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Florida's Colleges of Pharmacy Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Pharmacy Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy Palm Beach Atlantic University Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy University of Florida College of Pharmacy University of South Florida College of Pharmacy
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FPA Calendar 2013
JUNE 4-5
Board of Pharmacy Meeting Miami
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FPA CE at SEA: Anchorage, Alaska to Vancouver, British Columbia
August 2-4
FSHP Annual Meeting
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Southeastern Officers Conference Nashville, Tennessee
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Southeastern Educational Gatherin Sandestin
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13-14 Board of Pharmacy Meeting Orlando
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FPA Leadership Retreat
24-25 FPA Council, Committee and Board of Director Meetings
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Florida Pharmacy Council Orlando
10-14 FPA Annual Convention JW Marriott, Grande Lakes 19
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FPA Governmental Affairs Committee Orlando
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FPA Law and Regulatory Conference Ft. Lauderdale
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Last day to renew “PS” pharmacist licenses
Mission Statements: of the Florida Pharmacy Today Journal
The Florida Pharmacy Today Journal is a peer reviewed journal which serves as a medium through which the Florida Pharmacy Association can communicate with the profession on advances in the sciences of pharmacy, socio-economic issues bearing on pharmacy and newsworthy items of interest to the profession. As a self-supported journal, it solicits and accepts advertising congruent with its expressed mission.
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For a complete calendar of events go to www.pharmview.com CE CREDITS (CE cycle) The Florida Board of Pharmacy requires 10 hours LIVE Continuing Education as part of the required 30 hours general education needed every license renewal period. Pharmacists should have satisfied all continuing education requirements for this biennial period by September 30, 2013 or prior to licensure renewal. Technicians will need to renew their registration by December 31, 2014. *For Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Application, Exam Information and Study materials, please contact the FPA office. For More Information on CE Programs or Events: Contact the Florida Pharmacy Association at (850) 222-2400 or visit our Web site at www.pharmview.com CONTACTS FPA — Michael Jackson (850) 222-2400 FSHP — (850) 906-9333 U/F — Dan Robinson (352) 273-6240 FAMU — Leola Cleveland (850) 599-3301 NSU — Carsten Evans (954) 262-1300 DISCLAIMER Articles in this publication are designed to provide accurate and authoritative information with respect to the subject matter covered. This information is provided with the understanding that neither Florida Pharmacy Today nor the Florida Pharmacy Association are engaged in rendering legal or other professional services through this publication. If expert assistance or legal advice is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. The use of all medications or other pharmaceutical products should be used according to the recommendations of the manufacturers. Information provided by the maker of the product should always be consulted before use. 4 |
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The President’s Viewpoint GOAR ALVAREZ Pharm.D, FPA President
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We Should Take Pride in Florida’s Colleges of Pharmacy
his months’ FPA journal is dedicated to the colleges of pharmacy of our great state. The pages in this journal illustrate that we here in Florida are blessed to have the finest colleges of pharmacy in the nation. The deans, administration and faculty at each of the schools, through articulation of their missions, have provided the views of academia and how it sees the profession evolving in the not-toodistant future. They are poised to educate and train pharmacists to perform the duties incident to being healthcare providers, fully integrated into the healthcare teams of today and tomorrow. It is fitting that in this journal I take the opportunity to thank each of the deans of the colleges of pharmacy in our state for the overwhelming support that each of them made to the advancement of our profession through political engagement and involvement. The deans, through their personal deliberations and/or by inspiring and motivating their faculty and students, were instrumental in helping us achieve the legislative successes we had this year. The faculty and students from each of the colleges as well as pharmacists and technicians from every corner of the state, besieged the Legislature at the Capitol during Florida Pharmacy Legislative Day and Health Fair in March. We broke last year’s impressive record of participation by 300 students and pharmacists during Legislative Days. This year, I am proud to report that 437 students and pharmacists were in Tallahassee to advocate and support the legislative agenda that you, the FPA member, entrusted us to communicate.
I would also like to thank Dr. Angela Garcia and Suzanne Kelly, co-chairs of the FPA Health Fair Committee, for their exceptional coordination and training of students and pharmacists in preparation for the health fair. Concurrently, I had charged Dr. Garcia with finding ways of communicating the
This year, I am proud to report that 437 students and pharmacists were in Tallahassee to advocate and support the legislative agenda that you, the FPA member, entrusted us to communicate. “value of pharmacists” to participants at the health fair -- making sure that we communicated not only that pharmacists can perform point-of-care testing but what this meant in terms of potential positive health outcomes. She innovatively achieved this task by engaging students from all of the colleges of pharmacy in creating posters depicting the public health benefits of what pharmacists can do when engaged in the management of the con-
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ditions we screened for. These posters were displayed at each of the screening stations and elicited positive questions and comments from participants. However, in regard to our legislative agenda, I will say that there are plans and then there are plans. Plans are set based on resources, actual and anticipated, and then adjusted based on reality. Although a plan is set, a number of issues surface along the way that may detract from the original strategy. This year, I wanted us to be more proactive and lead some of the legislative agenda affecting pharmacy. Due to limited resources, we were somewhat successful in this endeavor, but in my opinion, not as much as I would have liked. During some of the discussions and lobbying efforts in Tallahassee, I was asked by a pharmacist what we were doing about a particular issue. I met with him and asked how he thought the issue should be handled. After a MAY 2013
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Florida Pharmacy Today Board Chair............................................. Jennifer Pytlarz, Brandon Vice Chair...................Don Bergemann, Tarpon Springs Treasurer...............................Stephen Grabowski, Tampa Secretary.........................Stuart Ulrich, Boynton Beach Member..................................... Joseph Koptowsky, Miami Member..............................Rebecca Poston, Tallahassee Member.............................. Carol Motycka, St. Augustine Member....................................Cristina Medina, Hollywood Member................................. Norman Tomaka, Melbourne Member..............................Verender Gail Brown, Orlando Executive Editor.........Michael Jackson, Tallahassee Managing Editor.........................Dave Fiore, Tallahassee
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lengthy discussion, I expressed to him that I agreed with him that this was a problem that needed attention. I also expressed that we had 25+ issues on the table and resources to deal with only half of them at best. During my conversation with him I learned that he was not an FPA member. This has now been remedied. I also learned that he was not active in any local, state or national pharmacy organization and as such was not aware of any mechanism by which he could have his word heard and/or financially support a cause. At that moment, he took out his checkbook and wrote a check out to the PACCE, fully understanding that the issue in question would more than likely NOT be addressed this session, but now engaged in the knowledge that we cannot always wait for a concern to surface and THEN give. We must build our resources (war chest) now so that we can be more proactive in the future. Having said this, I will say that we were very successful in getting a number of issues on our legislative agenda passed favorably and kept others that would have been detrimental to the profession from passing. Mr. Jackson will share some of the details of the session in his column next month. I would like to thank each of you who took an active role by communicating with legislators when requested, as these efforts had an incredible impact that ultimately caused us to be successful. Many of you contacted your legislators by phone, in person, via letter and e-mail. An army of students from all of the colleges were prepared, in advance, and sent tweets to legislators when prompted. I cannot overstate the difference that each of you made. I would also like to thank President Connie Hogrefe, Chair Paul Egers and the leadership from FSHP with whom we solidly stood united throughout this contentious legislative session. We won victories such as defeating the tech ratio expansion issue that you so overwhelmingly asked us to do, such as removing language that
would have burdened pharmacists with notifications to physicians each time a biosimilar drug was substituted, and such as removing language that would have allowed physician assistants to dispense medication. We also dealt with mail-order issues, PBM reform issues, funding the PDMP program, physician dispensing issues and many others. Your FPA leadership was also very actively representing you, not only at the Legislature, but at Board of Pharmacy hearings, many of which dealt with compounding and other practice matters. Also, many thanks to Michael Jackson, Chris Heil, Tian Merren and the rest of the FPA staff for the monumental task of putting the event together as they do each year. They make it seem as if it happens all by itself and without effort. A great deal of planning and execution goes into the event, and I am thankful we have the team we have at the FPA. In fact, this year we were pleasantly surprised by having the ability for our students participate in a “mock senate hearing” in which the students had the chance to debate and vote on a pharmacy-related issue. That was exciting to see. Lastly, as our primary long-term goal strategy, at every opportunity in our conversations with legislators and policy makers, we educated and advocated that pharmacists are well-educated, well-trained and highly accessible health care providers ready to fill the patient care gap that is imminent. We also reminded them of the need for us to be recognized as health care providers in the law. n “Join the Evolution Revolution … Transform the Practice of Pharmacy.” Goar Alvarez, Pharm.D. President
Executive Insight by michael jackson, RPh Michael Jackson, BPharm, EVP & CEO, Florida Pharmacy Association
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Building an Advocacy Plan
s you read this month’s message, we have completed another legislative session here in Tallahassee. Each year, starting the first Tuesday of March, members of the Florida House and Senate make their way to Tallahassee to begin discussions on various policy issues that determine what we may or may not be able to do as pharmacists. It is a complicated system of governance, however, it is generally a transparent program of making laws. Once the Legislature writes something into law, it may be necessary for the Florida Board of Pharmacy to develop rules to implement that law. Generally, this is the end result of a rather long and comprehensive advocacy program that begins long before the Legislature convenes. The purpose of this article is to help our members understand the beginning, the middle and the end of how and why policy is formed. Traditionally, revisions to public policy begin with grassroots members who feel that there is a need to change the way that things are done. Members may meet with their local county pharmacy associations or in some cases may approach the FPA policy-making process directly by submitting a resolution for the House of Delegates to consider at the annual meetings of the Florida Pharmacy Association. This summer in Orlando, the FPA will be considering several resolutions that advocate for policy changes. FPA members and unit associations are invited to submit resolutions using formats published in the October, November and December 2012 issues of Florida Pharmacy Today. Resolutions are crafted in such a way as to direct the FPA to do something, not do something, to support something, to not support something, to oppose something or to
not oppose something. Individual members who submit their own resolutions should plan to attend the annual meetings and partner with one of FPA’s invited or affiliated organizations to get their issues read into the record. The submission deadline for resolutions to be considered at the annual meetings of the FPA is March 15 of each year of the annual meeting.
Individual members who submit their own resolutions should plan to attend the annual meetings and partner with one of FPA’s invited or affiliated organizations to get their issues read into the record. Once the resolutions are submitted to the House of Delegates, which consists of representatives from invited and affiliated organizations in Florida, delegates will debate the issues in the proposed policy and help the FPA form a position, policy or action statement. For example, the Association is learning that some pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) are auditing prescription refill records to see if prescriptions are being refilled “after” the prescribing practitioner has died. The PBM may take the position that
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the physician-patient relationship has ended upon the death of the prescribing practitioner. However, the pharmacy industry may feel that the prescription was valid when the prescription was written and the refills should survive the death of the physician as the patient would not have been seen until the refills are exhausted or the prescription has expired. A resolution may call the FPA to form either a policy statement on this issue or seek relief from the Board of Pharmacy, Office of Insurance Regulation or the Florida Legislature where applicable. Any resolution presented before the House gives an opportunity for the general membership to have input through their delegates and elected officers. All members have an opportunity to observe the debate, and upon occasion, the House Speaker has recognized non-delegate convention participants to comment on technical issues that members of the FPA House of Delegates may not be familiar with. Once resolutions MAY 2013 |
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2013 FPA Board of Directors The Florida Pharmacy Association gratefully acknowledges the hard work and dedication of the following members of the FPA leadership who work deligently all year long on behalf of our members.
Bob Parrado.............................................................................. Chairman of the Board Goar Alvarez ................................................................................................FPA President Terry Gubbins............................................................................................ President Elect Betty Harris ............................................................................................................Treasurer Eric Alvarez.................................................Speaker of the House of Delegates Gary Koesten.................................Vice Speaker of the House of Delegates Preston McDonald, Director............................................................................ Region 1 Michael Hebb, Director ......................................................................................Region 2 Eva Sunell, Director ..............................................................................................Region 3 Raul N. Correa, Director ...................................................................................Region 4 Jeffery Parrado, Director ...............................................................................Region 5 Scott Tomerlin, Director.....................................................................................Region 6 Paul Rohrbaugh, Director.................................................................................. Region 7 Raul Gallo, Director.................................................................................................Region 8 Paul Elias, Director.................................................................................................Region 9 Constance Hogrefe.............................................................................. President FSHP Michael Jackson........................................Executive Vice President and CEO
Florida Pharmacy Today Journal Board Chair......................................................Jennifer Pytlarz, jlc_rxdoc@hotmail.com Vice Chair......................................................... Don Bergemann, don@bceinfo.com Treasurer....................Stephen Grabowski, sgrabowski@seniormmc.com Secretary...................................................................Stuart Ulrich, Stuarx@aol.com Member.................................................Joseph Koptowsky, docjik1215@aol.com Member........................Rebecca Poston, rebecca_poston@doh.state.fl.us Member....................................................... Carol Motycka, motycka@cop.ufl.edu Member........................................................Cristina Medina, cmmedina@cvs.com Member................................................................Norman Tomaka, FLRX9@aol.com Member................... Verender Gail Brown, brownvgrx4304@hotmail.com Executive Editor................Michael Jackson, mjackson@pharmview.com Managing Editor...................Dave Fiore, dave@fiorecommunications.com
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are debated and placed into FPA’s policy or action plan, the issues are presented to the FPA Board of Directors for final approval and implementation. Some of the resolutions that require significant work may be referred to various standing committees, councils or workgroups. Others may be directed to FPA staff for issues related to FPA operating policy. Issues that require the FPA to seek legislative or rule changes are referred to the FPA Governmental Affairs Committee, which will review and prioritize the FPA’s advocacy program. Much is considered in this plan that involves not only the Governmental Affairs Committee members, but also the elected officers who have seats on that advisory group. The Committee will evaluate the legislative landscape and determine what resources are needed to fulfill a successful legislative campaign. For example, if there is a need to change Florida laws to address how PBMs are reclassifying refill prescriptions after a physician dies, there may need to be a change in the definition of a prescription or a revision of statutes that define how pharmacies are being audited. Depending on the issue, we may see significant opposition from both the PBM, auditing and insurance industries. The Governmental Affairs Committee will have to fight their objections to proposed changes by finding a good House and Senate bill sponsor and developing “killer” talking points to make it easy for a state senator or representative to argue our point of view on the issue. The association will also need full engagement by all of our members and not just a few that this issue has directly affected. Members will get messages from the FPA to reach out to their policy makers and discuss with them how these bills would affect access and costs related to the providing of pharmacy services. Even good engagement by the membership may not be enough. Prior to the legislative session beginning, political campaigns solicit financial support from the FPA. Ideally, we should have enough funds in our political action committee account to generously support most major campaigns and candidates, particularly those candidates who have an in-
terest in health care. In reality, support for our PACCE account has come primarily from only a small percentage of our membership. This means that we have to be highly selective in where our PACCE funds go. While in many cases it may fall short of our goals, we still are able to forage strong working relationships with House and Senate members sympathetic to our causes. On occasion, we may run across an issue that the profession is not fully united on. This is not uncommon with the diversity of stakeholders within our profession. For example, we may have members who are affiliated with the managed care industry. The association’s position on PBM issues may be in conflict with their opinions and thoughts on bills related to managed care. The best way to overcome this is to facilitate workgroups and find a way to reach common ground before the Legislature begins their discussions on bills. Otherwise, the end result will likely be that debated issues in Senate and House Committees and on the floor of both chambers will result
in both sides being handed a legislative product that nobody can live with. Remember, that there are no pharmacists serving in the Florida House or Senate. Legislators have no expertise in what our industry is all about and end up making decisions on what they hear, are told or what their beliefs may be. Sometimes they may end up making decisions on information that is incorrect or flawed. As members of the Florida Pharmacy Association, you can have a significant impact on how policy decisions are shaped within Florida government. You just have to get to know who your state senator or state representative is. They are your neighbors and local community leaders. There are many who you either do business with or who does business with you. They attend your churches or synagogues. They want to get to know what is on your mind and what your interests are. Now that the session is over, you have an opportunity to meet with them before they make plans to come back to Tallahassee in 2014 to engage in 60 more days of healthcare policy making.
Often, our members may not be sure what to say when making plans to visit with legislators. We publish a significant amount of information of pharmacy issues in Florida Pharmacy Today and in Stat News. Also, our annual and regional meetings are attended by FPA leadership who would be happy to sit down with you to discuss pharmacy issues. Finally, join our pharmacy advocates and be a PACCE supporter. Getting and keeping our friends elected helps our ability to shape good public policy. I will be looking forward to seeing all of you at the J. W. Marriott this summer in Orlando. n
Florida Pharmacy Foundation is Proud to Announce 2013 Scholarship Winners Gina Gayed was awarded the James A. Mincy Independent Pharmacist Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. Gina is a secondyear pharmacy student at Florida A & M University. She was inspired to study pharmacy by her sister who also attended FAMU.
Xavier Thompson was awarded the H. Gary and Carolyn S. Koesten Family Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. Xavier is a third-year pharmacy student at Nova Southeastern University. He is passionate about becoming a pharmacist because of the potential for helping patients.
Danielle Padgett was awarded the James B. and Patsey Powers Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. Danielle is a third-year pharmacy student at Nova Southeastern University. Danielle is a member of the Florida Pharmacy Association and is proud of the contributions it and the Foundation make to the practice of pharmacy.
Vongai J. Majekwana was awarded the Walgreens Scholarship in the amount of $1,500. Vongai is a third-year student at Nova Southeastern University. He looks forward to practicing patient-centered care as a pharmacist.
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The Florida A&M College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Providing Academic Excellence, Research Superiority and Community Service The challenges facing today´s health care industry are enormous. This is especially true as the role of pharmacists have changed. Educators have the awesome responsibility and task of preparing tomorrow´s future practitioners to enter the profession of pharmacy. As educators we continually ask ourselves: ¨How do we train a cadre of premier health professionals poised to provide exceptional patient care, who are able to think critically to solve complex problems while at the same time stressing the need to give back to the local and global communities in which we live? ¨ Here at Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (COPPS), we know that blending academics, research and community service is creating a niche for us like no other program! This year we are building the infrastructure to solidify this niche through careful planning involving our faculty, students, community leaders and, in some cases, other health professionals as we provide interprofessional learning activities. Academic Excellence Several changes in our educational delivery that have been incorporated in some of our classes this year include: ■■ Greater use of audio response systems in classes to determine real-time comprehension of lectures ■■ Use of synchronous technology/video conferencing to deliver classroom instruction to Crestview with additional instructional sites becoming online this year ■■ Use of team-based learning in key skills labs offered during the P2 and P3 year where complex patient cases are analyzed and discussed using student teams/groups ■■ Planning interprofessional activities with the School of Nursing to provide a synergy for learning Additionally, the Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement (CARE) Program was expanded this year by providing consistent funding for 12
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both faculty and students to serve as tutors for specific courses. A consistent assessment process to evaluate the success of the center has been implemented by our newly appointed Assistant Dean for Student Services, Dr. Marvin Scott. Research Superiority The College has $21,965,365 in committed research grants and contracts for the 2012-2013 FAMU College of Pharmacy Dean Dr. Michael D. Thompson Academic Year. This speaks incredibly well to the ability of our faculty to receive funding for addressing key research and service issues that have local, national and global implications. We see the connection between research and contract acquisitions involving patient care on student training and community improvement. Last summer, the College received a $5.6 million grant for Cancer Health Disparities under the direction of Dr. Karam Soliman, which provides our faculty and graduate students with the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge basic science research. Moreover, our
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students enrolled in the Institute of Public Health (IPH) are given the opportunity to work with their professors and provide community outreach interventions. Also, the Research Centers for Minority Institutions (RCMI) continues to expand our research infrastructure while other professors have secured extramural funding from a variety of sources. Recently, the American Pharmacist Association (APhA) selected our College as one of 19 Colleges of pharmacy to participate in a videotaping which highlights the College´s accomplishments with respect to training our students and faculty in providing pharmaceutical care to underserved and underrepresented patients. On January 9, 2013, APhA authorized a film crew to fly from CBS Headquarters in New York to film Dr. Otis Kirksey, Dr. Angela Singh and Dr. Jovan Miles regarding their care programs in diabetes medication therapy management, smoking cessation and chronic disease wellness, respectively. Contracts secured with various clinics and governmental agencies provide the clinical settings in which patient care, student training and scholarly activity thrive. The College is committed to expanding research this year through the implementation of a major Health Disparities Center that will be interdisciplinary and serve as a major effort to expand training a workforce to eliminate health disparities and a center to attract external research funding. Student Research Last summer, graduate students of the FAMU COPPS student chapter of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) hosted a conference for this region involving other schools and colleges of pharmacy. The activities of student research is described in a video located on the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences website and can be viewed by selecting the research tab, then the Student Research sub-tab. Every year, P4 pharmacy students are required to complete research projects prior to graduation and to present those findings at a professional meeting. This year, the National Diamondback Pharmacy Alumni Council provided $14,000 to assist the College with sending them to Las Vegas to present poster presentations at the ASHP Clinical Midyear Meeting. Our students had the opportunity to share their research findings with other pharmacy professionals from many institutions and health care institutions from across the country. Community Service In 2009, the College of Pharmacy was awarded The President’s Honor Roll for outstanding community service provided by our Pharm.D. students. Our student volunteers averaged 25,000 hours per graduating class. In addition, the College continues to enjoy providing pharmaceutical care through our contract pharmacies located in Tallahassee (Neighborhood Health Center, FAMU Pharmacy at the Leon
County Public Health), Tampa (Johnnie Ruth Clarke) and Jacksonville (Duval County Health Department). Taking our expertise to the community is one of the most rewarding experiences our College offers. Community service is part of our mission and provides a rich environment for student training and life-long experiences. Our faculty is engaged in a variety of programs that provide education for patients with Diabetes, HIV, hypertension, smoking cessation, anticoagulant monitoring and other disease states. In addition, we provide consultations with medical providers in all of our affiliated clinics. Wave of the Future The College of Pharmacy will develop an inter-professional Center for Health Disparities during Spring 2013. This Center will provide research, education and community-related activities to help eliminate a wide variety of health inequities in underserved populations. The Center will explore and recommend models of care designed to eliminate disparities and will serve as a magnet for future research in a variety of areas. More information will be available at pharmacy.famu. edu when details have been finalized. The College has also met with administrators in the School of Nursing to discuss how both schools can work together to provide joint seminars, research and other projects. It is the only college of pharmacy to have an accredited Institute of Public Health, and the interactions between pharmacy, nursing and public health promise to be an innovative and rewarding experience for our students. Understanding the ¨team approach¨ environment is critical to our overall success as a profession. FAMU COPPS is on the move! Academic excellence, research superiority and community service is what we do! Thanks to the faculty, staff and students we are shaping the College for the future!
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Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Pharmacy Students from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Pharmacy have gained national recognition for their community service efforts in recent months. Aimed at repeating their 2012 national award-winning volunteer efforts, LECOM students embarked on the secondannual Script Your Future Challenge in February. They organized 27 service events in Bradenton, Fla. and Erie, Pa., to spread the word on how patients can safely and properly follow their medication prescriptions. Students contributed more than 800 volunteer hours at these events and helped to counsel more than 600 people about the importance of taking prescription medications as directed. This year, working with the College of Medicine students, the future pharmacists helped produce a LECOM Script Your Future video. This public service announcement reached over 1 million viewers as it was aired on local TV, in movie theatres and was heard on radio stations in Florida and Pennsylvania. (To view the video visit: http://www.lecom.edu/ scriptyourfuture.) Last year, the National Consumers League bestowed the Challenge Award and recognized LECOM as one of the top five schools that participated in the Script Your Future program, an achievement LECOM students hope to reach once more. “An important part of being a professional is giving back to your community,” says LECOM School of Pharmacy Director of Student Services Katherine Tromp, Pharm.D. “Participating in community service gives students the experience of
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applying the information they have learned in school and to show compassion and caring for others in the communities LECOM serves.” Throughout the academic year, students are raising funds, collecting goods, and promoting health to make life better for their neighbors, not only near LECOM’s campuses, but around the country and worldwide. Presidential Honors Third-year pharmacy students Kevin Almassian and Tony Cho received congratulatory letters from President Barack Obama for amassing over 100 service hours and earning the Habitat for Humanity’s Volunteer Service Award. “As future pharmacists, we have a commitment to our patients beyond just treating their immediate medical condition,” says Almassian. “Such a commitment requires an intrinsic quality of compassion for the well-being of others that should drive us as healthcare professionals. “At the LECOM School of Pharmacy, community service allows us to develop these humanistic qualities. As wellrounded students, we will be better positioned to serve our future patients when we are practicing pharmacists.” LECOM has also been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. This is the seventh year in a row that LECOM has been selected for the Honor Roll.
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Accreditation and Enrollment The LECOM School of Pharmacy is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. The ACPE accreditation covers both the Erie and Bradenton campuses. LECOM is also accredited by the Middle States Commission for Higher Education. Current pharmacy school enrollment at the Bradenton campus is 494. The school is at full enrollment of 912 students at the two campuses.
Pharmacy and medical students at the Bradenton and Erie campuses contributed more than 30,000 hours of service to local community-service organizations.
Facility The Bradenton campus of the LECOM School of Pharmacy is housed in a 109,000square-foot facility shared with the College of Osteopathic Medicine, which opened its Bradenton campus in 2004. LECOM’s School of Pharmacy opened in Erie in 2002 and expanded to Bradenton in 2007. The campus is located in the masterplanned community of Lakewood Ranch between Bradenton and Sarasota. In July, LECOM welcomed its first class of dental students. The $52 million LECOM School of Dental Medicine currently houses an inaugural class of 100 students. Curriculum and requirements for LECOM School of Pharmacy can be found online at www.lecom.edu.
LECOM’s Educational Pathways LECOM School of Pharmacy students have the choice of either a three-year, year-round pathway at the Erie campus, or the traditional four-year pathway in Bradenton. An Early Acceptance Program (EAP) agreement with the State College of Florida (SCF) in Bradenton calls for LECOM to reserve five slots for SCF students who complete an undergraduate or associate degree and who meet the SCF grade requirements and the LECOM entrance requirements. SCF is among 39 colleges and universities that have signed early acceptance agreements with the School of Pharmacy. Administrative Leadership Hershey S. Bell, M.D., M.S. Med.Ed., is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the LECOM School of Pharmacy. Associate Deans at the Bradenton campus are: Sunil Jambhekar, Ph.D.; Julie Wilkinson, Pharm.D., M.S. Med. Ed.; and Assistant Dean Teresa Schweiger, Pharm.D. The Director of Experiential Education is Laura Stevenson, Pharm.D., M.S.
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Celebration of Excellence: A Year of Stars Nova Southeastern University, College of Pharmacy Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy (NSU COP) has had an exciting year of accomplishments by faculty, students and alumni. The College continues to advance through national recognition. We are excited to have celebrated our 25th Anniversary! From admitting a class of 49 students 25 years ago to admitting approximately 240 per year, students, faculty and alumni stay connected to the NSU COP through service, teaching and scholarship. Please visit our website to learn more about the history of our College and to view the Anniversary celebration: http://pharmacy. nova.edu/. Let us take you on a journey of our students, faculty and alumni through our celebration of excellence to highlight what our stars are achieving today! Service Our amazing faculty have made a large impact on the pharmacy profession through community outreach programs. Highlights include that Goar Alvarez, Pharm.D., FASCP; Andrea Fass, Pharm.D.; and Angela Garcia, Pharm.D., C.Ph.; have administered a total of 510 influenza, pneumococcal and shingles vaccines to the NSU community over the past seven months through an established protocol. This truly showcases our goal to promote public health awareness. Jennifer Gershman, Pharm.D., C.Ph, has assisted the Broward Sheriff’s Office with Operation Medicine Cabinet, a drug take-back program for four years to help prevent prescription drug abuse. Pharmacy students participate in these programs and recognize the need to raise awareness on this major public health threat. Our faculty also serve as invited speakers for international conferences. For example, Elizabeth Sherman, Pharm.D., AAHIVE; just returned from speaking at an HIV conference in India. International education on this major public health issue will advance HIV drug therapy. Dr. Sherman educates our pharmacy students through teaching and practice through her clinical rotation on HIV drug therapy management. Through the Jamaica Medical Mission, an underserved patient population receives outstanding care from our COP and medical programs. This program is an annual event coordinated by Angela Garcia, Pharm.D., C.Ph.; and demonstrates how pharmacists, pharmacy students and the healthcare community collaborate through interprofessional education and outreach on an international level. 16
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Teaching Our faculty are at the forefront of pharmacy education, and we are proud to highlight this wonderful impact on our students and alumni. We are excited to host outstanding continuing education (CE) programs for our pharmacy community. This promotes the importance of lifelong learning and prepares our alumni for the future. These innovative, premier CE programs are coordinated by Carsten Evans, Ph.D. A newly featured program contains the themes of nutrition and alternative medicine as we move toward recognizing the global importance of lifestyle interventions. The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program The Ph.D. program was launched in Fall 2010, and we are excited to see the rapid growth and productivity of the graduate students. Faculty and students have collaborated on ground- breaking research. For example, in just his first three years, one of our star Ph.D. students, David Mastropietro, BPharm, has published peer-reviewed articles. He is working with his mentor, Hamid Omidian, Ph.D., on innovative research to develop abuse deterrent pharmaceutical dosage forms. This will result in a huge impact globally since prescription drug abuse has become a major public health threat throughout the nation.
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Scholarship Innovative and groundbreaking research and scholarly work among our faculty inspire and educate our students and the community. For example, Nathan Unger, Pharm.D., has received national recognition through CNN for his research on shark mouth bacteria in local Florida waters to accurately identify appropriate antibiotics for bite victims. By collaborating with the medical community, Dr. Unger will uncover appropriate antibiotics for managing these difficult to treat infections. For more information, please visit our COP homepage: http:// pharmacy.nova.edu/. Jean Latimer, Ph.D., and her research team are conducting groundbreaking research on breast cancer and leukemia. Ana Castejon, Ph.D., is conducting research on autism. Joshua Caballero, Pharm.D., was the lead author and editor of the acclaimed book “Get the Residency.” This book was based on the innovative course pioneered at NSU COP that helped over 80% of enrolled students obtain a residency position. Sandra Benavides, Pharm.D., was the lead editor and author of the book “Pediatric Pharmacotherapy.” This book focuses on the unique therapeutic needs of neonates, infants, children and adolescents. Dr. Benavides specializes in pediatrics and instills this knowledge among our students through her elective course. Alumni in the Spotlight We are proud to recognize our outstanding alumni who have excelled in scholarship and service. Nicholas Mordwinkin, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is one of our outstanding alumni from the graduating class of 2004. After his Pharm.D. degree, Dr. Mordwinkin completed his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is currently conducting groundbreaking research in the area of genetics utilizing stem cells for his postdoctoral work at
Operation Medicine Cabinet, a drug take-back program with the Broward Sheriff’s Office with Jennifer Gershman, Pharm.D., Mackenzie Messinger, pharmacy student, and Al Lamberti, former Broward Sheriff
Stanford University School of Medicine. Another of our stars, Dionis Malo Jr., Pharm.D., class of 2010, has recently been promoted to Director of Pharmacy over a three-hospital system in Arizona. These alumni are continuing to advance the pharmacy profession. TEDMED We are excited that for the second year, NSU COP is the affiliate institution host of TEDMED through HD Simulcast! TEDMED is a premier conference that brings together innovators and leaders across healthcare to inspire the community. Kevin Clauson, Pharm.D., head of the NSU COP Center for Consumer Health Informatics Research, has been instrumental in coordinating this event. Last year, this program brought together over 100 individuals from the NSU medical community as an interprofessional event. This year the event was held April 17-19. We are excited that one of our faculty, Sandra Benavides, Pharm.D., just received the TEDMED Great Challenges grant. Dr. Benavides is part of the Great Challenges team for Reducing Childhood Obesity, and attended the full TEDMED program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Student Stars We are proud of our outstanding pharmacy students and their achievements. Blogs, iPads and Twitter are common technology tools among our students at the forefront of the present and future in healthcare. We are proud to highlight some of their many achievements. Hoda Masmouei, B.S., M.S., was the 2012 winner of the Medicine 2.0 @ Harvard Scholarship. She attended the 5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps and Internet/ Web 2.0 in Medicine and Public Health. Hoda serves as the president of the NSU student chapter of FSHP, which established an Informatics Special Interest Group. To learn more about her experience, please visit her blog post: http://cchir. org/?s=hoda. Our students continue to present their research at various local and national conferences to educate their colleagues and advance the profession. For example, Noor Daghistani, B.Sc., presented her research at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual conference in Chicago. Noor Daghistani is mentored by faculty member Mutasem RawasQalaji, Ph.D. And the Journey Continues The NSU COP is extremely proud of all of our accomplishments, and this excitement drives us to inspire and educate. Our shining stars of faculty, students and alumni will continue to advance the pharmacy profession. We have highlighted our past and present and look forward to the outstanding future as our Celebration of Excellence continues. Please stay tuned for future accomplishments at our website: http:// pharmacy.nova.edu/. MAY 2013
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Palm Beach Atlantic University Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy Pharmacy with Faith. Excellence with Character. International and Domestic Mission Trips More than 80 students, faculty, residents, alumni and friends from the Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy (GSOP) embarked on medical mission trips during the summer of 2012 to provide services and care to patients in impoverished villages and cities in the Amazon, Costa Rica and Guatemala as well as areas in and surrounding Belle Glade, FL. Despite difficult physical conditions and an outpouring of patients, the five teams helped fulfill some of the medical and spiritual needs of the people they visited. They treated more than 1,700 adults and children and filled more than 4,100 prescriptions. They also conducted various health screenings, planned activities for children, distributed educational resources to seniors on elder abuse awareness and helped a number of individuals forge a relationship with Jesus Christ. Trips planned for summer 2013 include Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Uganda and Belle Glade, FL. The pharmacy school received more than $55,600 through generous donations from benefactors of the university to provide medical and other supplies. The donation also covered half the cost of each student’s trip. Upon return, many of the teams presented their experiences and the impact of the trips during the school’s weekly pharmacy chapels. The experiences were inspirational with testimonies of compassion and the challenges of providing direct patient care to diverse patient populations. Annual Local Health Fair GSOP hosted its annual local health fair last fall to promote health awareness, prevention and treatment as well as provide students with a meaningful service learning experience. GSOP chapters of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA-ASP) and Florida Pharmacy Association (FPA) collaborated with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Florida Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP-SSHP) and the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) to host its fifth annual health fair, themed “Prescription for Health” in downtown Lake Worth on Oct. 6, 2012. The health fair was organized by students with assistance from faculty members to connect with and educate the community. The GSOP Community Health Fair had a total of 23 booths, 21 of which were healthcare-related and headed by different student organizations, fraternities and pharma18
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cy classes. Booths included Aging and the Elderly, Asthma/ COPD, Children’s Health, Cholesterol, CVS Caremark, Diabetes, Evangelism, Gregory School of Pharmacy, Immunization, Heartburn, Alternative Medicines, HIV, Hypertension, Insurance, Medication Adherence, Men/Women’s Health, Medication Counseling, Nutrition, Oral Health, Poison Prevention, Skin Care, Smoking Cessation and Veterinary. One hundred students volunteered at the fair, representing approximately 42% of campus-based PBA pharmacy students, and 15 faculty members also attended. Approximately 56 people were served, and the volunteers conducted 31 blood pressure screenings and 15 HIV rapid tests. CVS and Walgreens were also on hand to give flu vaccinations. The health fair helped students raise awareness in the community about the importance of health screenings and medication adherence, and the positive impact they have on health outcomes. Florida’s Legislative Days 2013 Forty student pharmacists from GSOP attended Florida’s Legislative Days in Tallahassee on March 12 and 13. As students gathered in the Leon County Civic Center, they were treated to a lively and informative discussion on the many bills currently being discussed in the state House of Representatives and Senate. Michael Jackson, CEO and Executive Vice President of the Florida Pharmacy Association (FPA), provided the informative session, and answered questions and helped prepare students for later discussions with state legislators. GSOP students were able to experience the legislative process firsthand as they toured the Florida State Capitol building, sat in the chairs of the Senate and participated in mock discussions and voting with students from other Florida pharmacy schools. They even had the opportunity to speak with state legislators as well as network with pharmacists and other student interns at an evening social. With the help of the Florida Society of Health Systems Pharmacists (FSHP), FPA hosted a health fair with screenings for cholesterol, heart disease risk, osteoporosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and asthma. Pharmacists and student pharmacists also provided information on safe drug disposal and medication counseling. All of the GSOP students participated in at least one of the screenings or counseling services and spent the remaining time visiting legislators represent-
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The students attended various training sessions on how to talk to legislators and were educated on current national pharmacy policies. They had the opportunity to meet with Florida representatives, including Senator Marco Rubio, to discuss the importance of improving access to medication therapy management (MTM) services. They also advocated for a change in MTM procedures so pharmacists would be able to take time to counsel their patients on medications and diseases, which would lead to a healthier population and reduced health care costs. GSOP students on a 2013 mission trip. Along with attending various appointments on Capitol Hill, the students also networked ing their districts, making appointments and expressing their with pharmacists from around the country voices in favor of the progression of the pharmacy profession. and discussed ways to better the profession of pharmacy. RxIMPACT Day 2013 GSOP students Doug Pauly, John Chamoun, Samantha Schmidt and Julienne Brown were among 50 students chosen nationwide to take part in RxIMPACT Day in Washington, D.C., on March 13 and 14. They were the only pharmacy students in the state of Florida chosen to participate. Organized by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), the event brought advocates from across the nation to Capitol Hill to educate members of Congress about the importance of pro-patient, pro-pharmacy policy and key issues related to healthcare reform.
Pharmacy Students Bring Home Quiz Bowl Title for Fifth Straight Year GSOGSOP students brought the NASPA-NMA Student Pharmacist Self-Care Championship title home to the Gregory School of Pharmacy for the fifth straight year. The competition took place during the annual meeting of the Florida Pharmacy Association, held in July 2012 in Marco Island. Class of 2013 students Jigna Patel and Halena Sautman and class of 2014 student Emile Abdo made up the winning team during the OTC (Over-the-Counter) Challenge. Students from PBA have won this competition since it began in Florida in 2008. The National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations (NASPA) and the Nonprescription Medicines Academy (NMA) partnered in 2006 to launch the NASPA/NMA Student Pharmacist Self-Care Championship. The event, which is endowed by Procter & Gamble, promotes interactive learning of self-care topics to the participants as well as the audiMAY 2013
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ence in attendance. Individual events are conducted annually by state pharmacy associations at their annual or mid-year convention and feature teams from the state’s colleges and schools of pharmacy. These teams compete head-to-head in an event similar to a quiz bowl as they answer questions, developed by the NMA, focused on patient self-care. In addition, class of 2014 student Christina Lalla placed second out of 15 student participants at the FPA Patient Counseling Competition. Pharmacy Student Julienne Brown Receives National Award Julienne Brown, a P2 student at GSOP, has a commitment to service that has been recognized nationally. Brown, a 24-year-old native of Palm Harbor, FL, is a recipient of the 2012 RESPy Award -- Respect, Excellence, and Service in Pharmacy. The Pharmacy Times, in conjunction with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., sponsor the national award honoring pharmacy students. John Chandler, R.Ph., regional talent specialist serving Florida and Puerto Rico for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., presented Brown with a one-of-a-kind “Mortar and Pestle” at the school in October 2012. The award was commissioned by the RESPy committee and custom made for Brown by artist Mark Rademacher. Brown also was presented a framed copy of the article about her in the October 2012 issue of Pharmacy Times. Candidates for the RESPy award are nominated by deans of pharmacy schools across the country. A demonstration of public service, a high level of professional/public health-related activities outside of the classroom and efforts to advance the profession of pharmacy in the public arena are some of the criteria used to select winners. Eight RESPy award winners are chosen each year, and featured in Pharmacy Times magazine. Award winners also receive a $1,000 scholarship. Dr. Dana Brown, associate professor of pharmacy practice and assistant dean for academics, nominated Brown for the award. She said that while only in her second year as a student at GSOP, Brown has shown her commitment to service. She is president of the class of 2015, and vice president of Phi Delta Chi. Her accomplishments also include participating in Legislative Days in Tallahassee to advocate for immunization services, and attending a mission trip to Guatemala where she and her colleagues provided a variety of medical services in remote locations. “To be nominated by Dean Brown was an incredible honor,” Julie Brown said. “She is a mentor and someone I greatly admire. I am happy to represent the school, and will aspire to continue to uphold the character and level of service the award recognized.”
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GSOP students on a 2013 mission trip.
Script Your Future GSOP faculty members Dr. Keysha Bryant and Dr. Ashley Johnson led a team of four P4 Drug Information rotation students to a brown bag event at St. Paul AME Church in West Palm Beach, FL, on February 25, 2013, in support of Script Your Future, a campaign of the National Consumers League (NCL) that promotes the importance of medication adherence. This is the second year that schools of pharmacy have had the opportunity to partner with NCL and AACP (American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy) to involve pharmacy students and faculty to educate the community on the negative impact of non-adherence and encourage people to “take the pledge to take their meds.” The GSOP group individually reviewed medications with senior citizens and helped to create customized plans for how to best adhere to medication regimens. They served 25 patients at the event.
FPA Officer and Director Nominations Although we have just finished the election for a president-elect and directors for the odd numbered regions to be installed at the 2013 annual meeting, it is time to start thinking about nominees for the 2014 election since the nomination deadline is September 1 of this year (9/1/13). As the form below indicates, this year we will need candidates for president-elect and directors for the even numbered regions. Please note that you may nominate yourself. CALL FOR FPA OFFICER AND DIRECTOR NOMINATIONS for 2014 Elections The FPA By-Laws specify that any subdivision or any member in good standing may nominate one person for the office of President-Elect and one person for the office of Treasurer. A President-Elect shall be elected every year and shall assume the duties of the President on the last day of the annual meeting of the year following election as President-Elect. The treasurer shall serve a two year term and may succeed to one consecutive term of office in that capacity. Nominees must be Florida registered pharmacists in good standing with the Florida Pharmacy Association and the Florida Board of Pharmacy. Nominees for president-elect should have a good understanding of how the Association functions and should be current on the issues impacting pharmacy. Nominees for treasurer should have good analytical skills and experience and ability in financial management and budget preparation. There are nine regional Board Directors who shall serve two year terms. Nominees must be a Florida registered pharmacist in good standing with the Florida Pharmacy Association and the Florida Board of Pharmacy. Additionally, Board Directors must be a member of at least one the FPA Unit Associations within their region. Board Directors terms are staggered such that even numbered regions shall be elected in even numbered years and odd numbered regions shall be elected in odd numbered years. All newly elected Board of Directors Regional Directors shall take office on the last day of the annual meeting, and shall continue in office until the last day of annual meeting of the second ensuing year.
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University of Florida College of Pharmacy A Legacy of Leadership & New Beginnings A Fond Farewell to Our Sixth Dean The past year for the University of Florida College of Pharmacy has proven to be a springboard for change in 2013. Dean William H. Riffee, Ph.D., who has served as dean since 1996, will conclude his leadership tenure at the end of the 2012-2013 academic year on June 30. The sixth dean in the college’s nearly 90-year history, Riffee has built a legacy as a pioneer in distance learning. His leadership opened UF’s professional and graduate programs to students across the U.S. and the world. Such globalized programs include the Working Professional Pharm.D. program — the largest in the nation — and expanded master’s programs in forensic science, health policy, pharmaceutical chemistry, clinical toxicology and medication therapy management and clinical pharmacy. While serving as dean, Riffee also served from 2001 to 2006, as a UF associate provost for distance, continuing and executive education. Riffee has also filled leadership positions with various national pharmacy associations, including serving as past Speaker of the House of Delegates for the Florida Pharmacy Association. This year, he is serving the American Pharmacists Association as speaker to its House of Delegates. Seventeen years ago when Dean Riffee accepted his new post in leading the college, he and his wife, Judy Riffee, R.Ph., began their lives as Florida Gators in an historic log home. Throughout the many years that followed, they have welcomed thousands of guests into their home — an extended pharmacy family of faculty, students, graduates, alumni, staff and friends of the college for graduations and holidays. The Riffee’s family roots are in West Virginia, where they plan to retire, though they will always remain close to the hearts of the Gator Pharmacy Nation. Riffee hailed his colleagues and students as partners who helped h im as he led t he college into the future. “I could have never asked for a better group of faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the college,” Riffee said.
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UF College of Pharmacy Serves the University’s Mission at Lake Nona Medical City Orlando The U F Re s ea rc h and Academic Center at Lake Nona officially opened last November. The center’s proximity to the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Nemours Children’s Hospital a nd other health care organizations within the Lake Nona medical city complex and the wider Orlando area will foster collaboration that stimulates innovative approaches to research and patient care. The UF College of Pharmacy’s Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology, housed at the new facility, is among the first academic centers in the nation to adopt sophisticated mathematical modeling and computer simulations to mimic clinical trials of new drugs. Simulated trials allow researchers to avoid investing unnecessarily in drugs that are unlikely to be of benefit. The result is that resources and research efforts can be better targeted toward drugs that have the most potential to help millions of people, and most likely to receive quicker approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “Our mission revolves around getting efficacious, safe and affordable drugs to the American public and the people in Florida,” said Larry Lesko, Ph.D., director of the center, who previously worked for 20 years at the FDA. “I’m bringing the experience and knowledge I have of regulatory strategies to help move potential new drugs to the marketplace in as efficient and affordable way as possible.” The pharmacy research center complements the education efforts of the College of Pharmacy; Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows will complete their training in the new center. The new facility also allows expansion of the UF professional Pharm.D. program in Orlando. Student pharmacists at Lake Nona receive the same curriculum as classmates in Gainesville, Jacksonville and St. Petersburg. The Orlandobased students also will have access to research opportuni-
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ties available at the UF Lake Nona campus and with its Medical City partners. The college’s Medication Therapy Management Communication and Care Center has extended its outreach with a second center now open at Lake Nona, staffed by faculty, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Through the telehealth call center, student pharmacists gain experiential training in comprehensive medication reviews for Medicare patients and their health care providers.
Student pharmacists attending a class in patient care and communication at the new Lake Nona facility, Orlando.
UF Pharmacy Researcher Named a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors A distinguished professor emeritus of medicinal chemistry at the UF College of Pharmacy was named a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors this year. Raymond J. Bergeron, Ph.D., who was a Duckworth eminent scholar of drug development and holds 200 patents, was nominated for
U.S. Commissioner for Patents Margaret Focarino, Raymond Bergeron, and NAI president Paul Sanberg, who is also USF’s senior vice president for Research & Innovation.
his outstanding contributions in patents and licensing, innovative discovery and technology. Bergeron was among 101 innovators from 56 research universities and nonprofit research institutes who received this year’s award. U.S. Commissioner for Patents Margaret Focarino, from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, led the induction of the charter fellows at the second annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors, held at the University of South Florida in Tampa. “I would encourage young biomedical researchers to think beyond publishing and grantsmanship. These are expected pursuits in academics,” Bergeron said. “Think about bringing your discoveries forward to patients. It’s all about making the world a better place.” As a researcher in the department of medicinal chemistry for more than 30 years, Bergeron established his expertise in cellular function and iron metabolism, leading to the development of anticancer drugs and treatments for children with iron overload disease. A plaque naming the new fellows and their institutions will be on display at the USPTO federal building in Alexandria, Va. UF Students Compete for Top Honors from AMCP Foundation University of Florida student pharmacists took top honors on April 5 at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s 25th annual meeting in San Diego. The AMCP Foundation presented awards for its National Student Pharmacist Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Competition and 2013 Best Poster Contest. Thirty-four teams nationally from AMCP Student Pharmacist Chapters entered the P&T competition, from which eight finalist teams were chosen to compete in live presentations at the AMCP Annual Meeting. UF students Nicholas Piccicacco, Danielle Underwood, Jeenal Patel, Jordana Wollman and Faculty Advisor Robert Navarro received third place in the AMCP P&T competition. The University of Southern California tied with UF for the distinction. The annual P&T Competition begins each December, and is organized locally by the UF student AMCP chapter. Seven UF student teams participated this year, and the winning team went on to represent UF at the AMCP Foundation national competition. Co-founder and first president of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy and the Foundation Robert Navarro, Pharm.D., a clinical professor at the UF College of Pharmacy, served as the faculty advisor for the UF team. Each student dedicated more than 50 hours in their review of an opioid drug, Nucynta ER, used to treat patients with severe, chronic pain, Navarro said. “The student pharmacists apply critical drug analysis and comparison skills they will use throughout their careers for health plan drug formulary consideration,” Navarro said. MAY 2013
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UF team at AMCP awards ceremony in San Diego (l-r) Jeenal Patel, Andrew Mullings, Maryam Khazraee, Jeff Consaul, Faculty Advisor Robert Navarro, Jordana Wollman, Nic Piccicacco, and Danielle Underwood.
UF student pharmacist Jeffry Consaul was the winner of the 2013 Best Student Poster Contest. His poster was titled, “Methods to Detect Adverse Drug Reactions Using Automated Healthcare Databases.” Tsu-Hsuan Yang from UF also received an Honorable Mention in the Best Graduate Student, Resident or Fellow Poster Category. Graduating Student Pharmacists Look Forward to Residencies The College of Pharmacy recently celebrated the achievements of 85 senior pharmacy students in the Doctor of Pharmacy degree program for their acceptances into post-graduate residencies across the United States. These seniors represent 30 percent of the graduating class, an increase in the percentage of seniors accepted into residencies from previous years, said Michael McKenzie, Ph.D., senior associate dean for professional affairs at the UF College of Pharmacy. Though they will earn less than half the regular pharmacist’s salary as residents, they see the benefit of getting the extra experience and training to pursue careers in their pharmacy career pathway. The seniors will be residents in a variety of settings and formats including administrative, hospital practice and community pharmacy. Several seniors will
combine their residency training with graduate work toward a master’s degree. At a celebration reception in April, Gainesville campus students took turns marking a U.S. map with pins showing their residency locations. The residencies ranged from South Florida to New England, and as far west as Oregon.
Alyssia Jaume places a pin on the map at Orlando, where she will begin an ambulatory care residency at the Veterans Administration Medical Center.
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The University of South Florida College of Pharmacy The Future of Pharmacy is Here!! The University of South Florida College of Pharmacy (USFCOP) continues to move forward to the future of healthcare! The 2012-13 academic year has been absolutely fantastic for the USFCOP. From the very beginning, we sought to create a professional environment that would allow young professionals, both student and faculty, the opportunity to grow and mature along with our program. Our goal has been to create an environment that would provide a unique set of resources to allow motivated individuals to expand their horizons and create a pathway to excellence in health. During the past year, we have had numerous outstanding events occur that affirm that USFCOP, along with USF Health, is indeed serious about providing the type of teambased environment that was envisioned from the beginning. With our focus on special care for the elderly, translational personalized medicine, proficient utilization of informatics, and leadership principles, we are confident that we are building a pharmacist clinician with unique skills necessary to move the profession of pharmacy into the future. The students in the first two years of the program are very passionate about the future of healthcare. That passion among students to embrace the challenges of a changing health system does not surprise Kevin Sneed, PharmD, the college’s founding dean. Built around the idea that pharmacists will be the hub of the future healthcare team, the innovative, rigorous curriculum emphasizes a collaborative approach to patient care and research among pharmacy, medicine, nursing, public health and other health professions. Clinical Simulations Translated into Introductory Clinical Experiences Interprofessional clinical simulations were initiated in the 2012-13 academic year for our pharmacy students with other USF Health students. The Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) provides the opportunity to re-create virtually any clinical scenario that health professionals will encounter in actual clinical situations. Our Virtual Patient Care Center (VPCC) has a dedicated virtual pharmacy, with inpatient, outpatient and IV/clean-room sections. We now have the capability of delivering outstanding clinical simulation throughout the span of the pharmacy school experience. Faculty members of our Department of Pharmacotherapeutics and Clinical Research (PCR) have worked tirelessly to create original simulation curricular ac26
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tivities that will be implemented in CAMLS. Through effective partnering with the other academic programs in USF Health, this futuristic clinical simulation model will be a unique feature of the USF College of Pharmacy. Our inaugural pharmacy students (Class of 2015) began their introductory clinical experiences in Spring 2012 by visiting groups from special populations. The focus of their experiences were to exercise effective communication through listening and motivational interviewing with persons from these populations. As these experiences were occurring, they were being challenged in the classroom with advanced pharmacology principles to prepare them for more sophisticated clinical interactions. The results were reports from their clinical preceptors that were very positive. This feedback provides additional motivation to implement even more advanced clinical simulation instruction for our students. Moving into the future, we will significantly increase the clinical experiential instruction provided to our pharmacy students alongside the other students in USF Health. An ambitious vision from the dean of the USF COP is to create clinical simulations that mimic how an IDEAL clinical healthcare system should operate. We can meet the IPEC goals of engaging students of different professions in interactive learning modules, while creating the impetus for them to transform their future health environments upon graduating from our program. The adopted USF Health motto of “creating a new model that makes the old model obsolete” may idealistically be accomplished through this model. While ambitious, this is the type of transformative “big thinking” that our academic institution aspires to create and implement.
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A Surprise on Center Court for a Future Pharmacy Student! Adding a personal touch to the admissions process, USF College of Pharmacy Dean Kevin Sneed, PharmD, handed a letter of acceptance to Ellen Bickel… on center court. The USF cheerleader was cheering at the USF v. Louisville men’s basketball game on a Sunday afternoon when, during a team timeout, she was approached by Dr. Sneed with her letter accepting her into the third entering class for the young College of Pharmacy, as well as a giant check for a newly funded scholarship. After the initial surprise and amid tears of happiness and relief, Bickel was taken to center court and surrounded by her fellow cheerleaders and a host of photographers and videographers, including crews from ESPN, which was providing national coverage of the game. Bickel, who will graduate in May with double majors (bachelor’s degrees in health professions (pre-pharmacy) and in public health), is the first USF student athlete to be admitted into the USF College of Pharmacy program, Dr. Sneed said. “This announcement is important because we’re celebrating the achievement of a student athlete who has contributed above and beyond to our university,” he said.
Research Prowess The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (DPS) continues to thrive because of a research environment that is collaborative, engaged, nurturing and thirsty for the discoveries that will change the lives of people in our communities. We continue to build strong relationships throughout the USF research community, and we maintain key support from some of the nation’s finest researchers in their respective fields. While we remain a young college, we have successfully conducted meaningful symposia that cover pharmacogenomics, drug discovery, drug repositioning and nanomedicine. During the USF Health Research Day in February, the College of Pharmacy made a definite impact. Our PY-2 student, Athar Naif, was an award winner for her research project, making her a two-time winner for this event. In addition to Ms. Naif, Postdoctoral Scholar Chapalamadugu Kalyan was also recognized as an award winner. And, a sign of the promising future of the USFCOP, recently accepted student Peter Moran received an award for Best Undergraduate Student Presentation. To finish off the impact, the keynote speaker, Dr. Howard McLeod, Director of the UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, was an invited guest and friend of the college for this event. The College of Pharmacy was in full display at this very well-attended event. We are making significant investments in these areas of research. USF and USF Health offer the perfect balance of core research facilities and program maturity, as well as metropolitan, urban, suburban, and rural populations. The USF COP continues to achieve prolific success in the area of scholarly contributions, including over 200 manuscripts, abstracts, MAY 2013
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and posters nationally and internationally, as well as federal grant submissions, including NIH (R01 and G11) and a forthcoming OMH (P20) re-submission. Additionally, we are organizing plans to create our first graduate programs. As we continue to collaborate with other top researchers, not only at USF, but around the country and the world, we fully expect to continue our steep trajectory to research excellence. USF Pharmacy Attends Pharmacy Legislative Day! Our students recently participated in Pharmacy Legislative Day in Tallahassee, our capital city. Students in attendance included: P2: Frank Fernandez, Tiffany Adkinson, Morgen Jaeger, Dalia Zall, Laura Molander; P1: Alexander Yassein, Matt Schneller, Kevin Klein, Jerica Singleton, Jose Leon de Burgos and Diana Jules. The feedback received was extremely positive, including the comfort level of our students to perform the various testing techniques at the health fair. Our impactful presence at this event will continue to be recognized, I would also like to recognize faculty and administrative members, Drs. Angela Hill, Jennifer Pytlarz, Shyam Gelot, and Sarah Steinhardt, for their mentorship of students during this event. USF Faculty Making an Impact in the State, Nationally and Internationally! Dr. Jose Barboza was the pharmacy team leader on a recent mission trip to the Dominican Republic, along with several COP students. They performed outstanding service alongside their colleagues from the Morsani College of Medicine faculty. We also received very exciting information of Dr. Barboza and students encountering whales during an excursion on the last day! The opportunity to provide clinical services in communities of need is exactly the type of service and leadership that our college wants to impart; and the experiences gained by all of the volunteers will last a lifetime. Dr. Sarah Steinhardt has been appointed to several prestigious councils and boards since joining our faculty. She is now a member of: ASHP’s Council on Public Policy; FSHP’s Legal and Regulatory Council; and is a Trustee on the Florida Pharmacy Foundation’s Board of Directors. Further, she epitomizes the type of interprofessional collaborative spirit that USF Health is craving. Her professional partnership with Dr. Jay Wolfson from USF Health/ College of Public Health, is beginning to produce exceptional opportunities for research and policy production. The University of South Florida — Where Innovation and Transformation Become a Reality. The University of South Florida has become a top destination for students and faculty. Results from recent assessment surveys indicate that our students rate the opportunity for interprofessional interaction with other health science 28
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students, research opportunities, the metropolitan environment of Tampa, and access to advanced simulation experiences as overwhelming reasons for choosing the USF College of Pharmacy. Proximity to USF Health has resulted in a highly enhanced intellectual collection of faculty and students. Integrated curricular cooperation from multiple health-related professional degree programs will be a must for pharmacy programs to produce the pharmacy practitioners of the future. Interprofessionalism is a strength of the USF College of Pharmacy, and we will continue to create innovative and transformative teaching and clinical methodologies to provide outstanding pharmacist clinicians to the citizens of Florida and the nation. The University of South Florida College of Pharmacy offers one of the most unique learning experiences in the entire country for an aspiring future pharmacist. We thank USF President Judy Genshaft, Vice-President Stephen Klasko, the Florida Board of Governors, and the Florida Legislature for their support in creating a true gem in the USF College of Pharmacy. We remain overly committed to our students, faculties and partners as we transform the DNA of healthcare!
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