Caroline Asbill, Pharm.D.
Clinical Practice Teaching Award
In the pharmacy skills laboratory sequence, Caroline Asbill, '16, emphasizes experiential learning, helping students translate foundational knowledge into real-world problem-solving, clinical judgment, and patient-centered care. She encourages learners to build confidence through immersive simulation and hands-on activities while recognizing the profound responsibility pharmacists carry in ensuring medication safety. By fostering meaningful connections and encouraging reflection and growth, she graduates pharmacists who are not only clinically competent, but also compassionate, thoughtful, and committed to serving their patients and communities.
"Receiving the Clinical Practice Teaching Award is incredibly meaningful to me because it reflects the impact of work I care deeply about. Helping students build confidence and competence in essential pharmacy skills is at the core of my teaching. I strive to design immersive, practice-based learning experiences that mirror real health care settings, so students feel prepared not just to succeed academically, but to provide safe and effective care."
[This award] reflects the impact of work I care deeply about. Helping students build confidence and competence in essential pharmacy skills is at the core of my teaching.
Betsy Blake, Pharm.D.
USC Outstanding Service Award
Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation
Since joining USC, Betsy Blake has contributed to and led numerous endeavors within the college, including curricular enhancement and development, accreditation efforts, and faculty professional development. She is actively engaged with state and national organizations, including the South Carolina Pharmacy Association, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, and the National Academies of Practice. Through her service, Blake has enhanced health professional educational opportunities at USC and across South Carolina. In 2025, she was awarded the Bowl of Hygeia by the South Carolina Pharmacy Association and has received multiple national pharmacy organization recognitions for her service to the profession.
"I am deeply honored to be recognized by both of these awards. The Garnet Apple Award recognizes my efforts to create and enhance IPE activities not only for the pharmacy students but for 12 health professional programs at USC. Though none of these could happen without so many people from each of these programs. the award also recognizes the attention placed on the continuous quality improvement efforts to ensure student feedback leads to more meaningful IPE activities.
The Outstanding Service Award recognizes not only my dedication to service for IPE but also my contributions to the College of Pharmacy, USC, and state and national pharmacy organizations, as well as my work with a national organization for a rare autoimmune disorder. As pharmacists, we are called to serve to give back to our profession. As an academician, I am called to serve to enhance our educational endeavors. As a person living with CIDP, I am called to give back to the community that gave me hope and support when I needed it most. Service to others has been my passion for many years and will continue to be an integral part of my life and work."
As pharmacists, we are called to serve to give back to our profession ... Service to others has been my passion for many years and will continue to be an integral part of my life and work.
Lorne Hofseth, Ph.D.
USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Health Sciences
An internationally recognized investigator in inflammation-driven carcinogenesis and colon cancer prevention, Lorne Hofseth has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and secured over $20 million in NIH funding as principal investigator. He has launched several college-wide initiatives, including a Research Boot Camp to support faculty development and extramural funding success. Through sustained scholarship, institutional leadership, mentorship, entrepreneurship, and public engagement, Hofseth continues to elevate USC’s visibility in cancer prevention research.
“Receiving the USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Health Sciences is truly an honor, as it reflects the collective efforts of my students, trainees, and collaborators over many years. It is especially meaningful to be recognized alongside past recipients; many of whom I have long admired and looked up to throughout my career.”
It is especially meaningful to be recognized alongside past recipients; many of whom I have long admired and looked up to throughout my career.
Kathy Quarles Moore, R.Ph.
Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award
Kathy Quarles Moore, '86, maintains an active presence in the field by working in independent midlands area pharmacies and integrating clinical practice with academic instruction. Her pedagogy centers on cultivating lifelong learners through environments built on trust, engagement, and high expectations. Moore has also established a medicinal garden to teach functional medicine, giving students hands-on experience with medicinal plants and real-world application. Her honors include the Bowl of Hygeia Award for community service and the University of South Carolina Clinical Practice Teaching Award, reflecting her impact on both academia and the broader profession.
“I am incredibly honored to have received the Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award. I am passionate about investing in students, and my approach to teaching centers on fostering meaningful connections and encouraging curiosity, professionalism, and lifelong learning. I am committed to helping students grow into capable professionals who are prepared to serve patients and advance our wonderful profession.”
I am passionate about investing in students, and my approach to teaching centers on fostering meaningful connections and encouraging curiosity, professionalism, and lifelong learning.
Brandon Bookstaver, Pharm.D.
2026 Carolina Trustees Professorship Award
As Director of Residency & Fellowship Training, Brandon Bookstaver, '04, has built nationally recognized postgraduate programs and mentored more than 60 residents and fellows who now serve in prominent clinical, faculty, and leadership positions nationwide. With his focus on connecting theory and practice, he developed several elective and core courses, including Postgraduate Preparation, Infectious Diseases Therapeutics, and Research Fundamentals. He endeavors to ignite a love for lifelong learning, foster curiosity, and challenge students to understand the 'why’ behind foundational knowledge so they can apply it meaningfully in their professional practice.
“It is very humbling because I think about all the folks that are more qualified to me in my eyes than me. The criteria of service outside of the community walls is meaningful to me - engaging in service to our church, engaging in service to local youth sports, and we want our family to be engaged in the community. That is valuable. It is a wonderful honor.”
The criteria of service outside of the community walls is meaningful to me - engaging in service to our church, engaging in service to local youth sports, and we want our family to be engaged in the community.
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