At the end of each spring and fall semester, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy students are asked to identify faculty members who have encouraged, mentored, listened, and been stellar educators as their choice for Class Teachers of the Year. The annual award was established to acknowledge the importance of student opinion and ensure the honor has particular meaning for students. 

We are pleased to announce Teacher of the Year award recipients for the 2022-23 academic year. Congratulations to these outstanding educators!
 

	Lewis Stevens Class of 2026 (P1) Teacher of the Year Associate Professor Lewis Stevens is the Pharmaceutics Program director in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics. He earned his PhD in physical chemistry with an emphasis on solids and optical spectroscopy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  Following his graduate studies, Stevens joined the Dynamic Experimentation group at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. He then went to AgSource Laboratories as Technology and Development manager, where he worked to establish quality operations and advance new analytical methods in all testing laboratories throughout the United States. The College hired Stevens as an assistant professor and he subsequently established his Applied Materials Laboratory. His other research interests are mechanotherapeutics for brain diseases; functional, multi-target, oral solids; and mechanical design in drug delivery. Student comments included: “Dr. Stevens was an amazing professor and made his material so interesting. He communicated extremely well with lecture content and class updates and encouraged students to ask questions and provide extra explanation when called upon. He prioritized our mental and physical well-being by accommodating rescheduling exams, student illness, and reassuring us that a bad class grade or exam score did not define us as a person or a student pharmacist.”
	Deanna McDanel Class of 2025 (P2) Teacher of the Year Deanna McDanel earned a PharmD from Iowa in 2001. One year later, she completed an ASHP-accredited specialized residency in Primary Care at UI Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) and then became an ambulatory-care clinical pharmacy specialist at UIHC. McDanel has been a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist since 2004 and a board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist since 2012. She also is program director of UIHC’s PGY2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency. McDanel is a clinical associate professor at the College, and her clinical practice sites include Anticoagulation and Drug Allergy. Student Comments Included: “Dr. McDanel was very approachable and informative for whatever content she taught. I was always excited to see her name when downloading lecture slides.”
	Kashelle Lockman Class of 2024 (P3) Teacher of the Year Kashelle Lockman is a clinical assistant professor in hospice and palliative care and a clinical pharmacy specialist in the UIHC outpatient palliative care clinic. Lockman also serves as faculty for UIHC’s hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program, co-teaches the UI-India Winterim course with Pallium India, and co-directs the UI Certificate in Palliative Care and the UI Teaching and Learning Curriculum for residents and fellows. A South Carolina native, Lockman received a BS in biology at the College of Charleston and worked for 10 years in biomedical research before earning a PharmD from the University of Maryland (UMD). After finishing a PGY1 pharmacy-practice residency at the UMD Medical Center, she completed a PGY2 pharmacy residency in pain management and palliative care, and a fellowship in instructional design, both at Maryland. As part of this program, she received an instructional-systems development MA from UMD-Baltimore County. Lockman has garnered numerous accolades, including acceptance in the Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program from the Cambia Health Foundation and the College’s 2020-21 Faculty Preceptor Excellence Award. Student comments included: “Professor Lockman cares deeply about students, and it shows in her interactions, lectures, and how she prepares students for exams and real-life clinical practice. She is dedicated to creating instructional design that caters to many types of student learning and uses active learning exercises in every lecture she teaches."