LEADERSHIP HEALING AND
By Dennis Arp
and Dawn Bonker
As quickly as the coronavirus pandemic overturns lives, the Chapman community responds with expertise, resilience, creativity and support.
Ramsey Halim (PharmD ’20) was deeply focused on his work when the terrible news arrived. In addition to his studies as a Chapman School of Pharmacy student, Halim was pouring himself into a clinical rotation at a pharmaceutical compounding lab in Irvine, doing exacting work for patients with serious conditions. Suddenly the term “serious” had new immediacy. His parents had been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, and now came the news that both were getting worse. “Dad can’t get out of bed,” his younger brother reported. Within hours, his mother and father both were hospitalized. Halim dove into the task of shutting down the family-run pharmacy his parents launched 30 years ago. Days later, he worked through the weekend to prepare for its reopening, with new safety precautions in place. He hired a supervising pharmacist — Halim’s licensure is not yet complete — and kept tabs on his parents’ treatment as well as the condition of a brother who had also tested positive for COVID-19. “I never thought it would hit my family that hard,” Halim says.
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