The Ampul: Fall 2015

A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF THE RUDOLPH H. RAABE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY FALL 2015

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Raabe College of Pharmacy Mission and Vision Statements

Message from the Dean

MISSION

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We prepare pharmacists who improve health, serve others, lead change and advance the profession.

Year in Review Focus on the Future At a Glance

VISION

To lead the nation in the preparation of practiceready pharmacists who serve as primary care providers and team leaders.

Faculty News p. 10-15 Mobile Health Clinic Faculty Accomplishments Cinnamon and Blood Glucose Rising to the Occasion

To improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve.

VALUES

Student News p. 16-17

We value our family members, faculty, staff, students and alumni through collaboration, community, diversity, excellence, faith, integrity and service.

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Experiential and Outreach Updates p. 18-21 Faculty Leadership p. 22-23

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FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

The Ampul is a publication of The Rudolph H. Raabe College of Pharmacy

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Editors: Josh Alkire Sheila Baumgartner Design: Toma (Grothous) Bomser, BFA ’96 Photography: Trevor Jones

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Contributors: Hayley Stratton The Ampul is published by Ohio Northern University, 525 S. Main St. Ada, OH 45810, 419-772-2000.

If you have comments about this publication, please send them to h-stratton@onu.edu.

The R.H. Raabe College of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University has long been recognized as one of the premier colleges of pharmacy in the nation, continually meeting the high standards of pharmaceutical education. Throughout its prominent history, the college has graduated pharmacists who now have successful pharmacy practices and who are active in local, state and national health-related organizations. More than one-fourth of all pharmacists in Ohio are Ohio Northern alumni. www.onu.edu/pharmacy

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Message from the Dean

Dear alumni and friends,

We had an outstanding year in 2014-15 in the Raabe College of Pharmacy. Our 131st year featured numerous awards for our students, student organizations and faculty; the successful creation of our new strategic plan; and the initiation of several new, funded research projects. For my first year as dean, it was a great start to my tenure in the Polar Bear family.

The Raabe College of Pharmacy has a rich history of training the future leaders of the profession. Our curriculum is designed to prepare student-pharmacists to lead themselves, their health care teams and their families and to be leaders in their communities.

Examples of this abound in the stories of more than 6,500 ONU pharmacy alumni around the globe.

The academic experience at Ohio Northern is our distinctive trait. We are a small university with a beautiful campus in rural Ada, Ohio. Our small-town atmosphere and family-like environment allow students to form lifelong bonds through social and professional organizations, Greek life, co-ed sports and more than 20 NCAA Division III athletic teams. Our student-pharmacists are practiceready upon graduation, having engaged extensively in patient care throughout the six-year program. Our unique direct-entry program means students enter the profession of pharmacy the day they arrive on campus. Through the practice of their profession, our students improve the health of our community here in Hardin County and the surrounding region.

This publication highlights the outstanding year we recently completed. I invite you to share in the accomplishments of our Polar Bears in the pages of this year in review. At the Raabe College of Pharmacy, we are changing the world, one person at a time.

Go Polar Bears!

Steven J. Martin Dean of the Raabe College of Pharmacy

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YEAR IN REVIEW

The distinguished 131-year history of the Raabe College of Pharmacy is a story of evolution, excellence and, above all, people.

As our academic year came to an end, we enjoyed the great satisfaction of adding 147 new doctors of pharmacy to our alumni base, which grew to 9,870 as the last diploma was presented during our May Commencement Ceremony. Our faculty and staff have enjoyed reflecting on everything our college has done to improve pharmacy education and shape the future of the pharmacy industry.

As we look to the future, we are pleased to address rural health concerns in our community with the effort and determination of our faculty and University leadership. Last April, the Health

Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded our college a grant that to fund an innovative community mobile clinic that uses a multidisciplinary team of ONU faculty and students to deliver educational outreach and health care services to rural Hardin County. The goals of the community clinic are to increase access to care, improve health knowledge, improve health outcomes and connect patients to primary medical homes whenever possible.

We are pleased that our students will have this opportunity to expand their patient-care and experiential-practice experiences while providing aid to the community we serve in rural Ohio.

To support the growth of our college, we welcomed four new faculty members and one rural health care director to our team this fall, bringing the number of fulltime on-campus faculty and staff in the college to 42.

TOP STORIES ONU receives National Community Pharmacy Association (NCPA) Chapter of the Year Award.

– October 2014 15th annual Professional Commitment Ceremony took place, and third-year pharmacy students were addressed

by Ronda Lehman, BCPh ’98, chief operating officer for St. Rita’s Professional Services.

– November 2014 Dean Steven J. Martin initiated as Kappa Psi brother.

– December 2014 Josh Blackwell, PharmD ’15, appointed national president of Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA).

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Sebok Lecture and Distinguished Alumni Awards, honoring Dr. Tom Gossel, BSPh ’63; Kathy Karas, BA ’75, BSPh ’75; and Dr. Peggy Piascik, BSPh ’74.

– February 2015 College receives Walgreens Diversity Grant, promoting diversity among student pharmacists and assisting minority students with financial aid.

– February 2015 ONU faculty emerita Metta Lou Henderson, BSPharm, MS, PhD, HonD, inducted as the APhA honorary president for 2015-16 at the annual meeting in San Diego, Calif.

Henderson held numerous roles during her career in pharmacy practice, including practitioner, 2015-16 Honorary President educator, academic Metta Lou Henderson administrator, researcher, with APhA President Matt Osterhaus.

Commencement sees 147 new doctors of pharmacy enter the profession. Graduates were addressed by David Burke, BSPh ’90, Ohio state senator and independent pharmacy owner. – May 2015 regulator, historian and mentor. During her tenure at ONU, she served as professor, chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, associate dean for Pharmacy Student Services, and advisor to Mortar Board, Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and Phi Lambda Sigma. – March 2015 On Medication Disposal Day, students worked alongside the local sheriff’s office, North Central Ohio Solid Waste District and Hardin Memorial Hospital to safely dispose of old or unneeded prescription and over-the-counter medications.

Students collected more than 75 pounds of medication from more than 150 area residents. – March 2015 Hanley Wheeler, BSPh ’82, senior vice president of field operations for West Division at CVS/ pharmacy, will be appointed to ONU Board of Trustees in October 2015. – Announced in April 2015 Dr. Boyd Rorabaugh, associate professor of pharmacology and cell biology, was co-investigator on a $423,776 NIMH research grant. – April 2015

Fifth-year pharmacy student Jeremiah Barnes receives 2015 United States Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award.

– April 2015 Fourth-year pharmacy student Steven Blake named 2015 Goldwater Scholar. – April 2015 $571, 633 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Grant awarded to College of Pharmacy (See more about the new Rural Health Clinic on pages 12-13.)

– May 2015 Excellence: Fourth-year pharmacy student Emily Ickes named to 2015-16 Junior Student Leadership Council for the National Community Pharmacy Association, and Ryan Seifring, PharmD ’15, served as a 2014-15 Senior Student Leadership Council member.

ONU hosted the third annual Ohio Pharmacy Residency Conference (OPRC), with a record 88 residents from Ohio and surrounding states to satisfy American Society of Health‑System Pharmacists (ASHP) residency requirements. – May 2015 Strategic Plan adopted by faculty and staff within the college.

(See pages 6-7 for more details.)

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Kelly Shields, assistant dean, director of Pharmacy Student Services and associate professor of pharmacy practice, is one of 30 administrators selected nationally to become part of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Academic Leaders Fellows Program. – May 2015 Eyob Adane, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, was one of only three to be selected into the 2015 national American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Clinical Research Fellowship Training Program. – May 2015 Curriculum Summit held to address changes for new accreditation standards and begin implementation of strategic initiatives in the academic program.

John Armitstead, BSPh ’79, was named American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists (ASHP) president.

– June 2015 Four new faculty members and one new health clinic director complement the pharmacy college and impact the education of future generations of pharmacists. (See pages 22-23 for more information about these educators.)

– August 2015

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FOCUS ON THE FUTURE

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This past year, the DISCOVERY College of Pharmacy CULTURE AND QUALITY engaged in a yearlong process of strategic 3 4 planning, and the final product is our map for the future. Broad stakeholder input was gathered, MISSION and the strategic initiatives that We prepare pharmacists who improve health, serve others, lead change and advance the profession. were created represent big and bold ideas that will further shape our rich VISION • To lead the nation in the preparation of practicehistory. Our mission and vision were ready pharmacists who serve as primary care refocused to emphasize our passion providers and team leaders. to improve health, serve others, lead • To improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve. change and advance the profession.

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Highlights of the College of Pharmacy’s 10-year Strategic Plan Our campus-based and community pharmacy practices will expand considerably to include providing primary care for our medically underserved community through mobile health clinics in our county; the engagement of the Drug and Health Information Center’s services to the public, the health community and the school systems in the county; a focused increase in our outreach programs; growth of our ONU Healthwise (health and wellness) program; and broadening our commitment to community service.

To meet our mission, the college will engage in the understanding of and means to improve health in our community and the instructional methods that underpin this effort. Innovative research and knowledge creation will be translated into practice and broadly applicable across populations. The college will emphasize discovery and sharing knowledge learned as widely as possible to impact as many as possible.

Elements of discovery will be evident in everything we do as a college. Distinctive research themes will flow through these efforts of our faculty and students and foster collaborations locally and regionally.

We have recommitted to student centeredness and the personal and professional development of students, faculty and staff. The college’s endowment is sizeable, and we have committed to growing that resource to help expand scholarships, research efforts and pharmacy practices. The changing financial environment of the past few years has invited innovation and exploration of new revenue streams to ensure we continue to meet our mission for decades to come.

In all that we do, we will be efficient, environmentally sound and forward focused.

Lastly, in all that we do, we will engage our many stakeholders and provide best practices in communication and outreach with this group.

This strategic plan will lead us well into the next decade and solidify the college as a top 10 private institution in the country.

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At a Glance

By the NUMBERS CURRENT PHARMACY STUDENT BODY 28 Average high school GPA: 3.8 Average ACT score:

Retention Rate:

18%

Graduation Rate:

of ONU’s NCAA Division III athletes are pharmacy students

2015 GRADUATING CLASS Employed in

23 different states

(2013: first year to second year) (0-6 years in program)

83%

* Three months after graduation

PharmD graduates from 2015 are now part of an alumni association comprised of

6,672 living members.

Graduate Profile

Sixth-year residency placements:

3,000 graduating pharmacy students participated in the Resident Matching Program.

employment

2014 GRADUATING CLASS 6o% Community 26% Residency/Fellowship 6% Hospital-Staff Pharmacist 2% Graduate School 2% Long Term Care 1% Armed Services 1% Law Enforcement – DEA 1% specialty pharmacy 1% No report/seeking employment * Data as of Nov. 1, 2014.

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2014 (NAPLEX)

licensure exam rate – * Data as of Aug. 1, 2014

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51% Community 35% Residency/Fellowship 6% Hospital-Staff Pharmacists 1% Long-Term Care 1% Managed Care 6% No report/seeking

(167 graduates, six months out)

98%

Students involved in NCAA Division III Athletics:

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85%

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STATES OF RESIDENCE FOR ONU PHARMACY STUDENTS 82 percent are from Ohio. The next top states are Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois and New York.

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1% 2% 6%

International Enrollment: Canada, Saudi Arabia and South Korea

2% 3%

86%

Minority percentages: Hispanic 1% Unknown 2% African American, Non-Hispanic 2% Multi-Racial 3% Asian 6% White, Non-Hispanic 86%

Rick Keyes, BSPh ’92 Executive Vice President, Meijer, Supply Chain and Manufacturing “I take great pride in being an ONU pharmacist and hearing about the successes of other alumni members, and I am honored to be part of this community. The education and leadership experiences that I was exposed to at Ohio Northern provided me a great launching pad for my profession. It was more than a degree I received upon graduating – I received a unique blend of skills and made connections with great mentors that made me a patient-centered pharmacist. Today these same principles have aided me in my ability to focus on the needs of customers and tailoring an offering that meet their needs.”

ALUMNI NETWORK

6,672 living alumni States represented: 48, plus D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Countries represented: Six (Honduras, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Europe, Number of members:

U.S. and Canada.)

Dr. Ami Bhatt, PharmD ’05 Senior Director of Health & Wellness, Walmart Stores Inc. (Southern California, Alaska and Hawaii) “I am so lucky to have found ONU. My experiences there set a strong foundation of leadership. The faculty and organizations I was able to learn from and be a part of taught me the skills necessary to thrive professionally. My time at ONU lead me to my executive management residency, which helped catapult me to where I am today. I am so appreciative of my time as a Polar Bear!”

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Faculty News

Faculty Guides Research Team to Understand the Effect of Cinnamon on Blood Glucose

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innamon has been used medicinally for more than 5,000 years to target ailments such as diarrhea, upset stomach, bad breath, poor appetite, nausea, cramps, gas and other digestive problems. In more recent history, cinnamon has been suggested to decrease blood-sugar levels and could play a role in managing type2 (non-insulin dependent) diabetes.

At ONU, Dr. Amy Stockert and her research team focused on this use of the tasty spice to try to take the “sweetness” out of diabetes.

Dr. Amy Stockert

Stockert conducted a clinical study in human volunteers with untreated type-2 diabetes to determine the effects of extra cinnamon taken every day on blood sugar concentrations. The study also included volunteers who received a placebo instead of cinnamon. The study was conducted for 12 weeks, and the volunteers’ blood-sugar concentrations were recorded each morning and after meals. Stockert found that blood-sugar concentrations were lower in persons taking the cinnamon when compared to those taking the placebo. In fact, the magnitude of blood-sugar decrease observed was similar to the decrease that would be expected in patients treated with metformin, the drug of choice to treat type-2 diabetes (Hoehn and Stockert.

Nutrition and Metabolic Insights 2012; 5: 77-83).

Approximately one year later, the same volunteers were again invited to participate in a similar study of the effect of cinnamon on blood sugar. Many had not sought treatment for their diabetes during the previous year, and Stockert found that those persons who had previously been treated with cinnamon had maintained lower blood-sugar concentrations despite the lack of treatment. In effect, she found that cinnamon had a long-lasting effect on blood sugar concentrations in persons with type-2 diabetes. This observation led Stockert and her research team on a journey into the chemically complex world of cinnamon.

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Heloiza DeBraga, a Brazilian exchange student, performs work on the fat cell portion of the study along with Branislava Supljejlav, a pharmacy research exchange student from Serbia.

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We know there is a common link between how our body uses sugar or other carbohydrates and how our body uses fats, including cholesterol,” says Stockert. “So far, very little is known about the common pathways shared between these two types of food-fuel processes.

Other groups have identified a decrease in cholesterol concentrations in patients treated with cinnamon, suggesting that cinnamon is working on both the processing of sugars and of fat.

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same mechanism to transport sugar into the cells. She’s focused on the link between type-2 diabetes and obesity, an epidemic across the nation that is especially prevalent in Ohio and rural Hardin County.

Untreated large cinnamon cells.

Treated small cinnamon cells.

Although long-lasting effects on blood sugar may seem too good to be true, it is not unheard of, as many food products, dietary supplements and medicinal herbs have been found recently to produce changes in certain body proteins that may regulate this effect. The study of this protein-regulation process is the focus of the new and growing field of epigenetics. Epigenetics means literally “above genetics,” referring to the control or regulation of gene functions in the cell. These changes were not even thought possible just a few years ago.

Most genetic research is focused on the changes that can occur in the DNA sequence of a cell. Those changes are abnormal, or “mutations,” and the mutated DNA segments produce an altered response through modifications in protein production. Epigenetics examines changes in DNA that are not classified as traditional mutations, but instead represent the “turning on or off” of whole DNA sequences or genes. The gene is intact and contains no mutations but is made accessible or inaccessible (i.e., turned on or off) based on chemical changes in the environment in and around the cell. This concept has been the focus of environmental research in the causes of cancer, and investigators have found links between certain herbs and the incidence of cancer. An example of this is the chemicals found in green tea, which have been shown to decrease tumor production.

Many similar chemicals are found in cinnamon, and it is these chemicals Stockert’s group has been studying. They’ve branched out from diabetes to begin investigating a line of breast-cancer cells to see if treatment with cinnamon alters the proteins produced in the cell and potentially decreases tumor growth.

However, Stockert hasn’t given up on diabetes. Her lab also studies human cells that have the ability to change into fat cells. She expects cinnamon treatment may also alter the conversion of those cells by using some of the same epigenetic mechanisms that she previously found. Stockert works with fat cells because both muscle and fat use the

A healthy fat cell stores fat but releases it for energy production so that there is a constant turnover of fat in the body. An unhealthy fat cell stores fat but doesn’t release it effectively for energy production. Thus, healthy fat cells provide a good energy source for the body, but unhealthy fat cells remain stagnant without providing energy, leading to obesity. Research has shown that fat cell size matters, in that smaller fat cells are the healthiest while larger fat cells tend to be unhealthy or poorly active. Stockert’s work has suggested that treatment with cinnamon produces smaller fat cells. The hope of this research is that cinnamon treatment will keep newly formed fats cells small and healthy and possibly even shrink large fat cells back to a healthy size. If this is the case, as the size of the fat cell changes, the amount of fat breakdown that occurs will increase, making existing fat easier to use for energy and decreasing the fat stored in the body, reducing obesity. More research is needed to know if this will help in the treatment of type-2 diabetes and obesity, but, for now, Stockert’s work has shown that treated fat cells remain smaller and that cinnamon decreases blood-sugar concentrations.

Several Ohio Northern students and faculty have been involved in this research. Ashley Hoehn, a sixth-year pharmacy student from Cloverdale, Ohio, initiated the project as a high school student before starting in pharmacy. During the course of the project, pharmacy students Katie and Sarah Bova, Jimesh Raval, Racheal Bulko, Angela Smith, Sam Alam, Matthew Willoughby, Joe Marchiano, and Jessica Lewe have been involved in different aspects of the research. Biology majors Sabrina Newstead and Ellen Freeh have also been involved in much of the project. Branislava Supljejlav, a pharmacy research exchange student from the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (IPSF) program who studied with Stockert during the summer, worked on the cancer cell portion of the project. Heloiza DeBraga, a Brazilian exchange student through IPSF who studied over the summer, worked on the fat cell portion. Dr. Dave Kinder and Dr. Tarek Mahfouz from the College of Pharmacy and Dr. Amy Aulthouse from the College of Arts & Sciences (biology department) are members of Stockert’s research team.

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SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF FACULTY Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research

Front row, left to right: Kristen Finley Sobota, Kelly Reilly Kroustos, Tarek Mahfouz.

Middle row, left to right: Manoranjan D’Souza, Michael Rush, Steven Martin, Jenelle Sobotka, Natalie DiPietro Mager.

Back row, left to right: Boyd Rorabaugh, Andy Roecker, Jeff Christoff, Amy Stockert, David Kinder Missing from picture: Michelle Musser

Jeffrey Christoff Christoff, J. (Principal), “SYNtrac Nuclear Medicine Department Management System software,” Sponsored by Cardinal Health, $2,500.00, Funded. (December 1, 2009 - December 1, 2014).

Manoranjan D’Souza D’Souza, M., “Kappa opioid receptors and extinction of nicotine seeking,” Sponsored by Other, Private, $100,000.00, Currently Under Review.

(January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015).

D’Souza, M., “Kappa opioid receptors and nicotine-induced aversion,” Sponsored by Other, Private, $10,000.00, Currently Under Review.

(January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015).

D’Souza, M., “Kappa opioid receptors and aversive effects of nicotine,” Sponsored by Other, Ohio Northern University, $11,000.00, Funded. (May 2015 - September 2015).

Natalie DiPietro Mager DiPietro Mager, N. A., Bright, D. R., “Pharmacist provision of preconception care through medication therapy management,” Sponsored by Other, $32,442.00, Funded. (February 2015 - Present).

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David Kinder

Tarek Mahfouz

Kinder, D. H. (Principal), “Isolation and purification of anticancer compounds found in Cryptantha flava, used by Hopi Indians to treat “the cancer, and tumors of the throat”.,” Sponsored by The Herb Society of America, Ohio Northern University, $11,000.00, Not Funded.

Mahfouz, T. M. (Co-Principal), Marquart, J. E. (Principal), Vemuru, S. R. (Co-Principal), Youssfi, Z. (Co-Principal), Perrine, T. M. (Co-Principal), “Computational Science Infrastructure at Ohio Northern University,” Sponsored by NSF - National Science Foundation, Federal, $298,756.00, Currently Under Review. (September 1, 2014 - September 1, 2017).

Kinder, D. H. (Co-Principal), Motz, V. A. (Principal), Young, L. M. (CoPrincipal), “Medicinal Properties of Mullein,” Sponsored by Bower Bennet and Bennet, Private, $5,000.00, Not Funded.

Michelle Musser Musser, M., “SSHP Substance Abuse Education Program,” Sponsored by Hardin County Community Foundation, $1,000.00, Funded. (May 2014 - May 2015).

Steve Martin

Boyd Rorabaugh

“Martin, S. (Principal), Roecker, A. M. (Co­Principal), Rush, M. (Co­Principal), Musser, M. (CoPrincipal), Sobotka, J. (Co­ Principal), DiPietro Mager, N. A. (Co­Principal), “Multidisciplinary Rural Mobile Clinic Using Student Health Care Professionals,” Sponsored by Other, Federal, $571,633.00, Funded. (May 1, 2015 ­ April 30, 2018).”

Zoladz, P. (Principal), Rorabaugh, B. R. (Co-Principal), “Time-Dependent Effects of Stress on Learning: Physiological and Genetic Associations,” Sponsored by NIH - National Institutes of Health, Federal, $423,776.00, Funded. (May 2015 - April 2018).

Rorabaugh, B. R., “Physiological Functions ofGi/o and Control by Regulators of G Protein Signaling,” Sponsored by NIH - National Institutes of Health, Federal, $347,235.00, Funded.

(August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2014).

ONU TO ESTABLISH COMMUNITY MOBILE HEALTH CLINIC

T Michael Rush Rush, M., “Expanding Medication Therapy Management (MTM) to Federally Qualified Healthcenters (FQHC) in Ohio,” Sponsored by Other, State, $3,000.00, Funded.

(April 14, 2014 - June 30, 2016).

Kristen Finley Sobota and Kelly Reilly Kroustos Sobota, K. N., Kroustos, K. M., (Co-Principal) “Bower, Bennet, and Bennet Endowed Chair Research Award,” Sponsored

by Other, Private, $6,000.00, Funded. (May 2015 - Present).

Sobota, K. N., Wills, S., “Target Campus Grant,” Sponsored by Other, Ohio Northern University, $2,000.00, Funded. (August 2013 - August 2014).

Amy Stockert Stockert, A. L., “The effects of aqueous Cinnamon cassia extracts on Fox01 localizaiton and expresssion. Bennet Bower and Bower Endowed Research Chair,” Ohio Northern University, $12,000.00, Not Funded.

he Raabe College of Pharmacy has been awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to establish a multidisciplinary rural mobile clinic to provide health care for residents of Hardin County, Ohio. The grant, totaling $571,633 over three years, will fund an innovative model that will employ a community-based mobile clinic using a multi-professional team of ONU faculty and students to deliver primary care health care services and education to the county.

The goals of the community clinic are to increase access to care, improve health knowledge, improve health outcomes and connect patients to primary medical homes whenever possible.

The clinic began operating in fall 2015.

The plans call for the clinic to travel two or three times weekly to various locations throughout rural Hardin County, operating in schools and other community gathering places.

Health care services that will be routinely provided by the mobile clinic are preventative health education (including nutrition, exercise, tobacco cessation, disease prevention and health

risk reduction), reconciliation of medications, and medication therapy management focused on people who suffer from chronic medical conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, COPD and behavioral health disorders.

Additional services will include immunizations for children and adults as well as health screenings and risk assessments, including assessing BMI, cholesterol, blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure, skin lesions, and risks of breast, cervical and colorectal cancers.

Four key health care organizations in Hardin County will work together on this project. Ohio Northern University will serve as the lead agency, providing student health professionals and licensed supervision, and the Kenton Community Health Center will act as referral agency for primary medical home and childhood vaccinations. The Kenton-Hardin Health Department role will act as a referral agency for primary medical home and childhood vaccinations, and Hardin Memorial Hospital will serve as referral agency for invasive diagnostics and screenings and specialty and acute medical care.

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Kelly Reilly Kroustos (left) and Kristen Finley Sobota (right) are ASCP student advisors working alongside students to raise awareness about fall prevention in the community.

Rising to the Occasion

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ne out of three patients age 65 and older experience a fall each year, but less than half report the fall to their health care provider.

Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries that limit their ability to live independently, resulting in decreased quality of life and increased health care costs. In response to escalating concerns related to falls and fall-related injuries among the aging population, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) has spearheaded an initiative titled “Falls Free: Promoting a National Falls Prevention Action Plan.” The Ohio Northern University American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Chapter will work in concert with NCOA and an Ohiobased initiative titled Steady U in Ohio, which was put in place by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to facilitate an improvement in fall prevention and care for the elderly.

The ONU ASCP Chapter applied for and has recently become a statewide Steady U in Ohio partner.

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Dr. Kristen Finley Sobota and Dr. Kelly Reilly Kroustos from Ohio Northern University’s College of Pharmacy have worked over the past few months to develop an action plan to address the concerns of this aging population that supports their counterparts at the state and national level. In their research, they have identified areas in which ONU ASCP pharmacy students can make an impact on the residents of their community through an all-new outreach program called “The ONU ASCP Fall Prevention Program.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that falls can be prevented in older adults by having a pharmacist review their medications, and ensuring their homes are safe by reducing tripping hazards, improving lighting and adding grab bars in the bathroom. As the College of Pharmacy looks to the new academic year, Finley Sobota and Reilly Kroustos will focus their energies on not only teaching in the college, but also working with groups of students to facilitate the initiative in Hardin and Allen counties in Ohio. The group will focus on assisted-living facilities and plans to provide outreach to support fall prevention each month of the 2015-16 academic year. As the program grows, Finley Sobota and Reilly Kroustos hope to expand their outreach to other counties throughout Ohio.

As the new outreach program is introduced in the community, students will rotate between senior communities and assisted-living centers throughout the region. Once on site, students will provide a 30-minute presentation to a group of community members, covering basic fall-prevention information such as the importance of home safety and appropriate medication use to minimize the risk of falls. After the presentation, residents will have the option of having two students come into their homes to review home safety and medications to optimize personal safety. All students within the ONU pharmacy program will have an opportunity to get involved – first-, second- and third-year pharmacy students will have the responsibility to review the resident’s medication list to increase awareness of fall risks associated with his/her prescription and non-prescription medications. The first-, second- and

third-year students will have the responsibility to review the resident’s home with a CDCapproved safety checklist and will collaborate with the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-years to provide environmental recommendations throughout the home. Students will allocate fall-prevention items, such as grab bars, battery-operated lighting fixtures, and non-slip socks/slippers, non-slip rubber mats. The personal encounter in the resident’s home will be documented, and a customized action plan will be provided to both the resident and director of the facility. The action plan will list the recommendations that were provided by the students and any further steps that need to be taken to not only prevent falls, but also impact the overall positive health outcomes of the patient. The action plan will be reviewed and signed by the pharmacist/faculty advisor.

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Student Feature

Stretch the Limits to Give Back Cody Lovejoy, fourth-year pharmacy student from Cridersville, OH.

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s Cody Lovejoy sets his sights on his fifth year of pharmacy school, he is surprised at how his journey has played out. He came to ONU from Cridersville, a small community in rural Ohio, with a dream to become a pharmacist and help children with cancer. Those in the profession told him that pharmacy school was hard, but his desire to help others was a sacrifice he was willing to make. Therefore, Lovejoy set aside his lifelong love of athletics and dedicated himself to becoming a student-pharmacist.

Flash forward to the end of his fourth year of college. Lovejoy has been named to the Academic All-America At-Large Team in wrestling for three straight years by the College Sports Information Directors of America, and he is a two-time winner of the prestigious Elite 89 Award, given annually to the studentathlete with the highest grade point average at each of the NCAA’s 89 championship events. He also has provided leadership to the University through his involvement in the President’s Club and was accepted into the Honors Program, through which he has been able to enrich his educational experiences.

He is an active ONU member of the Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA), working to develop his patient-care skills. Even with all this activity, Lovejoy maintains a 3.99 cumulative GPA.

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“I hope to be a source of comfort and positive health outcomes in my future role as a clinical pharmacist.”

Lovejoy attributes his success to one of the biggest reasons he decided to attend Ohio Northern – the people. “It felt like a family atmosphere where I wasn’t just a number. Professors and deans knew who I was.”

He explains that he has been able to perform so well both academically and athletically because the faculty, staff and coaches at ONU knew who he is as a person and have encouraged him to expand past his comfort zone. “I like being able to talk with the professors and alumni about research and their expertise in the profession of pharmacy – it continues to open my mind to what is out there for me.”

Lovejoy looks forward to his last two years of pharmacy school, as he makes plans to continue his dream of becoming a pharmacist. The impact of seeing how a child’s illness and diagnosis with childhood cancers can affect a family and small community still drives Lovejoy. In his sixth year, Lovejoy plans to be matched with a two-year residency in pediatric oncology in which he also can earn his Master of Business Administration (MBA).

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ACADEMIC YEAR STUDENT AWARDS

Amanda Liebrecht

Jeremiah Barnes

Emily Ickes

Steven Blake

Cody Lovejoy

Josh Blackwell

Laura Avino

Ryan Siefring

AMANDA LIEBRECHT Second-year student 2015 Newman Civic Fellows Award EMILY ICKES Fourth-year student 2015-16 Junior Student Leadership Council member for the National Community Pharmacy Association CODY LOVEJOY Fourth-year student 2015 NCAA Elite 89 Award winner and named to the Academic All-America At-Large Team in wrestling by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

LAURA AVINO Fifth-year student 2015 Charles J. Ping Student Community Service Award JEREMIAH BARNES Fifth-year student 2015 United States Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award STEVEN BLAKE Fifth-year student 2015 Goldwater Scholar JOSH BLACKWELL PharmD ’15 2015 National President of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association RYAN SIEFRING PharmD ’15 2014-15 Senior Student Leadership Council member for the National Community Pharmacy Association

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Student Experiences

Bringing Classroom Knowledge to Life The Office of Experiential Education and a dedicated network of preceptors guide students through direct patient interaction and practice experiences in collaboration with other health care professionals. This is where student knowledge comes to life as students apply what they have learned over the course of their educational experiences at Ohio Northern. Throughout the professional curriculum, during introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences, student-pharmacists have opportunities to gain hands-on experience with patients and interact with other health professionals to enhance their ability to collaborate with interprofessional health care teams.

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Preceptors and rotation sites in the U.S. and Internationally

Service and Outreach ONU pharmacy students become an important part of the local health care community through service-learning opportunities and community-outreach programs. Working alongside trusted faculty and health professionals, our students bolster their leadership skills and gain the knowledge they need to help strengthen the health of the community. Along with these educational benefits, students enjoy connecting with the local causes and nonprofit organizations that are important to them.

Here is a snapshot of their efforts during the past academic year and two firsthand accounts from the students themselves.

OUTREACH CORNER FOR THE 2014-15 ACADEMIC YEAR* Number of events attended:

193

Students involved in outreach:

1,091

Hours of care provided to patients:

5,202

Lives (patients) touched:

4,217

* Activity based on participation in pharmacy Student Organization outreach efforts.

ROTATION OPTIONS Administration

Intensive Care Practice

Pediatric pulmonology

Pediatrics

Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmacogenetics

Poison Control (Toxicology) Psychiatric

Medication Safety

Neonatal ICU

Nephrology

Neurology

Neuro ICU

Surgery/Surgical Care

Surgical ICU

HIV/AIDS

Home Health Care

Home Infusion

Pediatric ICU

Informatics Ambulatory Care Anticoagulation Clinic Burn Cardiac ICU Cardiology Cardiothoracic ICU Community Public Health Pulmonary Medicine Research Rural Health Emergency Medicine Family Medicine General Medicine Oncology/Hematology Pain Management Pediatric Cardiology Hospital Care

Pediatric Pain Mgmt Internal Medicine International Medicine Long-Term Care

Mail Order Pharmacy Managed Care

Medical ICU

Compounding

Critical Care

Diabetes Clinic

Drug Information

Education/Teaching

Nuclear Pharmacy

Nutrition

Geriatrics

Transplantation Trauma Hospice/Palliative Care Pediatric Oncology

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REFLECTIONS FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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his past summer, I had the amazing opportunity to join Northern Without Borders in the Dominican Republic to help set up medical clinics in villages that do not have access to regular medical care. We stayed in San Juan de la Maguana at a guesthouse with Solid Rock, the Christian mission group that orchestrates the traveling medical clinics.

Every day, we would travel to smaller barrios to set up the clinics. These clinics provide the people with an opportunity to see Dominican doctors and be prescribed proper medication when necessary. Every week, a new group of volunteers travels to San Juan to help with the clinics by donating and dispensing medication, and to triage and educate patients alongside Dominican translators, physicians and nurses.

We had two large wooden boxes that served as our “pharmacy.”

After the patients would see the doctors, they handed us a prescription, and we dispensed the medication to them in a system very reminiscent of my daily CVS internship activities. Of course, we dispensed no controlled medication, but antibiotics and antifungals were often prescribed.

Triage was my favorite part of the clinics. Personally interacting with each patient was a truly rewarding experience. With the translators’ help, we were given a glimpse into each patient’s life as they described their “chief complaint.”

Listening to the Dominican doctors assess each patient was grounding. Most of the people seen have several family members with multiple disease states, but only two members per family were allowed to see a doctor. Given the extent of pharmaceutical products and funds available, the doctors were only able to provide supportive care in some cases. Often, a cure was not plausible. This part of my experience was truly heartbreaking, but the physicians made sure to help in any way they could. Every patient was treated with respect and compassion.

I was aware of the controversy surrounding trips like this one: How much good can a group of people, with a completely different cultural background, passing out 30 days worth of 20 20

Alexandra Dimit, fifth-year pharmacy student from North Canton, Ohio

medication really do, especially when that specific barrio may not have medical help again for months or even years? I found myself wondering if our past cultural competency lectures prepared me for something as significant as this trip.

But I learned it’s not about the drugs. It’s not about the donations. It’s not about hygiene education, woundhealing or lowering someone’s blood pressure. Those things are important, but they are not the focus. It’s about learning. It’s about giving. It’s about hope.

My experience was not the “eye-opening” one I assumed it would be; it was heartwarming. Or maybe a better word is “heart-linking.” Because isn’t everything about making connections anyway? I saw the hurt. And I saw the pain. But I also saw joy and laughter and even some light-hearted sarcasm. Their sense of togetherness was striking. Their gratefulness was palpable. If I had asked, any one of them would have given me the shirt off their back. Knowing that fact was overwhelming.

I have never been so grateful to be on a career path where experiences like this one are possible. Outreach is such a vital part of the profession of pharmacy, and I cannot think of a better use for my time. Even a simple task can make an enormous difference for a patient. I am excited to take what I have learned this summer and apply it to my daily life and future career. I do not have to leave the country to make attempting to make people’s lives better a daily activity. Compassion, willingness, and a passion for change are qualities every pharmacist should value. I hope to hone these attributes as I prepare myself for life as a health professional and leader.

CARING FOR THE NEEDS OF SENIOR CITIZENS

Kaelyn Porvasnik, fifth-year pharmacy student from North Royalton, Ohio

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s a pharmacy student, I appreciate the opportunities that I have been given not only to learn about my profession in the classroom, but also to work with patients out in the real world.

Through my outreach experiences, I have very much enjoyed being able to work with patients to improve their health and overall quality of life. Patient care is one of main reasons I chose to give myself to the profession of pharmacy for the rest of my life, and it’s something that I very much look forward to as I move further in my career both as an intern on rotations and as a licensed pharmacist.

From July 23 to Aug. 3, 2014, I was able to do senior citizen health checks. Throughout these two weeks, I was impacted by one particular patient who has dementia.

She is far enough in the stages of dementia that she needs help with basic activities of daily living, but her dementia is not severe enough to require 24-hour assisted living. So my responsibilities included going to her house every day for two to three hours at a time. For two weeks, I helped her with her basic needs such as taking her medications and making meals. This was my favorite experience because not only was I able to make a difference in a patient’s life by ensuring medication adherence, but also I had the opportunity to get to know one patient on a personal level. I spent extensive amounts of time with her as I took her for her routine hair appointment on Thursdays, followed by her regular run through the McDonald’s drive-through for her Big Mac and sweet tea.

My experience with this particular patient also gave me exposure to what it is like living with dementia, and all that being a caregiver of someone with dementia entails, long before I learned about this disease state in the CNS module. This patient had her good days and bad days.

Some days she conversed with me just fine, and on other days, she would tell me that her granddaughter had been visiting her earlier in the day (even though that was not possible since her granddaughter was away at school in a different state). I grew to care very much for this patient by the end of my two weeks spent with her, and I can only imagine the difficulties of being the caregiver of a very close friend or family member with dementia.

I will always keep this in mind when speaking with both elderly patients and those who care for them when I am a pharmacist. I am very appreciative of the opportunities I had in working with this patient and am satisfied knowing that she is under the care of very intelligent and loving pharmacists who care for her like family.

As a whole, I fully enjoyed all of my outreach experiences as they taught me a lot about myself, my future as a pharmacist, and where I would like to end up when I am licensed. When I put my white coat on, I am assuming the position as a leader, as a pharmacist is a leader in every aspect of his or her practice. Not only did outreach teach me how to speak to patients, but it also taught me how to listen – an essential trait in a leader and in a pharmacist.

I look forward to using these leadership skills as well as my outreach experiences and memories I have made as a pharmacist when I graduate and receive my license in a little over a year.

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MEET OUR NEW ACADEMIC LEADERS Current Administration SOPHOCLES CHRISSOBOLIS,

assistant professor of pharmacology, completed his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Pharmacology, where he investigated how potassium channels and rho-kinase are involved in cerebral vascular function under normal conditions and during chronic hypertension. In 2004, he was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) CJ Martin Overseas Training Fellowship to work at the University of Iowa studying the involvement of antioxidant defense mechanisms in protecting against vascular dysfunction caused by angiotensin II. His current research is focused on mechanisms by which aldosterone and angiotensin II are involved in cerebrovascular disease.

AMY FANOUS,

PharmD ’12, project director for the rural mobile health clinic and clinical assistant professor, completed her PharmD at ONU in 2012 and an ASHPaccredited PGY-1 residency with ONU Healthwise before accepting a position with Memorial Hospital in Marysville, Ohio, as an outpatient clinical pharmacist in its medication therapy clinic.

JESSICA HINSON,

assistant professor of pharmacy practice, completed her PharmD at the University of Cincinnati in 2014. Upon graduation, she pursued an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 residency with West Virginia University’s School of Pharmacy, where she held an adjunct faculty appointment. She also has worked as a pharmacist and pharmacy intern since 2009.

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Steve Martin, Dean of College of Pharmacy, PharmD, BS Pharmacy – Ferris State University, Fellowship – University of Illinois at Chicago

STEVE LEONARD,

associate professor of pharmacy practice, completed his Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and PharmD at Purdue University. He then completed PGY-1 residency training in Indianapolis at St. Vincent Hospital and a post-graduate fellowship in infectious diseases at Wayne State University while earning a graduate certificate in public health practice. Since that time, he has served as both a clinical pharmacist and educator, most recently working for Northeastern University as assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy and as a clinical pharmacist in infectious diseases for Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. His research is focused on the application of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles in the treatment of infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus as well as methods to suppress the emergence of resistance.

LINDSEY PETERS,

assistant professor of pharmacy practice, came to Ohio Northern University in 2014.

Peters graduated from the University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy in 2013. She continued her education through a PGY-1 pharmacy practice residency at Grandview Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio.

At ONU, she currently teaches in the profession of pharmacy series, pharmacy calculations, over-the-counter products and various therapeutic modules. Her practice interest is psychiatric and behavioral health pharmacy. She is the advisor for Northern Without Borders, Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy and the Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP) Operation Diabetes. Her recognitions include the 2015 College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists Research Trainee Award and 2014 Ohio Pharmacists Association Young Pharmacy Leader.

Tom Kier, Associate Dean of Pharmacy Operations, Instructor College of Pharmacy – Ohio Northern University Kelly M. Shields, Assistant Dean Pharmacy Practice, PharmD – Butler University, Fellowship – University of Missouri-Kansas City Scott Wills, senior director of development BSBA Ohio Northern University, MBA - Ashland University

Faculty

Dr. Mark E. Olah, Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Associate Professor of Pharmacology Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, BS Pharmacy – Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Ph.D – Ohio State University, Post-doctoral – Duke University Medical Center Dr. Jeffrey Christoff, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Science, BS Pharmacy – Duquesne University, Ph.D. – Ohio State University Dr. Manoranjan D’Souza, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, M.D. – University of Mumbai, Ph.D. – University of Texas at Austin, Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of California San Diego Dr. David Kinder, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, BS – Purdue University, MS - Indiana University, Ph.D. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. David Koh, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, BS Biology – Centre College, BS Pharmacy, Ph.D. – University of Kentucky, Postdoctoral Fellowship – MD Johns Hopkins, University School of Medicine Dr. Tarek Mahfouz, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, BS – Cario University, MS - West Texas A&M University, Ph.D. - University of Houston Dr. Yousif Rojeab, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, BS – Jordan University of Science and Technology, Ph.D. – University of Houston Dr. Boyd Rorabaugh, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, BS – Mount Vernon Nazarene University, MS – Bowling Green State University, Ph.D. – Creighton University, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Lerner Research

Dr. Amy Stockert, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, BS, MS – IndianaPurdue at Fort Wayne, Ph.D. – Ohio State University Dr. Andrew M. Roecker, Chair of Pharmacy Practice Dept., Professor of Pharmacy Practice, PharmD, Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy – Ohio Northern University Dr. Eyob Adane, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, B.Pharm, Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy, MS – Addis Ababa University, Ph.D. – University of Kentucky Dr. Jeffery C. Allison, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, BS, Doctor of Pharmacy – Ohio Northern University Dr. Mary Ellen Hethcox, Director of Drug Information and Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, BS – University of Rhode Island, PharmD – Virginia Commonwealth University Dr. Karen L. Kier, Director of Assessment, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, BS – Ohio Northern University MS, Ph.D. – Ohio State University, ASHP Accredited Residency – Grant Medical Center, Advanced Specialty Residency – University of North Carolina Dr. Jennie Kline Grundey, Associate Director of Experiential Program, PharmD – Ohio Northern University Dr. Kelly Reilly Kroustos, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, BS – Ohio Dominican University, PharmD, Ambulatory Care Residency – Ohio State University Dr. Natalie DiPietro Mager, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, PharmD – Ohio Northern University, MS Public Health – Indiana University-Indianapolis, Visiting Scientist Fellowship Program in Women’s Health – Eli Lilly & Co. Dr. Michelle Musser, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, BS – Ashland University, PharmD – Ohio State University, PGY-1 Residency – Ohio Northern University Deirdre L. Myers, Pharmaceutics Laboratory Instructor, Pharmacy Instructor, BS – Ohio Northern University Dr. Pat Parteleno, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Director of Experiential Education, BS, PharmD – Ohio Northern University Dr. Lindsey Peters, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, PharmD – University of Cincinnati PGY-1 Residency – Grandview Medical Center, Pharmacy Practice Residency Teaching Certificate – Ohio Northern University Dr. Erin Petersen, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, PharmD – Ohio Northern University, PGY-1 Residency – Blanchard Valley Medical Associates Dr. Michael Rush, Director, ONU HealthWise, PharmD, Pharmacy Practice Residency – Ohio Northern University Dr. Kristen Finley Sobota, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Doctor of Pharmacy – West Virginia University, Pharmacy Practice Residency and Teaching Certificate – Ohio State University Jenelle Sobotka, Professor and Endowed Chair of Pharmacy Practice, BS, PharmD – University of Iowa

Advisory Board Dr. Bruce Bouts BSPh ’82 General Internist Blanchard Valley Medical Associates Inc. Findlay, Ohio Col. (Ret.) Mark Butler BSPh ’79 Chief, Pharmacy Service Dayton VA Medical Center Dayton, Ohio Dr. Shawn Eaton PharmD ’01 Region Manager CVS Health Twinsburg, Ohio George Hill BA ’69, BSPh ’74 Director, Pharmacy Services, Retired Catholic Health Initiatives Erlanger, Ky. Kathy Karas BA, BSPh ’75 Staff Pharmacist Acme Akron, Ohio Richard Keyes BSPh ’92 Executive Vice President of Supply Chain Operations and Mfg. Meijer Inc. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Paul T. Kocis BSPh ’88, PharmD ’03 Staff Clinical Pharmacist, Anticoagulation Clinic Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University Hershey, Pa. Ronda K. Lehman BSPh ’98 Chief Operating Officer St. Rita’s Professional Services Lima, Ohio

Phillip Lettrich BSPh ’85 Channel Manager First Databank Inc. Theresa “Tip” Parker BSPh ’74 Director of Trade Relations & Pharmacy Operations, Retired Abbott PPD Abbott Park, Ill. Robert “Bob” Parsons BSPh ’71 Executive Vice President Ohio Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists Marietta, Ohio Dr. Ervin Pierstorf ’53, Hon. D. ’78 Chairman of the Board and CEO, Retired Fairview Photo Services Rocky River, Ohio, and Pinellas Park, Fla. Todd Sega PharmD ’11 Manager of Payer Relations Pharmacy Quality Solutions Inc. Durham, N.C. Michael Storey PharmD ’10 Pharmacy Manager, Acute Medicine Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, Ohio Tom Wiechart BSPh ’81 Pharmacist Rite Aid Lima, Ohio Suzanne Eastman-Wuest BSPh ’74 Senior Director of Clinical Services Adheris Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio

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