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 […]
$2.4 million R01 grant renewal awarded pharmacy-engineering research team
VCU School of Pharmacy professor Michael Hindle and VCU School of Engineering professor Worth Longest have received a $2.4 million, four-year renewal of a National Institutes of Health grant originally awarded in 2011. The original and current R01 grants were provided by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. As co-principal investigators, Hindle and […]
Slattum to receive ASCPT’s Mentor Award for years of successful student guidance
VCU School of Pharmacy professor and alumna Patty Slattum will receive ASCPT’s 2017 Mentor Award at the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Annual Meeting, the theme of which is “Advancing Patient Care Through Precision and Translational Medicine.” “This is an incredible honor for Dr. Slattum,” said Don Brophy, chairman of the School of Pharmacy’s […]
Dixon one of few pharmacists to be elected an ACC fellow
VCU School of Pharmacy associate professor Dave Dixon has been elected a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, effective Feb. 1, in recognition of his professional achievement and commitment to quality cardiovascular care. Dixon, only the fifth pharmacist ever to have been elected an ACC fellow, will be officially recognized March 19 at a convocation […]
Academic Pharmacy Now features student contributions to opioid abuse research
Research by VCU School of Pharmacy professor Norman Carroll’s advisees and new alumnae Batula Electricwala and Anisha Patel is featured in the December edition of Academic Pharmacy Now. The article covers what a number of pharmacy schools and colleges nationwide are doing in relation to the opioid abuse crisis. Electricwala and Patel, who graduated from VCU in […]
AACP New Investigator Award goes to Nadpara
VCU School of Pharmacy assistant professor Pramit Nadpara has received a 2017 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy New Investigator Award. Nadpara’s research interests include reporting health service use patterns and conducting health outcomes assessment studies with an emphasis in oncology. “Although lung cancer in the elderly is associated with a poor prognosis,” Nadpara […]
AAPS recognizes Biswas with Graduate Student Research Excellence Award
VCU School of Pharmacy Ph.D. student Deblina Biswas has been awarded the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 2016 Graduate Student Research Excellence Award in Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality. She is one of four graduate students in the APQ section to have won the award, presented during the AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition in November in Denver. The award, sponsored by […]