Awards Ceremony

DIA President, Theresa Kane Musser, Executive Director, Development Operations, Rigel Pharmaceuticals, presented the awards, which were handed out in the following order:

Drug Information Journal Awards:

Drug Information Journal Student Award: Radhika Nair, MS, PhD, and Anju Parthan, MS, PhD

The Donald E. Francke Award for Overall Excellence in Journal Publishing: Scott Patterson, PhD, and Marilyn Agin, PhD

The Thomas W. Teal Award: William F. Rosenberger, PhD

The DIA Lifetime Membership:

• Dave Domann, MS, RPh, Senior Director, Healthcare Quality Management, Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, Titusville, NJ.

The Outstanding Service Award:

• Herng-Der Chern, MD, PhD, Executive Director of Taiwan's Center for Drug Evaluation.

• Martin D. Hynes, III, PhD, Director of Product Research and Development, Eli Lilly and Company.

• Shigeru Kageyama, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Jikei University School of Medicine.

• Mohammed Razdar Khan, Director, Synergex Consulting, Ontario, Canada.

• Pulok K. Mukherjee, MPharm, PhD, FIC, Acting Director, the School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

• Gary G. Walker, Associate Director, Global Data Integration Standards, Quintiles.

The First Founders Service Award:

• Michael R. Hamrell, PhD, RAC, editor-in-chief of the Drug Information Journal.

The Distinguished Career Award:

• Harry A. Guess, MD, PhD, who passed away in January 2006, was an active member of the association before serving as DIA President from 1992 to 1993.