Patricia Slattum’s 10 lessons for young pharmacists
At her keynote speech at the White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2022, Patricia Slattum, Pharm.D., the 2018 Preceptor of the Year, offered 10 lessons drawn from her 35-year career in pharmacy: Patients always come first. There is always room for improvement! Learn to listen. Watch for assumptions — your own, and others’. Collaboration […]
Xu wins Ralph E. Powe Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Qingguo Xu, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, holds his award. He is accompanied by John Ryan, VCU associate vice president for research development, and the School of Pharmacy’s Aron Lichtman, associate dean, and Dean Joseph DiPiro. Qingguo Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, has received the Ralph E. Powe Award from […]
Since ancient Greece, doctors have relied on patients to tell them what medications they are taking. They may no longer need to.
BY GREG WEATHERFORD Director of Communications, VCU School of Pharmacy Every day, in thousands of emergency rooms around the world, doctors face a daunting mystery: What medications are in a patient’s body? That question can be one of life or death, and since the days of Hippocrates doctors have relied on the same method […]
Pharmacy students present at pharmacoeconomics conference, win best poster award
By Purva Parab (VCU-ISPOR Chapter President 2017-2018) Hrishikesh Kale, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the VCU School of Pharmacy, received the Best Student Poster Research Presentation Award at the recent conference of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. The top 10 percent of posters out of 1,600 submitted were considered for the award this […]
Promotions for School of Pharmacy faculty
Congratulations to the following faculty members on their promotions, effective July 1st, 2018. The promotions were approved by the VCU Board of Visitors at its most recent meeting. Dr. Karolina Aberg has been promoted to associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics. Dr. Krista Donohoe has been promoted to associate professor in the Department of […]
Artificial intelligence, “authentic interaction” will guide future pharmacists, speaker tells graduating Class of 2018
BY GREG WEATHERFORD Director of Communications, VCU School of Pharmacy Pharmacists of the future will need to understand artificial intelligence, “augmented intelligence” and the growth of interconnected data systems, the head of the nation’s largest pharmacy-education association told the graduating School of Pharmacy Class of 2018. “There is no doubt that the diagnostic and therapeutic […]
Chemistry. Compounding. Zombies!
BY GREG WEATHERFORD Director of Communications, VCU School of Pharmacy Photos by Danny Tiet, VCU School of Pharmacy Thirty students in VCU School of Pharmacy’s third-year elective on advanced nonsterile compounding recently got a crash course in doing work in difficult conditions. Really difficult. Zombie-invasion difficult. The goal for the Zombie Apocalypse Lab, which comprised two weeks of the course, […]
Pharmacy among top 3 for VCU inventions
The VCU School of Pharmacy has been ranked among the top three schools or colleges at VCU for the number of its invention disclosures in 2017. In its 2017 annual report the VCU Innovation Gateway, part of the university’s Office of Research and Innovation, records Pharmacy with 14 invention disclosures for the year. First in the list […]
Six from School of Pharmacy inducted as VCU Academy of Inventors fellows
Six faculty associated with the VCU School of Pharmacy were inducted this year into the VCU chapter of the National Academy of Inventors. They and a number of their peers from across the university were honored at an April banquet at the Virginia Bio + Tech Park. The inductees from VCU School of Pharmacy: Umesh Desai, Medicinal […]
Augmented reality can revolutionize surgery and data visualization, say VCU researchers
By Leah Small The practical uses for augmented reality — which superimposes digital information onto real world surroundings — seem endless. Technologists have envisioned futuristic applications such as glasses that allow wearers to visualize turn-by-turn navigation in real time and immersive gaming headsets. Recently, scientists have focused on harnessing the technology for intellectual pursuits. Virginia […]