Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff, Pharm.D., M.S., wins award

Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff, Pharm.D., M.S., an associate professor of pharmacy and medicine, is one of nine presenters out of 376 whose work was selected as a featured poster in May at the 2009 meeting of the American Society of Hypertension in San Francisco. The award honors scientific merit, research quality and creativity. Cooper-DeHoff's poster outlines a new mechanism for how blood sugar metabolism is disrupted by diuretic drugs — also called water pills — in patients with high blood pressure and metabolic syndrome.