Fn Faculty News Infectious Diseases Publication Ranked One of Year’s Best The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy recently reported on a survey of the most significant publications in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy in 2010. A publication from ACPHS faculty members Nimish Patel ‘06, Pharm.D., and Tom Lodise, Pharm.D., was ranked second among the 25 papers identified in the survey. The publication, titled “Identification of optimal renal dosage adjustments for traditional and extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam dosing regimens in hospitalized patients” appeared in the January 2010 issue of Anitmicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Dr. Hass Receives NIH Research Grant Martha Hass, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, has received a threeyear grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $453,896. She will be developing a series of chemical compounds that could prove instrumental in limiting the harmful effects of the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays. The compounds, or codrugs, are derived from Vitamin E and lipoic acid. ACPHS students from both undergraduate and graduate programs will be active contributors to the project.
Amy Barton Pai Named Chair of Kidney Disease Coalition Amy Barton Pai ‘96, Pharm.D., has been appointed Chair of the NYS Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Coalition. The NYS CKD Coalition is a statewide, multidisciplinary workgroup that seeks to increase public and professional awareness of CKD and promote improvements in disease screening and research across the state. Dr. Barton Pai has also been appointed as an editor for the Journal of Nephrology and Therapeutics.
Helping Identify Cancer in Peru Associate Professor of Health Sciences Indra Balachandran, Ph.D., spent ten days this summer as a cytotechnologist volunteer in Cusco, Peru. Peru has an incidence rate of cervical cancer that is more than ten times that of the U.S., and Dr. Balachandran and the team of volunteers helped analyze approximately 1,400 pap smears for signs of cell abnormalities. “We worked very hard and cohesively in less than optimal conditions, and by the end of our time in Cusco, we were able to diagnose a number of precancerous lesions and one case of cervical cancer,” she said.
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Teachers of the Year Department of Basic and Social Sciences Instructor Ellen Kennett ’91, Department of Pharmacy Practice Instructor Andy Flynn ’87, and ACPHS-Vermont Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor Dorothy Pumo were the recipients of ACPHS’s Teachers of the Year awards for 2010-11. Kennett received the Traditional Teacher of the Year award, which recognizes an outstanding faculty member in the first two years of the curriculum. Dr. Pumo received the Vermont Faculty Member of the Year award, and Flynn received the Professional Teacher of the Year award for the third time.
Vermont Faculty Member Earns UVM Appointment The University of Vermont Medical Residency Program in Psychiatry has listed Clayton English, Pharm.D., as a faculty member in the Adult Psychopharmacology Clinic at Fletcher Allen Health Care. The Adult Psychopharmacology Clinic functions as a consultation service, and it is a longitudinal rotation for PGY-3 Psychiatry residents in the University of Vermont Psychiatry Residency Program.