NMMU pharmacy alumnus Milli Reddy received the Michael H. Granof Outstanding Graduate Student Award for the University of Texas at Austin. The award recognises a graduate student of exceptional distinction including scholastic achievement, creative contributions beyond degree or departmental requirements, commitment to diversity, and exceptional service to the university.
Milli is Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University School of Pharmacy’s first Fulbright scholar. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to do a doctorate in pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin in 2006.
Obtaining a BPharm degree from the former University of Port Elizabeth in 2002, she continued with her studies and was awarded her MPharm degree cum laude in 2004. She has combined her knowledge with compassion for the patients of clinics in the poorest areas.
For her master’s degree she developed a record card on the management of diabetes which helps doctors to maintain continuity in the treatment of patients. She describes receiving the award as “possibly the finest moment in my career. I finally realised what my meaning in life is. I plan to return to South Africa – and continue my non-profit work”.
Milli already have plans for the second library to be a Stroke Rehab Library at a hospital in Durban and have begun talks with a group of American pharmacists working in Kenya.
In his letter nominating Milli for the award, Dean Lynn Crismon wrote: “Milli is one those rare individuals that a faculty member typically has the opportunity of supervising only a few times in his or her academic career. Milli fits every description of excellence. She came to UT Austin as a Fulbright Scholar, and she has excelled in every aspect of her graduate education. Her research is creative, and importantly, it addresses a major societal need – the health outcomes and cost of care for the people of South Africa who are infected with HIV and drug resistant tuberculosis. She is collaborating with the World Health Organization in these efforts, and her research will likely lead to the development of a global model for the analysis of such data.”
She is going to would use her $10 000 award to further her efforts to provide library services to the citizens of rural South Africa. She plans to return to South Africa to continue her work and is planning to open a non-profit company “Minc” (Mentoring Individuals and Nations Compassionately.
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