Elva Van Devender was awarded a national American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation student scholarship. She is one of nine in the country chosen to receive this award based off of leadership and dedication to her work in pharmacy.

Van Devender is an OSU pharmacy student and works at Samaritan Albany General Hospital as a pharmacy intern, as well as at Safeway’s pharmacy in Lebanon.

“I did not expect, in my wildest imaginings, that I would be chosen to receive this award,” said Van Devender. “I am grateful to the college of pharmacy for giving me the tools to be of service to patients and to all the people I have worked with at Samaritan who have illuminated my path as a student.”

Van Devender is active in her community and currently serves as a student representative on the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Meetings and Programming Advisory Group. 

In addition, she also works as a student volunteer at both the Portland VA Medical Center and at the InReach Clinic.

Van Devender will be presented with her award on Monday, March 15, in Washington D.C.