CPPI awards its first Feasibility Grants as part of new program
Four VCU School of Pharmacy faculty members have been named the first recipients in the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation’s Feasibility Grant Program. Four VCU School of Pharmacy faculty members have been named the first recipients in the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation’s Feasibility Grant Program. They are associate professor Amy Pakyz, assistant professor John […]
John Bucheit receives $17,224 grant from VCU Council of Community Engagement
Center core faculty member John Bucheit received a $17,224 grant from the VCU Council for Community Engagement. The study, “An interprofessional intervention with behavioral health and pharmacy trainees to reduce smoking rates in the Latino population of a free health clinic in Richmond,” will be carried out with CPPI partner, CrossOver Healthcare Ministry.
With Dixon at helm, CPPI working to empower tomorrow’s pharmacists
Dave L. Dixon, the new director of the VCU School of Pharmacy Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation, says the center is poised to help transform health care delivery and to ensure that tomorrow’s pharmacists have myriad opportunities. With Dixon now at the helm, the CPPI is getting ready to move into McGuire Hall on the […]
CPPI professor named first da Vinci Center Faculty Fellow
Dayanjan “Shanaka” Wijesinghe, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Pharmacy is the first da Vinci Center Faculty Fellow. “People like to say, ‘I’m doing arts, I’m doing science.’ No, no, no,” he said. “You are both doing art. It’s creating something brand new […]
CPPI faculty letter to editor published in JAMA, JAMA Cardiology
Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation faculty publish two letters to the editor highlighting the importance of performing a thorough medication review and the value of pharmacists on the cardiovascular team in JAMA and JAMA Cardiology. “Medication Reconciliation vs Medication Review,” written by CPPI core faculty member Kristin M. Zimmerman, Pharm.D., Assistant Center Director Teresa M. […]