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Senior Prom
partners pharmacy students with senior citizens for an afternoon of education, screenings…and fun.
Pharmacy students and seniors at the St. Barnabas Senior Center in Los Angeles took part in the “Senior Prom”, an annual event hosted by the School’s Skull and Mortar Pharmacy Service Fraternity. The prom is a combination dance and health fair providing screenings and education “with a beat”. The screening and educational booths addressed a wide variety of health issues affecting seniors such as diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, heartburn and proper medication use. Throughout the afternoon, seniors and students danced to nostalgic tunes from the Temple City High School jazz band.
4 CHARITY...
...is a new event that allows the winner to name the beneficiary of all funds raised through the activity. PharmD student Dan Trinh topped the basket total and announced that the $1,000 donation generated by the event would be donated to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which supports breast cancer research.
Giving Middle Schoolers an Rx for Success Merriam Cabardo, Michael Wu, Andy Thai and Billie Gomes speak to an eighth grade science class during “Career Day” at Granger Junior High School in San Diego. The PharmD candidates educated students about the pharmacy profession and filled them in on what it’s like to be a USC pharmacy student.
left: Event organizer Michael Wu acts as the event announcer as Erin Matsushita reacts to missing a shot during the free throw competition held on April 9 and sponsored by the Alpha Iota Pi fraternity. Wu and Matshushita are both PharmD students.
Aubrey Moreau, a PharmD candidate, takes a break from his screening booth post to dance with a partner at the senior prom.
Skull and Mortar
pharmacy
Stars
Honorary Service Fraternity holds Student pharmacists played a starring role at the Fox Interactive Health Fair held on March 25 in Beverly Hills. USC students offered a slate of screening tests to employees of the entertainment firm. left: PharmD candidate Cynthia Gong screens Jake Levine for diabetes at the Fox Interactive Health Fair in March. right: PharmD candidates Sarah Horng and Nicole Cho measure Cortland Connell’s blood pressure.
Annual Kids’ Day
The School of Pharmacy hosted middle schoolers from La Merced Intermediate School at the 12th annual Kids’ Day on March 6. This year’s theme was “Out of this World”, as pharmacy students put together an action-packed day that gave the kids a look into careers in health care. The visiting students were also given educational information on making good life choices, staying out of gangs and substance abuse prevention. The eventful day was complemented by a talent competition and a series of dance performances put together by pharmacy students.
top: Pharmacy students highlighted the afternoon with their unique lively dance performances on the HSC Quad. bottom: Middle schoolers Ana Pena and Ana Padillo received the award for best poster from Victor Law, United Pharmacists Network, and Sandy Song, Kids’ Day coordinator. The students’ winning poster illustrated the theme, “what it means to live a life without gangs”. United Pharmacists Network is a sponsor of the event.
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