The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Student Government Association Executive Committee (SGAEC) presented its annual Excellence in Teaching Awards on May 3, 2016. Recipients selected by students in the College of Pharmacy included Dr. Cathy Crill, associate professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Pediatrics and Dr. Jonathan Hoover, clinical pharmacy specialist in Internal Medicine at… Read More
Bernd Meibohm, PhD, FCP, FAAPS, professor and associate dean for Research and Graduate Programs and interim chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, served as faculty instructor for an International Certificate Course on Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. The course was sponsored by the South Asian Chapter of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. The certificate course was held at the Bombay… Read More
Roland N. Dickerson, PharmD, BCNSP was recently appointed associate editor of the journal Nutrition. The journal offers readers articles focusing on advances in nutrition research and science, presents new and advancing technologies in clinical nutrition practice, uses clinical data of outcomes research and meta-analyses applied in patient-related nutrition, and lastly, seeks to establish research, policy and… Read More
The College of Pharmacy said “see you later” to one of our smiling faces this May. Stephanie Weathers served as a student service coordinator on the Knoxville campus since November 2006. She was an integral part of the original staff who were recruited to begin the campus in Knoxville. She also played an important role in student recruitment… Read More
The Fall 2015 issue of the University of Tennessee Health and Science Center College of Pharmacy Magazine was recognized as a Gold Winner of the Hermes Creative Award for the Publications/Magazine Category for the second year in a row. The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and… Read More
Dickerson RN. Nitrogen balance and protein requirements for critically ill older patients. Nutrients 2016;8(4):226.
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PRECEPTOR DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE UTCOP – Knoxville Tuesday, August 9, 2016 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT UTCOP – Nashville Thursday, August 11, 2016 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm CDT UTCOP – Memphis Wednesday, August 17, 2016 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm CDT Conference Emphasis: overview of transitional care & integration of the UTCOP curriculum and the Pharmacist’s… Read More
Special thanks to fourth year student pharmacist, Renee (Huskey) Casteel for her invaluable contributions to this edition of the newsletter. Thank you to Dean Chisholm-Burns, Drs. Dina Ali, Ali Andreaco, Candace Brown, Rex Brown, Hannah Donnelly, Brandon Ladd, Vivian Loveless, Bernd Meibohm, Stephanie Phelps, Joe Swanson, Rachel Triplett, and Jennifer Williams, along with Christina Chinatanphol, Courtney Cook,… Read More
Wei Li, PhD, professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was recently awarded a $1.91 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will support Dr. Li’s lab and his collaborators (Dr. Muxiang Zhou at Emory University, and Drs. Duane Miller, Bernd Meibohm, David Hamilton at UTHSC) to develop small molecule compounds that selectively inhibit one of the… Read More
