STUDENT NEWS
HONORS AND AWARDS
ASHP Recognizes Student Leader The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has presented UIC P3 student Katherine Sencion with a leadership award. The ASHP Student Leadership Award Program recognizes students with an interest in pharmacy practice in health-systems who have demonstrated leadership ability. This program recognizes and celebrates the contributions of students who represent the very best attributes and accomplishments of ASHP student members. ASHP offers up to twelve awards annually. Pharmacy students in the second through fourth professional years are eligible to apply.
AACR Honors Pham with an Award
Graduate Fellowship Awarded
Thao Nguyen Doan Pham was awarded the American Association for Cancer Research Scholar-in-Training Award. The awards are highly competitive and are presented to fewer than 10 percent of applicants. Scholar-in-Training Awards recognize outstanding young investigators presenting meritorious proffered papers at the AACR Annual Meeting.
Christopher D. Saffore was selected as a recipient of a 2016 Rho Chi - AFPE First Year Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship carries a $7,500 stipend which will be disbursed by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education. The Selection Committee members stated they were very impressed with his high level of motivation for graduate study and they believe he has a very bright future ahead.
DONATIONS
Pharmacy Students Donate to Sickle Cell Center MEGHAN ROSS, SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF PHARMACY TIMES
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy students and their medical school counterparts have donated more than $2500 to the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System Sickle Cell Center. First-year students held a charity auction this past fall and donated half of the proceeds to the sickle cell center, while the rest of the funds will go toward a Match day celebration, according to a UIC press release. The students hope that their gesture toward the sickle cell center will call attention to its acute care treatment center, which helps sickle cell patients with chronic pain episodes. The donation will ideally spur other external donors to contribute funds. “Support has not come through,” from its typical resources, noted Victor Gordeuk, professor of medicine and director of the sickle cell program, in UIC press release. With the Illinois state budget in the air, all the funds it usually receives from the Illinois Department of Public Health have not reached the center. Meanwhile, the hospital plans to relocate the center to a new clinical decision unit, according to UIC. Robert Molokie, a UI Health physician and assistant professor in the medical school, showed gratitude to the students for donating and said they have done a “tremendous” amount to increase awareness. He added that their donation would help improve the quality of life for more than 600 adults and 200 children.
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DONATED This donation will help improve the quality of life for more than
600 ADULTS + 200 CHILDREN Sickle cell disease affects 90,000 to 100,000 individuals in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It affects around 1 in every 500 African-Americans, and 1 in every Hispanic-Americans. Some complications of sickle cell include pain, infection, eye disease, acute chest syndrome, and stroke, according to the CDC.
