Dr. Rx: Apps can help people stay on top of medications
By Yasser Ali Q: How can technology help me keep track of my medications? A: Nearly 50 percent of Americans over the age of 55 are on at least one prescription medication, with 12 percent of those over the age of 65 taking four or more. That is a lot to keep track of on […]
With White Coat Ceremony, a new class joins the profession
Gathering backstage for their official white-coat portrait, members of the Pharm.D. Class off 2022 joke and laugh. Photo: Dan Buth WATCH: Pharm.D. students try on their white coats for the first time By Greg Weatherford | VCU School of Pharmacy The Pharm.D. Class of 2022 received their white coats and took the Oath of […]
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 […]
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, […]
Two from VCU School of Pharmacy receive Walmart Scholarships
Two students in the VCU School of Pharmacy have been selected as 2018 Walmart Scholars. The $1,000 scholarships will cover registration and other expenses for VCU pharmacy students Casey L. Boyer and Jacob Ellerbrock to attend and participate in the annual meeting and seminars of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in Boston this July. Walmart offers 85 of the scholarships each […]
Congressional fellow heads for Capitol Hill
Today, Nilofar “Nellie” Jafari begins a new and important phase in her tenure as 2017-18 ACCP/ASHP/VCU Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow. She has been selected to work in the office of U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). Murphy is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) as well as the […]
‘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 […]
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 […]