Office of Experiential Education announces SOP’s 2016-17 outstanding preceptors
Neil Davis of Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital has been named VCU School of Pharmacy’s Preceptor of the Year. He has been a preceptor for the school in Acute Care I/General Medicine APPE and Acute Care II/Critical Care APPE since 1998. He earned his Pharm.D. from the University of Georgia in 1995 — where, […]
With Dixon at helm, CPPI working to empower tomorrow’s pharmacists
By Lisa Crutchfield 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 […]
In memoriam: Marie Mehfound Suyes, class of 1961
Rose Marie “Sitti” Mehfoud Suyes, a member of the MCV School of Pharmacy class of 1961, died in January at age 78. She was part of an extensive university legacy family, including her husband, David R. “Jerry” Suyes Jr. (D.D.S. ’63); daughter Jere Kitchen (B.S. nursing ’87); son-in-law Cary Kitchen (B.S. business ’86); daughter […]
‘Medicinal chemistry and John Andrako prepared us well for the real world of pharmacy’
Thanks to Keith Kittinger for sharing news of his recent visit, along with fellow classmate Bill Nicholson, to see one of their former professors, John Andrako. (All three are pictured below from the 1972 edition of the X-Ray yearbook.) In mid-March, VCU School of Pharmacy alumni Bill Nicholson and Keith Kittinger (both B.S. ’72) […]
New recruitment scholarship established by Donohoes and Brophys
A VCU School of Pharmacy recruitment scholarship has been established by Krista and Brendan Donohoe and Gretchen and Don Brophy. A recruitment scholarship is one made available to a student who’s been accepted by the school but who has not yet matriculated. Think of a football scholarship … but this one will go toward […]
SOP alumna named 2017-18 policy fellow
Nilofar “Nellie” Jafari has been named the 2017-18 Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow by the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy in collaboration with the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Jafari now is completing a two-year postgraduate residency in health-system pharmacy administration at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and also […]
CCPR preparing to make its programmatic debut
VCU School of Pharmacy’s Center for Compounding Practice and Research has completed its first phase, says director Barbara Exum: successfully launching the transition of second- and third-year Pharm.D. students “in gaining hands-on experience in our state-of-the-art sterile compounding facility.” Phase 2, she notes, is building off of Phase 1 to include training opportunities in […]
Alumnus spotlight: Bruce Large, SOP class of ‘57
Large is one of several SOP alums to celebrate their 60th reunion this year At age 82 – and looking forward to his 60th college reunion in April – Bruce Large (B.S.’57) isn’t letting any grass grow under his feet. As March begins, he has just returned home to Johnson City, Tenn., from the Virginia Pharmacists […]
Indivior, VCU School of Pharmacy enter academic partnership on pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes research
Two-year postdoctoral fellowship program at School of Pharmacy to prepare individuals for careers in PEOR field Indivior PLC and VCU School of Pharmacy have formed an academic partnership in the field of pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes research (PEOR). There is a growing need for PEOR expertise in the pharmaceutical industry. Patients must continue to have […]
SOP alumna tapped as president of ASCPT
VCU School of Pharmacy alumna Kellie Schoolar Reynolds (Pharm.D. ’92) will be inducted as president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics during its 2017 Annual Meeting March 15-18 in Washington. ASCPT notes that as deputy director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology IV at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for […]