Pharmacy Perspectives - Summer/Fall 2017 - 14

Graduation :

Brotherly
Love

Match Made in Physics
Malia Malihi, P4, and Luke Delzer, 2016 CU pharmacy graduate, met in the summer of 2010 in physics class at UCCS in
Colorado Springs. The college sweethearts decided to pursue
pharmacy and followed one another to CU Skaggs School of
Pharmacy. Six years later in July of 2016 the two got married!

DISTANCE
DEGREES &
PROGRAMS
14

34 PharmD degrees conferred
through the DDP program
9 August 2016 graduates

13 December 2016 graduates
12 May 2017 graduates

CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Born just 13 months
apart, the Chheuy
brothers are very close,
and that's a good thing
since the two have been
confused with each
other their entire lives.
Jonathan and Jefferey
are the non-twin twins of
the Class of 2017.
These first-generation
Americans - whose parents
escaped the Khmer Rouge
genocide in Cambodia during
the 1970s - have a positive
attitude about the confusion
surrounding them. "During admissions and even on rotations,
we constantly got mixed up. It's
just something we're used to,"
says Jeff. They have fun with it,
and don't let it bother them.
Their path to pharmacy
began in California while
they were enrolled at the
University of California
Riverside. Originally, Jonathan
was looking at optometry,
while Jeff was pre-med.
"Being a biology major, the
normal path was med school,"
says Jeff. But they both
shadowed in their respective
fields and discovered those
paths weren't for them. Then
their aunt, Kathy Tan, who is
a pharmaceutical sales representative for GlaxoSmithKline,
started talking to them about
the profession of pharmacy.

GRADUATES
BY NAME

(May candidates in bold )
Javed Ahmad
Abimbola Olufunke Aladesuru

Jonathan and Jefferey Chheuy are all
smiles during commencement 2017

She pushed them to shadow
pharmacists and work in the
field, and something clicked.
"She was one of the biggest
influencers in our decision to
pursue pharmacy," recalls Jeff.
Consequently, Aunt Kathy
is one of their biggest fans,
and was in attendance when
they graduated with their
doctorates.
Since graduation,
Jonathan has returned to
California for a position with
CVS and Jeff is stationed in
Pueblo with Walgreens. "I've
been in retail pharmacy for
eight years during undergrad
and graduate school, and I
still enjoy it," says Jeff.

Ruben Atencio
Sekinat Oluwatoyin Banjo
Rootvij A. Bhatt
Esther E. Burke-Lewis
Li Cao
Tiffany Renee Crump

Tazeem Dhalla-Sunderji
Patience N. Egbuna
Riham Elrefai
Fady William Ayad Faltas
Cheryl Chua Go
Tonya Greene

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