She was on the dean’s list in
December 2014 and May 2015.
And while active in her sorority,
Kellie started two part-time jobs.
“I worked with Alternative
Community Training (ACT) as a
personal assistant for individuals
with special needs, and at Boone explains. She is currently class
liaison on the Columbia campus
for the Class of 2020.
This year, Kellie accepted
an invitation to be in the
Missouri Area Health Education
Center Scholars program. The
organization is a federally funded
Hospital inpatient pharmacy as a
pharmacy technician,” she says.
“I believe having both of these
jobs, and my involvement with my
sorority, were big reasons why I got
into pharmacy school.”
In pharmacy school, Kellie
is involved in a number of
professional organizations,
including the American
Pharmacists Association,
Missouri Society of Health-
System Pharmacists and National
Community Pharmacists
Association. She has also attended
the Rural Immersion Program in
Chillicothe, Missouri.
“This program was a selective
program to show health care
professionals the need for providers
in rural communities,” Kellie program that prepares health
professional students to become
leaders in inter-professional and
practice that will serve in rural
communities.
Currently a third-year
pharmacy student at the UMKC
School of Pharmacy at the
MU campus, Kellie also works
at Boone Hospital Center as
a pharmacy intern part time.
Additionally, she is involved with
the many health-related service
events around the Columbia area.
In May, Kellie will begin
nine, month-long rotations and
will graduate with a doctorate in
pharmacy in May 2020. Following
that, she will need to pass the
National Association of Boards of
Pharmacy and Missouri pharmacy
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law exam before she can become a
pharmacist.
Kellie has purchased a home
south of Columbia. She eventually
hopes to return to northeast
Missouri and her hometown of
Shelbina to pursue a career as a
pharmacist and work with local
farmers and ranchers.
“I took a huge interest in this
when it was shown that farmers
and ranchers are at highest risk
of farm-related injuries and being
on medications—or not being on
medications when they should
be—is shown to be a main cause,”
Kellie explains. “With the path
the field of pharmacy is going, I
have high hopes I will be able to
provide care to these patients that
will decrease farm-related injuries
in my area.”
In addition to becoming a
pharmacist, Kellie hopes to stay
involved with her family’s farm in
the future.
“I would like to thank FCS
Financial for granting me a
scholarship my senior year of high
school,” Kellie says. “I was able
to attend my dream college and
continue my dream of becoming
a pharmacist with less stress about
financial burdens thanks to their
generosity.”
dan haynes — jefferson
city
A December 2016 graduate of
MU, Dan received a degree in
general agriculture. While at
MU, he was active in Collegiate
Farm Bureau and was a Missouri