Neurocritical Care Society inducts Gretchen Brophy as president
VCU School of Pharmacy professor Gretchen M. Brophy has taken office as the 2017-18 president of the Neurocritical Care Society. NCS is an international, multidisciplinary medical society with more than 2,000 physician, nurse, pharmacist and resident/fellow members worldwide. She is the first nonphysician president of the society, whose mission is to improve outcomes for patients with […]
As SOP writing coach, Kier rejuvenates 60-year teaching/research career
After six decades as researcher and teacher, Lemont “Monty” Kier, retired medicinal chemistry professor and professor emeritus in VCU School of Pharmacy, is certainly entitled to some down-time. But he’s not going to take it –- not at least for another decade or so, he says. The octogenarian still is passionate about his research and his latest way to help students: as a writing coach. “Being able to communicate is so important,” Kier says.
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. They are associate professor Amy Pakyz, assistant professor John Bucheit, associate professor Benjamin Van Tassell and assistant professor Lauren Caldas, all faculty within the school’s Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science. “We’re excited […]
‘Handshake meeting’ kicks off SOP collaboration with FDA
Leadership from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Clinical Pharmacology and VCU School of Pharmacy recently met to discuss opportunities for development of scientific collaborations, outreach and educational initiatives, and intellectual partnerships. This meeting was subsequent to a memorandum of understanding into which FDA and the SOP entered last August. School of Pharmacy […]
Second VCU RDD Peter R. Byron Graduate Student Award recipient named
Cordula Weiss, a graduate student at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, is the second recipient of the VCU RDD Peter R. Byron Graduate Student Award. Weiss received the award during RDD (Respiratory Drug Delivery) Europe 2017 in Antibes, France. The award was established in honor of Byron’s career and influence on respiratory […]
SOP Summer Research Fellows will present throughout July
VCU School of Pharmacy launched its 2017 Summer Research Pizza Lunch series July 7 with … what else? … a pizza social! As is tradition, Pharm.D. students — who applied and were accepted to conduct summer research projects – will present the results of their research throughout the month. Everyone is invited to attend the […]
Pharm.D. and graduate students earn a plethora of year-end awards
SENIOR AWARDS BANQUET Members of the VCU School of Pharmacy Pharm.D. class of 2017 were honored during the annual Senior Awards Banquet, which took place May 12 at the Hilton Richmond Hotel & Spa at Short Pump. Awards were presented by Dean Joseph T. DiPiro and K.C. Ogbonna, associate dean for admissions and student services, with the assistance […]
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 […]
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 […]