Â鶹¹û¶³ pharmacy student Vinicia Lynn Thomas Cortez of Gadsden has been selected by the American Pharmaceutical Association Academy of Students of Pharmacy (APhA-ASP) to receive its national Student Leadership Award for 2001.
Selection is based on academic and leadership achievements. Cortez will receive a $500 scholarship and travel expenses to the APhA national meeting in San Francisco, Calif., in March.
Cortez, a third-year student at Â鶹¹û¶³'s McWhorter School of Pharmacy, will receive a Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2002.
Cortez is a member of the APhA-ASP's national committee on publications and was a national delegate to the March 2000 national meeting. She currently serves as coordinator of the Region III mid-year meeting which will be in Birmingham next fall.
At Â鶹¹û¶³, she has been president of the campus chapter of American Pharmaceutical Association and secretary of Phi Lambda Sigma pharmacy leadership honor society. She is president of the Â鶹¹û¶³ chapter of the Alabama Society of Health Systems Pharmacists.