The College of Pharmacy provided UTHSC students, employees, post-docs, residents and retirees with free flu vaccinations at this year’s Boo Flu event in Memphis. The event was held in the Madison Plaza Lobby and a total of 2,025 vaccinations were administered. In 2016, flu cases in Shelby County tripled from the previous year according to… Read More
This fall, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy became the first among the six colleges on campus to establish and award a faculty and staff endowed scholarship. Eighty-six percent of faculty and staff in the college contributed to the scholarship as of August 31. The college has raised more than $29,000,… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Pharmacy’s ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Team has reached the quarterfinals of the Clinical Pharmacy Challenge and will compete at the annual meeting in October in Phoenix. The students that comprise the team are Melanie Jaeger (P4), Amy Metcalfe (P4), Katherine Robinson (P3), and Alternate: Kristin Wilhite… Read More
UTHSC College of Pharmacy Class of ‘73 graduate William Evans, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, was recently chosen by the Parker Medical Selection Committee as the 2017 recipient of the Paul F. Parker Medal for Distinguished Service to the Profession of Pharmacy. Evans currently holds the ALSAC Endowed Chair of Pharmacogenomics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital… Read More
Fourth-year student pharmacist Katlyn Krug represented the UTHSC College of Pharmacy and the APhA-ASP as an official delegate at the 63rd Annual International Pharmaceutical Students Federation (IPSF) World Congress which was held in Taipei, Taiwan. Krug, who recently received a national APhA-ASP position as the IPSF National Contact Person, attended the congress with Andrew Gott,… Read More
Dean Marie Chisholm-Burns recently sat down with members of UCLA’s Terasaki Research Institute and Transplant Research and Education Center. The group discussed research concerning renal transplant recipients.
Several student groups on UTHSC College of Pharmacy’s Knoxville Campus joined together to collect supplies to benefit those effected by Hurricane Harvey. Supplies were dropped off at Remote Area Medical (RAM) Headquarters and then loaded on a truck leaving for the Houston area with a medical mission team. Student organizations on all three campuses have… Read More
UTHSC College of Pharmacy Class of ‘05 graduate Andrew Finney, PharmD, recently received the 2017 Rising Star award from the Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) at Volunteer State Community College. Finney owns Perkins Drugs in Gallatin, Tenn. The pharmacy was also honored as the Small Business Administration Tennessee Rural Owned Business of the Year.… Read More
P4 student Lauren Ladd received an American College of Clinical Pharmacy Travel Award to attend the annual meeting in Phoenix this October. Student members of ACCP who are full-time pharmacy students pursuing their first professional pharmacy degree are invited to apply for the award. Ladd submitted an application along with an essay and two letters… Read More
The College of Pharmacy 2017 class of P1 students arrived on campus for orientation starting on Monday, August 7. The incoming students received presentations from members of various student organizations, got tours of the campus facilities, received CPR training and attended social events around the city of Memphis at Rendezvous BBQ and Loflin Yard.
