrom,
Ph.D., MPH
FDA
Leveraging/Collaboration Award
Mandy Eisemann
Florence Houn, M.D., MPH
Pediatric
Multi-Disciplinary Review Group: Paul Andreason, M.D., ShaAvhree
Buckman, M.D., Ph.D., Kate Gelperin, M.D., Laura Governale, Pharm.D.,
Solomon Iyasu, M.D., MPH, Ronald Kavanagh, Ph.D., Cindy Kortepeter,
Pharm.D., David Jacobson-Kram, Ph.D., Susan McCune, M.D., and
Kathleen Phelan, R.Ph.
PHS
Commendation Medals
CAPT Paul
Andreason
LCDR Renu Chhabra
CDR Ruthann Giusti
LT
Elaine Hu
CDR Joseph Johnson
CDR Jean Makie
CAPT Justina Molzon
LCDR Narayan Nair
CDR
Armando Oliva
LT Stephan Ortiz
LCDR Tejashri Purohit-Sheth
LT
Melissa Robb
LCDR Jouhayana Saliba
LT
Rebecca Saville
LT Yon Yu
Center
Director’s Special Citation
Ann Corken
Mackey, R.Ph., MPH
Mary Singer, M.D., Ph.D.
BIMS to DMF
Data Migration Team: Wendy Aaronson, Sharon Brownewell, Roger
Eastep, Arthur Shaw, M.D., Linda Sigg, Lonnie Smith and CAPT
Cathie Schumaker.
BIMS to DMF
Data Support Team: Eric Gonitzke, Jonathan Lenko, Bethany Lenko,
Lisa Wilder, Charlene Do and CDR Kellie Clelland.
CDER Situation
Room Team: Rosemary Addy, ShaAhvree Buckman, M.D., Larry Cress,
M.D., Joan Flaherty, Joanne Holmes, MPH, Brad Leissa, M.D., Susan
McCune, M.D., Shirley Murphy, M.D., Frank Pelsor, Ph.D., Denise
Pica-Branco, Rosemary Roberts, M.D., Hari Sachs, M.D., Lewis
Schrager, M.D., Alan Shapiro, M.D., Alla Shapiro, M.D., Cheryl
Turner, Dorothy Wawrose, M.D., and Su Yang. PHS officers
nominated for companion award: LCDR Michael Bourg, LTJG Thomas
Christl, CDR Narayan Nair, LCDR Tracy MacGill, CDR Lisa Mathi
and CDR Mitchell Mathis Jr.
Isotretinoin
Small Working Group: Jeanine Best, Kalyani Bhatt, Allen Brinker,
M.D., Jill Lindstrom, M.D., Claudia Karwoski, Pharm.D., Cynthia
Kornegay, Ph.D., Lauren Lee, Pharm.D., Gerard Nahum, M.D., Parivash
Nourjah, Ph.D., Toni Piazza-Hepp, Pharm.D., Marilyn Pitts, Pharm.D.,
and Janice Steinschnieder. PHS officers nominated for
companion award: CAPT Rita Hassall and CAPT Dianne Kennedy
CDER Special
Recognition
Paul Brown,
Ph.D.
Charles Cooper, M.D.
Cheryl Dixon, Ph.D.
Kathleen Fritsch, Ph.D.
Stephen Hundley, Ph.D.
Frederick Hyman, DDS, MPH
M. Lisa Jones, M.D., MPH
Qian Li, Sc.D.
Jill Merrill, Ph.D.
Srikanth Nallani, Ph.D.
Bindi Nikhar, M.D.
Carol
Pamer, R.Ph.
Kurt Stromberg, Ph.D.
Thamban Valappil, Ph.D.
Jyoti Zalkikar, Ph.D.
Derek Zhang, Ph.D.
Oncology Team:
Sophia Abraham, Ph.D., Brian Booth, Ph.D., Angela Men, Ph.D.,
Roshni Ramchandani, Ph.D., and Gene Williams, Ph.D.
CDER Dr.
Frances O. Kelsey Drug Safety Excellence Award
Alice Hughes,
M.D.
CDER
Administrative/Program Management Excellence Award
Candee Chadwick
Pamela Hampton
Sandra Hill
Anne Wilcox
Ellen White
Gladys Wood
CDER Excellence
in Community Service/Citizenship Award
Tammie Massie,
Ph.D.
USPHS
Pharmacists Professional Advisory Committee Workgroup: Gururaj
Bykadi, Ph.D., and Kimberly Compton. PHS officers
nominated for companion award: LT Kristina Arwine, LCDR Michelle
Dillahunt, LCDR Tia Harper-Velazquez, CDR Carol Holquist, LCDR
Jinhee Jahng, LCDR Brenda Marques, LCDR Nina Mezu-Nwaba, LT Paras
Patel, LCDR Laura Pincock, CDR John Quinn, LCDR Nora Roselle, LCDR
Melanie Shin, LCDR Tara Turner, LCDR Hawyee Yan and LT Zeo
Zadecky.
CDER Excellence
in Communication Award
Kathleen Frost
Cecelia Parise
Lillian Patrician
CDER Oncology
Small Business Working Group: Robert Kane, M.D., Anne Pilaro,
Ph.D., Haleh Saber-Mahloogi, Ph.D., and William Timmer, Ph.D.
CDER Packaging
Technical Committee: Albert Mueller, Ph.D., Hullahalli Prasanna,
Ph.D., Joseph Prograr, Lorenzo Rocca, Mujahid Shaikh, James Vidra,
Ph.D., Geoffrey Wong, Ph.D., Maria Ysern, Ph.D., and Susan
Zuk.
Pediatric
Research Information Team: Rosemary Addy and Grace
Carmouze.
CDER Leadership
Excellence Award
Dale Conner,
Pharm.D.
Sharon Hertz, M.D.
Norman Stockbridge, M.D., Ph.D.
CDER Excellence
In Mentoring Award
David Frucht,
M.D.
Adebayo Laniyonu, Ph.D.
Antoinette Mason
Duckhee Toler
The Mentoring
Machine: Tanya Clayton, Julieann DuBeau, Ruyi He, M.D., Alice
Kacuba, Lolita Lopez, M.D., Kathie Robie-Suh, M.D., Ph.D., George
Shashaty, M.D., and Ann Marie Trentacosti, M.D.
CDER Project
Management Excellence Award
Joan Flaherty
CDER Regulatory
Science Excellence Award
Barbara
Rellahan, Ph.D.
CDER Support
Staff Excellence Award
Joan Broadwater
Patricia Downs
Pilar Martinez
Kelly Townsend
CDER Team
Excellence Award
AtoZ Team:
Jennifer Coakley, Rebecca Jacob and Gary Masters.
CDER Perrigo
Infant Drops Recall Team: Susan Allen, M.D., Kevin Budich, Walter
Ellenberg, Ph.D., Robert Heller, Andrea Leonard-Segal, M.D., Curtis
Rosebraugh, M.D., Daiva Shetty, M.D., Steven Silverman and
Michael Verdi.
CDER Visiting
Professor Lecture Series Representatives: Sonya Armstrong, Vikram
Arya, Ph.D., Charles Bonapace, Pharm.D., Chandra Chaurasia, Ph.D.,
R.Ph., Ling Chen, Ph.D., Joan Flaherty, Ph.D., Federico Goodsaid,
Ph.D., Mary Gross, Ruyi He, M.D., Shiew-Mei Huang, Ph.D., Leonard
Kapacala, M.D., Mansoor Khan, Ph.D., Bing Li, Ph.,D., Jill
Lindstrom, M.D., Markham Luke, M.D., Ph.D., Ann Corken Mackey,
R.Ph., MPH, Patrick Nwakama, Pharm.D., Chris Nguyen, Jody Payne,
Edwin Rock, M.D., Ph.D., Donald Stanski, M.D., Dianne Spillman,
Orhan Suleiman, Ph.D., Sue Jane Wang, Ph.D., Huiquan Wu, Ph.D.,
Sally Yasuda, Pharm.D. PHS officers nominated for companion
award: CAPT E. Jane McCarthy, CDR Virginia Giroux, CAPT John
Kelsey, LCDR Tracy MacGill and LCDR Devvrat Patel.
Center-Wide
Scanning Project Team: Rosanna Alston, Anthony Baldwin, Jared
Barnhardt, Joshua Barnhardt, Lori Benner, Joy Bennett, Kyle Boyd,
Martha Carter, Betty Clark, Tamika Conerly, Mary Cook, Nicole
Cooper, Allison Dietz, Velma Cunningham, Eric Gonitzke, Patrick
Gunn, Rita Hecker, Rhonda Hill, Mina Hohlen, Zei-Pao Huang, Norma
Jiggetts, Heather Jones, Bethany Lenko, Jonathan Lenko, Monica
Lewis, Linda Livingston, Jamie Metz, Diane Moore, Sheila Moore,
Dolores Pinkney, Kim Robertson, Carol Rochester, Alexander Schaub,
Lonnie Smith, Fayleen Susinno, Tisha Washington, Ellen White and
Adam Zetts.
Cilansetron
Review Team: Suliman Al-Fayoumi, Ph.D., Mark Avigan, M.D., Julie
Beitz, M.D., Allen Brinker, M.D., Jeanine Best, Sushanta Chakder,
Ph.D., Howard Chazin, M.D., Jasti Choudary, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., Bronwyn
Collier, Ann Corken-Mackey, Gerald Dal Pan, M.D., Susan Daugherty,
Gary Della’Zanna, Suresh Doddapaneni, Ph.D., Julieann DuBeau, Eric
Duffy, Ph.D., Milton Fan, Ph.D., Ray Frankewich, Ph.D., Hugo
Gallo-Torres, M.D., Ph.D., Laura Governale, Lahn Green, Pharm.D.,
MPH, Stella Grosser, Ph.D., Florence Houn, M.D., MPH, Russell Katz,
M.D., Joyce Korvick, M.D., Claudia Korwoski, Thomas Marciniak, M.D.,
Khairy Malek, M.D., Ph.D., Parvish Nourjah, Ph.D., Kathy Robie-Suh,
M.D., Ph.D., George Shashaty, M.D., Linda Wisniewski, Feng Zhou,
Liang Zhou, Ph.D. PHS officers nominated for companion award:
LCDR Shannon Benedetto, CDR Carol Holquist, CDR Quynh Nguyen, CAPT
Anne Trontell and LT Kendra Worthy.
Cluster ANDA
Bioequivalence Review Team: James Chaney, Kuldeep Dhariwal,
Ph.D., Xiaojiang Jiang, Ph.D., Jenny Lee, Shirley Lu, Ph.D., Moheb
Makary, Ph.D., Shriniwas Nerurkar, Ph.D., Hoainhon Nguyen, Sikta
Pradhan, Ph.D., Surendra Shrivastava, Ph.D., Gur Singh, Ph.D., Ethan
Stier, Ph.D. PHS officers nominated for companion award: CDR
Beth Fabian-Fritsch, LT Sheryl Gunther, LCDR Connie Jung, CDR Steven
Mazzella, LCDR James Osterhout, LCDR Devvrat Patel, LT Paul Seo
and LCDR Aaron Sigler.
Division of
Bioequivalence Review Seminar Organizing Committee: Barbara
Davit, Ph.D., and Ethan Stier, Ph.D. PHS officers
nominated for companion award: CDR Beth Fabian-Fritsch, LT Sheryl
Gunther, LCDR Connie Jung and LCDR James Osterhout.
Healthcare
Antiseptic Review Team: Tia Frazier, Michelle Jackson, Ph.D.,
Debbie Lumpkins, Steven Osborne, M.D., Colleen Rogers, Ph.D.,
Thamban Valappil, Ph.D., and Eric Zhou, Ph.D.
Hematology
Review Team: Ryan Barraco, Andrew Dmytrijuk, M.D., Ali Hakim,
Ruyi He, M.D., Ron Honchel, David Joseph, Alice Kacuba, Min Lu,
M.D., Diane Moore, Kathy Robie-Suh, M.D., Ph.D., George Shashaty,
M.D. and Liang Zhou.
Late Radiation
Toxicity Team: Siham Biade, Ph.D., Tushar Kokate, Ph.D., Adebayo
Laniyonu, Ph.D., Sally Loewke, M.D., George Mills, M.D., Yanli
Ouyang, Ph.D., Renee Tyson and Robert Yaes, M.D., Ph.D.
MedDRA
Terminology Team: Linda Kim-Jung, Pharm.D., and Maria
Thomas, M.D.
OPS Level III
Detail Coordination Group: Ali Afnan, Ph.D., Ralph Bernstein,
Ph.D., Eileen Cole, David Cummings, Mark Darj, Ph.D., Lynne Ensor,
Ph.D., Yung Hsieh, Ph.D., Mansoor Khan, Ph.D., Joseph Kutza III,
Ph.D., Stephen Langille, Ph.D., Larry Ouderkirk, Sarah Pope, Ph.D.,
Mark Seggel, Ph.D., David Skanchy, Ph.D., Rajendra Uppoor, David
Watts, Ph.D., Benjamin Westenberger, Ph.D., Kathy Woodland-Outlaw
and Huiquan Wu, Ph.D.
Palladone
Working Group: Lucinda Bushe, Ph.D., Mei-Ling Chen, Ph.D., Andrew
Fussner, Zongming Gao, Ph.D., Abhay Guypta, Ph.D., Ajaz Hussain,
Ph.D., Ravindra Kasliwal, Ph.D., Mansoor Khan, Ph.D., Vincent Lee,
Ph.D., Mehul Mehata, Ph.D., Robert Meyer, Ph.D., Terry Moore, Moheb
Nasr, Ph.D., Hullahalli Prassana, Ph.D., Nakissa Sadrieh, Ph.D.,
Vilayat Sayeed, Ph.D., Rakhi Shah, Ph.D., Edward Sherwood, John
Simmons, Ph.D., Anjanette Smith, Solomon Sobel, M.D., Mobin Tawakkul,
Ramana Uppoor, Ph.D., Benjamin Westenberger, Ph.D., and
Lawrence Yu, Ph.D.
Pharmakon
Litigation Team: Deborah Autor, Marc Caden, Robert Eshelman,
Brian Hasselbalch, Linda Hu, M.D., Rosa Motta, Steven Silverman,
Janice Steinschneider and Sakinah Walther.
Process/Transition Focus Group: Mamta Gautam-Basak, Ph.D.,
Michael Folkendt, Rao Kambhampatai, Rapti Madurawe, Amit Mitra,
James Vidra, Ph.D., Yvonne Yang. PHS officer nominated for
companion award: CAPT Alan Schroeder.
Subcommittee of
the Reviewer Education Committee: Ruthanna Davi, Cheryl Kaiser,
Joette Meyer, Terri Rumble, Edward Sherwood and Jennifer
Snellings.
Today Sponge
Review Team: Julie Beitz, M.D., Jonca Bull, M.D., Helen Cothran,
Jinhui Dou, Ph.D., Karen Feibus, M.D., Tia Fraizer, Charles Ganley,
M.D., David Hilfiker, Linda Hu, M.D., Claudia Karwoski, Ph.D., Moheb
Nasr, Ph.D., Rao Puttagunta, Ph.D., Andrea Leonard-Segal, M.D., John
Smith, Ph.D., and Arlene Solbeck.
Tygacil Review
Team: John Alexander, M.D., Charles Cooper, M.D., Edward Cox,
M.D., Maureen Dillion Parker, Mark Goldberger, M.D., MPH, Jarugual
Venkat, Ph.D., Frances LeSane, Daphne Lin, Ph.D., Frederick Marsik,
Robert Osterberg, Ph.D., Shrikant Pagay, Ph.D., David Roeder,
Wendelyn Schmidt, Janice Soreth, M.D., Ana Szarfman, M.D., Mathew
Thomas, M.D., Thamban Valappil, Ph.D., James Vidra, Ph.D., and
Yaning Wang, Ph.D. PHS officers nominated for companion award:
CAPT Lillian Gavrilovich and LCDR Jeffery Tworzyanski.
Jackie Barber-Washington is CDER’s incentive awards officer.
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