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Phi Lambda Sigma: Michelle Kwok ’21, Dr. Janice Hoffman, Alexander Ou ’21, Tom To ’21, Dr. Andrew Bzowyckyj (guest speaker), Jenny Liu ’21, Kristine Esguerra ’21
and Derick Galan ’21. Rho Chi: Dr. Donald Hsu, Jerlad Varona ’21, Dr. Emmanuelle Schwartzman, Kenneth Cr uz ’21, Derick Galan ’21, Alex Ou ’21, Dr. Anne Kugler,
Dr. Benjamin Malcolm, Dr. Joelle Ayoub, Ryan Lam ’21, and Dr. Shawn Smith.

Second place was Esther Hahm ’21 with 112 items donated, Overall, the event was very well received and we hope it will
and third place was Angie Mercado ’23 with 72 items. In continue to inspire and help student leaders develop for
addition, NCPA pledged to donate as well and match the top many years to come.
donor. Altogether, NCPA was able to collect and donate over
700 canned goods to the INSAN Foundation! INSAN for Rho Chi Society
Humanity Foundation has worked closely with NCPA
Gamma Sigma Chapter
throughout the year and has provided numerous
opportunities to host health fairs and flu clinics. NCPA was By Derick Galan ’21
thankful for the chance to show their appreciation to the
Rho Chi has been seeking to advance the pharmacy
Foundation and give back to the community at the same time.
profession through sustained, intellectual leadership
throughout the fall semester. Our Rho Chi Gamma Sigma
Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS) chapter helped kick off the school year on the right track
By Jenny Liu ’21 with our Student Tip Day. We invited top performing
students to share with the incoming first-year class different
Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS) Gamma Nu chapter hosted the
strategies to stay on top of their school work and perform at
11th Annual Leadership Retreat on August 17, 2019. The
a high level in pharmacy school. We continued to encourage
theme of this year’s leadership retreat was “Change Theory
our students throughout the semester to start thinking about
in Pharmacy Leadership.” We had the honor of hosting and
their future with the Match Me: Residency Talk Series. Guest
learning from Dr. Andrew Bzowyckyj, who was our keynote
speakers, such as our own faculty Dr. Chan and
speaker for the event. Dr. Bzowyckyj is currently an
Dr. Schwartzman, along with Dr. Patel from the Rutgers
Associate Professor at Pacific University Oregon School of
Institute for Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowships helped our
Pharmacy who completed a Pharmaceutical Care Leadership
students gain a better understanding about residencies and
Residency in 2011. There were a variety of activities that
fellowships. In November, Rho Chi hosted its annual
promote team building which included building a tower out
Academia Week. We surveyed our distinguished faculty
of uncooked spaghetti and marshmallows and a drawing
about their career paths to academia and displayed their bios
game which relied heavily on effective communication.
for all to read along the College of Pharmacy hallways in a
We also had the pleasure of having workshops run by PLS 90’s themed design! Dr. Kugler, Dr. Malcolm, Dr. Hsu,
Gamma Nu alumni, Dr. Jane Kim and Dr. Divvjyot (Gorby) Dr. Ayoub, and Dr. Smith served on the Faulty Panel during
Singh. Dr. Kim presented on “Empowering Others.” She Academia Week where students were able to hear their
explained how to approach answering questions with the stories about how they ended up in academia and ask them
underlying theme of empowering others that are often asked any questions they may have about working in academia.
in residency program interviews. Dr. Singh’s workshop
revolved around public speaking. He provided students with
tips and tricks to improve their public speaking skills.

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