The UTHSC chapter of the American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) received the OTC Medicine Safety Region 3 Patient Care Award at the APhA-ASP Region 3 Midyear Regional Meeting (MRM) Oct. 18-20 in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 30 UTHSC students attended the meeting, along with hundreds of students representing the 28 schools… Read More
Students from the UTHSC College of Pharmacy Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis to teach kids about diabetes. The students facilitated games and gave information about the disease in classrooms at a Boys and Girls Club health fair Nov. 7.
The Tennessee Society of Student Pharmacists (TSSP) student delegates welcomed back UTHSC College of Pharmacy alumnus Dr. Alec Sain, a Tennessee Pharmacists Association Executive Fellow, to present about the state of pharmacy within Tennessee at an event Nov. 7. The address was held in Nashville and broadcast to all three campuses.
The UTHSC College of Pharmacy, along with the UT Foundation Office of Alumni Affairs, will host the Big Orange Reception at the 2019 American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. This reception invites UTHSC pharmacy alumni to fellowship with and meet UTHSC pharmacy officials. The reception will be 5:30 p.m.… Read More
The College of Pharmacy held its annual Feurt Symposium Oct. 16 titled “The Opioid Crisis: In the Pharmacy Trenches.” Joseph F. Griffith, JD, who led a session titled “Overview of the Opioid Crisis in the U.S.”, prosecutes on opioid cases for both the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s… Read More
The Shelby County Public Health Department has received a grant in collaboration with UTHSC College of Pharmacy’s chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA). The grant will provide funds to the health department to provide chronic disease education and screening to county residents. SNPhA student pharmacists will participate in the delivery of both education… Read More
The weekend of Sept. 29, American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) students hosted the sixth annual Race for the Summitt 4-Miler in Knoxville, Tennessee, to benefit The Pat Summitt Foundation. The foundation’s mission as a grant-making foundation is to advance research for prevention and a cure of Alzheimer’s disease.
As a part of Operation Heart, an American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists program, College of Pharmacy students worked to share of Pharmacy Students worked with Operation Heart, an American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists program, to share about heart health and give blood pressure screenings at Memphis Pride Fest Sept. 28.… Read More
Dr. Pradeep Lukka, postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Bernd Meibohm’s group, was awarded the Wayne A. Colburn Memorial Award at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Lukka was selected as one of eight finalists based on his abstract submission to the meeting titled “Pediatric Exposure of… Read More
Dr. Kenneth Hohmeier joined with other pharmacy professionals on the OnScript pharmacy podcast to talk about pharmacy workforce issues and the value of the pharmacy technician. Follow the link for the full episode: Full Episode
