The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences’ fourth-year PhD student Pallabita Chowdhury was awarded the Alma & Hall Reagan Endowment Fellowship on Nov. 27 at the Graduate Studies Council meeting in Memphis. To be considered, a student must be in the second through fourth year of study and involved in research into the causes of and possible… Read More
The 10th annual P3 Pinning Ceremony was held on Nov. 16 at the Canon Center in Memphis. The event marked the culmination of student pharmacists’ didactic coursework and their transition to the advanced practice experience portion of the curriculum. Each student received a college of pharmacy lapel pin, and several faculty and students were recognized… Read More
Nirnoy Dan, a 3rd year PhD student who is advised by Dr. Subhash Chauhan, and Sanjana Haque, a 3rd year PhD student advised by Dr. Santosh Kumar, both placed in the College of Graduate Health Sciences Three-minute THeses Competition on Oct. 26. Dan finished second in the competition while Haque won People’s Choice. Individuals who… Read More
The UTHSC chapter of the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) held their annual Emmett Manley PARscription Golf Tournament on Oct. 3 at Stonebridge Golf Course in Lakeland, TN. Students, faculty and alumni participated in the event. The team of Nick Townsend, Bryan Jett, Josh Sullivan and Phillip Guidry claimed first place.
Students on the College of Pharmacy’s Nashville campus provided flu shots to the community on September 22. Thirty-one P2-P4 students administered 429 flu shots over 6 hours at the St. Thomas Day of Hope, Health and Healing. Students also recently held an Immunization Clinic at Volstate Community College where they administered 93 flu shots.
The fifth-annual Race for the Summitt 4-Miler was held in Knoxville on Sept. 30. The event, organized by Michael Behal (P3, Knoxville) and the Knoxville branch of the College’s APhA-ASP chapter raised over $5,000 for The Pat Summitt Foundation. The Pat Summitt Foundation was founded by the legendary head coach of the Lady Vols Basketball… Read More
Four students from the College’s Nashville campus spent time helping at the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Summer Camp. Ishani Lad (P2), Keaton Gafney (P3), Robert McCormick (P3) and Bo Emanuel (P3) assisted with medication check-in, reviewing the campers medication lists with parents.
Chris Wilson (P4-Nashville), recently presented his research poster titled “Targeted Cholesterol Education for Community Pharmacists to Improve Star Ratings (choleSTAR),” at the annual Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) meeting in Baltimore, MD. Mr. Wilson was part of the second class of PQA-CVS Health Foundations Scholars, and the first University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of… Read More
Jesse Jones, PharmD, a PhD student at the UTHSC College of Pharmacy, has had his American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship renewed for a second year. Dr. Jones received his Doctorate of Pharmacy from Idaho State University in 2012 and is currently pursuing his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences. His current research project is… Read More
With generous financial support from Dean Marie Chisholm-Burns, 155 P3 and P4 students earned the NACDS Community Pharmacy Point of Care Testing Certificate. The certificate program, launched in 2015, trains participants to administer a variety of point-of-care tests, conduct patient physical assessments, and develop collaborative practice agreements and business plans. Led by Drs. Nancy Hart,… Read More
