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James Cooper, professor of clinical and administrative sciences, received the 2000 Pinnacle Award for individual career achievement from the American Pharmaceutical Association.
The Pinnacle Awards recognize contributions to health care quality through the medication use process.
Cooper has served as editor of Regimen and the Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy and on the editorial board of the Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology. He is a Fellow in the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
The award, which carries a $3,000 honorarium, is co-sponsored by Health Care Quality Assurance and is administered through the APhA Foundation’s Quality Center.


Monique Y. Leclerc, associate professor of environmental physics, has been elected vice president of the International Society of Biometerology for a three-year term. The appointment was made at the last International Congress of Biometerology in Sydney, Australia. The appointment comes after LeClerc has served a previous three-year term as councilor of the same society. LeClerc also is currently serving as head of the commissions and head of the study groups within the same organization.


E. Gordon Maner, a public service assistant at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, was awarded the key to the city of Panama City, Fla., from Mayor Gerry Clemons for his efforts and successes in assisting the Panama City Commission for the past eight years in its strategic planning and in its community and economic development.


Leonard W. Poon, director of the UGA Gerontology Center, was one of 17 individuals from Denmark, Germany, Israel, Sweden, Britain and the United States to receive honorary doctoral degrees at Lund University in Sweden. During the three-hour ceremony conducted in Latin, Poon was formally declared Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa.
Poon was honored for his research on adaptation and survival of the oldest old, the Georgia Centenarian Study, as well as his work as the executive director of the International Centenarian Study, a collaborative effort which brings together researchers from Europe, Asia and North America to examine the secrets of longevity.



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