Pharmacists of the Future Grow at PharmCamp
Every summer since 1997, the UA College of Pharmacy has hosted PharmCamp, a weeklong outreach program aimed at introducing middle-school students to the pharmacy profession. Full of hands-on learning opportunities, PharmCamp is held in six different locations across Arizona: Tucson, Phoenix, Sierra Vista, Casa Grande, Nogales and Yuma. The program is directed by Ted Tong, PharmD, R. Ken Coit Endowed Chair.
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New Recruitment Videos Created for PharmD, BSPS Programs
View the PharmD video | BSPS Video
In one of her first assignments, LuzMaria Hernandez, Student Services Specialist for Recruitment and Events, oversaw the creation of videos for the PharmD and BSPS programs. “These video clips were produced with the intention of planting a seed to show what our great college has to offer to prospective students who are entertaining pursuing an education in Pharmacy,” said Hernandez.
Both of these videos have been sent out by UA Admissions to admitted, non-committed, prospective students to make the last attempt to yield students for this upcoming fall semester. Videos are on the website and will be used for other email campaigns.
“It all began with research about what is being used to recruit students to colleges and universities. Today, prospective students have very short attention spans and video clips shorter than one minute are best,” she said.
Video participants include:
- Joseph Murata – PharmD Class of 2019 (alumni) – our amazing scholar who is now a PGY1 at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix.
- Elizabeth Vuong – PharmD Class of 2022 – a College Ambassador who is also a member and leader of multiple Health Professions Clubs on campus. Once she graduates, she plans to apply for PGY1 focusing on her passion, Pediatric Pharmacy.
- Collin L McEachern – Freshman from the first entering BSPS Class of 2022 who is preparing for a career in drug discovery and development research.
- Skylar Shaye Van Patter - Double Major in BSPS and Physiology, part of our inaugural graduating BSPS Class of 2020, and is preparing to apply to Pharmacy School
- Christopher Edwards, PharmD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science and ER Pharmacist at Banner Hospital
A special thanks to these participants, plus the Office of Student Services, the Communications Office and UAHS Biocommunications for their assistance.
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Health Law at Arizona Law: Phoenix Networking Reception
Thursday, August 15
5:30 to 7 p.m.
UA Phoenix Biomedical Campus
This inaugural event seeks to bring together health care professionals, alumni, and those interested to connect and learn about exciting new initiatives in the health law and policy field.The reception will include a high-level overview from Health Current's Chase Millea, In-House Counsel & Privacy Officer, on Recent Developments in Health Information Technology. The reception will also highlight Arizona Law’s two fully online Graduate Certificates in Health Law that are designed for non-lawyers to identify and resolve the legal issues that frequently emerge in providing patient care. A Certificate can be completed part-time in one year.
Register now
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Pharmacy Practice and Science:
July 2019 Highlights
Grant Awards
Bernadette Cornelison, Maryam Fazel, and Caitlin Cameron received an American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Ambulatory Care Practice & Research Network (PRN) 2019 Innovation Grant for $1,250.
Sandipan Bhattacharjee, MS, PhD received a Sanofi-Genzyme grant titled "Comorbidity Burden among Adults with Multiple Sclerosis in the United States" for $108,107.
Publications
Center-Specific Modeling Predicts Cancer Trial Accrual More Accurately than Investigators and Random Effects Modeling at 16 Cancer Centers. JCO Clin Cancer Inform 3:1-12, 2019 doi 10.1200/CCI.19.00005
Regression Modeling Predicts Cancer Trial Accrual More Accurately than Investigators at 16 Cancer Centers. Journal of Clinical Oncology: Clinical Cancer Informatics 2019;3:1-12
Question-Based Self-Reported Experience of Patients with Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue (SAT) Disease Prescribed Sympathmimetic Amines. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 7, n. 6, june 2019. ISSN 2375-1924.
Improving Rating Scales: Applying Rasch Analysis to Student Pharmacists’ Attitudes Toward Herbal Medications. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning.2019;11(7):658-663. Doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2019.03.015.
PRN Opinion Paper: Application of Precision Medicine Across Pharmacy Specialty Areas. JACCP. 2019 2019;2:288–302.
- Jason Karnes, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, FAHA
- Kelly Caudle, PharmD, PhD
- Roseann Gammal, PharmD
- Janna Afanasieva, PharmD
- Keri Anderson, PharmD
- Erin Barreto, PharmD
- Craig Beavers, PharmD, PhD
- Shubha Bhat, PharmD, MS
- Kara Birrer, PharmD
- Elias Chahine, PharmD, FCCP
- Christopher Ensor, PharmD, FCCP
- Stephanie Flowers, PharmD, PhD
- Christine Formea, PharmD, FCCP
- Jomy George, PharmD
- Rena Gosser, PharmD
- Mary Herbert, PharmD, FCCP
- Lamis Karaoui, PharmD
- Jimmi Kolpek, PharmD
- James Lee, PharmD
- Jonathan Leung, PharmD
- Angela Maldonado, PharmD
- Molly Minze, PharmD
- Rebecca Pulk, PharmD, MS
- Chasity Shelton, PharmD
- Maria Sheridan, PharmD
- Michael Smith, PharmD
- Scott Soefie, PharmD, MBA, FCCP
- Eglis Tellez-Corrales, PharmD
- Christine Walko, PharmD, FCCP
- Larisa Cavallari, PharmD
Publications
Nina Vadiei, PharmD, BCPP got married! Congrats Nina!
Janet Cooley, PharmD, BCACP
- Janet Cooley was promoted to Associate Professor.
Brian Erstad, PharmD, MCCM, FCCP, FASHP
- Selected as a Panel Member for the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Guideline on Acute Pain.
Ivo Abraham, PhD, RN
- Appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Economists for a 3-year term 2019-2022.
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Pharmacy and Toxicology:
July 2019 Highlights
Publications
Contributions of Hepatic and Intestinal Metabolism to the Disposition of Niclosamide, a Repurposed Drug with Poor Bioavailability. Drug Metabolism and Disposition July 2019, 47 (7) 756-763.
Presentations
Heidi Mansour, PhD, RPH
- Poster presentation of "Topical Suramin Diminishes Radiation-induced Oral Mucositis" at the International Association for Dental Research in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 19-22, 2019. A collaboration research project with Dean Rick Schnellmann and Dr. Heidi Mansour with her PhD Pharmaceutics grad student, Maria Acosta, at The UA Colleges of Pharmacy & Medicine, Tucson, AZ and Professor Kirk Keithwood at the University of Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Depts of Oral Biology & Oral Oncology, Buffalo, New York. L. Authors include Zhang, F. Liu, A. Lau, M. Acosta, R. G. Schnellmann, H. M. Mansour, and K. Kirkwood.
Kudos
Heidi Mansour, PhD, RPH
- A previous Postdoc fellow from the Mansour Research Group, Dr. Samantha Meenach, PhD, has just been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at the University of Rhode Island where she holds faculty appointments in the College of Engineering and College of Pharmacy.
- A previous Postdoc fellow from the Mansour Research Group, Dr. Scott Silva, MD, PhD, is now an Assistant Professor & Director in the Dept of Radiation Oncology at Univ of Louisville School of Medicine.
Yin Chen, PhD
- Confirmed as a regular member of inflammation and innate immunity (III) study section of National Institute of Health (NIH)
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PharmPhoto of the Week
The Tucson PharmCamp Class of 2019 is pictured wtih UA nursing students after completing a simulation. View photos from their week here.
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About PharmWeekly
PharmWeekly is the official internal communication for the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, published during the academic year weekly on Mondays at 10 a.m. by the Communications Office. PharmWeekly is distributed to College of Pharmacy students, faculty, staff, the National Advisory Board and UA Communications colleagues. If you have a submission, email it to Alli Benjamin by the Friday prior no later than 2:00 p.m. If a colleague or friend of the college would like to receive PharmWeekly, a sign-up form is here.
Summer publish dates: July 15, July 29, August 12.
All issues of PharmWeekly are archived online. View previous issues.
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