Honorees Announced for 2025 USC Mann Alumni Awards Gala

The USC Mann School will honor a group of outstanding leaders at the 2025 Alumni Awards Gala on Sunday, February 23, at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena.

The 2025 honorees, listed here in alphabetical order, are:

Jessica Abraham, PharmD ’11
Director of Population Health, USC Mann School
Young Alumni Award

Ben Cohen, PhD ’20, MPH
Director of Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), Stage Analytics
Innovation in Pharmacoeconomics Award

Josephine and William Heeres, PharmD ’63
Lifetime Achievement Award

Alex Kang, PharmD, MBA
Chief Pharmacy Executive, L.A. Care Health Plan
Honorary Alumni Award

Vinson Lee, PharmD ’06
Senior Vice President, Market Access & Reimbursement
Distinguished Alumni Award

David Makhani, PharmD ’87
Co-Owner, MDR Pharmacy
Dean’s Medallion Award

Frances Richmond, PhD
Professor Emerita, USC
Innovation in Regulatory Science Award

David Seto, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Community Service Award

Jie Shen, PhD
Vice President, Local Delivery and Translational Sciences, AbbVie
Research Achievement Award

Purchase tickets here. All proceeds from the evening will support the South LA Pharmacy. For more information, please visit mann.usc.edu/gala.