At Convocation, APhA CEO encourages new students: Explore with an open mind to find your passion
At this fall’s 2nd Annual Convocation event, “Leading from Within: Agency, Advocacy and Action,” the School of Pharmacy community rang in the new 2024-25 year with a call to action from speaker Michael Hogue, Pharm.D., FAPhA, FNAP, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, American Pharmacist Association (APhA). “Let me just challenge all of you […]
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 […]
Convocation speaker Maine to discuss A.I. and the future of pharmacy
BY GREG WEATHERFORD Director of Communications, VCU School of Pharmacy As a child, Lucinda Maine, Ph.D., R.Ph., wanted to be an elementary-school teacher. “I walked out of first grade, looked at [my teacher] and said, ‘I want to be just like you,'” Maine recalled with a chuckle. That plan did not work out. Instead, as […]