SOP alumna wins national award at 2012 ASHP Midyear
To see more photos, please click here. Before a crowd of more than 10,000 pharmacists and pharmacy students, residents and faculty members, VCU School of Pharmacy alumna Janet Silvester received the ASHP Board of Directors’ 2012 Award for Distinguished Leadership in Health-System Pharmacy Practice. Kathryn Schultz, president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, recognized […]
Seventeen SOP students inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
Seventeen Pharm.D. and graduate students from VCU School of Pharmacy were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi on Nov. 15: Dave Allen, Jeff Beall, Will Cang, Lauren Cherry, Poonam Delvadia, Tanvi Deshpande, Batul Electricwala, Ashley Goodrich, Tim Inocencio, Julie Kaplan, Sudha Korwar, Bassem Mohammed, Xiaolei Pan, Rose Salzberg, Seth Strawbridge, Tiffany VanDervort and Li Wang. The […]
School of Pharmacy Dean Victor Yanchick announces plans to retire
Dean Victor A. Yanchick VCU School of Pharmacy Dean Victor A. Yanchick has announced that he will retire, effective Jan. 1, 2014. “I originally had planned to stay 15 years and retire at 70,” he told colleagues at a School of Pharmacy faculty retreat on Nov. 19. “I’m turning 72 in two weeks! … But […]
FDA recognizes Venitz for distinguished service
Jürgen Venitz, a professor in the School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutics, has received a plaque for his distinguished service between 2010 and 2012 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “I would like to express my deepest appreciation for your efforts and guidance during your term as chair of the Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical […]
Team VCU SOP wins Stallings College Bowl
To see additional College Bowl photos on the SOP Facebook page, click here. Thanks much to Gayle Slifka, who filed the following report on the Oct. 19 Virginia Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists/Jennifer E. Stallings College Bowl. Slifka heads VSHP’s Clinical Skills Competition Committee and is a VCU School of Pharmacy alumna (Pharm.D. ’99): All of […]
Alumni, faculty, preceptors, students recognized at VPhA convention
To see more photos from the VPhA convention, click here. The Virginia Pharmacists Association presented its annual awards at the 131st Annual Convention in August. The four-day event took place at the Wyndham Virginia Beach Oceanfront Hotel. Fourth-year VCU School of Pharmacy student Derek Mires was presented the VPhA Research and Education Foundation Student award during […]
RTI’s Carroll featured speaker for 15th Annual Research and Career Day
VCU School of Pharmacy hosts its 15th Annual Pharmaceutical Sciences Research and Career Day 8 a.m.-2:40 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Larrick Student Center, 900 Turpin St. This year’s guest speaker, F. Ivy Carroll, will address “Drug Discovery and Development at a Research Institute.” Carroll is a Distinguished Fellow for Medicinal Chemistry at Research Triangle […]
Remote Area Medical event promotes interprofessional access
To see more photos from the 2012 RAM event, please click here. Thirteen VCU School of Pharmacy students, two faculty members and two pharmacy residents took part in the school’s sixth Remote Area Medical mission event this summer. “It went really well,” reported pharmacy team leader Evan Sisson, an associate professor and SOP alumnus. Nearly […]
White Coat Ceremony officially recognizes class of ’16
VCU School of Pharmacy’s White Coat Ceremonies can claim a rather exciting history, meteorologically speaking. Just last year, Hurricane Irene was flinging itself up the coast with heavy rain and 60 mph wind gusts as the school’s first-year students accepted their white coats. This year, with weather reports breathless over Hurricane Isaac, Dean Victor Yanchick said, […]
Meet the class of 2016!
As of Aug. 15, the Smith Building lobby is buzzing again. The School of Pharmacy’s incoming Pharm.D. class hit campus for a three-day orientation that covered everything from having student IDs made to getting acquainted with the parking office, from learning about the university’s honor system to collecting information on the school’s technology resources. (The […]