Academic Pharmacy Now: Jan/Feb/March 2011

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News in Brief 5

News Briefs

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In Memoriam

Features 15

New School-Run Pharmacy Opens in Pittsburgh

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UT Austin Researcher Targets Cystic Fibrosis

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Capitol Hill News

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Antibacterial Agent Could Cause Pregnancy Problems

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America Celebrates its Pharmacy Educators University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences California Northstate College of Pharmacy University of Connecticut University of Minnesota St. Louis College of Pharmacy St. John Fisher College The University of Oklahoma Oregon State University Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine University of Pittsburgh South Carolina College of Pharmacy The University of Tennessee Virginia Commonwealth University

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letter from the editor

Dear Colleagues: The watchwords for 2011 are “transform” and “accelerate.” It is the year we have long awaited. It is the reason for the transformation of pharmacy education initiated years ago and completed as we moved to the doctoral level of preparation for the 21st century pharmacy graduate and clinician.

The theme of the 2011 AACP Interim Meeting in Savannah, Ga., Feb. 26–March 2, is about transformation and leadership. In the words of Nancy Desmond, president and CEO of the Center for Health Transformation, there is a difference between reforming and transforming. Reform is work to improve an existing system.

Transformation “is a method of visualizing a new system, culture, process and structure, and migrating the current system to the new.” Transformation is hard work.

It is time to transform the way medication use is integrated into patient care and there is a sense of urgency about accomplishing this transformation. Politics aside, American competitiveness depends on making some extremely time-sensitive changes in healthcare, education, economics and the environment. Pharmacy educators have much to contribute to at least three of these four imperatives for change. (I could argue that as some of the most highly-educated professionals in society, we have a significant responsibility for environmental change as well, but I lose focus!)

Our faculty have contributed a great deal to the development of new models of patient care that vastly improve patient outcomes. This reflects their ability to lead change and improve medication management in acute care and increasingly in ambulatory care environments as well. We continue to profile some of these excellent services in this issue of Academic Pharmacy Now and we documented their significant contributions in standing committee reports that are now published in our 2010 American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education supplement.

Committing these advancements to writing is necessary but insufficient in this time of transformation. We need acceleration from pockets of excellence to a standard of practice that transforms healthcare.

Academic pharmacy needs the human resources, the leadership and the will to accelerate the transformation of pharmacy practice and patient care to conform to our evidence-based models of medication therapy management service delivery. Faculty development efforts to attract and retain the best and the brightest scientists and clinicians, especially in these times of huge economic challenges at the local, state and global levels, must continue to be a top priority for AACP and its members. For this, our commitment to American Pharmacy Educator Week and department chair development remains steadfast.

I look forward to seeing the current and future leaders of academic pharmacy and healthcare at the Interim Meeting in Savannah. AACP is committed to contributing energy and other resources to accelerate the transformation of pharmacy practice as your partner.

Sincerely,

Lucinda L. Maine, Ph.D., R.Ph. Executive Vice President and CEO

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news in brief

News Briefs Northeastern University Pharmacy Professor Awarded for Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Northeastern University has been designated as a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence funded by a highly competitive, five-year, $13.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI). The university will establish the Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine where a multidisciplinary team of scientists, industry and government partners will develop cancer treatments from discovery to nanotechnology-enabled targeted delivery.

Services (DFPS) have released, revised and updated parameters to ensure the proper use of psychiatric medications for children in foster care.

The December 2010 Psychotropic Medication Utilization Parameters for Foster Children is a resource for physicians and clinicians who care for foster children diagnosed with mental health disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, disruptive behavioral disorders, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and others.

It provides recommendations for the appropriate use of medications and includes eight criteria indicating the need for further review of the child’s clinical status.

Through the new center, included in the second phase of “Foster children, in particular, have multiple needs, including the NCI’s Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer program, those related to emotional or psychological stress,” said Dr. Northeastern University researchers will create new drugs M. Lynn Crismon, dean of the College of Pharmacy. “They that target cancer cells, advance technology on how nanocar- typically have experienced abusive, neglectful or chaotic careriers deliver these drugs and utilize imaging tools that track taking environments.” how they travel through the body.

There is a need for treatment guidelines and parameters re“The idea is that a lot of people are doing excellent research garding the appropriate use of psychiatric medications in in the field of nanomedicine, but in 95 percent of the cases foster children for several reasons, Crismon said. Patient and this research ends with a good publication,” said Dr. Vladimir family history in foster children may not be readily available.

P. Torchilin, distinguished professor of pharmaceutical sci- In addition, there are attachment difficulties that may mimic ences in the School of Pharmacy, and director of the Center or overlap with psychiatric disorders. Foster children may live for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine. “The in areas where mental health professionals such as child psymost difficult part is the next step; if you have good results, chiatrists are not readily available. how do you turn those results into products?”

Campbell University Student

In addition to the Center of Excellence designation, the NCI Alliance has awarded Northeastern’s Dr. Mansoor Amiji a Pharmacists Provide Immunizations on five-year, $2.32 million grant as part of the Cancer Nanotech- Campus nology Platform Partnership program. Amiji, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Student pharmacists at Campbell University administered Sciences in the School of Pharmacy, will collaborate with re- nine flu clinics on campus last fall. Nearly 500 immunizations searchers at Massachusetts General Hospital to develop treat- were given to students, Campbell employees and their depenment for multidrug resistant forms of lung and ovarian can- dents. cer. The work involves using nanoparticles and gene silencing “This is the first year our students participated in the univertechniques to more efficiently target tumors and reverse their sity’s flu clinics,” said Dr. Gil Steiner, associate professor of resistance to anti-cancer therapies. The researchers will also pharmacy practice. “It was a great opportunity for them to create a library of nanoparticles they can screen and select gain hands-on training and play a role in meeting the health from when treating various forms of cancer. needs of our Campbell community.”

UT Austin Helps Ensure Proper Use of Psychotropic Medications for Children in Foster Care The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) College of Pharmacy and the Texas Department of Family and Protective

The clinics were organized by the American Pharmacists Association–Academy of Student Pharmacists chapter at the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences under the leadership of student pharmacist Kristen Snodgrass. Students coordinated schedules, administered immunizations and developed a system to inform physicians of their patient’s vaccination.

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Nearly 40 students volunteered to provide flu shots with the supervision of six faculty members. In North Carolina, student pharmacists who complete the APhA Immunization Certificate Program can administer flu immunizations under the supervision of a practicing pharmacist who is also certified.

University of Kentucky Pharmacy Professor Honored as Outstanding Early-Career Scientist Dr. Kimberly Nixon from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy received one of 85 awards from the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Program, one of the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

The Presidential Early Career Awards embody the high priority the Obama Administration places on producing outstanding scientists and engineers to advance the nation’s goals, tackle grand challenges and contribute to the American economy.

Awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology, and their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education or community outreach. Winning scientists and engineers have received research grants for up to five years to further their studies in support of critical government missions.

ACPHS Hosts Medication Take-Back Event For the past six years, the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS) chapter of the American Pharmacists Association–Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhAASP) has hosted the Mario M. Zeolla Health Fair, in memory of the former ACPHS faculty member. The event, held in October to coincide with American Pharmacists Month, provides area residents and members of the college community with an opportunity to collect health and medicine-related information, receive screenings and ask questions about a variety of health-related subjects.

At the 2010 event, motivated by research detailing the growing presence of pharmaceuticals in the nation’s water supplies, student pharmacists of the chapter added a medication takeback component to the Health Fair. The take-back program was conceived to give individuals from the community an opportunity to safely dispose of their expired or unused medications, not only sparing the environment, but also preventing potential misuse and/or abuse.

A steady stream of individuals made their way through the doors over the course of the day where they were assisted by student pharmacists and faculty members. An estimated 120

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people returned medications, many on behalf of themselves and others, and a total of 220 pounds of over-the-counter and prescription drugs were collected. Remarkably, some of the prescriptions dated back to the 1960s. Collected drugs were subsequently transported by law enforcement officials to a disposal facility where they were incinerated.

St. Louis College of Pharmacy Presented with Two Prestigious Awards St. Louis College of Pharmacy has been selected as a recipient of the 15th Annual Greater St. Louis Top 50 Award by the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA) and St. Louis Commerce Magazine. The college was selected in recognition of its significant contributions to the St. Louis region and positive impact on the future of the local business community.

Criteria for the award includes growth in the number of employees and revenues, contribution to the community, and acquisition and expansion/development of facilities. Presented each year since 1996, the award recognizes businesses, entrepreneurs and organizations from all industries throughout the region.

Additionally, the Institute for Family Medicine (IFM) has chosen St. Louis College of Pharmacy to receive their Community Champion Award. The award was presented to the college in November at the Fifth Annual Community Champions Dinner.

The Community Champion Award honors individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to healthcare for poor and disadvantaged citizens in the local community.

Manchester College Receives $35 Million Grant from Lilly Endowment for School of Pharmacy Manchester College has received a $35 million grant from Lilly Endowment to launch a School of Pharmacy. The grant— the largest in Manchester College history—will help the liberal arts and sciences college develop its first doctoral program on a Fort Wayne, Ind. campus, surrounded by regional hospitals, pharmacies and healthcare facilities and services.

Perfectly timed in the early stages of the School of Pharmacy launch, the Lilly Endowment grant will enable Manchester College to exceed expectations with enhanced curriculum, specialized experiential sites, state-of-the art educational and research facilities and institutional capacity, said Dr. Philip J. Medon, vice president and founding dean of the School of Pharmacy.

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Recruiting and hiring are underway for faculty in pharmacy practice, pharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacy administration and biomedical science, said Medon, who led the highly-successful start-up of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Pharmacy and is a former dean facilitator in AACP’s Academic Leadership Fellows Program.

Students from the University of California, San Francisco Win 15th ASHP Clinical Skills Competition Students from the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy prevailed over a record number of oppo-

nents in the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP) 15th National Clinical Skills Competition on Dec. 5, 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. Jennifer Murphy and Rachelle Bermingham won the contest, which was held during ASHP’s 45th Midyear Clinical Meeting.

A record 109 teams who won preliminary competitions at their local colleges and schools of pharmacy participated in the activity. During the competition, administered by ASHP’s Pharmacy Student Forum and sponsored by the ASHP Research and Education Foundation, student pharmacists demonstrated their skills by assessing patient information and current therapy, identifying and prioritizing drug therapy problems, identifying treatment goals and recommending a pharmacist’s care plan.

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In Memoriam Carl J. Malanga

Curtis Allan Johnson

Dr. Carl J. Malanga, 71, formerly of Morgantown, W.V., passed away on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, at his home in Indian Land, S.C.

Dr. Curtis Allan Johnson passed away on Jan. 16, 2011 surrounded by his family after an inspirational fight against metastatic ocular melanoma.

He was born Aug. 26, 1939 in New York City, son of the late Joseph J. and Carolina Graziano Malanga. He graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School in 1957 and magna cum laude from Fordham University in 1961 with his Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy as valedictorian of his class. He earned his doctorate in biological sciences from Fordham University in 1970. Among his many honors and awards, he was elected to Rho Chi, the pharmacy honor society, where he served as president of the Fordham Chapter, and to Sigma Xi, the scientific honor society. Malanga served his country in the United States Army on active duty in the infantry from 1962 to 1964 and in the active reserves as a member of the Medical Service Corps for five years.

Johnson, age 63, was born to Harold and Lorrine (Daniels) Johnson on Nov. 12, 1947 in Fargo, N.D. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from North Dakota State University and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Kentucky.

Malanga came to Morgantown in 1970, where he taught at West Virginia University (WVU) School of Pharmacy for 33 years and influenced generations of young pharmacists and scientists. He was appointed the first chairman of the new Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences at the WVU School of Pharmacy in 1978 and as associate dean in 1991, where he served until his retirement as professor emeritus in 2002. Malanga was an undergraduate advisor in the WVU Honors Program for 25 years. He served AACP for many years as a delegate and as chair of the Biological Sciences Section in 1993, and was president of the West Virginia Pharmacists Association in 2002. Malanga received the West Virginia University Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1994 and the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching given by the Golden Key Honor Society in 1995.

He also won the Outstanding Teacher Award given by the students of the School of Pharmacy 13 times during his tenure as a member of the faculty.

Those who knew Malanga well know that his greatest love, outside of his family, was teaching and he will always be remembered as a gifted teacher and mentor.

He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Mary Lou, his son, C.J. Malanga III, M.D., Ph.D., and granddaughter, Christina Caroline Malanga, of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and his brother and sister-in-law, Joseph J. and Elizabeth Malanga, of Albany, N.Y. He is also survived by his five nieces and nephews, their children and grandchildren.

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Johnson was the beloved husband of Kristi Lee Rich whom he married on July 25, 1970. He was a devoted father to his daughters Carrie and Betsy Lundgren and proud grandfather of Evan Lundgren.

Johnson’s professional career began as a community pharmacist in Grand Forks, N.D. He was an assistant professor of pharmacy at the University of Kentucky from 1975-1978 and professor in the School of Pharmacy and Department of Medicine (Nephrology) at the University of WisconsinMadison (UW–Madison) from 1978–2004. Johnson was appointed associate dean for professional and student affairs from 1993–1996 and associate director of the School of Pharmacy’s Office of Global Health from 2004–2010. He was currently serving as editor of the Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin and was owner/president of CKD Insights, LLC. Throughout Johnson’s career he was honored with many notable awards, including the Paul F. Parker Award from the University of Kentucky, the Distinguished Faculty Award from the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy and an Honorary Citation from UW–Madison.

Johnson had a deep faith, which he lived out through his involvement at Sugar River United Methodist Church in Verona.

He was passionate about combining his faith and profession by serving the medical needs in developing countries on many medical mission trips.

He was preceded in death by his father and his mother-in-law.

He is survived by his mother, wife, two daughters and their families, sister, father-in-law and many other relatives and friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Sugar River United Methodist Church, 130 N. Franklin St., Verona, WI 53593; or the School of Pharmacy Global Health Fund, UW School of Pharmacy, 777 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53558.

news in brief Duquesne University’s Community Pharmacy Opens in Pittsburgh’s Hill District

University of Minnesota Researchers Hope to Treat Valley Fever with Antifungal Drug

Duquesne University’s Center for Pharmacy Services opened its doors to the community on Monday, Dec. 20. Located in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood, it is the first off-campus, community pharmacy in the country designed and operated by a school of pharmacy.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota’s BioTechnology Institute (BTI) and Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development (ITDD), in partnership with the Arizonabased company Valley Fever Solutions Inc. and The University of Arizona, have been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and study the use of the small molecule nikkomycin Z (NikZ) as a potential therapy for Valley Fever.

“We are really excited about the Center for Pharmacy Services opening its doors and being able to serve the community,” said Dr. J. Douglas Bricker, dean of the Mylan School of Pharmacy. “It will provide pharmaceutical services and medication therapy management to the people in this area that they probably haven’t been able to experience in the past. Our goal is to provide affordable medications, medication safety and medication compliance.”

The state-of-the-art pharmacy is dedicated to improving medication access, affordability and patient adherence, improving health outcomes and patient safety, as well as reducing the health expenditures of the region’s population.

“The Center for Pharmacy Services will provide so much more than just filling prescriptions,” said Terri Kroh, director of the pharmacy. “Patients will be at the heart of our pharmacy services, which include patient counseling, health screenings, drug therapy review and disease management, among others.”

The pharmacy will be open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Prescriptions can be dropped off or mailed in by patients, and the pharmacy offers onsite pick-up, mail and delivery options.

The first pharmacy in the Hill District in more than 10 years, it is staffed by Kroh, licensed pharmacists and Duquesne pharmacy faculty. Student pharmacists will have the opportunity to work at the pharmacy beginning next spring as part of their required rotations at Duquesne.

Associate Pharmacy Dean Dr. Thomas J. Mattei will be among the licensed pharmacists staffing the Center for Pharmacy Services.

“When you look at the university and the School of Pharmacy and its mission and the strategic plan, the goal is to be a community partner,” said Mattei. “The Center for Pharmacy Services gives the School of Pharmacy an opportunity to use its resources to help people in the community get healthy and to help keep them healthy.”

From left: Duquesne University Mylan School of Pharmacy Dean Dr. J. Douglas Bricker, Pharmacy Director Terri Kroh and Associate Pharmacy Dean Dr. Thomas J. Mattei.

Valley Fever, or coccidiomycosis, is a fungal infection that can cause fever, chest pain and coughing, and can typically last from weeks to months. It’s endemic to the southwestern United States, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 persons developing symptoms each year—35,000 in California alone.

Some patients suffer long-term disabilities that require extensive medical treatment. At particular risk are patients with a weak immune system, including those with AIDS or recipients of organ transplants, African-Americans, Asians, pregnant women and the elderly.

Researchers at The University of Arizona initially approached the BTI in 2008 for assistance in developing a production process for NikZ to facilitate clinical testing.

“Recent advances in genetic modification of the NikZ strain made by our collaborators at The University of Arizona, allowed the deletion of an inactive metabolite called nikkomycin X,” said Dr. Marc von Keitz, principal investigator on the grant and director of BTI’s Biotechnology Resource Center.

“By eliminating nikkomycin X, fewer steps are needed and more of the produced NikZ is recovered in the purification process, thus reducing the overall cost of the drug.”

Manufacturing the material for clinical trials will be an inaugural project for a new collaborative effort between the BTI and the ITDD. The collaboration is aimed at producing new drugs from protein-based and natural product-based materials that meet government standards for clinical testing.

The collaboration’s production capabilities benefit from BTI’s long-established Biotechnology Resource Center and ITDD’s Biotherapeutic Protein Production Facility (BPPF), a new resource created by a grant from the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics as a joint effort of the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic.

“The collaboration between BTI and ITDD allowed us to successfully compete for this grant. Our goal now is to simplify scale-up of the NikZ manufacturing process and make this drug more readily available to improve the therapy for people with Valley Fever,” said Dr. Vadim J. Gurvich, associate director of the ITDD and the co-PI on the grant.

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AJPE Article Explores the Use of Social Media among Pharmacy Faculty and Students In volume 74, issue 10 of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE), a team of pharmacy educators from four Ohio universities studied how pharmacy faculty use or do not use social media outlets, such as Facebook, and then analyzed how they perceive student/faculty relationships on these applications.

Drs. Anne H. Metzger, Kristen N. Finley, Timothy R. Ulbrich and James W. McAuley sent an electronic survey to full-time faculty members at four colleges of pharmacy in Ohio, seeking their opinions on student/faculty relationships on Facebook.

If respondents answered ‘‘yes’’ to having a Facebook profile, they were asked 14 questions on aspects of being ‘‘friends’’ with students. If respondents answered ‘‘no,’’ they were asked only four questions.

The article found that of the 95 respondents (52 percent) to the survey instrument, 44 faculty members (46 percent) had a Facebook profile, while 51 faculty members (54 percent) did not. Seventy-nine percent of faculty members who used Facebook were not ‘‘friends’’ with their students. The majority of respondents reported that they would decline/ignore a ‘‘friend’’ request from a student, or decline until after the student graduated.

To read more about how faculty members use and view the dynamics of student/faculty relationships on Facebook in the article Pharmacy Faculty Members’ Perspectives on the Student/ Faculty Relationship in Online Social Networks, as well as other original peer-reviewed articles that advance pharmacy education, visit the AJPE Web site at www.ajpe.org.

UT Austin College of Pharmacy Researcher Hopes to Break Down Barriers to Treat Cystic Fibrosis A University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) College of Pharmacy researcher has received a $2.1 million grant to develop new techniques for drug delivery to the lungs, helping in the fight against such lung diseases as cystic fibrosis.

Smyth’s research works to break open or “knife” through the sticky secretions so that gene therapies and drugs to treat symptoms can get to the cells. Research has shown that drugs can be pulled through the sticky secretions.

Dr. Hugh Smyth, assistant professor of pharmaceutics, was awarded the grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Researchers in the lab use magnetic fields to move extremely tiny particles called nanoparticles that are administered to the lungs. Magnetic fields, like those used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are then used to basically turn the particles into nanoknives that slice through or break up the secretions.

They also can pull drugs and gene therapies through the sticky secretions using magnets that are slightly stronger than refrigerator magnets.

“Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common fatal inherited diseases,” said Smyth, adding that most individuals with cystic fibrosis die in their 20s and 30s from lung failure.

One of the major reasons for the poor life expectancy is the inability of treatment therapies to overcome barriers within the airways created by the disease, he said.

“The drugs cannot get to the lung cells responsible for cystic fibrosis symptoms,” Smyth said.

The gene that leads to cystic fibrosis was discovered 20 years ago, Smyth said. Researchers devised gene therapy treatment protocols that promised a cure within reach. But, secretions of a dense, sticky mucus, a symptom of the disease, create barriers that are almost impossible to break through.

“Losing patients to cystic fibrosis is especially tragic since we know what causes it and what could be effective in treating it, but we can’t break through the barriers,” he said.

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These processes, Smyth said, will open pathways through the secretions that will permit the drugs and gene therapy to reach their target. This type of nanoparticles has proved both safe and effective in MRI imaging and Smyth feels the process holds promise for treating cystic fibrosis patients.

Findings from Smyth’s studies are believed to have applicability to many other lung diseases such as tuberculosis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic lung infections.

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Making Pharmacists Eligible for NHSC Loan Repayment Can Narrow the Quality Chasm While the pharmacist is educated to be a team player, their medication management knowledge and skills need greater integration into community-based primary care service organizations. Given that poorly-managed medications cost our healthcare system billions of dollars annually in terms of waste, poor outcomes, and yes, even death, it is clear that making sure the pharmacist is part of the team is good organizational management.

A new piece of legislation just introduced in the United States Senate will help address and reduce the risk of poor medication management by making pharmacists eligible to participate in the loan repayment program of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). The “Pharmacist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2011,” introduced by Senators Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Mark Begich (D-AK), is a great first step in assuring that every American, especially those in underserved areas, will have access to a healthcare team that utilizes the strengths of each one of its members to make sure that the patient and our nation benefit from high-quality, team-based, patientcentered care.

Throughout most of the last decade, state and federal policy makers used the Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series of reports as evidence for determining the strengths and weaknesses of individual members and our healthcare team as a whole. Using statistics showing poor return on investment; poor health outcomes for individuals; increasing pressure from chronic illness; lack of access to care; and inability to pay for care, states crafted healthcare bills aimed at increasing access to

insurance. Federal policy makers did the same and upped the ante by identifying disease prevention, health promotion and access to primary care as a foundation for a reorganized healthcare system. Both state and federal approaches recognized that one health professional could not be successful in implementing this new approach; an entire team would be required to improve both health and economic outcomes. Each team member would contribute his or her strengths to the effort resulting in better coordinated care, improved quality and reduced costs.

The “Pharmacist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2011”authorizes eligible entities to seek the integration of a pharmacist into their primary care teams. This will be facilitated by making pharmacists eligible to participate in the National Health Service Corps loan repayment program. The intent of the legislation is to ensure that patients in underserved areas will have access to high-quality, patient-centered, team-based primary care. In federal legislation; federally-supported health programs; and community-based care models, the integration of the pharmacist is recognized as essential for improving patient health outcomes and organizational economic outcomes. Making pharmacists eligible for NHSC loan repayment provides eligible entities an important recruitment tool for this essential team member.

For more information about the legislation and the many issues supporting the legislation, including the National Health Service Corps Web site, go to http://capwiz.com/taacp/issues/ alert/?alertid=25355501.

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HRSA Lauds Accomplishments in The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has recognized healthcare teams, and their colleges and schools of pharmacy partners, from across the nation that have achieved dramatic improvements in patient safety and health outcomes as part of the HRSA Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative (PSPC). The PSPC is a national breakthrough effort to improve the quality of U.S. healthcare by integrating medication management into the care of high-risk, high-cost patients.

The teams were recognized at a recent PSPC Learning Session in Dallas. Learning Sessions provide a forum for sharing leading practices among teams, who then implement these practices in their local healthcare communities throughout the country. Using improved data collection and documentation systems, PSPC teams are now able to implement system changes and improve patient health outcomes. Teams report that rates for adverse drug events are being reduced by nearly 50 percent and many cite specific instances when a life-threatening adverse drug event was identified and resolved.

The teams received HRSA PSPC awards for outstanding achievements in managing patient health outcomes, integrating medical management into their service delivery model, and improving patient safety through detection and reduction of adverse drug events. In addition, three teams received awards from the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Women’s Health for innovative use of FDA’s health education materials.

Here are just a few of the PSPC 2.0 winners who were honored for their extraordinary partnerships with their local colleges and schools of pharmacy.

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HEALTH PARTNERS OF WESTERN OHIO Primary Organization: Health Partners of Western Ohio College/School of Pharmacy: The University of Findlay College of Pharmacy Health Partners of Western Ohio (HPWO) and The University of Findlay College of Pharmacy joined forces in 2008 when they enrolled in the inaugural year of the PSPC. The team’s goal was to improve patient outcomes by implementing clinical pharmacy services for patients of the Dr. Gene Wright Community Health Center in Lima, Ohio. The team was led by the HPWO pharmacy director and focused on organizational-wide quality improvement initiatives, safe medication use practices and educational opportunities for patients and staff in addition to implementing clinical pharmacy services.

Findlay students gathered baseline data for the population of focus and the faculty offered guidance from their past experiences. Using existing HPWO staff pharmacists, lipid management services were started in January 2009 and showed a 53 percent improvement in health outcomes for the patients in that population of focus. With the seed planted from this initiative, clinical pharmacy services at HPWO have grown to include comprehensive medication management programs and disease state management clinics for dyslipidemia, diabetes, asthma and hepatitis C. In PSPC 2.0, the team saw a 61 percent increase in asthma control and the current PSPC 3.0 team is seeing similar improvements in diabetes outcomes.

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BIRMINGHAM FREE CLINIC

SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

Primary Organization: Program for Health Care to Underserved Populations/Birmingham Free Clinic College/School of Pharmacy: University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy/Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program The Birmingham Free Clinic (BFC) is a unique partnership between the Program for Health Care to Underserved Populations (PHCUP), part of the University of Pittsburgh’s Division of General Internal Medicine, the Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program (GLPP), part of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, the Salvation Army and the Pittsburgh Health Care for the Homeless Project. The GLPP has partnered with the BFC and PHCUP since 1995 and over time has created service-learning opportunities for student pharmacists in all years of their training while at the same time enhancing patient care by maximizing drug therapy outcomes for clinic patients.

The GLPP and the PHCUP joined the collaborative in 2009, choosing to focus initially on high-risk patients with diabetes who take multiple medications. Through this collaborative, the PHCUP and the GLPP formed a multidisciplinary team, led by faculty from the School of Pharmacy, whose goal was to ultimately improve patient outcomes for high-risk patients with diabetes. The team designed several new interventions aimed at improving health education, providing medication therapy management, increasing patient goal setting, initiating data collection for quality improvement initiatives and improving medication reconciliation for these patients. In order to achieve their goals, the team recognized early in the process the many roles that students would play in the collaborative. In fact, without their help, the group would not have achieved the outcomes they did: a 1 percent reduction in A1C over nine months, along with 25 percent improvement in on-time medication refills.

Primary Organization: Siouxland Community Health Center College/School of Pharmacy: University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy The Siouxland Community Health Center (SCHC) PSPC team is led by Dr. Kyle Peters, clinical pharmacist and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy (UNMC), and Dr. Drew Klinkebiel, also a clinical pharmacist and an adjunct clinical assistant professor at UNMC. Two fourth-year student pharmacists are on rotation at SCHC 11 months of the year. In PSPC 1.0, the population of focus (POF) was patients with diabetes seen by two providers, and in PSPC 2.0 the POF was narrowed to those who had a A1Cs greater than 11 percent. The students reviewed patients’ charts prior to their primary care provider appointment to determine whether any therapy changes needed to be made to assist the patients in achieving their health outcome goals. Potential adverse drug events were identified and recommendations made to decrease the incidence of patient harm. During the visits, the students interviewed patients to determine their dietary habits, physical activity and medication usage related to their diabetes treatment. Students would educate patients on carbohydrate counting, blood glucose monitoring, insulin injections and provide medication information as indicated from the patient interview.

In PSPC 3.0, SCHC initiated a new clinical pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic and the students have been instrumental in its success. Students interview the patient while the clinical pharmacist obtains an INR. The students, patients and clinical pharmacists discuss the results and decide how to modify therapy to improve patient safety and to get the patient’s INR within the target range.

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Florida Pharmacy Professor Discovers Antibacterial Agent Could Cause Pregnancy Problems A chemical found in everything from antibacterial soaps and lotions to socks and toothpaste may disrupt an enzyme that plays an important role in pregnancy, University of Florida (UF) researchers say.

Thought to be harmless, triclosan gives many soaps and lotions their antibacterial oomph and is found in hundreds of popular products. But a team of UF researchers led by Dr. Margaret O. James, professor and chair of medicinal chemistry, has discovered that the chemical hinders an enzyme linked to the metabolism of estrogen. The researchers’ findings are reported in the November print issue of the journal Environment International.

In pregnancy, this enzyme, called estrogen sulfotransferase, helps metabolize estrogen and move it through the placenta into the developing fetus. There, the estrogen plays a crucial role in brain development and the regulation of genes.

“We suspect that what makes this substance dangerous in pregnancy is if enough of the triclosan gets through to the placenta to affect the enzyme,” said James. “We know for sure it is a very potent inhibitor. What we don’t know is the kinds of levels you would have to be exposed to see a negative effect.

“We know it is a problem, but we don’t know how much of a problem. We need to move forward and do additional studies.”

In pregnancy, the placenta basically serves as a developing baby’s in-womb survival kit. Almost everything the fetus gets from its mother—namely food and oxygen—comes through the placenta.

It also creates important hormones, such as progesterone and estrogen.

Aside from the role it plays in the fetus, estrogen also affects how much oxygen the baby gets from the mother, said Dr. Charles Wood, a professor and chairman of physiology and functional genomics in the UF College of Medicine and a co-author of the study. All of the oxygen a baby gets from its mother flows through the mother’s uterine artery. Without enough estrogen, this artery can constrict, decreasing blood flow.

“If you don’t make enough estrogen you can, we think, starve the baby of enough oxygen,” Wood said.

Estrogen is also involved in signaling the uterus to contract during labor. But maintaining the right levels of the hormone during pregnancy is a delicate balance, Wood explained. Too much estrogen could send the mother’s body into premature labor. Too

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little could hinder the flow of oxygen. Both instances could affect how the baby’s brain develops.

This is one of the reasons scientists are concerned about the pregnancy-related effects of chemicals such as triclosan.

“Some of these (chemicals) can go and combine with estrogen receptors and mimic estrogen or keep estrogen off its receptors or change the metabolism of estrogen, which is what we are looking at with triclosan,” Wood said.

In April 2010, the Food and Drug Administration decided to take a closer look at triclosan after several studies found links to problems with hormone regulation and other possible negative health effects. Other studies have shown that the chemical, which cannot be broken down by bacteria, stays in the environment long after it is used.

“Triclosan is a material that is present in the environment and everyone has low levels. If you use products with triclosan, you will likely have higher levels,” said Dr. Bruce Hammock, a professor of entomology at the University of California-Davis who studies triclosan. “It has some real benefits but it is certainly not risk-free.”

More studies are needed before researchers can conclude what effects triclosan really has on human health, James said. “The triclosan is incorporated into household products because it inhibits bacterial growth,” James said. “But the bad thing is it has this unexpected side effect of inhibiting this important enzyme in the body. At this point we don’t know if the levels people are exposed to are high enough to cause an adverse effect.”

Dr. Margaret O. James, professor and chairwoman of medicinal chemistry at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.

America Celebrates its Pharmacy Educators The last week of October 2010 marked another successful American Pharmacy Educator Week during which colleges and schools of pharmacy across the country celebrated the innovative discoveries and accomplishments of America’s pharmaceutical scientists and educators who dramatically influence science and the delivery of patient care every day.

The second annual celebratory week aimed to generate interest in academic careers among student pharmacists and judging by the activities featured in this edition of Academic Pharmacy Now, pharmacy faculty and administrators rose to the challenge.

From school-wide e-mails profiling pharmacy faculty to fireside chats about life in academia, Oct. 24–30, 2010 honored those who work to create the next generation of pharmacists, researchers, scientists, and hopefully, educators.

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St. Louis College of Pharmacy

The University of Oklahoma

St. Louis College of Pharmacy celebrated American Pharmacy Educator Week in a number of different ways that included displaying a banner outside of the Cartwright Student Center and e-mailing students, alumni and parents five profiles of outstanding faculty members. The professors represented the past five Joe E. Haberle Outstanding Educator Award winners and they shared in the profile what makes them passionate for teaching. The five profiled professors were Dr. John M. Beale Jr., Dr. Evelyn S. Becker, Dr. Zachary A. Stacy, Theresa Laurent and Dr. Richard P. McCall.

In a college of pharmacy that values a distinction of a 7:1 ratio of students to teachers, there is no doubt that The University of Oklahoma (OU) pharmacy faculty are making an impact on the future of pharmacy. And what better way to celebrate the 2010 American Pharmacy Educator Week than with both an eye to the future and also an appreciation for the accomplishments of the past?

Faculty also mentored students and discussed the many benefits of a teaching career. Dr. Gloria Grice worked with fifth-year student Ashley Freiner who observed a two-hour curriculum and curricular assessment committee meeting.

Discussion focused on the creation of the new curriculum; there was also a review and vote on two new course proposals. Following the meeting, Grice talked to Freiner about the meeting, academia in general and the pros/cons of teaching.

Dr. Amy M. Tiemeier worked with fifth-year student Nicole Lombardo. They talked about teaching careers while attending a research training presentation at Washington University.

OU College of Pharmacy faculty recognized that there is a need for quality pharmacy educators in the future. To help facilitate communications between faculty and students, an academic pharmacy cohort group was established for students to discuss topics on a monthly basis. Subjects range from graduate school requirements to what life looks like as a faculty member. Students also can enroll in an academic pharmacy month-long rotation with selected faculty.

During American Pharmacy Educator Week, these students had an opportunity to meet with Dr. Tina Brock, an invited seminar speaker. Brock, a clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy, shared her diverse experiences as an educator.

One of the best venues for learning about pharmacy education career opportunities is to have one-onone chats between faculty and students. A tradition that has continued for many years is still in place today. Faculty and administration agree to host a number of students, ranging from 3–20, at their homes, at a fun event or at a restaurant. Students view these chats as an opportunity to know faculty and administrators on a personal level. There were two fireside chats offered during the 2010 American Pharmacy Educator Week.

This is the second year that OU student pharmacists hosted a luncheon for faculty and also produced an appreciation video. The video showcases impromptu comments by both individual students and groups as they express their appreciation for the influence of faculty members.

Dr. Evelyn S. Becker was one of five St. Louis College of Pharmacy faculty members profiled during American Pharmacy Educator Week.

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Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

University of Pittsburgh

In October, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) student pharmacists had an opportunity to learn about life after pharmacy school and potential career opportunities available to them in the field of education during American Pharmacy Educator Week.

At the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, planning for American Pharmacy Educator Week was incorporated into the School of Pharmacy’s Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) academic pharmacy elective. Fourth-year student pharmacist Akere Atte, with the guidance from Dr. Susan M. Meyer, associate dean for education, designed and implemented the week’s events. A “Discovery of the Day” Competition was held over the course of the week.

Students were challenged to find and report discoveries and innovations by university faculty members and create new “Discovery of the Day” light bulbs to add to those supplied by AACP. The winner, second-year student Indrani Kar, was awarded a free one-year student membership to her choice of AACP or the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

Five faculty members from the LECOM School of Pharmacy held a question-andanswer session with about 40 students to discuss pharmacy careers in education.

Dr. Janene M. Madras, director of admissions and student services, and associate professor of pharmacy practice, told the future pharmacists, “Academia is an extremely rewarding career in which you can have an impact on the education of future pharmacy professionals.”

Pharmacy school faculty members also talked about residencies and their work experiences outside the classroom. Some of the educators who spoke work at practice sites in addition to their teaching responsibilities at LECOM. Dr. Maryann Scholl is originally from Erie, Pa., so working at LECOM keeps her in her hometown. She, like the others, also professed a love for teaching.

“We talked to the students about residencies,” Dr. Scholl explained. “If they have an interest in pursuing this type of career it’s our obligation to give them the information they need.” Residency programs offer educational opportunities for pharmacists seeking advanced training to provide a range of patient care services and to become leaders for the profession, including teaching.

Megan Groshner, a second-year student pharmacist, said the discussion gave her more insight into residency programs after graduation. “You can go to work for a couple of years and then go back and do a residency.”

Other faculty participants included Dr. Danielle DeBias and Dr. Bojana Stevich.

They echoed their colleagues’ comments about academia offering great fulfillment in terms of variety and scheduling.

Atte created a faculty appreciation video that incorporated comments from first through third-year students highlighting memorable experiences they had with faculty in the classroom or during experiential learning.

During American Pharmacy Educator Week, the school hosted three events for students.

On Oct. 25, a faculty roundtable event provided students an opportunity to engage in small group discussions with faculty members who have various academic roles and responsibilities. In an academic journeys event on Oct. 26, Dean Patricia D. Kroboth and Drs. Susan M. Meyer and Philip E. Empey presented their detailed personal career development paths and lessons learned along the way. The week culminated with a presentation by Atte on careers in academia, describing how students can pursue a career in academic pharmacy.

LECOM School of Pharmacy student government leaders pose for a picture during the college’s American Pharmacy Educator Week event. From left to right: Nick Ferraco, Class of 2013, SGA 1st Vice President, Matt Madurski, Class of 2013, SGA President, Jessica Lowry, Class of 2013, SGA Secretary, Tina Brehm, Class of 2012, SGA 2nd Vice President, Megan Groshner, Class of 2012, SGA President, Arpit Mehta, Class of 2012, SGA 1st Vice President, and Joe Kapanek, Class of 2012, SGA Treasurer.

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feature story The University of Tennessee In preparation for American Pharmacy Educator Week, The University of Tennessee (UT) College of Pharmacy took the opportunity to celebrate early. On Oct. 16, Dr. Stephanie J. Phelps, professor and associate dean of academic affairs, and fourth-year student pharmacist James Wheeler, past president of the UT Pharmacy Student Government Association, hosted a booth for AACP at the American Pharmacists Association—Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) region 3 Midyear Regional Meeting in Memphis, Tenn. Phelps spoke with student pharmacists about career opportunities in academia while Wheeler discussed networking opportunities with faculty, including the AACP Annual Meeting and the AACP Walmart Scholars Program.

The official week kicked off with a presentation on academic pharmacy careers by Dr. Rich A. Helms, professor and chair for the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, to first-year student pharmacists as part of the Introduction to Pharmacy course. Videoconferencing between both campuses was utilized to display an electronic billboard between classes throughout the week showcasing 14 pharmacy faculty. Each faculty member provided a picture and commented on where they completed their pharmacy education and postdoctoral training, their current position and their favorite aspect of being a pharmacy educator.

Dr. Debbie C. Byrd, professor and associate dean of professional affairs, said, “Watching the extraordinary transformation of students from the recruiting and admissions process through graduation and beyond,” is the best part of her career as a pharmacy educator.

Dr. Dick R. Gourley, professor and dean of the College of Pharmacy, submitted a “Letter-to-the-Editor” of all major newspapers in Tennessee emphasizing the importance and contributions of College of Pharmacy faculty. He also highlighted the many service and community outreach projects that student organizations develop and participate in that provide an invaluable service to the state of Tennessee. His letter was published in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Cathy Crill, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCNSP

Pharmacy School: The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy (1996) Postgraduate Training: Pediatric Pharmacotherapy and Metabolic Support Residency, LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center (1996-1997) Pediatric Pharmacotherapy and Metabolic Support Fellowship, University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center (1997-1999) Current Position: Associate Professor, Departments of Clinical Pharmacy and Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and Director, Parenteral Nutrition Service, Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center Favorite thing about being a pharmacy educator: Working with students is the greatest joy of being a faculty member…they constantly keep you on your toes and challenge you to be a better teacher, clinician, and mentor!

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The week concluded with a faculty breakfast on both campuses hosted by the APhA-ASP executive committee.

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Top: James Wheeler, fourth-year student pharmacist at The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, mans the AACP booth at the APhA-ASP Region 3 Midyear Meeting in Memphis, Tenn. just prior to the 2010 American Pharmacy Educator Week.

Middle: At The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, second-year student pharmacist Stephanie Grimshaw and fourth-year student pharmacist Andrew Bernard (academia rotation student) discuss academic careers with Drs. Anita Airee and Debbie C. Byrd during an American Pharmacy Educator Week Reception in Knoxville, Tenn.

Left: Throughout the 2010 American Pharmacy Educator Week at The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, an electronic billboard was displayed between classes that showcased 14 faculty members, their educational background and their favorite aspect of being a pharmacy educator.

Virginia Commonwealth University Inspiring Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy students to advocate for their chosen profession took a variety of forms during American Pharmacy Educator Week.

Leading up to the week that celebrates pharmacy educators, “Discovery of the Day” light bulb decals provided by AACP were posted on bulletin boards in the school’s primary teaching facility. In addition, the VCU chapter of the Virginia Academy of Student Pharmacists (VASP) raised awareness to a whole new level with projects that ranged from personal promotion (pharmacy T-shirts) to labeled buses that literally moved the message of pharmacy throughout two cities and two counties.

On Oct. 27, VASP sponsored a dessert reception to thank the pharmacists and faculty at VCU Medical Center and the School of Pharmacy “for what they do for us and the opportunities that they give us,” said third-year student pharmacist Amanda Botteicher, president of VASP. Thousands of riders, drivers and pedestrians were exposed to the important message carried by the regional buses. Also, more than 100 students wore their red American Pharmacists Month T-shirts on Oct. 29. Botteicher noted that seeing the shirts all over campus prompted interactions with other professional students, hospital employees and patients, which illustrated the power of a united front and truly excited the student body.

The Virginia Academy of Student Pharmacists sponsored a dessert reception to thank the pharmacists and faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the School of Pharmacy.

feature story AACP Member Offers Words of Wisdom to Future Educators Perhaps no other career in pharmacy has the potential to make such far-reaching contributions to the profession than pharmacy educators. It is within academia that one can excite individuals about pharmacy and lay the groundwork for continuing advances in science and education.

AACP member and Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Northeastern University Dr. David P. Zgarrick has authored the book Getting Started as a Pharmacy Faculty Member to provide helpful tips to those interested in pursuing a career in academic pharmacy.

Written with a conversational style, this concise reference informs readers about the types of academic positions available, how colleges and universities operate, how to go about obtaining a position and how to succeed in academia.

To order a copy, visit the American Pharmacists Association Web site, www.pharmacist.com, and click on Shop APhA.

“Academia is an extremely rewarding career in which you can have an impact on the education of future pharmacy professionals.”

—Dr. Janene M. Madras, director of admissions and student services, and associate professor of pharmacy practice at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

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More Schools Step it up During Quizzes, luncheons and personalized “Discoveries of the Day” were some of the other ways colleges and schools of pharmacy celebrated the 2010 American Pharmacy Educator Week: • The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy kicked off American Pharmacy Educator Week with a 15-item “How well do you know your faculty?” trivia quiz. On Oct. 27, 10 student pharmacists were announced as “Faculty Members for a Day” and were paired with 10 faculty members. A College of Pharmacy resident was also appointed “Dean for a Day.” • To promote careers in academic pharmacy, the St. John Fisher College Wegmans School of Pharmacy sponsored an academic careers table at the institution’s Career Day on Oct. 19. Faculty shared AACP’s materials with students and discussed opportunities for students to participate in APPEs with School of Pharmacy faculty in a wide range of topic areas in the three academic career functions: teaching, administration and research. The school is offering 24 academic pharmacy APPE rotation time slots in the 2011–2012 rotation year and all are expected to be filled.

• The South Carolina College of Pharmacy (SCCP) distributed American Pharmacy Educator Week brochures and handouts to students and discussed pharmacy education as a career choice at a mid-week cake reception. The SCCP is one of the few colleges to offer a statewide Academic Preparation Program and residents throughout South Carolina were invited, along with students and residents in the college. Dr. Philip D. Hall, interim Medical University of South Carolina campus dean, sent out “Discovery of the Day” announcements to the campus along with reminders of the week’s events. The college hosted a breakfast for preceptors and concluded the special week with a drop-in lunch for faculty and staff.

Top right: At the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 10 student pharmacists were announced as “Faculty Members for a Day” and were paired with 10 College of Pharmacy faculty members during American Pharmacy Educator Week.

Middle: Dr. Amy L. Parkhill, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at St. John Fisher College Wegmans School of Pharmacy, explains academic career opportunities to third-year student pharmacists Sara Micale and Amber Hamilton.

Bottom right: Dr. Amy L. Parkhill, Toung Diep, fourth-year student pharmacist on an academic APPE rotation, and Dr. Michael DeBisschop, chair of pharmacy practice, pose at the Academic Pharmacy Careers booth at the Wegmans School of Pharmacy Career Fair.

Bottom left: South Carolina College of Pharmacy students and faculty participated in an American Pharmacy Educator Week celebration in the Rite Aid Pharmacy Student Lounge.

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American Pharmacy Educator Week Left: Dr. Rodney A. Carter, AACP president and professor and associate dean at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, discusses careers in academic pharmacy at the college’s table during their Career Fair.

Middle left: At the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, an American Pharmacy Educator Week display was set up in the Morosko Student Lounge. Photos and biographies of pharmacy faculty members were also put on display.

Middle right: California Northstate College of Pharmacy celebrated the 2010 American Pharmacy Educator Week by hosting an Academic Pharmacy Luncheon. A panel of five professors, including Dr. Lane J. Brunner, professor and chair of pharmaceutical & biomedical sciences, discussed their field of expertise and how they made that career a reality.

Bottom right: Students at Oregon State University College of Pharmacy provided faculty members with coffee and doughnuts in celebration of American Pharmacy Educator Week.

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Improving Patients’ Lives Through Medication Therapy Management

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In the October/November/ December 2010 edition of Academic Pharmacy Now, Academy members shared the ways in which they have established a partnership with third-party payers, such as health plans, employers or government agencies, to provide critical medication therapy management (MTM) services in their community, state and nationwide.

In the second of a two-part series, APN provides more illustrations of how America’s pharmacy educators are responsible for providing integral patient care that ensures optimal medication therapy outcomes.

University of Maryland The Maryland P3 (Patients, Pharmacists, Partnerships) Program for self-insured employers provides well-trained pharmacists who coach employees to manage their diabetes or other chronic condition, while preventing complications.

The program works with employees at companies ranging from large employers such as W.R. Grace & Co. and McCormick & Co., to health-systems including the Upper Chesapeake Health System and Western Maryland Health System.

The Maryland P3 Program has trained 170 licensed pharmacists, forged an expanded role for pharmacists in patient care, collaborated with primary care physicians for patients with diabetes and helped approximately 400 patients by reinforcing medication adherence.

The Maryland General Assembly has funded the initiative since 2006, when the program was launched in Allegany County, and continues to support it through the Office of Chronic Disease Prevention in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The state funds the school to train pharmacists and manage the program in collaboration with the Maryland Pharmacists Association (MPhA). Since its inception, the program has expanded to four counties in Maryland and Chesapeake, Virginia.

The patient-pharmacist relationship is at the core of the program, said Dr. Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, professor and chair of the school’s Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and director of the Maryland P3 Program.

Services focus on medication therapy management, compliance with the appropriate disease specific standards of care (foot, eye and dental exams, and vaccinations), and laboratory tests in collaboration with the patient’s personal physician or healthcare provider.

Dr. Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, professor and chair of pharmacy practice and science and director of the Maryland P3 Program, monitors the blood pressure of a patient enrolled in the program.

Ann Kerschen, a pharmacist at The University of Arizona Medication Management Center (MMC), counsels a patient. Most MMC consultations are over-the-phone.

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Northeastern University

University of Illinois at Chicago

Northeastern University School of Pharmacy currently has partnerships with five neighborhood community health centers (CHCs): The Dimock Center, Whittier Street Health Center, Lynn Community Health Center, Neponset Health Center and Dorchester House Multiservice Center (DHMSC). Each CHC is served by a pharmacy faculty member and these partnerships have been nationally recognized as successful ways to provide quality pharmacy education and healthcare services. Although there are many more CHCs in Boston and throughout the country that would benefit from the addition of clinical pharmacy services, an ongoing challenge in replicating these partnerships is the limited understanding of the services and the associated reimbursement systems.

A collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy, Medco Health Solution, Inc., the State of Illinois and the Illinois Pharmacists Association will determine the effectiveness of training community pharmacists, armed with an advanced, networked safety system, to identify medication-related issues and provide clinical interventions to improve patient health outcomes and lower costs.

Assistant Clinical Professor Dr. Rebekah E. Sherman has been working on a model to overcome these reimbursement challenges. Agreements between the School of Pharmacy, DHMSC, the intermediary organization Outcomes Pharmaceutical Health Care (OPHC) and comprehensive seniors insurance company Senior Whole Health (SWH), have given Sherman the opportunity to provide medication therapy management to local seniors who receive medical care at DHMSC and are insured by SWH. The MTM services provided at DHMSC encompass a wide variety of activities ranging from 15-minute medication adherence interventions to 90-minute comprehensive medication reviews (CMR). In the case of CMRs, the visits always take place face-to-face. With less complex interventions, the patient or prescriber consultation often occurs over the telephone.

The initiative has experienced overwhelming support from providers, SWH and OPHC throughout the implementation stage. In addition to benefiting patients, MTM services have offered students the opportunity to work through complex patient cases as opposed to other clinical services that focus on individual chronic diseases.

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Dr. Daniel R. Touchette, principal investigator and assistant professor of pharmacy practice at UIC, explains that the study, which is proposed and funded by Medco, is designed to examine issues of adherence—situations in which patients may not be following doctor’s orders related to prescribed medication—and omission—wherein patients may not have been prescribed essential medicines for treatment.

UIC, which is responsible for the instruction and evaluation components of the study, has provided specialized clinical training and guidance to 108 pharmacists in 88 different community pharmacies on the most effective means to identify and address underlying patient barriers to close these clinical gaps. Approximately 50 percent of the cost of the study is directed to UIC’s community pharmacist training program and pharmacists’ counseling fees.

Medco, which manages pharmacy benefits for the state of Illinois’ employees, retirees and their families, as part of its administration of the state’s pharmacy plan, identifies patients that may be experiencing shortcomings in adherence and omission in four widespread therapeutic categories: cardiovascular, diabetes, pulmonary and neuroscience. Medco then transmits the message electronically to community pharmacists when potential adherence gaps or omissions are identified.

“Our goal is to promote the recognition of the pharmacist as a clinician,” says Touchette. “To fully evaluate a patient’s health, a clinician must be involved.”

For the targeted Illinois patient population participating in this study, adherence to oral diabetes medication, blood pressure medication and cholesterol medication create a significant opportunity for savings if gaps are closed effectively through pharmacist counseling. Additional savings will primarily be associated with improvements in adherence for anti-platelet and anti-seizure medications.

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Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Nine years ago, in response to widespread concern about seniors not having access to life-sustaining medications, Massachusetts State Senator Richard T. Moore advocated for the passage of legislation to create a new statewide resource for helping all Massachusetts residents with drug coverage questions to obtain the information they need and, in some cases, to get referrals to programs that could provide help.

At the same time as the legislation was being considered and then enacted, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) was growing fast and was seeking new ways to extend its community-oriented mission by leveraging its clinical expertise.

The result of these two forces was the birth of the MCPHS Pharmacy Outreach Program. This program, which relies on funding from the college, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs and several non-profit organizations and businesses, has become a critical resource to Massachusetts residents needing help either affording medications or needing guidance in taking them.

“The MCPHS Pharmacy Outreach Program enables our college to fulfill its role as an organization serving the community, while also providing our students with valuable training in the areas of insurance reimbursement, benefits programs and even public policy,” said MCHPS President Charles F. Monahan Jr. “We log over 22,000 citizen calls per year, answering everything from the most complex reimbursement question to inquiries about drug side effects or how to dispose of a medication.”

As the program moves into its second decade, the leadership of the college is seeking to strengthen the program by tackling new subject areas that are of pivotal importance to improving healthcare quality and managing costs, such as conducting educational programs on medication safety and exploring the links between polypharmacy and a patient’s heightened risk of falling.

University of Minnesota In 2005, faculty from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy in Duluth began working with the City of Duluth to address healthcare issues. As a result of this work, the city revamped its pharmacy benefit and launched the first medication therapy management benefit for its retirees, employees and families in 2007.

Dr. Randall D. Seifert, senior associate dean, led the MTM effort in Duluth and met with the vice chancellor and HR director for the university’s Duluth campus to discuss the value of pharmacists providing direct patient care through MTM. The proposal was approved on the condition to first pilot the program on the Duluth campus. In November 2007, Seifert and other faculty from the Duluth campus developed a pharmacist clinic on campus.

Staffed by pharmacy faculty, the clinic provides MTM services for employees, retirees and their dependents who take four or more medications for two or more chronic conditions.

Payment for MTM is available from UPlan, the university’s employee benefit plan.

Based on the success and positive feedback from the Duluth pilot, in 2009 the university made the leap to expand the MTM program to all UPlan members university-wide—which includes 35,000 covered lives on five campuses across the state.

Through a face-to-face assessment, UPlan network pharmacists work with eligible members and their physicians or other caregivers to establish and achieve drug therapy treatment goals, avoid or minimize undesirable medication effects and improve clinical outcomes. MTM services are provided at no cost to UPlan members taking four or more UPlan covered prescriptions and over-the-counter medications for chronic conditions.

Currently, practitioners at independent pharmacies, chain pharmacies and hospital systems are enrolled in the network, which is managed by the College of Pharmacy. The MTM benefit is loosely modeled on the state’s Medicaid MTM program. It follows the core elements model, and pays pharmacists based on a relative value scale that considers time and complexity.

Mary Sullivan, R.Ph., (right) is director of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Pharmacy Outreach Program, which is a free, confidential service available to all Massachusetts residents who are seeking information regarding their medications.

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Faculty News Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Auburn University

Appointments/Elections

• Leslie Hamilton has been presented with the Presidential Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

• Amy Barton Pai has been appointed to the National Kidney Disease Education Program Pharmacy Advisory Panel.

• David M. Kile has been named director of the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development.

• Sarah L. Scarpace has been named assistant dean for pharmacy professional affairs.

Awards • Michael Kane received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s 2010 Clinical Practice Award in recognition of his sustained and outstanding contribution to clinical pharmacy practice.

• Thomas P. Lodise and Nimish Patel received the Paper of the Year award from the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.

• Shannon M. Miller received the 2010 Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award from the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York.

Grants • Karen Glass received a $132,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study Role of BRPF1 PHD Fingers in Chromatin Remodeling and Disease.

• Michael P. Kane received a $64,360.27 grant from Novartis to conduct a retrospective analysis of the effects of progression from single to dual RAAS inhibition of BP, serum potassium, serum creatinine, and albuminuria in hypertensive type 2 diabetes patients.

• Alexandre A. Steiner received a $308,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study the costs/benefits of naturally occurring hypothermia in septic shock.

Awards

• E. Kelly Hester has achieved accreditation from the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

• Paul W. Jungnickel was selected as the 2010 recipient of the Harold N. Godwin Leadership Legacy Award.

• Heather P. Whitley and Gordon Sacks, as part of the Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services at the Capstone Rural Health Care Center, Alabama Primary Healthcare Association-Capstone, received three national awards from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration: Life-saving Patient Safety Award, 2010; Heath Outcome Management Award, 2010; and the Outstanding Performance Award for Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy, 2010.

Grants • Angela I. Calderon has been awarded an Auburn University Intramural Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research for “Shikimate kinase LC-MS based screening for anti-tuberculosis lead compounds.” It is a one-year grant for $4,000.

• Peter Panizzi has been awarded a K99R00–Pathway to Independence Grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, to study “Pathobiology of Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis.” It is a 5-year grant through 2014 funded for $1,020,510.

Campbell University Awards • Mary Margaret Johnson received the Don Blanton

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Award during the 2010 North Carolina Association of Pharmacists Annual Convention.

Duquesne University

Promotions

Appointments/Elections

• Terri S. Hamrick was promoted to associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences.

• Janet Astle, director of student and government relations

• Ann Marie Nye was promoted to associate professor of pharmacy practice.

• Janet Astle, Bruce H. Livengood and Christine K. O’Neil, executive committee of the school

• Jennifer D. Smith, was promoted to associate professor of pharmacy practice.

• Rehana Leak, assistant professor of pharmacology, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Drake University

• L.A. O’Donnell, assistant professor of pharmacology, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Appointments/Elections

• M. Perry, assistant professor of pharmacy practice

• Geoffrey C. Wall has been appointed by IPA Chair Renae Chesnut to chair IPA’s Health Systems Liaison Board.

• K. Wolfgang, assistant professor of pharmacy practice

Awards • Michelle M. Bottenberg, Darla K. Eastman and Megan Friedrich received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy certificate program for Research and Scholarship.

• Renae J. Chesnut was advisor to the business plan team that placed 2nd in the national NCPA Good Neighbor Pruitte-Schutte Business Plan Competition.

• Cheryl L. Clarke is the recipient of the Iowa Rural Health Association’s Jerry Karbeling Award for being a respected leader in the healthcare industry, being community oriented, and for her activism and enthusiasm at developing rural health policy.

• Darla K. Eastman and Michelle M. Bottenberg are graduating from the ACCP Academy Research and Scholarship Certificate Program.

• Chasity Mease is the recipient of NACDS Foundation Community Pharmacy Preceptor Award.

• Denise A. Soltis has been elected chair-elect for the AACP Council of Sections.

Grants • Shane P. Desselle, Monica Skomo, Kelly A. Murray and Katherine O’Neal, principal investigator(s), project title: Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention on the Caring Behaviors and Referral Activities of Community Pharmacists for Migraineurs. Period of project: May 2011-June 2011. Source: Merck Investigator-Initiated Studies Program. Amount granted 10-11: $15,800. Total grant: $47,875.

• Shane P. Desselle, M.A. Weisz, Kelly A. Murray and Monica Skomo, principal investigator(s), project title: Evaluation of Merck’s Headache School: A Quasi-Experimental Phase 4 Examination of Effectiveness. Period of project: Dec. 2010-Dec. 2011. Source: Merck Investigator-Initiated Studies Program. Amount granted 10–11: $31,655. Total grant: $47,961.

• Aleem Gangjee, funded principal investigator, project title: Alpha Folate Receptor Mediated GARFTase Inhibitors as Selective Antitumor Agents.

Period of project: Aug. 1, 2010 to July 31, 2011 (Year 5). Source: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI). Amount granted: $253,704. Total grant: $1,276,090.

• Khalid Kamal, principal investigator, project title: Impact of Non-medical Switching Between Dif-

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feature story Members Working For You

AACP Member Attracts National Spotlight with Medical Care Article

In the July/August/September 2010 issue of Academic Pharmacy Now, AACP member Dr. Marie A. ChisholmBurns was featured in this column for her comprehensive review of healthcare literature that found incorporating pharmacists as members of the healthcare team in direct patient care roles is a viable solution to helping improve U.S. healthcare.

Since the article “US Pharmacists’ Effect as Team Members on Patient Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses” was published in the October 2010 edition of Medical Care, it has garnered much attention from not only professional pharmacy publications, but also wide-reaching news magazines such as Business Week and U.S. News and World Report—a significant accomplishment that Chisholm-Burns says is instrumental in getting the word out to the general public.

“Too often, we only talk amongst ourselves,” she said.

“These are two major publications that people pick up and read. Now people are telling me, ‘I didn’t realize pharmacists could do that.’”

The article, which examined the effect of pharmacistprovided direct patient care on therapeutic, safety and

ferent Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) on Continuity of Care and Blood Pressure Control.

Period of project: April 1, 2010 to Nov. 30, 2010.

Source: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Amount granted: $6,000. Total grant: $50,556.25.

• Rehana Leak, principal investigator, project title: Endogenous Adaptations to Cellular Stress; Implications for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases.

Period of project: July 2010 to June 2012. Source: Hunkele Disease Foundation. Amount granted: $5,000. Total grant: $5,000.

• Jamie L. McConaha, principal investigator, project

humanistic outcomes, has been referenced in more than 20 online, print and broadcast media outlets, including Pharmacy Practice News, Doctors Lounge, The Medical News and Arizona Public Media TV. Informing the public about the role of the pharmacist was a goal that Chisholm-Burns, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy department head and professor of pharmacy practice and science, and her co-authors set out to accomplish, but she has been pleasantly surprised at the amount of attention the article has received. Why the surge in regional and national recognition? ChisholmBurns credits excellent timing with the healthcare reform debate and a strong team of authors from different healthcare backgrounds.

“Healthcare is the buzzword in Washington and this article struck at a good time,” she said. “It’s a very comprehensive piece of work and we had a good interprofessional team that approached it from different directions.”

To read a summary of their findings in Business Week, visit http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/ healthday/646653.html.

—Maureen Thielemans

title: Improving Health Outcomes and Continuity of Care in Underserved, Urban Populations. Period of project: Nov. 1, 2010 to Dec. 1, 2010. Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health Office of Equity Mini-Grant. Amount granted: $4,848.00. Total grant: $4,848.00.

• Wilson S. Meng, principal investigator, project title: Non-Viral Genetic Modification of AntigenPresenting Cells in Allografts. Period of project: Dec. 1, 2010 to Nov. 30, 2013. Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Amount granted 10-11: $357,100. Total grant: $357,100.

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faculty news

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Promotions • Teresa A. Schweiger has been promoted to assistant dean for assessment.

Mercer University Appointments/Elections • Laurel E. Ashworth was appointed to serve a 3-year term as the vice-chair for the Georgia State Community Health Drug Utilization Review Board.

• Susan W. Miller was appointed to the Georgia Pharmacy Association (GPhA) By-Laws Revision Committee for 2010-2011.

• Pamela M. Moye was accepted into the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

• Angela O. Shogbon was appointed to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists New Practitioners Forum Professional Practice Advisory Group for 2010-2011.

Grants • Renee L. Hayslett and Michell B. Redding were awarded a CATAL Grant of $1,500 for “Using an Online Instruction Tool to Develop Student Learning Skills in the Spanish for Pharmacists Elective Course.”

• Vanthida Huang was awarded a Mercer University Seed Grant in the amount of $3,000 for “In vitro activity of daptomycin alone and in combination with ceftriaxone against nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus in an in vitro pharmacodynamic model.”

• W. Klugh Kennedy was awarded a grant in the amount of $275,000 for “CNS IIS Trial: R092670NAP4002. A rapid titration and initiation of paliperidone palmitate long acting injection” from Johnson and Johnson (Janssen). Kennedy also received two contracts from Memorial Health and Mercer University Medical School. Both contracts are for Graduate Medical Education in

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behavioral medicine one in the amount of $10,000 and the other in the amount of $5,000.

• Lisa M. Lundquist, Leslie T. Taylor and Christine M. Klein were awarded a Mercer University Seed Grant for “Medication knowledge and adherence of older adults in a fall prevention program” in the amount of $3,000.

• Chad M. VanDenBerg and V.E. Spratlin were awarded a grant for “Phase I, Single-Dose, Randomized, Open-Label, Two-Period, Cross-Over, Fed and Fasted Pharmacokinetic Study of CX157 Modified Release Tablet, 175mg in Healthy Volunteers” in the amount of $90,510 from CeNeRx Biopharma, Inc.

Ohio Northern University Awards • Kristen Finley Sobota has received the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation (NACDS) Community Pharmacy Faculty Award.

• The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Student Chapter of Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy was named the 2010 Student Chapter of the Year at the 112th NCPA Annual Convention and Trade Exposition.

Purdue University Awards • Elizabeth M. Topp was named an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

Samford University Appointments/Elections • Kimberly W. Benner was appointed as vice chair of the Pharmacy Practice Department.

• Patricia B. Naro was elected as president of the Jefferson County Pharmaceutical Association.

• Whitney White was elected to the Board of the Alabama Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

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St. John’s University Awards • Abu T.M. Serajuddin received the AAPS Research Achievement Award in Formulation Design and Development.

St. Louis College of Pharmacy Awards

(ASHP) Foundation’s 2010 Literature Award.

Members of the research team include: Barry L. Carter, principal investigator; William R. Doucette, co-investigator; Elizabeth Chrischilles, co-investigator; Gail Ardery, project manager; Jeffrey Dawson, co-investigator; Paul James, co-investigator; George Bergus, co-investigator; Carrie Franciscus, data analyst; Yinghui Xu, database analyst.

• Deanna McDanel has been selected as one of the 2010 “Top Ten Grand Council Deputies” for Kappa Psi in the country.

• John M. Beale Jr. has been honored with the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of his dedication and commitment to teaching.

Promotions

• The Institute for Family Medicine (IFM) has chosen St. Louis College of Pharmacy to receive their Community Champion Award.

• Ron Herman (clinical), full professor

The University of Arizona Grants

• John Brooks, full professor

• Mike Kelly (clinical), full professor • Lee Kirsch, full professor

The University of Mississippi

• Daniel C. Malone, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Innovative Diffusion of Comparative Effectiveness Research, $1.25 million over 3 years.

Appointments/Elections

The University of Georgia

• Billy R. Brown, clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice

Awards

• Rahul Khanna, assistant professor, pharmacy administration, and research assistant professor, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Michael G. Bartlett received the AAPS Research Achievement Award in Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality.

The University of Iowa Appointments/Elections • Katrina (Katie) Derry has recently been hired as a clinical pharmacy specialist in surgery/transplant for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and as an assistant clinical professor at the UI College of Pharmacy.

Awards

• Joy Averett, clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice

• Natalie Montgomery, clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice • Matthew W. Strum, clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice • Stephanie Tesseneer, clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice • Laurie E. Warrington, clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice • Brian J. Wood, clinical assistant professor, pharmacy practice

• Barry L. Carter was selected as the recipient of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

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Grants • Benjamin F. Banahan, Yi Yang, John P. Bentley and Patrick F. Pace received $115,100 from EMD Serono, Inc. for a Database Study to Evaluate the Impact of Multiple Sclerosis in a Medicare Patient Population; and $500,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to study Using Medicare/ Medicaid Claims Data to Support Medication Outcomes and Pharmacovigilance Research.

• Alicia S. Bouldin, David J. McCaffrey and Donna S. West-Strum received $28,112 from the National Community Pharmacists Association for Survey: A Description of Consumers’ Experiences with Retail and Mail Order Pharmacy.

• Alice M. Clark and Ameeta K. Agarwal received $388,221 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study New Drugs for Opportunistic Infections.

• Alice M. Clark and Xing-Cong Li received $46,910 from the NIAID to study New Drugs for Opportunistic Infections-Diversity Supplement.

• Stephen J. Cutler received $1,970,471 from the National Center for Research Resources for the Center for Research Excellence in Natural Products Neuroscience (CORE-NPN).

• Robert J. Doerksen received $158,594 from the Center of Research Excellence in Natural Products Neuroscience to study Rational Design of Novel Natural Product-Derived Cannabinoid Ligands.

• Gregory Easson and Marc Slattery received $295,608 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study Seagrass Health Modeling and Prediction.

• Mahmoud A. Elsohly and Ikhlas A. Khan received $520,612 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Production, Analysis and Distribution of Cannabis, Marijuana Cigarettes and Related Materials FY10-11; and $500,000 from National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health for Production, Analysis and Distribution of Cannabis, Marijuana Cigarettes and Related Materials.

• Daneel Ferreira received $175,000 from Ocean

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Spray Cranberries, Inc. to study Oligomeric/Polymeric Procynanidins: Development of Synthetic and Analytical Protocols.

• Deborah J. Gochfeld received $22,249 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology (NIUST) to study Using Proteomics to Understand Coral and Sponge Immunity to Stress Continuation; and $198,455 from the National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: Host-Environment-Pathogen Interactions in a Model Coral Disease System.

• Mark T. Hamann received $50,000 from Kraft Foods, Inc. to study Food Additives from Marine Bacteria, Algae and Invertebrates; $96,172 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology to study Vibrio Biotechnology: Anticancer Marine Natural Products from GOM Bacteria; and $100,000 from Kraft Foods, Inc. to study Food Additives from Marine Bacteria.

• Raymond Highsmith, Marc Slattery and Carol Lutken received $4,873,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA for NIUST Integrated Research and Technology Development: Year Four Science Plan and Budget FY 2010; and $173,200 from the U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA for NIUST Integrated Research and Technology Development: OAR Charter Fund Request.

• Melissa R. Jacob received $12,875 from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University/NIH for the Development of New Agents Against Cryptococcal Infections.

• Seongbong Jo received $107,131 from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity to study Hypoxia-Sensitive Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery to Breast Cancer.

• Ikhlas A. Khan received $500,000 from the Food and Drug Administration for Science Based Authentication of Dietary Supplements FY10-11.

• Ikhlas A. Khan, Mahmoud A. ElSohly, Troy J. Smillie and Aruna Weerasooriya received $385,095 from the University of Kentucky/NIH for Advancing Drug Development in Medicinal Plants Using Transcriptomics and Metabolics.

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• Ikhlas A. Khan and Troy J. Smillie received $100,000 from Herbalife International, Inc. for Quality Assessment of Botanicals.

• Xing-Cong Li and Shabana Khan received $75,000 from Novus Nutrition Brands, LLC to study the Chemical Evaluation of Capsicum annum.

• Susan P. Manley and M. Khalid Ashfaq received $158,217 from ElSohly Laboratories, Inc./NIH/ National Institute of Arthritis and Muculoskeletal and Skin Disease to study Production of Tolerance and Desensitization to Poison Ivy Urushiols; and $172,329 from ElSohly Laboratories, Inc./NIH/ National Institute of Arthritis and Muculoskeletal and Skin Disease to study Production of Tolerance and Desensitization to Poison Ivy Urushiols.

• Katie S. McClendon received $66,972 from Allergan for Assessment of Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery for Mississippi State Employees.

• Christopher R. McCurdy received $345,584 from NIH/NIDA for Novel Pharmacologic Interventions for Drugs of Abuse-Year 4.

• Christophe Mesangeau and Christopher R. McCurdy received $176,555 from the NIH to study Non-Peptidic Neuropeptide FF Receptor Probes.

• S. Narasimha Murthy received $69,305 from the NIH to study Transdermal Delivery of Iron.

• Dale G. Nagle and Yu-Dong Zhou received $270,237 from NIH/National Cancer Institute to study Anticancer Drug Discovery that Targets Tumor Hypoxia-Year 6.

• Michael A. Repka and Soumyajit Majumdar received $594,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for the Center for Thermal Pharmaceutical Processing FY10-11; $40,316 from Arno Therapeutics, Inc. for Hot-Melt Extrusion Feasibility Studies for AR-12: Preformulation and Accelerated Stability; $51,354 from ElSohly Laboratories, Inc./NIH for Transmucosal Intra-Oral Drug Delivery Systems for THC Supplement; $47,440 from Hercules, Inc. for Fundamental Studies in the Application of Low MW Klucel and Hot-Melt Extrusion for the Oral Delivery of Insoluble Drugs from Tablets, Capsules and Oral

Film Dosage Forms-Year 1; $611,820 from the Department of Health and Human Services/Health Resources and Services Administration for the Center for Thermal Pharmaceutical Processing; and $38,679 from BASF SE to study Properties of HME Extruded Films Containing Kollidon VA-64 and New Polymer.

• Daniel M. Riche received $76,473 from ChromaDex, Inc. for the Effect of Pterostilbene on Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress.

• John M. Rimoldi received $26,342 from The University of Mississippi Medical Center/NIH/ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for Synthesis of Carbon Monoxide Donors and Heme Oxygenase Inhibitors; and $26,870 from The University of Mississippi Medical Center/NIH/ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study Synthesis of Carbon Monoxide Donors and Heme Oxygenase Inhibitors.

• Leigh Ann Ross, Barbara G. Wells and Lauren S. Bloodworth received $1,500,000 from the Delta Health Alliance/HRSA for the Delta Pharmacy Patient Care Management Project.

• Leigh Ann Ross and Lauren S. Bloodworth received $500,000 from Delta Health Alliance/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Better Living Utilizing Electronic Systems (BLUES) in the Mississippi Delta.

• James W. Sims received $47,606 from NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for Biosynthetic Routes to Drug Development for AIDS Ol Mtb. • Marc Slattery received $28,980 from the University of New Hampshire/NSF to study the Rapid Phase Shift to Algal Dominated Mesophotic Reef Communities in Response to Lionfish Invasion.

• Gregory Tschumper, Amal Dass, Nathan Hammer, Keith Hollis, Randy Wadkins, Yixin Chen, Robert J. Doerksen and Maxine Harper received $375,125 from Mississippi State University/National Science Foundation for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems.

• Larry A. Walker received $184,470 from the U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA for OCBR

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Bioassay Support; $2,380,393 from the USDA/ Agricultural Research Service for the Development of Natural Products from Plants and Microbes for Replacement of Synthetic Pesticides-Amendment 6; and $184,727 from NIUST for Bioassay Support.

• Larry A. Walker, Babu L. Tekwani and N.P. Dhammika Nanayakkara received $3,703,320 from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for the Development of Safer Drugs for Malaria & Leishmaniasis in U.S. Troops, Civilian Personnel and Travelers.

to study Diterpenes as Selective Kappa Opioid Receptor Agents.

• Jordan K. Zjawiony and Charles L. Burandt received $71,500 from the NIH to study Chemistry and Pharmacology of Newly Emerging Psychoactive Plants-Year 2.

Promotions • Robert J. Doerksen, associate professor, medicinal chemistry, and research associate professor, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Larry A. Walker and Charles D. Hufford received $13,915,445 from NIH/NCRR (CO6) for Phase II Construction of NCNPR Research Wing.

• David J. McCaffrey, professor, pharmacy administration, and research professor, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Larry A. Walker and Ikhlas A. Khan received $507,319 from the USDA for the Discovery and Development of Natural Product-Based Insect Management Compounds for Medical, 4 Veterinary and Urban Concern-Amendment 3.

• Noel E. Wilkin, professor, pharmacy administration, and research professor, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Kristine L. Willett received $10,000 from Dauphin Island Sea Lab/Northern Gulf Institute/BP Exploration & Production, Inc. for PAH Analysis in Sediments and Oysters from DISL; $69,305 from NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study BaP-mediated Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity; and $140,805 from the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center to study Distribution, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity of Nanosilver Particles in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)-Year 2.

• Kristine L. Willett and John M. Rimoldi received $100,000 from NOAA/NIUST for Seagrass Proteomics: Profiling and Surveillance in the Gulf of Mexico.

• John S. Williamson received $310,055 from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity to study Fungal Endophytes as a Source for AntiMalarial Drug Leads.

• Yu-Dong Zhou and Dale G. Nagle received $109,290 from NOAA/NIUST to study Methods to Examine Mitochondria-Targeted Marine Natural Products.

• Jordan K. Zjawiony received $68,129 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/NIDA

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• Yu-Dong Zhou, research associate professor, pharmacognosy

The University of Montana Grants • Jenna Benson and David Shepherd have received $103,671 from NIH to study the Consequences of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation in Crohn’s Disease.

• Richard J. Bridges has received $161,344 from the Montana Board of Research & Commercialization Technology for Enhancement of Applied/Translational Research in Biomedicine.

• Andrij Holian has been awarded an additional $226,805 from NIH for Environmental Health Sciences Education for Rural Youth.

• Gayle A. Hudgins has been awarded an ARRA supplement of $132,446 from HRSA, Bureau of Health Professions, for Equipment to Enhance Training for Health Professionals.

• John J. Lawrence has received $1,713,300 from NIH to study Differential Modes of Cholinergic Transmission onto Cellular Hippocampal Targets.

• David J. Poulsen has received $60,000 from the

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Montana Board of Research & Commercialization Technology for Neuroprotective Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury and $1,500,000 from the Department of Defense for the Use of Low Dose Methamphetamine as a Neuroprotective Agent Following Traumatic Brain Injury.

• Charles M. Thompson has received $1,005,100 from NIH for an ARRA supplement for a Core Laboratory for Neuromolecular Production; $346,014 supplement from NIH for a Core Laboratory for Neuromolecular Production; and $135,462 supplement from NIH for Biomarkers of Organophosphate Adducted Proteins.

• Charles M. Thompson and John M. Gerdes have received $694,939 from NIH for In Vivo Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Dispositions of Positron Radiolabeled Organophosphate Chemical Threats.

• Erica L. Woodahl has received $1,542,116 from NIH to study Pharmacogenetics in Rural and Underserved Populations.

tions to the successful expansion of the College of Pharmacy to the University’s Health Science Campus.

• Sharrel L. Pinto received the 2010 Outstanding Young Alumna Award bestowed by the UT College of Pharmacy Alumni Affiliate.

Promotions • Surya Nauli, associate professor of pharmacology and tenure

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Appointments/Elections • Daohong Zhou has been named the holder of the Winthrop Rockefeller Endowed Chair for Leukemia and Lymphoma Research.

Awards

The University of Tennessee

• T. Scott Warmack was presented a Chancellor’s Teaching Award for contributions to teaching and learning during the 2009-10 academic year.

Awards

Grants

• Ram I. Mahato was named an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

• Martin Hauer-Jensen and his team of researchers have received funding of $1.3 million over the next five years through the Countermeasures Against Radiation Centers (CMCRs).

The University of Toledo Appointments/Elections • Diane M. Cappelletty was recently invited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to serve on the Advisory Committee to the Division of AntiInfective and Ophthalmology Products.

• Marcia F. McInerney was selected as a 2010 UT Distinguished University Professor.

• Mary F. Powers was elected president of the UT Faculty Senate for the academic year 2010–2011.

Awards • Wayne P. Hoss was selected for the UT College of Pharmacy Alumni Affiliate’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his significant contribu-

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Awards • Joseph P. Balthasar was named a 2010 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

• Daniel A. Brazeau received the 2010 University at Buffalo Teaching Innovation Award.

• Angela Bosinski received Board Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy.

• Peter M. Brody Jr. received the 2010 Grand Council Deputy Certificate of Excellence from Kappa

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Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity Inc. for being one of the top 10 collegiate chapter faculty advisers in the country and he received the 2010 University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Teacher of the Year Award.

• Leung Fung received the 2010 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Distinguished Service Award.

• Marilyn E. Morris received the 2010 Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism Section Distinguished Service Award.

• Gina M. Prescott and Erin M. Slazak received the Western New York Best Practices in Residency Training Award for their recent publication in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

• Joshua Sawyer received the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2010 Faculty Preceptor of the Year Award.

• Jerome J. Schentag received the University at Buffalo Faculty Entrepreneur Award.

• Robert G. Wahler received the Western New York Residency Preceptor Award.

Grants • Eugene D. Morse received two grants: $952,000 in funding for his Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance and Quality Control contract funded by the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases/Division of AIDS; and $2.3 Million for his Clinical Pharmacology Lab from National Institute of Health Awards to Promote HIV Research in Africa.

University of Cincinnati Grants • Giovanni M. Pauletti received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the amount of $100,000 in support of his research project on “Tampon-Like Foam Device for Dual-Purpose Contraception.”

University of Connecticut Appointments/Elections • Marcy J. Balunas, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the medicinal chemistry discipline • Sean Jeffrey was elected as vice-president of ASCP for 2011–2012.

• Debra A. Kendall, department head of pharmaceutical sciences • John Morris was elected treasurer of the Society of Toxicology and was appointed to the NIH Nanotoxicology Study Section.

• Marissa Salvo, assistant clinical professor of pharmacy practice

Awards • Diane J. Burgess has been selected by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan as the coming recipient of the APSTJ Nagai International Woman Scientist Award.

• Murali Ramanathan leads Department of Defense $600K Grant Studying Environmental Impacts on Multiple Sclerosis.

• Megan Jo Ehret’s poster presentation was awarded the New Investigator Award from the College of Psychiatric & Neurologic Pharmacists for her work in correctional mental health.

Promotions

Grants

• Donald E. Mager was promoted to associate professor, pharmaceutical sciences.

• Amy C. Anderson received additional funding from PHS/NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Amount of $679,902.00. Title: Targeting Bacillus Dhfr: Structural Studies and Synthesis of Inhibitors; and National Institutes of Health/ Duke University in the amount of $63,000.00. Title: Computational Active-Site Redesign & Binding Prediction Via Molecular Ensambles.

• Murali Ramanathan was promoted to professor, pharmaceutical sciences.

• Aiming Yu was promoted to associate professor, pharmaceutical sciences.

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• Robin H. Bogner, principal investigator. Source of award: U.S. Pharmacopeia. Amount of Award: $25,000.00. Title: Comparison of Biorelevant Media and Usp Compendial Media On SolutionMediated.

• Diane J. Burgess, principal investigator. Source of award: PHS/Food and Drug Administration.

Amount of award: $12,000. Title: Development of A Mathematical Model To Predict Drug Encapsulation Inside Liposome; principal investigator. Source of Award: PHS/DHHS/Food and Drug Administration. Amount of award: $99,500.00; and received additional funding from PHS/NIH/NIBIB-Biorasis, INC. in the amount of $116,236.00. Title: NeedleImplantable, And Wireless Multi-Sensor For Continuous Glucose Monitoring.

• Craig I. Coleman, principal investigator. Source of award: PHS/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Amount of award: $180,803.00. Title: The Impact of Pre-Transplant Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Renal Allograph Rejection.

• Jennifer M. Girotto, principal investigator. Source of award: CT Children’s Medical Center. Amount of award: $1,396.00. Title: Advancing Cf Outcomes Through Improved Adherence.

• David F. Grant, principal investigator. Source of award: PHS/NIH/National Institute of General Medical Science. Amount of award: $309,986.00.

Title: Metabolomics Tools For Biomedicine.

• Sean M. Jeffery received additional funding from VA/Providence Medical Center. Amount $13,610.00. Title: Group Intervention For Dm Guideline Implementation.

award: American Petroleum Institute. Amount of award: $147,444.00. Title: Effect of Naphthalene Exposure On Naphthalene Inhalation Dosimetry.

• Michael J. Pikal, principal investigator. Source of award: PHS/FDA National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education. Amount of award: $19,899.00, Qbd For Lyophilized Protein Parenteral Manufacturing Processes; principal investigator, Source of award: Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC. Amount of award: $4,054.50. Title: Characterization of Atrm Formulations For Lyophilization; and principal investigator, Source of Award: NIH Physical Sciences, Inc. Amount of award: $60,000.00. Title: Optical Coherence Tomography Based Freeze Drying Microscopy. He also received additional funding from PHS/NIH DOC/NIST in the amount of $133,815.00; and principal investigator, Source of award: Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Amount of award: $2,700.00. Title: Participant Support Cost: Investigations Into The Freezing of Oil-In-Water.

Promotions • Trinh P. Pham, associate clinical professor of pharmacy practice • Marie A. Smith, Dr. Henry A. Palmer endowed professor in community pharmacy practice, assistant dean for practice & public policy partnerships • Olga Y. Vinogradova, associate professor • C. Michael White has been promoted to assistant head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice.

University of Kentucky

• Devendra S. Kalonia, principal investigator. Source of award: Abbott Laboratories. Amount of award: $86,000.00. Title: Impact of Protein-Protein Interaction, Ionic Strength & Crowding On Protein Stability; she received additional funding from Genentech, Inc. in the amount of $80,000.00. Title: Characterization of Protein Charge Distributions By Dipole Moment; and she received additional funding from PHS/NIH/National Institute On Drug Abuse in the amount of $296,881.00. Title: Determinants of the Cannabinoid Receptor Life Cycle.

Awards

• John Morris, principal investigator. Source of

• William Joel Culpepper has joined the Department

• Peter A. Crooks received the AAPS Research Achievement Award in Drug Design and Discovery.

• Chang-Guo Zhan was named an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

University of Maryland Appointments/Elections

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of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research as a research assistant professor.

Awards • Cynthia J. Boyle received the W. Arthur Purdum Award from the Maryland Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

• Jia Bei Wang received $3.75 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Development of ITHP as New Medication for Drug Addiction (DP1).”

University of Minnesota Appointments/Elections

• Natalie D. Eddington was named an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

• Esam El-Fakahany has been named associate dean for research and graduate studies.

• Margaret A. Hayes was named president-elect of the Maryland Public Health Association.

• Cynthia R. Gross has been named interim head of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology.

• Raymond C. Love has been appointed to The United States Pharmacopeia Medicare Model Guidelines Expert Panel.

• Mary Lynn McPherson was named a MayDay Pain & Society fellow for 2010–2011.

• Jill A. Morgan was installed as president of the Maryland Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

• David S. Roffman was named the University of Maryland, Baltimore Teacher of the Year as part of the campus Founders Week activities.

• Paul Starr was recognized by the American Association of Poison Control Center for 20 years of service as a certified specialist in poison information.

• Meghan K. Sullivan received the 2010 Grand Council Deputy Certificate of Excellence from the Professional Fraternity Association.

• Hoai An Truong was named the Maryland Public Health Association affiliate representative to the American Public Health Association Governing Council.

Grants • C. Daniel Mullins received $1,499,866 from the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for “Do Bayesian Adaptive Trials Offer Advantages for CER.” • James E. Polli received $1,099,990 from the Food and Drug Administration for “Pharmacokinetic Studies of Epileptic Drugs: Evaluation of Brand & Generic Antiepileptic Drug Products in Patients.”

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• Anika Hartz joined the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences as an assistant professor.

• Carrie Haskell-Luevano will join the college in June 2011 as the Philip S. Portoghese endowed chair In chemical neuroscience.

• Shellina Scheiner is a new practice faculty member.

• Sarah K. Schweiss joined the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences as an assistant professor.

Awards • William F. Elmquist was named an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

Grants • Angela K. Birnbaum received a four-year NIH grant for her study “Preclinical studies of a heroin/ morphine vaccine, 1R01DA030715-01.” The funder is the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

• Vadim J. Gurvich received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and study the use of the small molecule nikkomycin Z (NikZ) as a potentially curative therapy for Valley Fever.

• Derek J. Hook received a $122,528 Kyle Bryant Translational Research Award for the study, “HighThroughput Meso-Scale Discovery of Frataxin Enhancers.” The award is funded by the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance and the National Ataxia Foundation.

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• Brian J. Isetts, Jon C. Schommer and Sarah M. Westberg received a $33,509 grant from the Community Pharmacy Foundation for their project, “Evaluation of a Consumer-Generated MTM Marketing Plan.”

• Ilo E. Leppik received a $226,500 grant from the NIH for his project, “Canine Status Epilepticus: A Translational Platform for Human Therapeutic Trials.”

• Serguei V. Pakhomov received an IHI seed grant in the amount of $45,946 for his study, “Natural Language Processing System for Summarizing Interventional Procedures.”

• Jayanth Panyam received a supplement award of $55,460 for his project, “Biodegradable Nanoparticles for Targeted Antibiotic Delivery.”

• Chengguo (Chris) Xing received NCI funding for his R01 project “Developing a Post-carcinogen Lung Cancer Chemopreventive Agent.” Total funding is $1 million for five years.

Promotions • Ronald S. Hadsall and Rodney L. Johnson were named distinguished professors.

University of Nebraska Medical Center Awards • Jeffrey N. Baldwin received the Paul F. Parker Award from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.

University of Pittsburgh Appointments/Elections • Joanne G. Kowiatek was elected to a two-year term as director-at-large of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners.

• Kristine S. Schonder was selected as a co-chair of the National Quality Forum Steering Committee for End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

• Pamela L. Smithburger was appointed chair-elect of the Safety Committee of the Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. She also received board certification from the Board of Pharmacy Specialties as a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS).

• Melissa A. Somma McGivney was invited to be an expert advisory panel member for the Medication Therapy Management Curricular Project undertaken by the American Pharmacists Association and AACP. • Raman Venkataramanan was appointed editor-inchief of the American Journal of Analytical Chemistry. He was also elected as a member-at-large (executive committee member) of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

Awards • Kerry M. Empey was awarded an additional year of research funding. She is evaluating immune modulating therapies directed at improving pulmonary infections in immune-deficient populations.

• Raman Venkataramanan received the American Pharmacists Association Tyler Prize for Stimulation of Research.

• The School of Pharmacy’s Grace Lamsam Program for the Underserved won several HSRA Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative awards: the Outstanding Performance Award, in collaboration with the North Side Christian Health Center; the Clinical Pharmacy Services Improvement Award and the Health Outcomes Management Award, in collaboration with the Birmingham Free Clinic.

Grants • Kim C. Coley and Patricia D. Kroboth, co-principal investigators, received a $93,500 one-year grant from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation for “Pharmacists as Advocates in Care Transition.”

• Brian A. Potoski received a $14,500 grant from Wayne State University for “High-Dose Daptomycin for Enterococcal Infections.”

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• Lisa C. Rohan, co-principal investigator with Sharon Hillier of the School of Medicine, received an $11.8M five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of NIH.

Retirements • Ada C. Mezzich, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, retired in December 2010.

University of the Pacific Awards • Xiaoling Li was named an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Appointments/Elections • Adeboye Adejare has been appointed to serve as a regular member of the Neurological Sciences Disorders C (NSD-C) Subcommittee of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH beginning August 2010 and ending June 2014.

• Roberta Batorsky joins the Department of Pharmaceutical Science as adjunct instructor.

• Mathew Lorenzi joins the Department of Pharmaceutical Science as an adjunct associate professor.

• Vincent J. Willey was recently appointed to the Comparative Effectiveness Research Pharmacy Workgroup which is part of AHRQ.

Awards • Sarah A. Spinler was named a fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. She was also named as one of the Preceptors of the Year for experiential education at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.

Grants • Anil D’mello’s grant application titled “Maternal Low Protein Diet Imprints Lipid Metabolism in the Adult Offspring” to NIH was funded for $355,600; July 2010 to June 2013.

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University of Toronto Awards • Reina Bendayan was named an American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists fellow.

University of Washington Appointments/Elections • Colleen A. Catalano was appointed to the Examination Development Committee of the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy for a three-year term.

• Christophe Masselon is a visiting scholar from the Institute of Life Sciences Research and Technologies in Grenoble, France.

• Hideo Takakusa is a visiting scholar from the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Research Laboratories at Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan.

• Sung Hwan Yoon came to the school after receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry from The University of Arizona, where he studied fundamental ion dissociation using mass spectrometry.

Awards • Thomas A. Baillie was named a fellow of the Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics for distinguished contributions and acknowledged leadership in the advancement of the study of xenobiotics.

• Donald F. Downing received the Washington State Pharmacy Association David Almquist Award for outstanding work in the endeavors of WSPA promotion and pharmacy enrichment.

• Louis P. Garrison and Andy Stergarchis have formed the UW Global Medicines Program.

• Rodney J. Ho was selected by the UW Center for Commercialization as an inaugural UW Entrepreneur Faculty fellow in recognition of the value that his faculty entrepreneurship brings to the region and society.

• Annie Y. Lam was recently awarded her second

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American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Practice Innovation Award.

West Virginia University

• Joy B. Plein received the Washington State Pharmacy Association Rod D. Shafer Award for making pioneering and sustaining contributions to the pharmacy profession. She was also honored by her undergraduate alma mater, Idaho State University, with its Distinguished Alumnus Award for exemplary professional and personal contributions.

Appointments/Elections

• Sean D. Sullivan has been nominated by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy to serve as a member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Advisory Council.

• Art I. Jacknowitz was appointed as a member of the Council of Advisors for Pharmacy Times, a member of the USP Medicare Model Guidelines Expert Panel, and was reappointed to the Advisory Committee on Examinations of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.

• Jashvant D. Unadkat, professor of pharmaceutics, has joined Simcyp Limited’s Scientific Advisory Board.

Grants • Sean D. Sullivan recently received a $2.45 million grant from AHRQ to implement a scientist careerdevelopment program in comparative-effectiveness research.

Virginia Commonwealth University Appointments/Elections • Mary Jayne Kennedy was named a Blick Scholar in the inaugural VCU Medical Center Blick Scholars Program.

• Nancy S. Yunker is chairwoman-elect of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s Adult Medicine Practice and Research Network.

Awards • Patricia W. Slattum was co-recipient of the School of Pharmacy Office of Experiential Education’s 2010 Outstanding Service Award for her work as a preceptor at Richmond’s Imperial Plaza retirement home.

• Casey Washington received a 2010 Mentor Award from the School of Pharmacy’s Office of Experiential Education for her work as a preceptor in acute care general medicine rotations.

• Charles K. Babcock was appointed clinical assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy.

• Patrick S. Callery was appointed as a member of the Forensic Toxicology Council’s Scientific Working Group for Forensic Toxicology (SWGTOX).

• Mark Lewis was appointed clinical assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy.

• Charles D. Ponte is an invited member of the USP Medicare Model Guidelines and Expert Panel.

• Terry L. Schwinghammer was appointed by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties as a nonspecialist member of the Specialty Council on Oncology Pharmacy for a three-year term (2011–13).

Awards • Amber N. Chiplinski and Jay Martello were recognized as Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialists.

• Betsy L. Elswick received the 2010 Bowl of Hygeia Award at the West Virginia Pharmacists Association 103rd Annual Convention in September 2010.

Elswick was also the recipient of the National Community Pharmacists Association Pharmacy Leadership Award.

• Gretchen M. Kreckel was a finalist for the Next Generation Pharmacist Award in the Rising Star category.

Grants • Gina M. Carbonara Baugh was the recipient of a UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning grant for her project, “Meeting the Goals of Healthy People through Community Campus Partnerships” in the amount of $1,000.

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• Peter M. Gannett is part of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) project with the University of Kentucky, “P450 protein-protein interactions determined by selective protein manipulation.”

• Peter M. Gannett and Yon Rojanasakul are part of a $10 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to West Virginia University as a Research Infrastructure Improvement grant.

• Yon Rojanasakul was awarded a $1.5 million NIHNHLBI grant for the next four years for his project, “Prediction and Mechanism of Carbon Nanotubeinduced Fibrosis.” He is also the co-investigator for a WVNano Seed Project grant, “Electric Cell Impedance Sensing (ECIS) to Quantify Cytotoxicity of Nanomaterials to Human Epithelial Cells.”

• Letha J. Sooter is the co-investigator for a WVNano Seed Project, “Environmental Sensing Using a Broadly Selective Aptamer.”

• Diana Vinh, Betsy L. Elswick and Douglas D. Slain were awarded a grant from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) in the amount of $25,000 for their project, “Innovative pharmacist-lead strategies to promote health care worker influenza immunization.” Vinh is the principal investigator.

Promotions • Chris M. Terpening was appointed clinical associate professor.

Wilkes University Promotions • Daniel S. Longyhore was promoted to associate professor with tenure, pharmacy practice.

• Jennifer Malinowski (part-time) was promoted to associate professor, pharmacy practice.

• Dana Manning was promoted to assistant professor, pharmacy practice.

• Daniel F. McCune was promoted to associate professor with tenure, pharmaceutical sciences.

• Julie Olenak was promoted to associate professor with tenure, pharmacy practice.

• Marie Thomas was promoted to associate professor with tenure, pharmaceutical sciences.

• Adam Welch was promoted to associate professor with tenure, pharmacy practice.

Emerging Colleges and Schools D’Youville College • Chau H. Nguyen, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences • Mudit Singhal, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences • Stephanie Brian, assistant professor of pharmacy practice • Michael S. MacEvoy, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice • William Loeffler, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice

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the last word Total NIH Amount Awarded–FY 2010 Grants and Contractsa Rank Institution

Total NIH Awards

Rank Institution

Total NIH Awards

1

University of California, San Francisco

$30,304,336

38

University of Missouri–Kansas City

$2,467,634

2

University of Southern California

$20,044,604

39

$2,136,493

3

The University of Utah

$19,282,947

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

4

The University of Kansas

$18,492,452

40

Wayne State University

$2,013,609

5

The University of Mississippi

$18,391,751

41

$1,834,105

6

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$16,160,852

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

7

University of California, San Diego

$14,667,487

42

The University of Oklahoma

$1,666,323

8

University of Illinois at Chicago

$14,345,966

43

The University of Georgia

$1,392,859

9

The University of Arizona

$13,542,173

44

Duquesne University

$1,288,203

10

University of Washington

$11,284,155

45

West Virginia University

$1,137,117

11

Northeastern University

$10,476,499

46

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

$965,582

12

The University of Montana

$9,372,986

47

Texas Southern University

$895,228

13

The University of Texas at Austin

$8,785,572

48

Temple University

$863,292

14

University of Colorado Denver

$8,549,187

49

University of Cincinnati

$812,420

15

Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey

$8,536,838

50

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

$749,319

16

University of Michigan

$8,151,243

51

Mercer University

$697,473

17

South Carolina College of Pharmacy

$7,502,225

52

North Dakota State University

$651,319

18

University of Florida

$6,849,361

53

South Dakota State University

$645,577

19

The Ohio State University

$6,570,227

54

The University of Toledo

$626,123

20

University of Maryland

$6,311,165

55

Loma Linda University

$625,221

21

University of Nebraska Medical Center

$6,267,782

56

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$620,447

22

University of Wisconsin–Madison

$6,131,021

57

Washington State University

$553,443

23

University of Pittsburgh

$6,122,487

58

Thomas Jefferson University

$547,355

24

University of Minnesota

$5,839,871

59

University of Louisiana at Monroe

$397,074

25

University of Kentucky

$5,619,459

60

Creighton University

$360,228

26

Purdue University

$5,579,594

61

Western University of Health Sciences

$286,615

27

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

$5,351,510

62

Nova Southeastern University

$256,386

63

St. John’s University

$245,250

28

The University of Iowa

$5,225,985

64

University of the Pacific

$209,360

29

University of Rhode Island

$5,150,107

65

Touro University California

$201,960

30

University of Connecticut

$3,213,769

66

University of New England

$183,722

31

Florida A&M University

$3,132,288

67

Auburn University

$136,350

32

Xavier University

$3,115,018

68

Texas A&M Health Science Center

$125,126

33

University of Houston

$2,997,550

69

University of the Incarnate Word

$111,951

34

Virginia Commonwealth University

$2,852,123

70

$77,000

35

Oregon State University

$2,830,270

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Pharmacy

36

The University of Tennessee

$2,642,242

71

University of Puerto Rico

$75,000

37

The University of New Mexico

$2,621,825

72

Howard University

$74,000

73

Idaho State University

$38,109

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