Drug inspectors receive Aleong National Patient Safety Award

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. Two drug inspectors in Florida have received the first annual Stephanie F. Aleong, J.D., National Patient Safety Award from Nova Southeastern University.

NSU announced that Brand Institute president and chief executive officer James Dettore and NSU dean Andres Malave presented the award last month to Gene Odin and Cesar Arias, two state drug inspectors who worked on a task force to investigate pharmaceutical drug abuse with Aleong, a prosecutor and NSU law professor who died in October.

The work of Aleong and the two inspectors resulted in counterfeiters of drugs for cancer, cholesterol, HIV and organ transplants being imprisoned, the university said.