Posted: May 14, 2019
To find the posters and presentations of CHOICE students, alumni, and faculty, please refer to the PDF attached here.
CHOICE at ISPOR 2019
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Posted: May 14, 2019
Congratulations to the UW School of Pharmacy’s PharmD class of 2018 for distinguishing themselves with a 98.8% initial pass rate--putting our alumni in the Top 5 for initial pass rates in the United States.
The NAPLEX, or North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination, measures a candidate’s knowledge of the practice of pharmacy. It is just... Read more...
Posted: May 13, 2019
On the evening of May 4th, 2019, Oregon State University College of Pharmacy alumni and friends gathered at Portland City Grill to honor the recipients of the 2019 Icons of Pharmacy Award including Sean D. Sullivan, a truly dedicated leader in the pharmacy profession.
Sean was recognized for his leadership at the UW School of Pharmacy whe... Read more...
Posted: May 13, 2019
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the Louis Sr. and Marilyn Garrison Endowed Prize in Health Policy and Economics, Elizabeth Brouwer (4th year CHOICE PhD student) and Gilbert Ko (3rd year PharmD/MBA student)!
CHOICE Professor Emeritus, Dr. Lou Garrison, is seen here presenting Lizzy with the award, named in honor of his parents, at the CHOI... Read more...
Posted: May 10, 2019
Two CHOICE graduate students were recently awarded global health travel fellowships. Erik Landaas received the Global Opportunities (GO) Health fellowship for his work in Thailand. Enrique Saldarriaga received the Stergachis Endowed Fellowship for International Exchange for his work in Kenya with Dr. Ruanne Barnabas, Associate Professor in Global ...
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Posted: May 10, 2019
Please join us in welcoming Anthony Morgan (who goes by Morgan) to The CHOICE Institute! Morgan is serving as CHOICE's first Research Project Manager. Prior to joining us here at UWSOP, he was at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Morgan will be supporting CHOICE Director Anirban Basu and other CHOICE investigators, including Aasthaa Bansal. In ... Read more...
Posted: May 10, 2019
Congratulations to CHOICE PhD student Elizabeth Brouwer who received conference travel funds from the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington! Elizabeth will use the funds to attend the American Society of Health Economists conference (ASHEcon) in June 2019.
Elizabeth will be speaking on a panel titled, “Impacts of Federal... Read more...
Posted: May 10, 2019
Congratulations to third-year PhD student in the CHOICE Institute, Lauren Strand who was named the UWSOP Magnuson Scholar for 2019-2020. Magnuson Scholars are selected for their excellent academic performance and outstanding potential for research in the health sciences; they receive $30,000 to support their research, education, and training. ...
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Posted: May 6, 2019
We are so proud to learn that Professor Rodney Ho has been named the recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Volwiler Research Achievement Award.
The research prize in academic pharmacy was established in honor of the late Ernest H. Volwiler, former president and research director of Abbott Laboratories.
Each year... Read more...
Posted: May 6, 2019
The UW Medicinal Chemist studied neural chemistry and biology to understand the underlying mechanism that cause birth defects, behavioral problems, and autismYou probably know about good and bad cholesterol as it relates to your heart—but did you know that your brain needs cholesterol too? The brain’s cholesterol is essential to fetal developme...
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Posted: May 6, 2019
Aasthaa Bansal leads an NIH MERIT award-winning team to develop decision-making frameworks to guide post-treatment care for cancer survivorsDespite receiving effective primary treatment, many cancer survivors remain at risk of relapse and associated morbidity and mortality. Surveillance testing using biomarkers and imaging may detect disease recurr...
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Posted: May 6, 2019
Mary Hebert and the Obstetric-fetal Pharmacology Research Unit (OPRU) team are exploring how to optimize care for pregnant and lactating womenHow do medications for high blood pressure, depression, and even cancer affect pregnant women and their babies? Mothers and health care providers face a daunting challenge of making health care decisions abou...
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Posted: May 6, 2019
Qingcheng Mao collaborates with colleagues across UWSOP to gain insight into how pregnancy affects drug disposition in expectant mothers and their fetusesAbout 80% of pregnant women take at least one medication to treat everything from high blood pressure to depression to diabetes and more. The risks for mother and child vary from drug to drug. Wi...
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Posted: May 6, 2019
What did it take to send delicate kidney cells into space to be studied by astronauts wearing big, clunky gloves who may, or may not, have a background in biochemistry? We popped into the lab to talk to Ed Kelly and Cathy Yeung to find out.
Dawg Scripts: Why did you put kidney cells on a chip?
Associate Professor Ed Kelly: As a Toxicologist, we... Read more...
Posted: April 23, 2019
Congratulations to PharmD and Pharmaceutics PhD student Lindsay Henderson who received the 2nd place graduate student poster presentation award for the Drug Metabolism and Disposition Division of ASPET (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics).Her poster titled, “Functional Characterization of Novel CYP2C9 Variants Found i...
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Posted: April 23, 2019
Updated May 3, 11:29 am Pacific: NASA has pushed back the launch to Friday, May 3 at 11:48 PM Pacific time...weather dependent. May 3 update:
Welp. It seemed like it was going to go and then about 15 minutes before launch, the flight was scrubbed. It's rescheduled for tonight 11:48 PM Pacific Time. Here is an update on NASA's blog.
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Posted: April 12, 2019
Fuller has been instrumental in establishing collaborative practice agreements that enable pharmacists to practice to the top of their license in Washington state
Congratulations to University of Washington School of Pharmacy alumnus, Tim Fuller, ’69, who has been named this year’s UW Pharmacy Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award Pha...
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Posted: April 12, 2019
Recently named the first pharmacist to the National Academy of Medicine (former Institute of Medicine) Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars Program, Jonathan continues his national-level leadership in pharmaceutical research
Congratulations to University of Washington School of Pharmacy alumnus, Jonathan H. Watanabe, PharmD, PhD, ... Read more...
Posted: April 4, 2019
Congratulations to our PharmD students, Michael Sporck, ‘20, Eunice Kim, ‘20, Hanna Kleiboeker, ‘20 and Erin Ichinotsubo, ‘21, who won first place at the highly competitive Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation 19th Annual National Student Pharmacist Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Competition. The team's advisors were UW...
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Posted: March 27, 2019
Marijuana use among older adults has soared in recent years despite little being known about the effectiveness and safety of the drug in people 65 and older. That’s resulted in more seniors asking health care providers about marijuana use: Is it safe? How much to use? Where to buy?
Now, a group of University of Washington professors has go... Read more...
Posted: March 25, 2019
Congratulations to Jennifer Bacci, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy; H. Steve White, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy; and Sabra Zarâa, CHOICE PhD student, Pharmacy on receiving one of the 2019 pilot research grants awarded by the UW Population Health Initiative. The interdisciplinary team's project is titled, "Community ph...
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Posted: March 21, 2019
This year, the CHOICE Institute’s Certificate in Health Economics and Outcomes Research program has been reaching a wide audience.
In addition to offering the traditional distance learning program to US and international students, engaging 40 students from 4 countries this year, CHOICE is running a separate program sponsored by AbbVie for 24... Read more...
Posted: March 21, 2019
CHOICE faculty member Doug Barthold was awarded the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Pilot Award, for a proposal titled “Alzheimer’s disease related neuropathology among patients with medication treated type 2 diabetes in a community-based autopsy cohort.”
The award is for one year. His study will look at the relationship between use ... Read more...
Posted: March 21, 2019
The CHOICE Institute welcomed Professor Emeritus Charles E. Phelps, PhD, for the 2019 CHOICE Institute Annual Symposium. Dr. Phelps provided an overview of multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods.
"The CHOICE Institute was delighted to host Professor Emeritus Charles Phelps at the keynote speaker for the CHOICE Annual Symposium. Profess...
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Posted: March 19, 2019
Associate Dean Andy Stergachis was appointed to a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study sponsored by the Veterans Administration, to assess the long-term health effects of antimalarial drugs used by adults, in particular mefloquine, for the prophylaxis of malaria.
The National Academies was... Read more...
Posted: March 18, 2019
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. CHOICE PhD student Erik Landaas has partnered with PhD students at UW School of Nursing, Kwankaew Wongchareon and Ana Carolina Sauer Liberato, along with students at UW Computer Science, UW Engineering, and UW Neurosurgery to create a new mobile health ...
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Posted: March 18, 2019
CHOICE Alumnae Carrie Savage Bennette and Blythe Adamson, recent CHOICE alum, will be presenting/co-leading one of the short courses, Tools for Reproducible Real-World Data Analysis. This course will focus on the concepts and tools of reproducible research and reporting of modern data analyses. The need for more reproducible tools in health economi...
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Posted: March 18, 2019
Congratulations to the twelve UWSOP students, comprised of eleven CHOICE Students and fellows and one PharmD student (co-authored with a CHOICE student), who were selected to present posters the annual ISPOR conference in May. Several students had multiple abstracts accepted, making a total of 15 research posters from UWSOP to be represented by CHO...
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Posted: March 15, 2019
The American Pharmacists Association announced this week that it has selected Washington State Pharmacy Association (WSPA) CEO Jeff Rochon, PharmD, '99, as one of the 2019 APhA-Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management’s (APhA-APPM) fellows.
The APhA Fellow Award was established to honor APhA members for exemplary professional achievements... Read more...
Posted: February 15, 2019
Please welcome Marina Gano, the new Department of Pharmacy/CHOICE Institute Graduate Program and Operations Manager.
Marina grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, after first living in Germany and Maryland. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature (Spanish and German) from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).
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Posted: January 23, 2019
It’s called an experiment for a reason. The secret in science—what world-class researchers know—is that you don’t let the failures stop you. You think of the failures as more data, part of your larger body of work.
For scientists as creative and productive as Jash Unadkat, learning to move past the failures, to learn from them and contin... Read more...
Posted: January 22, 2019
Congratulations to Jash Unadkat, the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics, named Outstanding Faculty Mentor at this year’s Commencement. The Outstanding Mentor Award recognizes and encourages outstanding mentorship of graduate students by our School’s faculty.
The criteria for this Award include extraordinary commitment and effect... Read more...
Posted: January 22, 2019
We revisited Abhi Nath and his lab team to see how their their work to improve the diagnosis and treatments of neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) was progressing.
The team hopes to discover improved diagnostic tools and therapies by learning how brain proteins such as ... Read more...
Posted: January 16, 2019
We are thrilled that Pharmaceutics’ post doc Katrina Claw, PhD, will be honored with a service award at this year's UW Health Sciences Martin Luther King Tribute on Thursday, January 17, 12:30 pm-2pm in Hogness Auditorium. The event will include a panel discussion.
To be recognized for my outreach and mentorship of Native American and other his...
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Posted: January 10, 2019
Libin Xu, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, and Brian Werth, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, have received a Royalty Research Fund award of $38,175 for their project, "Targeting Altered Lipid Metabolism in Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus."
The RRF is funded from royalty and licensing fee income generated by the UW technolog... Read more...
Posted: December 28, 2018
Leah Ruggerone, ’18, and PY3 student Richard Lee were both selected for the UW Husky 100 from the School of Pharmacy in 2018. Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergrad and grad students who are making the most of their time at the UW.Leah grew up in Kenmore, WA, and attended UW as an undergrad, majoring in biology and spent
summers wo...
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Posted: December 18, 2018
CHOICE faculty member Beth Devine and CHOICE PhD student Shuxian Chen led an invited workshop last month at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Nexus Meeting in Orlando Florida.
There, they presented their newly developed framework and tool that guides users in evaluating real world evidence (RWE) to inform health technology adopti... Read more...
Posted: December 17, 2018
Team seeks to improve the projections of the future burden of the disease.Anirban Basu, director of the CHOICE Institute at UWSOP, and professor in the schools of Pharmacy and Public Health at the University of Washington, received more than $230,000 from the National Institutes of Health to measure the current and future costs of care for people w...
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Posted: December 14, 2018
CHOICE PhD student Erik Landaas received funding to conduct a mobile health validation study in Thailand. The study is funded by Washington Research Foundation (WRF) and his primary co-investigators include two UW School of Nursing PhD candidates.
PupilScreen a newly developed smartphone app that screens for traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and c... Read more...
Posted: December 13, 2018
Congratulations to CHOICE Institute alumnus and Affiliate Assistant Professor, Kai Yeung, PharmD PhD, `15, who received a research grant from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation's Greater Value Portfolio program.
Kai's project is entitled, "Value-based Formulary-Essentials: Testing and Expanding on Value in Pres... Read more...
Posted: December 7, 2018
At the 2018 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) held in Charleston, South Carolina, Anirban Basu was awarded the Mid-Career Excellence Award from the American Statistical Association Section on Health Policy Statistics (HPSS). Anirban was exceptionally and uniquely qualified for this award. Highlights include his pr... Read more...
Posted: November 27, 2018
The newest researcher in The CHOICE Institute at UWSOP, Doug Barthold is taking a couple of approaches that use data and economic modeling to find potential treatments and trends in care of people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD).
At press time, there are no known drugs that can prevent or delay the onset or progression of ...
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Posted: November 27, 2018
Last year’s flu season was one of the worst in nearly a decade. The people most susceptible to the flu are our most vulnerable people: infants and children, older adults, and people who are chronically ill or have suppressed immune systems.
As alarming reports about how virulent last year’s virus was, Era Living, a top-rated group of local s... Read more...
Posted: November 27, 2018
Neris M. Palunas, PharmD, BCGP, is a Consultant Pharmacist with Consonus Pharmacy, serving people in the Seattle area. Neris consults as a clinical pharmacist to senior living communities at all levels of care. "I love teaching and have been a preceptor in all my roles as a pharmacist, specifically as a Geriatric Pharmacy Preceptor for 4 years,"...
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Posted: November 27, 2018
Alumna Cara McDermott, PharmD, PhD, MSc, '11, '12, 16, is a K12 Scholar in the UW Implementation Sciences Training Program and Acting Instructor, Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, UW School of Medicine.
A three-time alumna of the UW School of Pharmacy, Cara said she chose to pursue the Plein Certificate in Geriatric Pharmacy in 2011 ... Read more...
Posted: November 27, 2018
Learn the latest about the deprescribing education and outreach UWSOP faculty member Leigh Ann Mike provides to older adults and providers.
Leigh Ann Mike, PharmD, is Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy and Assistant Director for Education, Plein Center for Geriatric Pharmacy Research, Education and Outreach at the UW School of ... Read more...
Posted: November 27, 2018
The prospect of developing dementia is terrifying for most people, particularly for those with family members who have had the disease. Many wonder what they can do to prevent the onset of dementia—which is where the research of the Plein Center for Geriatric Pharmacy has some answers.
Experts know there are healthy habits that will make a diffe...
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Posted: November 27, 2018
Our School’s faculty and students presented two posters at the ASCP Annual Meeting, and the abstracts are in the October issue of The Consultant Pharmacist.
Julia Yunkyung, Laura Hart, and Shelly Gray presented a poster titled, “Definition of fall risk-increasing drugs in the literature: Challenges and implications.” We know falls in olde... Read more...
Posted: November 27, 2018
People with Alzheimer’s disease can have up to an 87-fold increased risk of seizures. Patients with early-onset Alzheimer’s have the highest risk for seizures, but even patients with late onset Alzheimer’s disease are at high risk.
Despite the risks, little is known about how genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease may affect a per... Read more...
Posted: November 20, 2018
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Brian Werth who received this year's Young Investigator Award from the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (SIDP). The prestigious award is given to a young investigator who shows research promise in the broad area of infectious diseases.
Brian has demonstrated tremendous research productivity over ... Read more...
Posted: November 15, 2018
UW Pharmacy’s Shelly Gray and UW Medicine’s Elizabeth Phelan are teaming up to identify ways to prevent falls in older adults. Their study, “Reducing Central Nervous System (CNS)-active Medications to Prevent Falls and Injuries in Older Adults (STOP-FALLS),” will identify medication safety improvements to reduce fall-related injuries an... Read more...
Posted: November 7, 2018
Congratulations to our Plein Certificate, BSPharm, and PharmD alumni and affiliate faculty who were recognized by the Washington State Pharmacy Association!
Holly Henry, Plein Certificate alumna, received the Distinguished Leadership Service Award that pays tribute to a member who has, over his or her career been instrumental in the developm... Read more...
Posted: November 1, 2018
Researchers Doug Barthold of the University of Washington and Julie Zissimopoulos of the University of Southern California published the first study to compare multiple types of blood pressure medications and the beneficial effect they may have on different populations. Unlike other studies, they looked at how Alzheimer’s disease risk was reduced...
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Posted: October 11, 2018
The PhRMA Foundation and the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) announced that Lou Garrison is one of the first place recipients of the 2018 Value Assessment Challenge Awards. These awards are designed to encourage innovative approaches in defining and measuring value in health care. Lou and the other award recipients were recognized for submitt...
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Posted: September 28, 2018
Assistant Professor Aasthaa Bansal at the CHOICE Institute was recently awarded a $2.5M+, seven-year Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) (R37) award from the National Cancer Institute to develop a dynamic decision-making framework for identifying personalized risk-adaptive surveillance strategies for cancer survivors. This research seeks to s...
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Posted: September 12, 2018
The UW ranks 4th worldwide in Pharmacology and Toxicology, a subject that includes pharmacy, pharmacology, substance abuse, and toxicology, according to National Taiwan University's criteria.
The list provides overall rankings; rankings by six fields; and by 14 selected subjects, including Pharmacology and Toxicology. Overall the UW is No. 4 in ... Read more...
Posted: September 10, 2018
Students at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy have partnered with King County Department of Community and Health Services to offer free naloxone kits and training at the May 22, 2018,health fair on UW's Seattle campus.
Naloxone is an antidote for opioid and heroin overdose. With the use of opioids and heroin on the rise, more and m... Read more...
Posted: September 10, 2018
UW Pharmacy and UW Medicine team to study how weightlessness accelerates kidney damage
In 2019, a rocket carrying a payload that includes 24 microfluidic chips about the size of credit cards will transport an extraordinary University of Washington kidney research project to the International Space Station.University of Washington School of Pharmac...
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Posted: July 26, 2018
A new study by dozens of researchers from the University of Washington and around the world has found that Greece’s population health declined markedly and death rates rose sharply after harsh austerity measures were imposed on Greece by the European Union and the International Money Fund in 2010.
“This study is important because it provides... Read more...
Posted: July 11, 2018
Kim and Atienza were recognized for their excellence in clinical training of our students at the 2018 UWSOP Commencement CeremonyDaniel Kim of the Safeway in Pinehurt/Lake City was named Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPE) Preceptor of the Year for 2018 and Kate Atienza of QFC in Kirkland was named Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experien...
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Posted: June 29, 2018
UW Medicine’s radiology team last month created a novel imaging agent and, in an expansive team effort, performed a first-in-human PET/CT imaging study to observe how a statin drug distributes and accumulates in the body.
Spoiler alert: It’s mostly in the liver, kidneys and bladder.
The statin – rosuvastatin (Crestor), a cholesterol-low... Read more...
Posted: June 13, 2018
Pharmaceutics graduate student David Plotnik is first author on a paper published in the Journal of Virology with his mentor Shiu-Lok Hu as senior author. David discovered that the HIV virus does not bind to intestinal T cells the way previously thought.
Why is that important? HIV causes disease by killing the immune system’s protective T cell... Read more...
Posted: June 12, 2018
Hannah Baughman, graduate student in Abhi Nath’s lab, is first author on an article looking at molecular chaperones, which may unlock keys in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, which seem to be caused by buildup of the protein tau. Hannah was also selected as the Hope Barnes Fellow this year.
“I am honored to rec...
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Posted: June 12, 2018
Research Assistant Professor Doug comes to The CHOICE Institute at UWSOP from the University of Southern California, where he was a post-doctoral scholar with the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. He received his BBA in Management, Economics and Mathematics in 2007 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then received h...
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Posted: June 12, 2018
Being semi-retired does not seem to have slowed down Judy Mar-Burbidge! She earned her BS in Pharmacy in 1982 and returned to earn her PharmD in 2000. She remains a Clinical Assistant Professor at the UW School of Pharmacy, Associate Part Time Faculty at Edmonds Community College in the Allied Health Program for Pharmacy Technicians, Costco Wholesa...
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Posted: June 12, 2018
Nancy J Lee, PharmD, BCPS, CDE is the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Swedish Medical Group’s clinical pharmacist practitioner program, embedded in the Issaquah Primary Care Clinic.
Seeing that older patients tended to take multiple medications and that the older adult population was growing, Nancy pursued the Plein Certificate in Geriatric Pharm... Read more...
Posted: June 4, 2018
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) presented the National APhA Immunization Champion Award (Partnership) to Project VACCINATE at their 2018 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Nashville. Likely the largest partnership effort to improve adult immunization care in Washington state, Project VACCINATE created a real-world immunization neighborhoo...
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Posted: May 30, 2018
It doesn’t look like a kidney, but this ‘kidney-on-a-chip’ is a breakthrough for new drug testing.
Alex Levine, CC BY-ND
Catherine Yeung, University of Washington; Edward Kelly, University of Washington, and Jonathan Himmelfarb, University of Washington
Getting a new pharmaceutical from an idea in the chemistry lab to market takes many y... Read more...
Posted: May 24, 2018
Pharmaceutics graduate student Sara Shum recently presented and won an award for the preliminary results from a study of the shellfish toxin domoic acid. The project is a collaboration with Professor Tom Burbacher and Senior Research Scientist Kimberly Grant of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the UW School of Pub...
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Posted: May 15, 2018
The CHOICE Institute & the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research (HICOR) Joint Seminar
On Wednesday, May 2nd, Peter Neumann, Sc.D. joined our PHEnOM seminar to discuss whether the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) is becoming the U.S.' counterpart to England's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE...
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Posted: May 10, 2018
Congratulations to 3rd year, PhD student Lauren Strand who received the the Louis Garrison Sr. And Marilyn Garrison Endowed Prize in Health Policy and Economics prize! Lauren's paper is titled "New Statin use and left ventricular structure: Estimating long-term associations in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)."
Laurent's resear... Read more...
Posted: May 8, 2018
It is with sadness we report that Dean Emeritus Jack Edward Orr passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 6, 2018, surrounded by his family.
Born in Delphi, Indiana in 1918, Jack’s father and grandfather were both pharmacists. Like so many of our alumni, he began his pharmacy career dusting shelves and sweeping the floor of the family pharmacy. He... Read more...
Posted: April 27, 2018
Abstracts are due Friday, May 18, 2018The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists – Rocky Mountain Discussion Group (AAPS-RMDG) Annual Meeting will be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, on June 12-13, 2018. The deadline for abstract submission is May 18, 2018.
The RMDG provides a forum for interacting with scientists ... Read more...
Posted: April 25, 2018
Shelly Gray editorial in The BMJ underscores importance of avoiding long-term use of anticholinergic drugs in older adults
UWSOP Plein Center for Geriatric Pharmacy Director Shelly Gray authored an editorial in support of new research about potential dangers of anticholinergic drugs for that help to control involuntary muscle movements for condi...
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Posted: April 24, 2018
Collaborative research between UW School of Pharmacy and VA Puget Sound looked at 175,000 patientsIn a recent study, researchers at the University of Washington and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System have found that an important diabetes drug can be used safely among a high-risk patient population – those with poor kidney function. They conclu...
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Posted: April 17, 2018
With India rolling out the one of the largest public health insurance initiatives in the world, it became more important than ever for government, university, and health care leaders to understand key aspects to health economics. Dr. Jitendra Sharma, Advisor on Health and Medical Technology to the Government of Andhara Pradesh invited UWSOP's CH...
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Posted: April 9, 2018
Congratulations to Weize Huang who was named UWSOP's Magnuson Scholar for 2018-2019! Weize graduated with a Pharm.D. degree from UWSOP in 2017, and is currently a second year PhD student at the Department of Pharmaceutics. He is passionate about the field of pharmacometrics, a discipline that uses mathematics and computer science to illustrate, qua...
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Posted: April 6, 2018
It's bittersweet to announce that our long-time colleague, Dr. Kent Kunze, has stepped down as Departmental Chair and retired from the faculty. Kent has been a valued member of the faculty since 1990, and for the past 4 years he has served as 'the Chair.' During his time on the faculty, Kent played a critical role in the research activities tha...
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Posted: March 27, 2018
When a project is moments away from completion, or a new question arises during the experiment, a little bit of extra funding can go a long way. This is the inspiration behind the ITHS Catalyst program. This pilot award is designed to provide investigators with “just-in-time” resources of up to $5,000. For Melissa, the ITHS ... Read more...
Posted: March 26, 2018
From all of us at CHOICE, we hope your year is off to a good start. Our PhD students have been busy since last year and we wanted to take the time to highlight a few of their key accomplishments.
Meng Li
Meng Li, a 5th year CHOICE PhD candidate, along with Kai Yeung (CHOICE Alum), and Josh Carlson (CHOICE Faculty) won Journal of Managed Care &...
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Posted: February 21, 2018
We welcome Dr. Doug Barthold, PhD., Research Assistant Professor, to the faculty of the Department of Pharmacy and to The CHOICE Institute!
Doug comes to us from the University of Southern California where he was a post-doctoral scholar with the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Doug received his BBA in Management, Economics and ... Read more...
Posted: February 6, 2018
Alzheimer’s disease affects about 5 million Americans, a number projected to roughly triple by 2050. The urgency of this grave population health challenge is with Abhi Nath and his team of researchers every day as they seek new options to treat and manage Alzheimer’s and related diseases. The key appears to lie with a process called prot... Read more...
Posted: February 6, 2018
Partnership between Washington Research Foundation and The CHOICE Institute at UWSOP creates opportunities for students and researchers at non-profit research institutions in Washington state
The CHOICE Institute at UWSOP is pleased to announce a partnership with the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) that will create four new fellowships per ... Read more...
Posted: February 5, 2018
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy congratulates Scott Strassels, PhD, PharmD, on his new position as assistant professor in the Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Burn and scientific director of the Center for Surgical Health Assessment, Research and Policy (SHARP). He previously served as a clinical pharmacist, providing recommend...
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Posted: January 12, 2018
Pharmacy's Brian Werth and grant coinvestigator UWSOP Medicinal Chemistry’s Libin Xu will continue their novel research into antibiotic resistance mechanisms in the superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The team were recently awarded a 4-year, $1.86 million NIH R01 grant as principal investigator, which is an exceptional ...
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Posted: January 2, 2018
David Nguyen, President of the UWSOP Global Brigades team, led a team of students, along with Institute for Innovation in Pharmacy Practice (I2P2) Endowed Clinical Professor Don Downing, to return to Ghana and advance the training program begun last year.
Historically, Global Brigades programs bring health sciences students to under-resourced co... Read more...
Posted: December 16, 2017
Congratulations to University of Washington School of Pharmacy alumnus Glen Schumock, '89, who will become Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy! His appointment is effective January 1, 2018, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Schumock earned his baccalaureate in pharmacy from Washington St...
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Posted: December 16, 2017
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Posted: December 15, 2017
Learn the latest about the research of Plein Center of Plein Center for Geriatric Pharmacy faculty member, Joanne Wang, Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics.
Joanne, along with a postdoctoral trainee previously supported by a Plein Endowed Research grant, published a paper demonstrating a direct effect of selective serotonin reuptake i... Read more...
Posted: December 15, 2017
We like to check in with our Plein Geriatric Certificate Alumni and find out what they are up to now? How did the Certificate make a difference in their career? This issue, we spoke with Annie Lam, '95.
What is your title? Where do you work/study now?
My title at UW is Clinical Associate Professor. Currently, I am a self-employed consultant pharm...
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Posted: December 8, 2017
Karan Dawson, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy; Consulting Pharmacist, UW Pharmacy Cares
Following an internship at Valley Medical Center, Karan worked as a clinical pharmacist at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Seattle and completed a residency.
She returned to the UW for an MS in Pharmacy to explore teaching a... Read more...
Posted: December 8, 2017
We are witnessing a period of renaissance, as current advances in medical technology and breakthroughs are unprecedented in human history. There is a cure for Hepatitis C that works in weeks. Polio used to afflict thousands around the world; today, there are only twelve cases in just two countries. We are within years—not decades—of personalize...
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Posted: December 1, 2017
Panel Discussion: "From Rigor to Rigor Mortis–Good Science, Bad Science, and Patient Care"
Noon-1:20pm, Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Health Sciences Building, T-435
Light refreshments will be served
Panel Discussion:
Richard Harris, NPR Science Correspondent and author, Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hop... Read more...
Posted: November 27, 2017
At the annual meeting in November, UW School of Pharmacy professors Qingcheng Mao and Jashvant Unadkat were presented the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Journal High Impact Article Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences as demonstrated by the authors in the q... Read more...
Posted: November 27, 2017
We are so proud of our Pharmaceutics alumna, Deanna Kroetz, PhD, '90, who was among the 396 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, announced this week. Election as a fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Fellows are recognized for meritorious efforts to advance science or its application...
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Posted: November 16, 2017
The question about the benefits and pitfalls of genetic testing is discussed in, "Is health care ready for routing DNA screening? A massive new trial will find out" in Science Magazine. Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy faculty member and associate director, David Veenstra was interviewed for the story.
"In about 5 years I think we are... Read more...
Posted: November 14, 2017
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are medicines commonly prescribed to treat acid-related digestive problems, including gastroesophageal reflux disease. Up to one in five older adults said they used a PPI as of 2011, and recent studies have linked PPIs to greater risk of fractures and kidney disease. Some studies also have linked PPIs to an increas...
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Posted: November 5, 2017
“We always knew our family was going to make a gift to the University of Washington School of Pharmacy,” said Cheri Ryan. “My Aunt Bette and Uncle Bryan always talked about this gift. It was so important to both of them to give back to his school.”
Bryan and Bette Wallace’s gift is one of the largest in the history of the UW School of ... Read more...
Posted: November 1, 2017
Lipid peroxidation is the process in which a reactive atom or group of atoms (free radicals) capture electrons from the lipids in cell membranes, resulting in cell damage. This process plays an important role in the pathophysiology of many human conditions – aging, atherosclerosis, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases – so it is critically im...
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Posted: October 20, 2017
UWSOP Associate Dean Andy Stergachis co-edited the "Maternal Immunization Safety Monitoring in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Roadmap for Program Development" for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, which was featured on the Gates Foundation blog, Impatient Optimists.
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Posted: October 20, 2017
The UWSOP Graduate Student Leadership Award honors graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and service and have had a positive impact on the School of Pharmacy, UW, the Northwest community, scientific and/or professional community. This year, the award goes to three students: Mark Bounthavong, Ryan Seguin, and Elijah Web...
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Posted: October 10, 2017
The Phil and Sandra Nudelman Lecture will feature Steve Davis, President and CEO of PATH, who will share his approach to changing the global health system. The lecture and reception will take place Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017 at 6 PM in the Lyceum in the Husky Union Building (HUB) on the UW Seattle campus.
Steve Davis, President and CEO of PATH, co... Read more...
Posted: October 4, 2017
CYRUS KHOJASTEH, ’98, chose to study Medicinal Chemistry at UWSOP after serendipitously attending a lecture by then Professor, now Dean Emeritus, Tom Baillie on acetaminophen mechanism of hepatotoxicity, drug induced liver injury, in the early 1990s. That lecture began a career in pharmaceutical science inspired by an interest in discovering inno...
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Posted: October 4, 2017
Roger Woolf, ’85, is passionate about the leadership role pharmacists can have in the U.S. health care system.
Growing up, many of his family members were in healthcare professions, including pharmacy. “My uncle was a pharmacist in Yakima,” he reflected. “Talking with him about his work helped me to see the potential impact pharmacists c... Read more...
Posted: October 3, 2017
PORPP Associate Professor Beth Devine was selected to serve on the AcademyHealth Methods Council in 2017. The Council, comprising 21 members from multiple disciplinary perspectives in health services and policy research, advises the Board and AcademyHealth leadership on the priorities and trends in new methods and trainings for members and the fie...
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Posted: October 2, 2017
Theresa Aliwarga, a Medicinal Chemistry graduate student and researcher in Rheem Totah’s lab, was invited to give a podium presentation of her research on CYP2J2-mediated epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) as potential markers for cardiovascular disease at this summer’s Gordon Research Conference in Drug Metabolism.
“I was able to show that... Read more...
Posted: October 1, 2017
Infertility can be a physically, emotionally, and financially painful experience for couples wanting to have biologically-related children. If a couple has been unable to conceive naturally in a 12-month period, they are considered infertile. Next steps are typically expensive and painful tests for women to determine the cause of the problem, befor...
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Posted: October 1, 2017
William “Bill” Howald passed away August 14, 2017 in Salem, Oregon at the age of 76 after a brief illness. After retirement, Bill and his wife Carole moved to Oregon to be closer to family.
Bill joined the School of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry as a Research Technologist working in the Mass Spectrometry Facility. He became the... Read more...
Posted: September 7, 2017
UW School of Pharmacy Professor Emeritus Lou Garrison was named a Change Agent in the 2017 PharmaVOICE 100 honorees. A global thought leader and teacher in the field of health economics and outcomes research, Lou is committed to advancing how healthcare decisions are made both in the United States and globally.
Lou retired from full-time teachin... Read more...
Posted: August 25, 2017
We are proud to announce that the American College of Apothecaries presented the 2016-17 Albert E. Rosica, Jr. Memorial Award to UWSOP Institute for Innovation in Pharmacy Practice (I2P2) Clinical Professor Don Downing at the College’s 2017 Fall Pharmacy Conference at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. The award, established in memory of Albert E. Ros...
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Posted: July 5, 2017
To recognize extraordinary excellence among our graduate students and faculty, UW School of Pharmacy established three new award programs in 2017. This first class of award recipients include Jennifer Sager, Outstanding Dissertation Award; Mark Bounthavong, Ryan Seguin, and Elijah Weber, Graduate Student Leadership Awards; and Danny Shen, Outstandi...
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Posted: June 28, 2017
In the spring 2017 PORPP alumni newsletter, director Anirban Basu announced the establishment of The Penny Evans UW International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Student Chapter Support Fund.
This fund, named in honor of our highly-esteemed, award-winning program administrator, Penny Evans, will support student activi... Read more...
Posted: June 6, 2017
After all their hard work, we wanted to learn more about our Plein Geriatric Pharmacy Certificate alumni and to learn: Where are you now?
Plein Geriatric Pharmacy Certificate alumna Laura Hart, PharmD, BCPS, is the Geriatric Pharmacy Fellow with UWSOP and is finishing up M.S. degree through Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Progra... Read more...
Posted: June 2, 2017
Klatt lab team’s findings published in Science offer solutions to increase efficacyMore than 1 million women are infected with HIV annually, and the majority of these new infections occur in young women in sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa having among the highest incidence rates. Tenofovir is an antiretroviral drug that is used to prevent HI...
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Posted: May 30, 2017
"Celebrating Today, Planning Tomorrow" brought together a host of disciplines to discuss healthy aging
Decades ago, geriatric pharmacy pioneers Joy and Elmer Plein foresaw the need to research the effects medications have on older adults. The Inaugural Research Symposium for the Plein Center held in February 2017 provided the opportunity to learn ...
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Posted: May 24, 2017
There is a rich tradition of stories that begin with…“we were sitting in a bar talking, when we got this idea.”
From the Marine Corps, to the Ironman Triathlon, and even Quidditch, all have their roots in legendary stories about beginning in a conversation in a bar. We may one day come to tell stories of the breakthrough in antibiotic resi... Read more...
Posted: May 24, 2017
UW and international researchers publish the most comprehensive international analysis on artemisinin combination antimalarials safety in pregnancy
Malaria is more common and severe in pregnant women, increasing their risk of miscarriage and other adverse outcomes. The adverse consequences of malaria in pregnancy require prompt, safe, and effectiv...
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Posted: May 24, 2017
Pharmaceutics Professor Shiu-Lok Hu and Kelly Lee, Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, received funding for research to create a vaccine against HIV. This research builds upon decades of research by these investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health and more recently by the Gates Foundation.
HIV is a highly lethal virus that... Read more...
Posted: April 30, 2017
ROGER WOOLF, ’85, is passionate about the leadership role pharmacists can have in the U.S. health care system. Growing up, many of his family members were in healthcare professions, including pharmacy. “My uncle was a pharmacist in Yakima,” he reflected. “Talking with him about his work helped me to see the potential impact pharmacist...
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Posted: April 30, 2017
PharmD student Richard Lee’s team, EpiForAll, took home the $15,000 Hollomon Family grand prize at the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) hosted by UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The HIC featured 20 student teams seeking to address problems in health, wellness, and healthcare through innovation. This was EpiForA...
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Posted: April 29, 2017
UWSOP’s student team Iris To, Nina Kim, Derek Louie, and Andrew Nguyen (third year PharmD students) came in second at the national Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Pharmacy & Therapeutics Competition. Competition is keen with 60 teams participating nationwide. Teams must review drugs for their hypothetical patients and create a dossier...
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Posted: April 4, 2017
The Royalty Research fund (RRF) is sponsored by UW's Office of Research to help faculty establish new research programs. The program is funded from royalty and licensing fee income generated by the UW Technology transfer program. These one-year awards have been offered semi-annually since 1992.
Med Chem Assistant Professor Mike Guttman was r... Read more...
Posted: April 3, 2017
Scott Grimm Scholar and Medicinal Chemistry graduate student Dennis Goulet (Bill Atkins lab) has been awarded the prestigious Magnuson Scholarship for 2017-2018, receiving the $30,000 award on the basis of his outstanding academic performance and potential contributions to research in the health sciences. The scholarship is funded from a $2 million...
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Posted: March 31, 2017
We are thrilled to announce that our very own Professor Emerita Joy Plein, ’51, ’56, has been named the recipient of the 2017 UW-UWRA Distinguished Retiree Excellence in Community Service Award!
This award is designated to honor a retiree for excellence in service that exemplifies the University’s values with special distinction and is cho... Read more...
Posted: March 31, 2017
Collaboration between UW School of Pharmacy and UW Medicine leads to promising breakthrough to ease daily regimen
An interdisciplinary team led by Professors Rodney JY Ho of the UW School of Pharmacy and Ann Collier of the UW School of Medicine has been working to develop a long-lasting (7-day) therapy for HIV and are already making advances into ...
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Posted: February 27, 2017
UW School of Pharmacy’s class of 2016 distinguished themselves by earning the No. 1 spot in the NAPLEX pass rate in the United States. 99% of our alumni passed the exam the first time they took it last year.The NAPLEX, or North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination, measures a candidate’s knowledge of the practice of pharmacy. It is just on...
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Posted: February 13, 2017
Giant cell arteritis is estimated to cost U.S. health-care system $1 billion in first year of treatment
PORPP faculty members, Joseph Babigumira, Louis Garrison, Denise Boudreau, Jennie Best, and grad student, Meng Li, published a research paper about the cost impact of giant cell arteritis in the open-access journal Rheumatology and Therapy.
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Posted: February 13, 2017
Just over 100 years ago, as World War I raged in Europe, a chemistry professor named Alice Ball was demonstrating the use of a gas mask when something went tragically wrong. The brilliant, young chemist died a few months later at age 24, likely from accidentally inhaling chlorine gas.
The riddles she had solved may be different from what our sci... Read more...
Posted: January 30, 2017
Pharmacy alumna and UW Medicine post doc receives 2017 AcademyHealth New Investigator Award to study benefits of end-of-life care planning in palliative care
UWSOP alumna Cara McDermott, Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.Sc.
was named to the 2017 cohort of New Investigators by AcademyHealth. The AcademyHealth New Investigator Small Grant Program is designed ...
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Posted: January 24, 2017
Scott W. Grimm was a long-time friend of Medicinal Chemistry and the School of Pharmacy. A Corporate Advisory Board member who enthusiastically supported our students and programs, he was also a leader in drug discovery and development via his 27-year career with AstraZeneca. When Scott died in 2014, his family and colleagues established a perm...
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Posted: January 4, 2017
Chicago Tribune investigation shows problems in drug interaction communications to patientsUW School of Pharmacy Professor John Horn and UWSOP alumnus Dan Malone were part of an investigative report, “Pharmacies miss more than half of dangerous drug combinations,” published in the Chicago Tribune on December 15, 2016. The Tribune spent months i...
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Posted: January 4, 2017
Venture funding to support clinical development of the company’s lead compounds
Impel NeuroPharma, Inc., a Seattle-based clinical stage biotechnology company announced a $36 million Series C round to develop a pipeline of drug-device combination products built upon its Precision Olfactory Delivery™ (POD™) nasal delivery platform.
The POD... Read more...
Posted: November 7, 2016
Over the summer, Dean Sullivan announced the leadership for the Plein Geriatric Pharmacy Center and some of the early planning activities.
Plein Center Director and Shirley and Herb Bridge Endowed Professor for Women in Pharmacy Shelly Gray will assume responsibility for oversight, direction and vision of all aspects of the Center, including the... Read more...
Posted: November 7, 2016
As a Navajo scientist trained in genomics, UWSOP post doctoral researcher Katrina Claw is on a two-fold mission to make a difference: As a scientist, she seeks to understand the role genetics play in Vitamin D insufficiency in Alaskan Native populations.
“I am like a bridge. I connect Native knowledge and Western science, but I am also walked ov...
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Posted: November 7, 2016
UW School of Pharmacy offers a novel approach to student training and patient care in Era Living residential communities. The program is a mutually beneficial one: in addition to their regular pharmacy services, residents receive supplemental medication expertise for which UW pharmacy faculty and students are well-known and student pharmacists have...
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Posted: October 31, 2016
Congratulations to Medicinal Chemistry graduate student, Amy Li, who was recently awarded an ARCS Fellowship.
The Seattle Chapter of ARCS Foundation contributes to the advancement of science and technology by funding PhD fellowships for academically outstanding scholars in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math at th... Read more...
Posted: October 31, 2016
Researchers recommend ‘caution’ when using the chemotherapy busulfan in patients with Gilbert’s syndrome
By Susan Keown, Staff Writer, Fred Hutch News Service, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Research published Thursday shows that a common genetic disorder ― one that many people don’t even know they have ― is linked to a mor...
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Posted: October 31, 2016
The University of Washington was well-represented at the 21st International Symposium on Microsomes & Drug Oxidations (MDO) held at UC Davis from October 2-6, 2016. Our faculty and alumni researchers presented drug metabolism and related area research during the Parallel Symposia:
Allan Rettie* (UW Medicinal Chemistry) - CYP2C9 and 4F gene... Read more...
Posted: October 26, 2016
Busulfan is one of our oldest anticancer drugs. Today, it is often used to prepare a patient’s body for a bone marrow transplant (hematopoietic cell transplant [HCT]) to fight various cancers. Busulfan kills some of the patient’s blood cells to ensure the donor cells will be accepted.
But busulfan is toxic.
The work to mitigate that toxic... Read more...
Posted: October 26, 2016
The UW, including the School of Pharmacy’s scientists, improved to 4th overall, up from 7th last year, and 3rd among U.S. public universities for research accomplishments in U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities list. Institutions from the U.S. and nearly 50 other countries were ranked based on 10 indicators that measure their ac...
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Posted: October 17, 2016
University of Washington School of Pharmacy alumnus, Jonathan H. Watanabe, PharmD, Ph.D., ’08, ’12, has been selected as one of three outstanding health professionals for the class of 2016 Fellows National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
The NAM fellows were chosen based on their professional qualifications, reputations as scholars, professional... Read more...
Posted: October 17, 2016
UW School of Pharmacy faculty highlight the important role of pharmacists as part of the healthcare team
Autumn brings back sweater weather, pumpkin spices—and health check ups for kids. UW School of Pharmacy Clinical Assistant Professor Rachel Firebaugh likes to remind people that, “Fall is also the perfect time for adults to get their health...
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Posted: October 5, 2016
UW School of Pharmacy's PharmD class of 2017 announced their class gift this week. They will work together over the coming year to make a P4 Class Giving Fund donation to the Doug Black Endowed PharmD Award, a scholarship that is given each year to a UW School of Pharmacy student who exemplifies an outstanding commitment to learning and the profe...
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Posted: August 19, 2016
Study published in JAMA Surgery compares effectiveness of two ways to treat intermittent claudication by evaluating outcomes that are important to patients
UW researchers found that patients with intermittent claudication, a form of peripheral arterial disease, who had procedures to restore circulation called revascularization had better quality ...
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Posted: August 19, 2016
Pharmacy study links lack of coverage to more unintended pregnancies, greater health expenses for employers
At companies whose health insurance plans exclude contraception coverage, female employees experienced 33 more unintended pregnancies per 1,000 women, and more unintended births and terminations. Such plans might also result in higher overal...
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Posted: August 16, 2016
Pharmaceutics researchers detect bacteria that counteracts protective drug
Increasingly, people at risk for HIV infection are turning to preventive drug measures to help stave off the virus. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy found that one such drug, Tenofovir, in the form of a topical vaginal gel, is metabolized, or...
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Posted: August 16, 2016
Three demonstration projects aim to fulfill goals of $800,000 CDC grant to NACDS
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) announced that the University of Washington School of Pharmacy (UWSOP), Bartell Drugs, and QFC Pharmacy will partner with Washington State Health Care Authority in a unique demonstration project that aims to foster...
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Posted: July 13, 2016
UWSOP Dean Sean D. Sullivan announced Dr. Lou Garrison's retirement from the UW School of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Research Policy Program (PORPP) effective July 1, 2016. "Lou has been a pivotal member of the PORPP faculty and will continue to be a world-class thought leader in health economics as President of the International Soci...
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Posted: July 13, 2016
Five UWSOP faculty and alumni have led ISPOR over the past 20 years
UW School of Pharmacy faculty and alumni are again recognized as leaders in health care. The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) announced the election of the Society’s 2016-2017 Board of Directors that assumed office on July 1, 2016. Many o...
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Posted: July 12, 2016
UW School of Pharmacy congratulates Professor Lingtak-Neander Chan on his election as a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (ACN) in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of nutrition science. Being selected as a Fellow is unusual for pharmacists. “I am honored to represent UW and the profession of pharmacy in this f...
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Posted: July 6, 2016
UWSOP researcher will investigate the impact medication adherence has on patient health outcomesUW School of Pharmacy (UWSOP) Assistant Professor Zachary Marcum was named to the University of Washington Patient Centered Outcomes (PCOR) K12 Career Development Program. This program supports the career development of post-doctoral and junior research...
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Posted: July 6, 2016
Faculty member Dr. Nanci Murphy will retire from her full time position at UW School of Pharmacy on July 1, 2016. Dean Sean D. Sullivan shared the announcement earlier this spring saying, “Nanci’s personal and supportive style have meant a great deal to students and her influence and effectiveness have been honored nationally with several awa...
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Posted: July 1, 2016
Pharmacy Ph.D. candidate shares tips for self-funding success
You would think three degrees from the University of Washington would take an enormous financial toll, but School of Pharmacy grad student Blythe Adamson, one of the UW's Husky 100, has been energetic and enterprising about finding funding.
“I will graduate with all three of my degre...
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Posted: July 1, 2016
Clinical content from UW School of Pharmacy’s Drug Interaction Database to be integrated into Teva’s DDI+ platform to help improve health care delivery
The University of Washington (UW) announced today an exclusive partnership that will allow the university's unique, comprehensive and high-quality pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenetic Drug Inter...
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Posted: June 15, 2016
Unique collaboration between UW and UW Bothell brings together the top of executive education value with the top pharmacist training program in the region
Student pharmacists at the University of Washington now have a tremendous opportunity to earn their PharmD and MBA degrees in just five years. The unique partnership between Schools at two diffe...
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Posted: June 7, 2016
2016 Highlight Stories: These stories highlight showcase the great work, service and achievements of our preeminent faculty and students in 2016.
In November 2015, student leaders in Phi Lambda Sigma met with Director of Student Leadership Programs, Nanci Murphy, to brainstorm how best to use a $2000 leadership grant awarded to create opportunit... Read more...
Posted: June 3, 2016
UW School of Pharmacy and UW Department of Economics congratulate Anirban Basu on his election as a 2016 Fellow of the American Statistical Association in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the statistical profession. For more than 100 years, the ASA has recognized exemplary statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statisti...
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Posted: May 26, 2016
For the first time, researchers have images showing how a virus pries its way past host membranesThree to five million people worldwide suffer from the flu each year—and it’s deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 250,000 to 500,000 people a year die from the flu. The people most at risk are those with compromised immune sys...
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Posted: May 10, 2016
Research shows that medication-related problems are one of the top reasons for hospitalizations and for older adults losing the ability to live independently, either due to competing side effects, falls, over prescribing, or improper adherence. Increasingly, people are living longer with chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, high cholester...
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Posted: May 2, 2016
UW School of Pharmacy researchers’ found large increases in oral anticancer drugs even in the face of increasing market competition
A new study published in the May issue of Health Affairs and authored by UW School of Pharmacy’s faculty members, Caroline Bennette and Sean Sullivan, illuminates the complexity of anticancer drug pricing and seve...
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Posted: April 15, 2016
“Thanks to the strong academic programs in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Washington, I have been well prepared for an exciting career in the pharmaceutical sciences,” said alumnus Ian Templeton. “Because of these strong programs, I now have classmates spread across many institutions, both public ...
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Posted: April 4, 2016
A look back at legendary pharmacist, civic and women’s advocate, Shirley G. BridgeAs we near our 125th Anniversary in 2019, we continue to remember our history and the alumni legends in science and pharmacy practice who laid the groundwork for our collective success.
BORN IN 1922 at Swedish Hospital in downtown Seattle, Shirley (Selesnick) B... Read more...
Posted: March 16, 2016
UW continues its consistent record by ranking in the top ten nationally
of Schools of Pharmacy. One of the smallest Schools at the UW, Pharmacy has been well-known for providing transformative training to pharmacy practitioners and researchers since its founding as one of the first three colleges at the UW.
“I am so pleased that our peers hav... Read more...
Posted: February 24, 2016
The American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education's Pre-Doctoral Award in Pharmaceutical Science has been awarded again to Med Chem graduate student Robert Pelletier (Kent Kunze lab). Pelletier has received a renewal of this Fellowship through August 2017, with another stipend of $10,000, to support his thesis project, "Mechanism of CYP2E1 Inhib...
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Posted: February 2, 2016
Dr. Thomas Baillie, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Dean Emeritus for the UW School of Pharmacy, has announced that he will be officially retiring from the University of Washington in March of 2016. Tom has had an enormous positive impact on the School of Pharmacy. He has been a tireless and highly effective advocate for our research, teaching...
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Posted: January 28, 2016
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy (UWSOP) and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) have formed a partnership to leverage UWSOP’s expertise in economic modeling of pharmaceutical interventions to support ICER’s growing body of work in new drug assessments. UWSOP’s Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Progr...
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Posted: January 25, 2016
UW School of Pharmacy and UW Medicine bring population and basic science together for novel approach to drug research
Heart disease remains a leading cause of death in the United States. While there have been advances in treatments, it is hard to know if someone is at risk for a heart attack until they show symptoms—which for many is too late. R...
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Posted: January 21, 2016
It's award season--not just for film, also for the UW School of Pharmacy!
Many of our School's faculty, students, post docs and alumni have been recognized in the past few months for their accomplishments.
Don Downing, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award
Institute for Innovative Pharmacy Practice (I2P2) Endowed Clinical Professor D...
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Posted: January 14, 2016
FREE health services Sunday, January 24, 9:30AM - 1:30PM at Magnuson Community Center: The Brig
Student health professionals & mentors from UW Schools of Pharmacy, Medicine, & Dentistry, Physical Therapy Program, and Speech & Hearing Sciences have teamed up to offer a range of health services to the Seattle community. The event is ope...
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Posted: December 22, 2015
In addition to being a newly-minted Ph.D., Jenna L. Voellinger is also an exhibiting artist.
Her image, “Human Kidney Tubule Cells,” created as a graduate student in the laboratory of Edward J. Kelly, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, graces one of the classrooms in the T-Wing of the UW Health Sciences Building.
Sel... Read more...
Posted: December 17, 2015
The UW School of Pharmacy is pleased to announce the appointment of H. Steve White, RPh, Ph.D. as the new chair of the School’s Department of Pharmacy, effective January 18, 2016.
White earned his baccalaureate degree in Pharmacy and a M.S. in Pharmacology at Idaho State University and began his career as a practicing pharmacist in the small t... Read more...
Posted: December 16, 2015
Kelly M. Hines, Ph.D., senior fellow in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry (Libin Xu lab), is one of three recipients of the 2015-2016 Global Fellowship by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP). This award, in the amount of $30,000, will support Dr. Hines's project, using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry (IM-MS) to screen standards of a...
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Posted: December 8, 2015
UWSOP’s Department of Pharmaceutics welcomed six new students this fall, here to join a great tradition of life-changing research. These researchers share a passion for discovery and come to our school from all over the world, and from all sorts of backgrounds: from English majors to chemists and biologists.
Originally from the Ukrai... Read more...
Posted: November 19, 2015
Carol Collins, Clinical Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics, will bring her expertise in drug safety information and the design of drug safety databases to this important project that seeks to create a mobile app that will help convey information about drug risks for pregnant women in collaboration with faculty from UW Medicine, UW HCDE and right...
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Posted: November 14, 2015
Train the trainer program empowering clinic teams sees significant improvements in outcomes
The UW School of Pharmacy is proud to celebrate Associate Dean Peggy Odegard, PharmD, CDE’s, recognition with the Golden Eddy Award as part of a Diabetes Education team of outstanding patient educators awarded in Fall 2015. UW Medicine Patient and Family ...
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Posted: November 2, 2015
Herbal remedies are a multi-billion dollar industry. Sales of natural product supplements have nearly tripled in the past twenty years since passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994. Fueled in part by the assumption that “natural” means “safe,” as well as rising costs for conventional health care, many people turn ...
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Posted: October 20, 2015
As a community, we were deeply saddened to learn that Geraldine “Geri” (Walcott) Brady, the widow of Professor and former Associate Dean, Lynn Brady, ’60, passed away in March.
The legacy she and Lynn left through planned giving will live on at the UW and School of Pharmacy for decades to come. The Lynn R. Brady Endowed Scholarship Fund ha... Read more...
Posted: October 14, 2015
Celebrate American Pharmacists Month and share your #HUSKYPHARMACIST pride this October!
Whether you are an alum, student, faculty member, preceptor, graduate, friend, parent, patient or supporter, we want to see your #HUSKYPHARMACIST pride!
Pharmacy Practice Changes in Washington
2015 was a big year for Pharmacists in Washington state. Under n...
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Posted: October 12, 2015
“It’s a micro-farm,” said Allan Rettie recently, talking of the home where he and his wife, Shannon, nurture a menagerie of creatures great and small. “If I was not doing science, I might have been a farmer” he said tongue-in-cheek. But it’s impossible to imagine Rettie “not doing science.” For 30 years he has been at the forefront ...
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Posted: October 5, 2015
Second year PharmD student Beau Chiba comes from a long line of UW School of Pharmacy pharmacists. When he graduates in 2018, it will be 101 years since his great-grandfather, Yasukuchi Chiba graduated. Beau is the sixth member of his family to attend UWSOP and his family’s story echoes the social, political, and economic ups and downs of t...
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Posted: October 2, 2015
At a combined 2015 orientation event with the department of Pharmaceutics, Medicinal Chemistry chair Kent Kunze welcomed four new students into our graduate program: Modestas Filipavicius, Lorela Paco, Dylan Ross, and Eleanor Vane. Pharmaceutics has four students entering their graduate program and one student entering their masters program. We...
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Posted: September 23, 2015
It was a summer of hard work and discovery for four undergrads who participated in the Pharmacological Science Summer Diversity Program (PSSDP). Hector Caldera (Fort Lewis College), Brianna Morgan (Southern Oregon University), Monica Pengshung (Southern Oregon University), and Hannah Rudolph (Agnes Scott College) recently presented posters at Mar...
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Posted: September 21, 2015
Medicinal Chemistry graduate student Mark Benhaim (Lee lab) has been accepted into the NIH-supported Molecular Biophysics Training Program. His proposed research thesis, "Deciphering the Antiviral Activity of Human Defensins: Inhibiting Influenza Virus Fusion," won him a two-year tenure on this predoctoral training grant. Benhaim's mentor, Me... Read more...
Posted: September 15, 2015
“Great scientists and great surfers share a common trait. They don’t position themselves where the big wave is now; they position themselves where the next big wave is going to be. PORPP teaches students to read the patterns in scientific methods, to understand the history that built up behind the last big waves, and to prepare for the ride o... Read more...
Posted: August 30, 2015
The inaugural Ji-Ping Wang Fellow is Faye Zhang in the Department of Pharmaceutics. Faye Zhang (pictured left) received her B.S. in Pharmaceutics from China Pharmaceutical University and M.S. in Biostatistics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She entered the UW Pharmaceutics Ph.D. program in 2010 and joined Dr. Jashvant D. Unadkat’s lab ...
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Posted: August 27, 2015
Dennis Goulet (Atkins lab), graduate student in Medicinal Chemistry, is completing a summer internship with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company headquartered in New Jersey. Janssen wanted someone with a background in biophysical characterization and an interest in antibody scaffolds (proteins that bring other proteins tog...
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Posted: August 14, 2015
Medicinal Chemistry graduate student Mavis Li (Atkins lab) has received an award from the Hope Barnes Fellowship Fund. Hope Barnes was a Med Chem graduate student who died in a climbing accident in 1991. Hope’s family established The Hope Barnes Graduate Fellowship to support and encourage talented graduate students in medicinal chemistry. The F...
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Posted: August 11, 2015
PORPP Faculty Member Ryan Hansen and Research Team Present Findings at the 12th World Congress on Inflammation in Boston, Massachusetts
UW School of Pharmacy Research Assistant Professor Ryan Hansen, along with Patricia Schepman, John Niewoehner, Michael Philbin, and Kavitha Damal of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, are presenting study findings in t...
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Posted: August 7, 2015
Cytochrome P450 enzymes are found in all living organisms and are essential in metabolizing a wide range of substances including steroids, fatty acids and the majority of pharmaceuticals. They control the elimination of most drugs and therefore strongly influence drug-drug interactions that can cause adverse side effects. P450s are also capable of ...
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Posted: July 30, 2015
New regimen would make it easier for patients and potentially clear residual virus
An interdisciplinary team led by Professors Rodney JY Ho of the UW School of Pharmacy and Ann Collier of the UW School of Medicine received $14M from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a long-lasting (7-day) therapy for HIV. The two co-Princ... Read more...
Posted: July 30, 2015
UW School of Pharmacy Pharmaceutics Clinical Professor Isabelle Ragueneau-Majlessi has been named a UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellow for 2015. The prestigious fellowship program debuted in 2011 to foster entrepreneurial thinking across UW.
Ragueneau-Majlessi is the co-author of the Drug-Drug Interaction (DIDB) and Pharmacogenetic (e-PK... Read more...
Posted: July 30, 2015
Ben Maldonato is busier than usual this summer. The Medicinal Chemistry grad student is one of the 2015 cohort of predoctoral students chosen to receive a summer TL1 grant from the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS). During this 3-month research experience, Ben is conducting independent research with faculty mentor Rheem Totah, atten...
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Posted: June 19, 2015
New Pharmacy Assistants Graduate, Improving Patient Care at Critically Understaffed Rural Health CentersWhen most of us think of our local pharmacy, we take certain things for granted. We expect that the medications prescribed to us will be in stock and that the well-educated pharmacist staff will give us clear instructions on how to take them, alo...
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Posted: June 17, 2015
Friday was a day of recognition and celebration! Over 100 graduate and PharmD students received their degrees and began a new phase in their professional careers.Associate Dean Peggy Odegard welcomed the graduates telling them, "We are so proud of each of you. Completing a post-graduate degree at the University of Washington is not for the faint ...
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Posted: June 11, 2015
Three prescription sleeping aids are associated with an increase in motor vehicle crashes, according to a study by the University of Washington School of Pharmacy and the Group Health Research Institute. The research was published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
The research, led by Ryan Hansen, UW assistant professor of phar... Read more...
Posted: June 2, 2015
An Historic Day in Washington
Washington will be the first state in the country to require that pharmacists are included in health insurance provider networks under new legislation (SB 5557) signed by Governor Inslee on Monday, May 11, 2015. This law will increase patient access to medical care from pharmacists practicing within their scope of pra...
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Posted: May 29, 2015
Three faculty members from the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program (PORPP) and two faculty from the Division of Cardiology received a $3 million grant to develop a comprehensive toolkit of pragmatic value of information (VOI) approaches and the corresponding software that can readily be used by clinical researchers and funders to es...
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Posted: May 29, 2015
We are so proud of University of Washington School of Pharmacy PORPP alumnus Joseph Babigumira, featured today in the The Whole U Faculty Friday profile!
Learn more about how he brings together his medical training, outcomes research, and passion for public health in resource deprived areas. He's able to make a difference teaching here at Univer... Read more...
Posted: May 28, 2015
Earlier this year, PharmD students, Arianne Duong and Stephanie Heeney, collaborated with other health sciences students and created a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of medication adherences.
Their campaign, which included radio spots (listen), UW Health Science bus ads, individual outreach, video, and social media, was named ... Read more...
Posted: May 28, 2015
Congratulations to James Lin, PharmD, '16, on being selected as the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) Outstanding Student Member of the Year for 2015!
I2P2 Endowed Clinical Professor Don Downing presented the award to James at the May meeting of the UW School of Pharmacy Practice Board. James represents a great tradition in UW Ph... Read more...
Posted: May 21, 2015
In May 2015, Anirban Basu, PhD, was named the next Stergachis Family Endowed Director of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program (PORPP) in the Department of Pharmacy at the UW School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Basu was a Professor of Health Services and an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy and Economics, and will maintain the affiliations with... Read more...
Posted: May 19, 2015
We congratulate Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program (PORPP) Professor Lou Garrison who was voted President-elect for the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). He will serve a three year term."The growth in numbers and the geographic and disciplinary diversity of ISPOR over the past 20 years h...
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Posted: May 18, 2015
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, PORPP PhD and Current K12 Scholar, Joshua A Roth, will receive the ISPOR Applied Paper of the Year. The award for his paper titled "Economic return from the Women's Health Initiative estrogen plus progestin clinical trials modeling study" (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2014 May 6;160:594-602) will be presented at the Seco...
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Posted: May 11, 2015
Washington will be the first state in the country to require that pharmacists are included in health insurance provider networks under new legislation (SB 5557) signed by Governor Inslee on Monday, May 11, 2015. Pharmacists will be compensated for the patient care they provide within their scope of practice, just like nurse practitioners and physic...
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Posted: May 7, 2015
In a basement lab deep within the Magnuson Health Sciences Building, a group of scientists works to decode the mysteries of two deadly viruses: influenza and HIV. Led by Kelly Lee, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry in the School of Pharmacy, they examine the viral fusion proteins found on the outside of “enveloped viruses” – viruses ...
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Posted: May 1, 2015
Robert Pelletier left a career in industry to pursue his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and follow his passion for teaching and research. The American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) has recognized Pelletier’s potential for leadership, and awarded him their 2015 Pre-Doctoral Award in Pharmaceutical Science. The award period begins in S...
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Posted: April 13, 2015
Department of Pharmaceutics Associate Professor Ed Kelly and graduate student Cate Lockhart (UW PharmD, '13) are undaunted by the challenge of researching the rare blinding eye disease, Bietti’s Crystalline Dystrophy (BCD). “Only one in 70,000 people has the disease and no one is doing basic research on BCD except our lab,” Kelly said. As he'...
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Posted: April 8, 2015
We are so proud of Pharmaceutics third year Ph.D. student, Alenka Jaklic, this year's School of Pharmacy Magnuson Scholar!
Alenka has had the unique opportunity to join the start-up of an NIH-funded project aiming to develop a novel microphysiological system (MPS) that recapitulates key aspects of human kidney function, including drug transport ... Read more...
Posted: April 3, 2015
Congratulations go to Brian Chapron, Cate Lockhart and Savannah Kerr and who were selected as Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) TL1 scholars starting Summer 2016. They will be participating in curriculum and interdisciplinary clinical and translational training in the program.
Cate will be conducting a pilot study of int... Read more...
Posted: March 27, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will provide $6 million in seed funding for a Predictive Toxicology Center at the University of Washington, enabling researchers, including Department of Pharmaceutics Associate Professor Edward Kelly, to develop more accurate in vitro models – organ-mimicking cell cultures – to test chemicals for thei...
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Posted: February 25, 2015
A research team, led by Scott Ramsey, director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research (HICOR), that includes UW Department of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program (PORPP) faculty members Sean Sullivan, Jeannine McCune, Aasthaa Bansal, and Gary Lyman, who also serves as a co-director at HICOR, ... Read more...
Posted: February 23, 2015
Pharmaceutics Assistant Professor, Nichole Klatt is one of five scientists selected to receive the prestigious 2015 Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Klatt proposes development of HIV cure strategies by using non-psychoactive cannabinoids as poten...
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Posted: February 6, 2015
UW Pharm.D. student, Kelsey Rasmussen, serves as a member of an interprofessional team of students who received a grant to research why some people return multiple times for hospital services. UW's Health Science NewsBeat originally reported on their research and the student team's fascinating findings are shared in this follow up story.
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Posted: January 26, 2015
Dr. Shelly Gray et. al. found a persistent link between dementia and some medications in a University of Washington/Group Health study published in JAMA Internal Medicine on January 26, 2015. The large study links a significantly increased risk for developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, to taking commonly used medications with antich...
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Posted: December 29, 2014
JOY AND ELMER PLEIN CREATED A LEGACY by establishing two funds for geriatric pharmacy research: the Elmer Plein Research Fund in Pharmacy and the Plein Endowment for Geriatric Pharmacy Research, in addition to a fund to support faculty development.
The Plein Endowment for Geriatric Pharmacy Research is awarded to students engaged in geriatrics r... Read more...
Posted: December 29, 2014
LIBIN XU, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry. He graduated with a B.Sc. from Nakai University, Tianjin, China, completed his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at University of Illinois at Chicago, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University. His current research focuses on investigating the role of 7-dehy...
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Posted: December 29, 2014
GARY H. LYMAN, M.D., M.P.H., is Adjunct Professor in the School of Pharmacy and the School of Public Health at the University of Washington as well as Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine in the University of Washington School of Medicine. He also is Co-Director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research and Member of t...
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Posted: December 12, 2014
The day after final exams ended in June, 43 UW pharmacy students met before dawn at SeaTac. Seventeen hours later they landed, bleary-eyed but eager, at Managua's airport. They queued through customs, bearing certifications from Nicaragua's Ministry of Health, and met their in-country coordinator. Then they set out for Esteli, a small village t...
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Posted: December 12, 2014
TAKING A MEDICATION AS PRESCRIBED IS CRITICAL to a drug’s effectiveness. But for some people, taking medications literally turns their stomach – and if a medication leaves a persistently bitter taste, many people, especially children and elderly patients, will take it inconsistently or not at all. In the online Journal of Biological Chemistry... Read more...
Posted: December 12, 2014
IT’S NOT OFTEN A PROMINENT RESEARCHER FROM SERBIA comes to UW Pharmacy as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Dr. Jelena Parojcic is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Belgrade In Serbia. Her areas of research include Biopharmaceutical aspects of Drug Delivery; Drug Release Mechanisms In Vitro and...
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Posted: November 1, 2014
U.S. News & World Report debuted a new ranking called Best Global Universities last week. It measures the academic research performance and global/regional reputations of universities around the world. The UW School of Pharmacy’s scientists came in 7th overall, and 5th among U.S. public universities for research accomplishments – and 3rd am...
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Posted: October 29, 2014
Congratulations to former UW School of Pharmacy Department of Medicinal Chemistry post-doctoral fellow, Klarissa Hardy, who received a $660,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to fight breast cancer! Hardy worked with Dean Sidney Nelson to study the affects of the anti-cancer drug lapatinib on the liver. “I learned a lot from Dr. Nels... Read more...
Posted: October 16, 2014
Jeannine McCune, PharmD, was announced as the newest Associate Editor of the Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics the official scholarly publication of the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT). Additionally, Dr. McCune was elected a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and will be recognized duri... Read more...
Posted: October 15, 2014
Not one, but two of our faculty were selected to receive the only awards given by The International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX). Dean Emeritus Tom Baillie was selected for the North American Scientific Achievement Award and faculty member Dr. Nina Isoherranen, was selected for the North American New Investigator Award. Both awar... Read more...
Posted: September 30, 2014
LOU GARRISON, PH.D., HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS INTERIM DIRECTOR for the Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Research Policy Program (PORPP). With a background in economics, Garrison has said he plans to continue to build on the success PORPP has accrued over fifteen years, including the selection of a new director. “Lou’s ten years as Associate Director of...
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Posted: August 28, 2014
Doug Black, UW associate professor of pharmacy practice, confers with students in the Bracken Pharmacy Learning Center. From left are Zsolt Hepp, Mitul Patel and Tulip Younes.
With the Ebola virus grabbing headlines, we sat down to talk with UW Pharmacy professor Dr. Doug Black, an infectious-disease specialist, to learn more about how he teache... Read more...
Posted: August 11, 2014
Have you heard about the critical shortage of IV products? We sat down with UW Pharmacy Professor Lingtak-Neander Chan to learn more about this dangerous shortage and the rising wave of so-called “hangover cure” businesses opening in Las Vegas, New York, LA, and South Florida offering vitamin and drug “cocktails” that are delivered intrav... Read more...
Posted: July 21, 2014
Provost Ani Mari Cauce announced the appointment of Dr. Sean D. Sullivan as our next Dean of the School of Pharmacy, effective September 15, 2014.
Sean came to the University of Washington in 1992 and was promoted to full professor in 2001 and associate dean for research in 2010. A pharmacist by training, Sean has held numerous leadership ro... Read more...
Posted: July 14, 2014
Dean Emeritus Thomas Baillie was recognized as one of the topmost cited researchers in the area of Pharmacology & Toxicology. The Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list identifies over three thousand researchers worldwide whose research was among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication. Baillie’s research...
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Posted: July 1, 2014
We asked our students about their favorite preceptors at Snoqualmie Valley Hospital – Ron Bennett (pictured), Elizabeth Fuchs, and Candy Naderi – and this is what we heard.
“They are wonderful preceptors. They involved me in everything an institutional pharmacist does from distribution to clinical pharmacy. They were very receptive to ques... Read more...
Posted: June 26, 2014
As a School of Pharmacy consistently in the Top 10 nationally, we’ve come to expect our students, faculty, and alumni to excel. We are just through the busy season of springtime conferences and we find, yet again, our students continuing to lead the pack. As always, we ask that you hold your applause until the end.
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Posted: June 23, 2014
The Chair of Pharmaceutics, Ken Thummel will take office July 1, 2014. The 4,800- member society was founded in 1908 to further the growth of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics in the United States.
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Posted: June 22, 2014
The response received to the first call was tremendous but only a select number of applications were forwarded to the second stage. All of the full proposals received were of a very high standard and it was difficult for the judging panel (consisting of a 50:50 split of Simcyp executive team members and individuals from Consortium member companies)...
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Posted: June 21, 2014
University of Washington faculty members from the School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine will study the effects of drugs on pregnant women with a $4.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.UW pharmaceutics professor Jashvant Unadkat will lead the five-year study, which will work on finding ways to predict how pregnant women and ... Read more...
Posted: June 21, 2014
Ho-Leung Fung, Ph.D., is editor-in-chief of The AAPS Journal.
At The AAPS Journal Editorial Advisory Board meeting at the 2013 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Antonio, I shared a list of the top 10 articles cited over the short history of our publication. These articles, shown below, reflect the diverse fields covered by The AA... Read more...
Posted: June 21, 2014
New Students (from left to right) Faith Stevison, Gabriela Patilea, Jake Kraft, David Wagner and Savannah Kerr
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Posted: June 20, 2014
OUR PRECEPTORS CONTRIBUTE TIME AND EXPERTISE, opening their practice to teach and mentor our students. The Wayne A. Kradjan Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award is named for our former Associate Dean, an exemplary clinical teacher and role model and awarded annually to honor one of our preceptors.
John Watkins, ’79, ’93, ’11, was selected... Read more...
Posted: June 17, 2014
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Posted: June 15, 2014
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Posted: June 10, 2014
Professor Ho to receive award at National Biotechnology Conference later this month. Professor Rodney Ho will receive the Research Achievement in Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He is receiving this honor for the high quality of his work and its impact. Full story...
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Posted: June 8, 2014
Congrats to pharmaceutics grad students Jessica Tay and Jenna Voellinger for winning second and third place respectively for their poster presentations in the Predoctoral Awards Competition at the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics conference in Dallas!
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Posted: June 6, 2014
University of Washington School of Pharmacy alumnus Mitch Higashi addressed the topic of innovation in healthcare at the Uppsala Health Summit this week. A graduate of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program (PORPP), Mitch is GE Healthcare's Chief Economist. Full story...
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Posted: June 2, 2014
The pain of losing a cousin who mixed methadone with alcohol inspired pharmacist Ryan Oftebro to turn his attention to preventing others from suffering the same fate. Oftebro, ’03, ’12, one of three pharmacist-owners of Seattle’s Kelley-Ross Pharmacy, is participating in a partnership between Public Health-Seattle & King County, the U... Read more...
Posted: June 1, 2014
Magazine article highlights the work of a company that markets an invention made at our School.
Impel Neurophama, a company started by Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho, John Hoekman, PhD, ’10, and a UW business school alumnus is showcased in a ‘Pacific Northwest’ magazine article about Seattle’s booming invention market. Impel is dev... Read more...
Posted: May 29, 2014
Dr. Beth Devine Leads Study Showing Electronic Records Cost Savings
The age-old joke about physicians’ bad handwriting is no laughing matter. An illegible prescription can have dire consequences. Beth Devine’s research with Everett Clinic showed the dramatic impact electronic prescribing could have in both small (1-20 providers) and midsiz... Read more...
Posted: May 26, 2014
for his project “Identification of MicroRNA Regulators of Hepatocyte Development“. The monies provided by the award will be of great assistance in terms of generating preliminary data for a future grant submission and will help with support of graduate student research activities.
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Posted: May 25, 2014
2010 graduate, Dr. John Hoekman received the UW Graduate School’s 6th Chapter Awardfor his dissertation “The Impact of Enhanced Olfactory Deposition and Retention on Direct Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery.”
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Posted: May 23, 2014
The fund was created in 2008 in honor of the late School of Pharmacy Dean Milo Gibaldi. He was dean from 1978 to 1998 and was renowned for his work in pharmacokinetics. He helped make the UW School of Pharmacy one of the nation’s premier pharmacy institutions. For full article click here.
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Posted: May 22, 2014
The award will provide the scholar with financial support of up to $25,000 for her research needs. Ms Nora Lee is currently in her third year of studies toward her PhD and she works as a Graduate Research Assistant in Dr. Joanne Wang’s laboratory. Ms Lee demonstrates academic excellence and is highly promising in becoming a productive research ... Read more...
Posted: May 20, 2014
Ken Thummel, chair and professor of pharmaceutics, and Wylie Burke, chair and professor of bioethics and humanities, and colleagues, recently learned they have received a five-year, $10 million grant from the NIH’s Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN) to create a Northwest-Alaska... Read more...
Posted: May 17, 2014
Li Liu, a PhD candidate in Dr. Jashvant D. Unadkat’s lab from Dept of Pharmaceutics, was awarded 1st place in the poster presentation competition at the ISSX-17th North American Regional Meeting, for her work on the clinical PET study “Can P-glycoprotein at the Human Blood-Brain Barrier be Induced by Rifampin? A PET Imaging Study”. Li was a... Read more...
Posted: May 14, 2014
Dr. Allan Rettie has decided to step down as Chair of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, effective June 13, 2014, after serving the School for almost 15 years in that capacity. During this period, Dr. Rettie has effectively guided the department through many curricular and organizational changes, as well as economic challenges. "It is to hi... Read more...
Posted: April 22, 2014
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) recently honored Dr. Brendan Stamper and his colleagues at the 2014 AACP annual meeting. Dr. Stamper is a former Med Chem graduate student who received his Ph.D. in 2010 and is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy at Pacific University in Hillsboro, Oregon.
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Posted: April 21, 2014
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Grant is a year-long training experience funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Research Resources. The program allows grant recipients to work as part of an interdisciplinary team doing research that focuse... Read more...
Posted: April 20, 2014
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry is pleased to announce that Hannah Baughman, a graduate student in the Biological Physics, Structure and Design program, has joined the Nath lab and the Klevit lab (UW Biochemistry) as a joint advisee. Hannah earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, in 2012. Her research focuses on...
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Posted: April 20, 2014
Dr. Brianne Raccor, Senior Fellow in the Rheem Totah laboratory and a Elmer M. and Joy B. Plein Fellow, has taken a position as Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. “I am delighted to be a new member of the faculty at Campbell,” said Brianne. “My excellent training in the Totah ...
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Posted: April 19, 2014
Nick Au, Jean Dinh, and Eri Nakatani-Webster wait for their moment on the stage during graduation exercises at Meany Hall. (Photograph courtesy of Meg Running.)
Congratulations to the following students, who received the Doctor of Philosophy in Medicinal Chemistry during commencement exercises held at Meany Hall on June 13, 2014:
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Posted: April 18, 2014
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry is proud to congratulate alumnus Michael Adams, Ph.D. for his recent appointment as Dean of the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. Michael did his graduate work in Medicinal Chemistry with the late Sid Nelson and graduated in 2003. His research inter...
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Posted: April 17, 2014
Medicinal Chemistry graduate student Ryan Seguin (Kent Kunze lab) has been awarded the prestigious Magnuson Scholarship for 2014-2015. The University names six Magnuson Scholars annually, one from each of the health sciences schools. Awardees are selected based on their academic performance and potential contributions to health sciences research.
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Posted: April 16, 2014
Former Medicinal Chemistry postdoctoral fellow Klarissa Hardy has received a 2014 New Investigator Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Klarissa, now an Assistant Professor at Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy in Nashville, TN, was one of 17 award recipients for 2014. The New Investigator program provides start-...
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Posted: April 15, 2014
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry welcomes Abhinav “Abhi” Nath, PhD, as its newest faculty member. Dr. Nath joins the department as an Assistant Professor, coming from Yale University where he did postdoctoral work in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
“We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Nath to Med Chem,” said Allan Rettie, PhD,... Read more...
Posted: April 14, 2014
Dr. William Atkins has been named the first Sid Nelson Endowed Professor in Medicinal Chemistry. Bill joined the Med Chem faculty in 1991. His research focuses on the biochemical nature of detoxification enzymes and on drug metabolism, with emphasis on biophysical mechanisms. He has been awarded several NIH grants for his research on enzyme systems...
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Posted: April 14, 2014
Med Chem student Nick Au (Allan Rettie lab) was recently part of a team of UW graduate students who won a “Best Innovation Idea” prize in the 16th annual UW Business Plan Competition. The team is developing a “smart” polymer contact lens as an alternative delivery platform for people with diabetes.
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Posted: April 13, 2014
The Department of Medicinal Chemistry is excited to host the “18th International Conference on Cytochrome P450s: Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structure,” to be held at the UW from June 18-22, 2013. This biennial conference has been bringing Cytochrome P450 scientists together in interesting locations for over three decades.
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Posted: April 12, 2014
Congratulations to Alice Ke, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pharmaceutics and ORISE fellow in the FDA Office of Clinical Pharmacology, who received the 2011 OCP Science Day Poster Presentation First Prize Award in October in Maryland. Her poster title was “Refinement and Validation of a PBPK Model to Predict Disposition of Drugs in Preg... Read more...
Posted: April 12, 2014
Carlos is camera-shy, but Nanci Murphy makes great cookies!
Dr. Carlos Catalano, Professor in Medicinal Chemistry, was awarded a Volunteer Recognition Award during the Health Sciences Center’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration on January 17 in the HSB lobby. The award winners are named by the UW Health Sciences deans.
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Posted: April 7, 2014
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Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) and the AMCP Foundation recently recognized more than a dozen distinguished members of the Academy for their significant contributions to AMCP, managed care pharmacy and the health care system. The honored members were announced Wednesday evening, April 2, at th... Read more...
Posted: April 3, 2014
Pharmaceutics graduate students Diana Shuster and Jenna Voellinger received Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training awards for the upcoming 2012-13 academic year. The ITHS TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program sponsors a year-long intensive cli... Read more...
Posted: April 3, 2014
Pharmaceutics graduate student Nora Lee and postdoc Cara Nelson did an outstanding job at the recent American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Annual Meeting. Lee (Adviser Joanne Wang) won the graduate student category of the poster competition in the Drug Metabolism Division. Her poster was from a study in our Obstetric-F... Read more...
Posted: January 9, 2014
The Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research has hired Gary Lyman to serve as the institute's co-director. Lyman is also an affiliate faculty member in our Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program (as is the institute's co-director Scott Ramsey). The Daily article The Business Journal article
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Posted: January 9, 2014
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At the UW Medical Center Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute event on January 16th, a UW School of Pharmacy project will receive a Community Volunteer Recognition Award. The award-winning project is a diabetes-education program for homeless and low-income populations at UW Medicine Harborview Medical Center. It h...
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Posted: December 12, 2013
The University of Maryland's International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research student chapter recently hosted a lecture by Sean Sullivan. In it, he gave a behind-the-scenes look at the steps involved in making an economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals. Read more.
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Posted: December 9, 2013
The American Epilepsy Society (AES) has announced that Rene Levy, professor and chair emeritus of our Department of Pharmaceutics, will receive the William G. Lennox—Cesare T. Lombroso Award during this week's AES 67th annual meeting and scientific conference in Washington, D.C. Levy is a pharmaceutical chemist and the developer and director ... Read more...
Posted: December 2, 2013
The UW Report to Contributors features a story about fourth-year pharmacy student Blaze Paracuelles. In the piece, Paracuelles talks about why he chose pharmacy, what he hopes to do in his career and what scholarship support means to him.
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Posted: December 2, 2013
L.D. Bracken, a UW School of Pharmacy alumnus, was the original creator of the Blistex ointment. The School of Pharmacy has long benefitted from the generosity of L.D. and his family over the years, as noted in this UW Report to Contributors story.
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Posted: November 19, 2013
In this Q&A, Professor of Pharmaceutics Unadkat discusses his new National Institute on Drug Abuse grant and its goals of making treatment and medications safer for pregnant women. Read more.
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Posted: November 7, 2013
This past weekend at its annual meeting, the Washington State Pharmacy Association (WSPA) announced its 2013 award winners — all of whom are individuals who demonstrate a commitment to the quality of patient care. Among this year's honorees were UW School of Pharmacy faculty members Andy Stergachis and Ryan Hansen and clinical faculty member... Read more...
Posted: November 4, 2013
Many healthcare and research experts predict that the era of personalized medicine is fast approaching. Soon, individual patients could have their entire genome sequenced as part of routine doctor's visits. Patients could face the possibility of receiving tens or even hundreds of genomic results with important clinical ramifications — from su... Read more...
Posted: October 30, 2013
Clinical Professor Michaelene "Micki" Kedzierski was interviewed for this radio story about how women who struggle with addiction can best ensure they have a stabilized pregnancy. Read more.
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Posted: October 25, 2013
In the Foundations of Interprofessional Practice curriculum, health sciences students are working together to solve real health challenges. Faculty member Jennifer Danielson is quoted in this article. Read more.
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Posted: October 21, 2013
Finnish pharmacy student Arto Heinonen poses in the front of this photo,
which was taken during a social event with UW students this past summer.
This past spring and summer, our School's chapter of the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation welcomed another exchange student. Arto Heinonen came to the UW School of Pharmacy from the U... Read more...
Posted: October 15, 2013
The six UW health sciences schools have formed a new interprofessional education initiative to improve the teaching and delivery of healthcare across disciplines—using a team-based approach to make health care more efficient and effective. Read more.
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Posted: October 8, 2013
A new, $4.7 million NIH grant will study how certain drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized and excreted in the body among pregnant women and their babies. Professor of Pharmaceutics Jashvant Unadkat is the principle investigator. Read more in the 'Puget Sound Business Journal' or 'UW Today.'
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Posted: September 2, 2013
The September issue of 'Columns,' the UW alumni magazine, profiles faculty member Shiu-Lok Hu. He is part of an international network of scientists dedicated to bringing promising new HIV vaccine candidates to clinical trials....
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Posted: August 29, 2013
Lou Garrison, assistant director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program (PORPP), co-chaired a task force whose new report makes recommendations for implementing and evaluating schemes that pay for health outcomes achieved. Read more.
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Posted: July 24, 2013
PORPP Affiliate Professor Andy Stergachis and his wife, JoAnn, have create the Stergachis Endowed Fellowship for International Exchange in the School of Public Health. The first recipient? PORPP graduate student Solomon Lubinga. Read more.
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Posted: July 18, 2013
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho's new startup, Nova TheraNostics, has developed a brighter, longer lasting and safer MRI contrast agent. It is among 17 companies that the UW launched this fiscal year. Read more in 'UW Today' and the 'Seattle Times.'
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Posted: July 11, 2013
LONDON, UK, July 12, 2013 — The development of personalized medicine in the United Kingdom and internationally is being thwarted by regulation and pricing systems that are not set up to enable its widespread adoption, according to a new report — "Realizing the Potential of Stratified Medicine" — from the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS),... Read more...
Posted: June 26, 2013
Screening for TB is one of the best tools to prevent the disease and its spread. Pharmacists throughout the region and state have been increasing their TB screening efforts. Our School and its students are part of those efforts. Read more.
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Posted: June 5, 2013
Graduate students Solomon Lubinga and Marita Mann have received Thomas Francis, Jr., Global Health Fellowships from the UW Department of Global Health. Francis Fellowships provide financial assistance to graduate students who would like to gain practical global health field experience in international settings. Read more.
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Posted: June 5, 2013
Class of 2013 gonfaloniere Melody Maa represented the School of Pharmacy at the UW graduation at CenturyLink Field. Gonfalonieres carry their school’s gonfalon, a banner that bears that school’s name and symbol. Gonfalonieres have compiled a record of outstanding achievement at the UW. Read more.
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Posted: June 3, 2013
'Columns' magazine, in its UW Foundation section, profiles PharmD student Laura Hart. The piece highlights the role that Professor Emeritus Joy Plein and the Plein Endowment have played in supporting Laura's impressive work in geriatric pharmacy.
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Posted: June 3, 2013
'Columns,' the UW alumni magazine, interviewed Patrick Gallaher, '95, founder of the School of Pharmacy's Border-to-Border relay race that since 1995 has raised money for cancer research in honor of his late father.
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Posted: May 23, 2013
PharmD/PhD student in medicinal chemistry Nick Au was recently part of a team of UW grad students to take the Best Innovation Idea prize in the UW Business Plan Competition. Their plan? To start a company to develop a "smart" polymer contact lens to provide an alternative delivery platform for people with diabetes. Read more.
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Posted: May 18, 2013
This week, at the UW School of Pharmacy Dean's Recognition Reception, Jeff Rochon, PharmD, '99, will be named the School's 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award in Pharmacy Practice, Rochon, the Chief Executive Officer of the Washington State Pharmacy Association (WSPA), is a leader in the Washington State pharmacy community who has had a significant i...
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Posted: May 8, 2013
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho received the Research Achievement in Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. UW Today announcement Center for Commercialization article
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Posted: May 2, 2013
In a fitting tribute to our late colleague, mentor and friend, the School of Pharmacy is humbled to share that we have formally established the Sid Nelson Endowed Professorship in Drug Metabolism. The seeds for the professorship were sown in December 2011, after our much-loved professor of medicinal chemistry and dean emeritus passed away sudde... Read more...
Posted: April 19, 2013
Starting on Page 67 of this issue of 'International Innovation,' there are four pages discussing the work of Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics Nina Isoherranen and our School. Read magazine.
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Posted: April 4, 2013
PRESS RELEASE
A.S.P.E.N. Announces Lingtak-Neander Chan as Distinguished Nutrition Support Pharmacist Service Award Winner
Dr. Chan honored for his dedication to clinical nutrition
April 4, 2013, Silver Spring, MD - The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) is pleased to announce Lingtak-Neander Chan, Pha... Read more...
Posted: April 4, 2013
William Canestaro from the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program has received a 2013-2014 Magnuson Scholarship. He is receiving this award based on his academic performance and potential contributions to research. Read more.
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Posted: April 1, 2013
A memorandum of understanding between the UW and the University of Namibia supports joint education and research activities, and opportunities for exchange in support of the newly established School of Pharmacy at the University of Namibia. Read more.
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Posted: March 12, 2013
This year, the School of Pharmacy is combining two of our signature events — the Dean's Recognition Reception and the Don B. Katterman Memorial Lecture — into one special event. This new program is intended to encourage our alumni and other members of our community to engage with the School and with fellow practitioners in an even more impactfu...
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Posted: February 10, 2013
The PhRMA Foundation recently announced that the UW will receive a $250,000 grant to establish a graduate certificate program in comparative effectiveness research. The UW Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health will create this program under the direction of Professor of Pharmacy Lou Garrison. Read more.
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Posted: February 6, 2013
In an effort to give more UW undergraduate students an in-depth look at what the pharmacy profession is all about, the UW School of Pharmacy is launching a new course for undergrads. Pharmacy 301, "Medications and Health: It’s not all about drugs," will be offered during spring quarter 2013.
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Posted: January 29, 2013
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics Isoherranen will receive the Drug Metabolism Division Early Career Achievement Award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. The prestigious honor goes to investigators who have received their doctorate within the last 15 years. 'The Daily' 'UW Today'
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Posted: January 23, 2013
Fourth-year pharmacy students Stephanie Friedman and Linda Lei took part in the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 16th Annual Clinical Skills Competition at the ASHP midyear meeting in New Orleans in December. The duo took top prize for their ability to assess a complicated patient case and create a pharmacist’s care plan. Read more.
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Posted: January 1, 2013
The UW Global Medicines program, co-founded by Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy Andy Stergachis and Professor of Pharmacy Lou Garrison, is actively working with partner organizations and other stakeholders on activities to improve the safety, quality and affordability of medicines. Their work ranges from places like Bangladesh to Malawi. Read more.
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Posted: December 31, 2012
'The Annals of Internal Medicine' has released a study showing that giving heroin users naloxone is a cost-effective way to save lives. Stergachis Endowed PORPP Professor and Director Sean Sullivan co-authored the study with the Director of Substance Use Research at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The Daily UW Today
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Posted: November 16, 2012
The Washington State Pharmacy Association has given its Distinguished Leadership Award to our late Dean Emeritus and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Sid Nelson. Several alumni were also honored by the WSPA for contributions to the profession, patients and the community. Read more.
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Posted: November 2, 2012
On October 30, nearly 450 pharmacy students, medical students, nursing students and physician assistant students convened as teams to apply their diverse skills in a medical scenario. This is one of a series of large-scale interprofessional skills training event for health sciences students at the UW. 'UW Today' article.
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Posted: October 25, 2012
A new report by a consensus panel of diabetes experts has been published in 'Diabetes Care' and the 'Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.' Peggy Odegard, Chair of Pharmacy and Bridge Endowed Professor, was the only pharmacist on this panel that looked at the risks and management of diabetes in older adults. Read more.
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Posted: October 23, 2012
I2P2 Endowed Professor Don Downing, who has long collaborated with the Tribal Health Authority, was interviewed for an 'AP/Huffington Post' story about the Indian Health Service's policies on providing emergency contraception to Native American women.
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Posted: October 19, 2012
In a recent 'Science' magazine article about researchers' efforts to create a male birth control pill, the work of John Amory, a UW doctor and reproductive biologist, was featured. Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics Nina Isoherranen is collaborating with Amory on a recently renewed NIH project targeting the ALDH1a2 protein for male contraception....
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Posted: October 15, 2012
Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy Andy Stergachis has been named a member of the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. He is one of three UW faculty members to receive this distinction, which recognizes outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Read more.
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Posted: October 14, 2012
Professor of Pharmaceutics Jashvant Unadkat has received the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Research Achievement Award in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug Metabolism. The award is for groundbreaking contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences. Read the 'UW Today' article. Read the AAPS press release.
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Posted: October 10, 2012
Institute for Innovative Pharmacy Practice Endowed Professor Don Downing is interviewed in this 'Everett Herald' story about the pharmacists' role in providing vaccines. In it, he notes how Washington state has long been a trailblazer for innovating and enhancing the pharmacy profession. Read more.
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Posted: October 1, 2012
Several School of Pharmacy alumni and affiliate faculty members are among this year’s award winners. The awards include Pharmacist of the Year (Beverly Schaefer, '70) and Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year (Ryan Oftebro, '95). Dean Emeritus Sid Nelson also received a posthumous Distinguished Leadership Service Award. Read more.
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Posted: September 25, 2012
VillageReach and the Barr Foundation recently announced the launch of a new program in Malawi to increase health care access through improvements in the public health supply chain. Faculty members Andy Stergachis and Shabir Somani will be part of this program team. Read more.
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Posted: September 3, 2012
At the Seattle Center's recent Global Health Experience Exhibit, a UW booth showed several videos of UW students involved in global health. One of the videos featured Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program student Norio Kasahara and his adviser, Andy Stergachis, talking about their medication safety project in Afghanistan.
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Posted: August 21, 2012
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded a five-year contract to Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC). Through this contract, the EPC becomes a partnership between Oregon Health and Science University, Spectrum Research, and the UW CHASE Alliance -- an alliance that counts our School's Pharmaceutical Outcomes Res...
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Posted: August 15, 2012
The Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jia Tong University has ranked the UW School of Pharmacy No. 3 in the world in its 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). More than 1,200 universities are ranked by ARWU every year.
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Posted: July 27, 2012
Faculty contribute to federal initiative researching how computer chips could test for drug safety UW researchers are part of an initiative to engineer three-dimensional chips containing living cells and tissues that imitate the structure and function of human organs. These tissue chips will be used for drug safety testing. Pharmaceutics professo... Read more...
Posted: July 22, 2012
The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences recently received its second five-year, $65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for its work transforming researchers’ discoveries into useful medical products. Among the researchers are Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho and alumnus John Hoekman, ’10.
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Posted: June 25, 2012
Erica Woodahl, PhD, '04, is working to improve participation in pharmacogenetic research and to build respectful relationships between researchers and Northwest tribal communities. She is part of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network and she is a faculty member at the University of Montana. Watch video
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Posted: June 20, 2012
This August, School of Pharmacy Dean and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Thomas Baillie will receive the 2012 Founders’ Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Toxicology. Read more in the Original ACS Announcement or in UW Today.
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Posted: June 18, 2012
In the simulated acute care environments of the UW Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies, more than 300 students from the Schools of Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine and the Physician Assistant program recently took part in an immersive education experience focusing on team communication at the bedside.
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Posted: June 9, 2012
A paper published in “Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics” by pharmaceutics alumnus Songmao “Ben” Zheng and four of our faculty members is featured on the journal’s “Top Ten Most Viewed Papers” list.
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Posted: June 1, 2012
Sara McElroy, '12, immediate past president the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP), is profiled in APhA's current magazine. In the article, which also highlights APhA’s Women in Pharmacy Campaign, McElroy acknowledges her female role models at the UW. (Article is on Page 16 of the digital magazine.) Read mo...
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Posted: May 29, 2012
The first-ever Seattle Science EXPO Day took place Saturday, June 2nd. Lots of UW programs and people were featured among about 150 interactive experiments, games, exhibits and performances. Faculty and grad students from our School were there to share their love of science and conduct a cool experiment. Read more.
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Posted: May 24, 2012
Program seeks to provide better understanding of drug transporters, personalized medicine. Professor of Pharmaceutics Jashvant Unadkat has started the UW Research Affiliates Program on Transporters (UWRAPT). It is a cooperative effort between the School and AstraZeneca, Genentech and Merck in which scientists are collaborating on research to faci... Read more...
Posted: May 9, 2012
As a graduate student in the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research & Policy Program (PORPP) and now as an assistant professor of global health at the UW, Joseph Babigumira has focused his research on the economics of unsafe abortions in Uganda. He and a number of PORPP faculty members have a new study out showing the negative impact these procedures...
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Posted: May 8, 2012
Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Micki Kedzierski is profiled on the May episode of 'UW 360.' In it, she and some of her students are shown working with patients from Evergreen Treatment Services and the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center.
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Posted: May 1, 2012
From Bangladesh to South Africa, the UW Global Medicines Program continues its efforts to improve the use, safety and affordability of medicines in developing nations. Pharmacy faculty members Lou Garrison and Andy Stergachis and alumnus Joseph Babigumira are a major part of these endeavors. Read more.
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Posted: April 25, 2012
The Lee lab, L-R: Long Gui, Mike Guttman, Natalie Garcia, and Tad Davenport, discuss membrane fusion at a recent conference in Whistler, B.C. Missing: Kelly Lee (or is he??)
Dr. Kelly Lee, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, has been awarded a $1.45 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study some of the more elusiv... Read more...
Posted: March 30, 2012
Eri Nakatani Awarded Magnuson Scholarship
Med Chem graduate student Eri Nakatani (Carlos Catalano lab) has been awarded the prestigious Magnuson Scholarship for 2012. The University names six Magnuson Scholars annually, one from each of the health sciences schools. Awardees are selected on the basis of academic performance and potential co... Read more...
Posted: March 29, 2012
More than 450 students from the UW Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy crowded into Hogness Auditorium at the UW Health Sciences Center March 6 to hear a nationally recognized physician and ethics expert and to talk about how to disclose errors to patients as an interprofessional team. Read more.
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Posted: March 28, 2012
The School of Pharmacy's 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award in Pharmacy Practice will go to a young pharmacist who has already made significant contributions to pharmacy technology, clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical outcomes research. Ryan Hansen is the vice president and director of technology at Kelley-Ross Pharmacy, the president of a clini... Read more...
Posted: March 14, 2012
The "Best Grad Schools: 2013" issue of 'U.S. News' hit the stands on March 14th. Our School ranked in the top 10 once again. Numerous other University of Washington professional and graduate programs were also among the top 10 in their respective categories — including the programs in medicine, nursing and social work. Read more.
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Posted: March 5, 2012
Last year, the director of the UW School of Pharmacy Mass Spectrometry Center, Dave Goodlett, developed a method to make mass spectrometry research easier. The method, known as Surface Acoustic Wave Nebulization (SAWN), simplifies how researchers introduce nonvolatile compounds — such as proteins, lipids and small molecules like caffeine — ... Read more...
Posted: February 6, 2012
Department of Pharmacy faculty members Lingtak-Neander Chan, Al Ellsworth and Annie Lam recently spent two weeks in Hong Kong training pharmacists in geriatric pharmacotherapy. The Hong Kong Hospital Authority commissioned this program as part of its larger effort to restructure the region’s pharmacy practice model. Read more.
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Posted: February 1, 2012
The February Chairs' Corner focuses on the School of Pharmacy's impact locally, nationally and globally. Chairs' Corner is a bimonthly message about various facets of the University from the chairs of the UW Foundation Board of Directors. These messages are distributed to Foundation Board members, UW deans and chancellors, and Advancement staff. R...
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Posted: January 18, 2012
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy is pleased to announce the establishment of an endowment that will support the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program (PORPP). The Stergachis Family Endowed Directorship is named after Andy Stergachis, PhD, professor of epidemiology and global health and adjunct professor of pharmacy,... Read more...
Posted: January 8, 2012
Fourth-year pharmacy student and Thomas Francis, Jr. Global Health Fellow Elise Fields recently completed a rotation in Windhoek, Namibia, where the UW has a collaborative relationship with the University of Namibia and the Ministry of Health and Social Services. During her time there, she "contributed a lot in such a very short time." Read more.
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Posted: December 16, 2011
Faculty members Dana Hammer and Nanci Murphy recently joined the UW team who presented at the international Collaborating Across Borders III Conference in Tucson, Arizona. Along with colleagues from across the health sciences, they highlighted the UW's accomplishments in advancing interprofessional educational initiatives. Read more.
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Posted: December 14, 2011
Nine UW researchers are among 539 new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Danny Shen, professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutics, and Jashvant Unadkat, professor of pharmaceutics, were among this year's Fellows.Read more.
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Posted: December 12, 2011
Special Announcement: Sid Nelson Endowed Professorship Inaugural Recipient Announced
May 6, 2013: Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Bill Atkins is the inaugural Sid Nelson Endowed Professor in Drug Metabolism. The seeds for the professorship were sown in December 2011, after our much-loved dean emeritus passed away. Our community rallied together t...
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Posted: December 7, 2011
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Shiu-Lok Hu, Gibaldi endowed professor of pharmaceutics, a $6.7 million grant to join the Consortium for AIDS Vaccine Discovery. He will collaborate with researchers from the Universities of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania on his four-year HIV vaccine research project. Read more.
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Posted: December 6, 2011
To accelerate genome sequencing applications for patient care, the National Human Genome Research Institute has announced the establishment of two major programs at the University of Washington. Professor of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy David Veenstra is part of one of the funded research projects. Read more.
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Posted: November 22, 2011
The UW chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science has received the 2011 chapter of the year award. This graduate student group, led by medicinal chemistry faculty adviser Carlos Catalano, seeks to inspire underrepresented populations to pursue the study of science at the UW and beyond. Read more.
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Posted: November 16, 2011
This past September, almost thirty UW pharmacy students led a global health project in Honduras — offering a temporary, free clinic in the village of Joya Grande, a town of about 660 people. Read more.
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Posted: November 1, 2011
Clinical Professor Micki Kedzierski received the Cardinal Health Generations Rx Award, Associate Dean Nanci Murphy took home the Bill Mueller Outstanding Mentor award, and pharmacy student Karen Craddick was named Pharmacy Student of the Year. They received their awards at the Washington State Pharmacy Association annual meeting in late October. Re...
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Posted: October 25, 2011
The School of Pharmacy’s Principles of Pharmacy Practice Management class has undergone some changes this year. The class, co-taught by faculty members Don Downing and Shabir Somani, has added an online video curriculum and is inviting special guest speakers, among other things. George D. Bartell made an appearance earlier this quarter. Read more...
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Posted: October 12, 2011
Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics Ed Kelly has received the Jaconette L. Tietze Young Scientist Award from the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. He will receive one year of support of $25,000 for his project, "Identification of MicroRNA Regulators of Hepatocyte Development."
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Posted: October 5, 2011
John Hoekman, Ph.D., Pharmaceutics, ’10, has received the UW Graduate School’s '6th Chapter Award' for his dissertation. This award is for exceptional doctoral research that encourages commercial enterprise and technology transfer models. Hoekman worked with Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho on his research. Read more.
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Posted: October 4, 2011
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho was among the six faculty members to speak in the UW Center for Commercialization lecture series, "Wake Up to the Possibilities." This program is designed to inspire UW students and faculty to pursue commercialization. Read more.
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Posted: September 21, 2011
Professor of Pharmacy David Veenstra has co-authored a commentary in ‘The Journal of the American Medical Association’ about the many different perspectives on personalized medicine. It considers how to resolve the conflicting views of entities that range from academic researchers to the pharmaceutical industry to patients. Read more.
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Posted: September 12, 2011
Last year, UW Pharmacy Cares, the School of Pharmacy’s consulting pharmacy program, partnered with Era Living Retirement Community’s University House to provide services to its residents. 'Columns,' the UW alumni magazine, showcases this collaboration in its current issue.
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Posted: August 31, 2011
In a recent opinion piece in 'The Scientist,' Epidemiology and Global Health Professor and Adjunct Pharmacy Professor Andy Stergachis writes about the need for increased scrutiny as drugs and vaccines go global. Read a UW Q&A with Stergachis here.
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Posted: August 15, 2011
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Skye McKennon recently shared her drug safety expertise with 'The New York Times.' The article discussed how extreme temperatures can effect prescription and over-the-counter drugs — and what patients should do to maintain the integrity of their medications. Read more.
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Posted: August 3, 2011
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Dean Thomas Baillie one of its 2011 fellows. This honor goes to distinguished scientists who demonstrate outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and make important contributions to ACS, the world’s largest scientific society. Read more in UW Today or the ACS press release.
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Posted: July 27, 2011
The patents are currently set to expire on seven of the 20 top-selling prescription drugs. Professor of Pharmacy John Horn spoke to NPR's 'The Conversation' about what these changes will mean to the millions of Americans taking these medications.
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Posted: July 20, 2011
Pharmacy robberies are on the rise in Washington state. Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Don Downing and Washington State Pharmacy Association CEO (and School of Pharmacy Alumnus) Jeff Rochon have authored a 'Seattle Times' article asserting that increasing the penalties for these crimes will make pharmacies safer. Read more.
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Posted: July 12, 2011
Professor of Pharmacy Sean Sullivan is the lead author on a study out this week that shows that the cost-effectiveness of type 2 diabetes prevention can be significantly improved when a diabetes risk score (DRS) is used to identify patients at highest risk for diabetes.
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Posted: June 24, 2011
Impel NeuroPharma, a Seattle biotech co-founded by Professor Rodney Ho and John Hoekman, Ph.D., ’10, has received a $750,000 research grant from the Department of Defense’s Chemical and Biological Defense Program. The project will assess how therapeutic drugs might break the blood-brain barrier to treat people exposed to chemical warfare agents...
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Posted: June 1, 2011
The University of Washington School of Pharmacy congratulates the recipients of the following endowed professorships. These prestigious professorships were made possible by the support of alumni and friends.
Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Don Downing
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Posted: May 25, 2011
Bridge Endowed Professor of Pharmacy Peggy Odegard will start her new role as the chair of the School's largest department on July 1. She will succeed Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutics Danny Shen, who will return to his full-time teaching and research responsibilities at the School. Read more.
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Posted: April 29, 2011
Pharmacy students Sara Forrester, Ingrid Larson, Lisa Rogers and Tracy Yep took third place in the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s National Pharmacy and Therapeutics Competition at its annual meeting in Minneapolis. This marks the third time in as many years that a UW student team has placed in the top three of this mock drug-review competitio...
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Posted: April 27, 2011
On April 27, a Comparative Effectiveness Symposium, "Preparing For New Health-Care Market Realities" took place at Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle. Professor of Pharmacy and Director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program Sean Sullivan was a symposium co-organizer and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy David Fl...
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Posted: April 25, 2011
Third-year student Karen Craddick was one of only ten pharmacy students nationwide to receive an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Student Leadership Award. Read the press release.
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Posted: April 20, 2011
Faculty members from the UW Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health have been working with the University of Namibia and the Namibian Ministry of Health for the past few years to create this new degree program. It is the first pharmacy degree program the country has had since it gained independence in 1990. Read more.
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Posted: April 13, 2011
Presenter Sue Merk, pharmacist and VP at OneHealthPort, will headline the School of Pharmacy 2011 Don B. Katterman Memorial Lecture, “The Future of Pharmacy Communication: Preparing for an Electronic Revolution.” In the May 10 event, she will explain how new technologies will improve the pharmacy profession while improving patients' lives. Read...
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Posted: April 6, 2011
Nora Lee is one of six students from the health sciences schools to be named a 2011 Magnuson Scholar, one of the highest awards given annually by the UW. Magnuson Scholars are chosen for their academic performance and potential contributions to research in the health sciences. Read more.
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Posted: April 6, 2011
The 2010 Distinguished Alumna in Pharmaceutical Science and Research is UW Professor of Pharmacy Gail Anderson. An internationally recognized expert on anticonvulsant medications, Anderson has devoted her career to helping better understand the treatment of epilepsy and brain injuries. Read more.
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Posted: April 1, 2011
Pharmaceutics Professor Rodney Ho was recently named an Entrepreneurial Fellow by the UW Center for Commercialization. ThePuget Sound Business Journal featured Ho in an article about this new UW entrepreneurial fellows program. Read more (PDF).
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Posted: March 31, 2011
Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho was honored as one of the UW’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers, under a new fellowship program initiated by Interim President Phyllis Wise. Read more
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Posted: March 30, 2011
A recent UW training event for students in pharmacy, dentistry, medicine, nursing and social work was part of a larger effort at the UW to improve the model of health care. The goal of these interdisciplinary training programs is to create a system of care in which all providers work together as equals to improve patient safety. Read more.
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Posted: March 22, 2011
Sid Nelson, professor of medicinal chemistry and dean emeritus of the School of Pharmacy, has received the Volwiler Research Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He is noted for scientific achievements and for providing leadership to advance vital academic research. Read UW Today.
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Posted: February 8, 2011
Impel Neuropharma, a biotech started by John Hoekman, Ph.D., ’10, and Professor Rodney Ho, received a Life Sciences Discovery Fund grant in collaboration with Benaroya Research Institute. Through the grant, Benaroya will further test the device Hoekman and Ho created that delivers drugs to the brain. Read more (PDF)
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Posted: February 7, 2011
Each January, the UW Medical Center (UWMC) holds a celebration event in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. At this year’s event, fourth-year pharmacy student Paul Algeo and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy Andy Stergachis received Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Volunteer Recognition Awards. These awards go to individuals who exemplify a commitment ...
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Posted: February 2, 2011
Students Sara McElroy and Andrew Heinz will become presidents of two prominent pharmacy organizations — the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists and the National Community Pharmacists Association Student Leadership Council. Read more.
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Posted: January 26, 2011
Professor and Chair Emeritus of Pharmaceutics Rene Levy has received the 2011 Arthur A. Ward, Jr. Achievement in Epilepsy Award from the Northwest Epilepsy Foundation. The award honors him for his contributions to the scientific and medical understanding of epilepsy drug therapy. Read more.
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Posted: January 17, 2011
Professor John Horn co-authored a study that found that older adults on common blood pressure medications could suffer dangerous drops in blood pressure if given certain antibiotics. The Canadian Medical Association Journal study has made international headlines. CMAJ study (PDF) Reuters article
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Posted: January 6, 2011
School of Pharmacy Professor Lou Garrison and Affiliate Professor Andy Stergarchis have joined forces in this UW Department of Global Health led effort. The program's goal is to generate and disseminate new methods and knowledge to assess and improve the safe and rational use of medicines in resource-poor countries. Read more.
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Posted: December 27, 2010
Bartell Drugs has donated 4,000 vaccine doses to the UW and WSU schools of pharmacy to support programs that provide vaccines to underserved populations. Read press release (PDF).
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Posted: December 8, 2010
Pharmacy students’ efforts to engage with public officials were noteworthy in 2010. Most recently, they met with Senator Ed Murray to advocate for patients and the pharmacy profession. Read UW Today article
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Posted: December 1, 2010
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy announced in November that the UW School of Pharmacy has received the 2010-2011 Transformative Community Service Award. This honor recognizes exceptional community programs that go beyond the traditional service role of academic pharmacy. Read more:
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Posted: November 4, 2010
Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Don Downing received the David Almquist Award for outstanding work in pharmacy enrichment and Professor of Pharmacy Joy Plein received the Rod Shafer Award for pioneering contributions to the field. Several alumni and preceptors also won awards from the Washington State Pharmacy Association. Read press release and UW ...
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Posted: October 14, 2010
Karen Craddick received a competitive Paul Ambrose scholarship to participate in the annual Ambrose Symposium in Washington, D.C, and to implement a public health project in her community. Read more.
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Posted: October 14, 2010
Elise Fields is the first pharmacy student ever to receive a Schweitzer Lambarene Fellowship. She went to Gabon this summer to work at the hospital founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Albert Schweitzer. Read more.
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Posted: October 5, 2010
Professor of Pharmacy Lou Garrison presented his research at the Health Affairs-sponsored conference and was featured in the October issue of the magazine, which focused on the federal push for comparative-effectiveness research.
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Posted: October 5, 2010
Professor of Pharmacy and Director of the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program Sean Sullivan received funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for a scientist career-development program. Read more.
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Posted: September 30, 2010
Professor of Pharmacy Joy Plein, ’51, ’56, has been honored by her undergraduate alma mater for exemplary professional and personal contributions that have resulted in national or international recognition. Read more.
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Posted: September 28, 2010
On Monday, September 27, the UW School of Pharmacy welcomed its newest class of Pharm.D. candidates at its annual Welcome to the Profession Ceremony, otherwise known as the "White Coat Ceremony."
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Posted: September 7, 2010
Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutics Ken Thummel and colleagues recently learned they have received a $10 million NIH grant to create a Northwest-Alaska center to study pharmacogenomics in rural and underserved populations. Read more.
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Posted: July 20, 2010
Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics Rodney Ho has received an LSDF grant to develop a safer and more effective MRI contrast agent. LSDF supports research to promote life sciences competitiveness and improve health. Read press release (PDF).
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Posted: July 6, 2010
This past November, the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program co-founded the UW Centers for Comparative and Health Systems Effectiveness (CHASE) Alliance. In its first six months, the Alliance has already gained ground in research efforts and training programs. Read more.
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Posted: June 26, 2010
Nursing, pharmacy, medical and MEDEX students collaborated in simulated clinical scenarios to practice teamwork, communication and patient safety skills. Read More.
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Posted: June 1, 2010
The summer issue of the UW alumni magazine, Columns, highlighted the work of Professor of Pharmacy Mary Hebert, director of the renowned Obstetric-Fetal Pharmacology Research Unit. The unit recently received a $5 million grant to continue its work on the clinical pharmacology of medications taken during pregnancy. Read more.
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Posted: May 13, 2010
Second-year pharmacy student Elise Fields has become the first pharmacy student ever to receive a Lambarene Public Health Fellowship from the Albert Schweitzer Foundation. She will spend the summer working on a tuberculosis medication safety project at the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon, West Central Africa. Read more.
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Posted: May 13, 2010
For the second year in a row, a UW student team made it to the finals in the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Competition in April. They took second place and received $1,500 to go toward scholarships. Read more.
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