Award for research paper goes to Marie Chisholm-Burns

July 18, 2007

Tucson, Ariz.—Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, professor and head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, received the 2007 Rufus A. Lyman Award on July 17 for best paper published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education during 2006.

The paper, “Development of an Instrument to Measure Professionalism,” discusses ways to measure professionalism in pharmacy students and recent pharmacy school graduates. The paper is the first step in the Pharmacy Professionalism Instrument, an 18-step tool to measure students’ and graduates’ professionalism.

Chisholm-Burns came to The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy in January 2007 from the University of Georgia, where she was a professor of pharmacy science. Chisholm-Burns received the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award in 2005 and the Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award from the American Pharmacists Association this March.

She co-authored the winning paper with Henry Cobb, The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy; Lori Duke, The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy; Charles McDuffie, Medical College of Georgia College of Pharmacy; and William Kennedy, Mercer University Medical School. Chisholm-Burns and Cobb previously received the Lyman award in 1996.

The Rufus A. Lyman Award is named for The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy’s first dean. Lyman, a physician, was dean of the college from its beginning in 1947 to 1950. He was a nationally known pharmacy educator and also founder and editor of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. While at The University of Arizona, he guided the new pharmacy school to becoming a full-fledged college in 1949.