Mimi Sadik Memorial Scholarship at Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy Inspires Pharmacy Education
July 22, 2014
CLINTON, SC – Presbyterian College has announced that Dr. Farid Sadik, a pharmacist and current PC professor, along with his family, has endowed a $25,000 scholarship in memory of Sadik’s daughter who was also a pharmacist. The Mimi Sadik Memorial Scholarship will help students in need of financial assistance and promote pharmaceutical education.
Dr. Sadik’s longstanding professional mentor/mentee relationship with Dr. Cliff Fuhrman, Dean of Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy (PCSP), was the motivation behind the Sadik family’s decision to endow this scholarship. Sadik, a professor at the time, was Fuhrman’s mentor while Fuhrman was attending the University of South Carolina and greatly influenced Fuhrman’s decision to begin a career in pharmacy and education. Dr. Sadik’s love for pharmacy encompasses not only his career but also his family life, with three of Dr. Sadik’s four children also becoming pharmacists.
While serving as the dean of the USC School of Pharmacy from 1999-2005, Sadik selected Fuhrman to join his administration team in 1998. A USC faculty member at the time, Fuhrman worked alongside his mentor for seven years in various capacities. The two would begin working together again in 2013, when Fuhrman recruited Sadik to teach pharmaceutics lectures at PCSP.
“All these years later, I’m so grateful for the continued professional relationship we have,” said Fuhrman. “We have always worked well together, and we are thrilled to have him as part of our program at PCSP.”
The Sadik’s scholarship will provide a student the resources to pursue his or her passion in pharmacy in the memory of their daughter. “This scholarship that bears Mimi’s name symbolizes her devotion and dedication to the pharmacy profession and education,” said Dr. Sadik. “May her memory be blessed.”
About The Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy
The Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy (PCSP) is a fully accredited four-year institution that was founded in Clinton, South Carolina in 2010. With a vision of improving the health of South Carolina and society at large, PCSP provides students both classroom and professional pharmacy practice experience. PC’s School of Pharmacy is Upstate South Carolina’s only accredited pharmacy institution and proudly graduated its first class in May 2014.
