Ampul Spring 2016

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2016 A M AG A Z I N E F O R A LU M N I & F R I E N D S O F T H E R U D O L P H H . R A A B E C O L L E G E O F P H A R M AC Y

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John A. Armitstead ASHP President 2016 Sebok Lecturer Many Facets of Pharmacy Leadership

Dinstinguished Alumni Awards Bringing the Classroom to Life Alumni Supporting the College of Pharmacy

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

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 Contributors: Hayley Stratton Mary Wilkin Scott Wills, BSBA ’87 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

In this edition of The Ampul, we feature some of the outstanding alumni from the Raabe College of Pharmacy. With nearly 7,000 alumni living across the country and the world, Polar Bear pharmacists are leaders in education, health care and business, and they serve as outstanding role models for our students.

My many conversations and interactions with alumni have helped me recognize that ONU graduates feel a sense of loyalty and dedication to our mission, and they strive to give back to ONU in any number of ways. Alumni return to campus to teach classes and mentor students, to interview and interact with prospective students, and to introduce new recruits to our program and our unique ONU community. Alumni visit their local high schools to talk about careers in pharmacy with teens, and they make sure the students are aware that Ada

is home to the best college of pharmacy in the nation. Alumni offer shadowing opportunities for prospective students, and they provide internships and other training experiences for our current students. Alumni hire our graduates, and they help them network, make connections and achieve success in their practices. Alumni give back to ONU financially, helping to provide scholarships for current students and supporting the growth and new initiatives for the college. Alumni are our lifeblood, and we are blessed to have the most loyal and generous alumni in the nation.

In this edition, you’ll read about John Armitstead, BSPh ’79, and his career providing leadership for our profession. Our Distinguished Alumni Award winners Armitstead, Leonard L. “Bud” Lance, BSPh ’70, and Timothy Tracy, BSPh ’83, ae recognized.

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You’ll also read about ONU HealthWise and the leadership in health care that it has provided for our campus and surrounding community. I also would like to congratulate Rick Keyes, BSPh ’92, for recently being named president of Meijer in recognition of his vision and ability to positively influence people. ONU pharmacy alumni are leaders across the country.

I invite you to come back to campus for a visit. I am always happy to see alumni and friends on campus, and I welcome the chance to talk with you personally about our programs, our students, and our future.

Go Polar Bears!

Steven J. Martin Dean

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ONU HEALTHWISE

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BRINGING THE CLASSROOM TO LIFE

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS

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MANY FACETS OF PHARMACY LEADERSHIP

ALUMNI SUPPORT

High-impact learning in patient care.

Distinguished Alumni Award winners John A. Armitstead, BSPh ’79, Leonard L. “Bud” Lance, BSPh ’70, and Timothy Tracy, BSPh ’83, recognized.

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STUDENT SUCCESSES

John A. Armitstead, BSPh ’79, American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists president and ONU alumnus, speaks at the 2016 Sebok Lecture.

Learning abroad and outside of the classroom, even outside the country to make a difference.

Third-year pharmacy student, Katelyn Avers, with her mentor, Ernest E. Boyd, Hon. D. ’10, CAE, president of the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA).

A HURSH FAMILY HISTORY

From student research to new student clubs to the White Coat Ceremony, ONU pharmacy students make an impact.

Hursh Drug was built on a three-pronged set of traditions: Ohio Northern, pharmacy and philanthropy.

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Designed as a health and wellness program to help ONU’s employees and their families with complicated health issues, ONU HealthWise continues to develop as an outreach program within the community.

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and exercise physiology. Since the University is self-insured, the idea was to explore ways to manage the population in a preventative-medicine manner.”

START SM ALL , DRE AM BIG When it first began in 2010, the ONU HealthWise program had modest ambitions. It was designed as a health and wellness program to help ONU’s employees and their families with complicated health issues.

It had four goals: 1) Improve employee health 2) Improve employee job satisfaction 3) Decrease health care expenditures 4) Provide a unique educational experience for ONU students.

And so ONU HealthWise was born, with the original pilot program accepting only 20 participants who had diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. These participants met with nursing, exercise physiology and pharmacy faculty on a regular basis.

“We started by providing interdisciplinary disease-state management,” says Michael Rush, PharmD ’05, director of ONU HealthWise. “We had involvement from nursing, pharmacy, clinical laboratory sciences

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COMPLICATED HEALTH ISSUES.

“We are offering free tobacco-cessation appointments to anybody on campus, regardless of whether they are on the University’s insurance,” says Rush. “They can come to us if they use tobacco, and we’ll provide free counseling and nicotine-replacement products to help ease that transition.”

ONU HealthWise slowly began to branch out into the surrounding communities, and by 2011, the program was managing diabetes patients in Hardin County. The ultimate goal of the program was to create a culture of wellness for the ONU campus and the surrounding counties through medication therapy management, disease state management, nutrition counseling and physical wellness coaching.

“Many citizens of Hardin County do not have primary care physicians, so there were problems with access and entry into the health care system for many people.” says Amy Fanous, PharmD ’12, director of the rural mobile health clinic.

Today, members of the University and the surrounding communities are encouraged to take advantage of these services, which now include health risk assessment, biometric screenings, disease management, medication reconciliation and medication management, health education, drug and health information services, physician referrals, and a tobacco-cessation program, which was unveiled last fall to coincide with the University’s new tobacco-free campus policy.

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TAKING CARE TO W HERE IT ’S NEEDED Another new program came about in fall 2015 in response to health care needs in Hardin County.

The county has been designated as a “Primary Medical Care Health Professional Shortage” area.

Wisdom Adaka, a fifth-year pharmacy student from Hawthorne, Calif., consults with patients Much of the county also has received federal during a community health fair. designation as a “medically underserved area.”

Due to its rural nature, an aging population and high poverty rates, From the start, ONU HealthWise was intended to educate students Hardin County is a community with substantial physical, emotional, who participated with faculty in providing education, developing and spiritual health and wellness needs. physical activity plans and reviewing medications. Students received hands-on experience in managing patient health needs, including In 2013, a community health assessment report identified priorities counseling and education; performing physical assessments; for health care in Hardin County. These included preventative health performing collective biometric measures such as blood pressure education; strategies to manage and reconcile medications among and blood glucose, hemoglobin A1c and bone density measurements; patients with chronic conditions; better assistance with navigation, and administering immunizations. coordination and access to health care services for patients with chronic diseases; improved participation and service coordination OPENING DOORS TO THE COMMUNITY

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Phil Farwig, a sixth-year pharmacy student from Findlay, Ohio, administers a bone density test for an ONU employee.

So far, in just six months, the Mobile Health Clinic has been a resounding success, with real, life-changing results.

related to immunizations, vaccinations and health screenings; and the prevention of falls and fractures among the elderly.

“Many citizens of Hardin County do not have primary care physicians, so there were problems with access and entry into the health care system for many people.” says Amy Fanous, PharmD ’12, director of the rural mobile health clinic.

The College of Pharmacy conducted its own health care needs assessment in Hardin County in fall 2014. Individuals in the county identified some additional hurdles standing in the way of quality health care, such as limited access to physicians and other primary care providers, transportation problems, and difficulty with the understanding and the management of chronic medical conditions.

Equipped with all of this information, Ohio Northern University developed its ONU HealthWise Rural Mobile Health Clinic in August 2015.

“We received federal grant funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration to go out and provide primary care in rural Hardin County and to coordinate care services,” Rush says. “The mobile clinic serves as an entry point into the health care system for many in the county. We provide health risk assessment and assist patients in managing their chronic health conditions. The clinic offers vaccinations and other preventative services, and we provide biometric screenings for common health conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Our clinicians provide coordination of care and often refer patients to physicians or other health care professionals when needed.”

So far, in just six months, the Mobile Health Clinic has been a resounding success, with real, life-changing results.

“We’ve provided care to approximately 200 people since September, and around 10 percent have been referred to a physician or the health clinic in Kenton, Ohio, because we’ve identified a medical condition that had not previously been recognized,” says Fanous.

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CHANGE IN THE AIR In August 2015, ONU HealthWise began offering its services and programs to ONU students in addition to employees and beneficiaries.

“Now the program is open to our ONU students,” says Rush. “This includes all the health care programs as well as the fitness classes that we offer, such as Zumba, yoga, Pilates and dance.”

Also in the fall, a number of existing programs were brought under the ONU HealthWise umbrella.

“We decided to expand the brand name to the other clinical services that we offer,” says Rush. “So now ONU HealthWise encompasses the on-campus preventative health program and disease management services for employees and students; the Drug and Health Information Center, which has been operating for many years; and the college’s student-run health care outreach programs for the community.”

Get more information about ONU HealthWise events and services at www.onu.edu/pharmacy/healthwise ◆

Left to right: Rachel Edeburn, Brittany Long, Amy Fanous, and Michelle Tuma. Back row: Brandon Bourgeois and Phillip Farwig.

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“We have 14 pharmacy organizations that provide health care outreach services to the community,” says Dr. Michelle Musser, director of outreach for ONU HealthWise and associate professor of pharmacy practice. “Health care outreach could include health screenings, such as measuring blood pressure or blood glucose concentrations; disease management or medication reconciliation and management services; educational programs; and other health-related activities. It could include providing services at a health fair or working with the local schools to provide classroom presentations. Health care outreach from student organizations serves a wide variety of people and needs. We have groups offering programs and services for the elderly all the way down to preschoolers.”

L O O K I N G F O R WA R D In the future, ONU HealthWise’s campus-based and community pharmacy practices will expand considerably to include providing primary care for the medically underserved community through additional mobile health clinics, the enlargement of the Drug and Health Information Center, the engagement of the Drug and Health Information Center’s services to the public and the health community, a focused increase in outreach programs, and broadening the program’s commitment to community service.

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PHARM ACY LEADERSH I P John A. Armitstead, BSPh ’79, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, president and ONU alumnus speaks at the 2016

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Sebok Lecture.

With warmer climates come greater responsibility. At least that’s been the case with John Armitstead. His career has taken him further and further south. But the first stop on his journey was Ohio Northern University.

A native of New York City, Armitstead’s father was a Methodist minister, and his mother was an emergency department nursing director. His decision to pursue pharmacy was influenced by his mom. “At the time, I thought, ‘Well, I like health care, but I’d like a little bit cleaner aspect of health care than the emergency department.’ Because she also

worked in the trauma center, and that kind of thing wasn’t my cup of tea.”

He selected Ohio Northern because of its distance from home and his desire to study at a smaller school. “I wanted to be a little bit independent, and I was looking for a quality pharmacy school at a smaller university, and Ohio Northern was just perfect. And the aspect of it being Methodist church-related was another great connection for me.”

Armitstead will laughingly admit that, at first glance, ONU may have seemed too small, especially when you consider where he was coming from. “Actually, when I first pulled into town, I almost said, ‘Let’s get

out of here.’ I was a New York City kid. My high school had more students than the population of Ada. But then as I met the people, and my parents met the people, we were just so impressed all the way around.”

In the early ’70s, as Armitstead first explored Northern, the University was in the midst of a renaissance in terms of expansion and renovation. The Robertson-Evans Pharmacy Building opened in 1966. The Meyer Hall of Science opened in 1970. Biggs Engineering Building opened in 1972.

“King-Horn was being built at the time,” Armitstead says. “So Ohio Northern was just having a breakout era for new buildings. The

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combination of newer facilities, coupled with the friendliness and the longstanding quality of the Ohio Northern College of Pharmacy, everything aligned.”

After graduating from Northern in 1979, Armitstead traveled 60 miles down the road to Springfield, Ohio, where he found a position as a hospital pharmacist. After three months, he decided to explore his leadership potential at Ohio State University, where in 1982 he earned a Hospital Pharmacy Residency Certificate and a Master of Science in hospital and clinical pharmacy. More importantly, he married his ONU sweetheart, Ima Darling, BSPh ’80, during this same time period.

programs for pharmacy services at Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. He then moved a bit further south as director of pharmacy services and assistant dean at University of Kentucky HealthCare in Lexington, Ky. “What’s really kind of unique is that I never went to apply for these jobs,” he says. “With my network of relationships and my strengths in leadership, people contacted me to take career-advancing positions. I never sought to leave a practice, but I have been called to take on new challenges.”

“My residency program director called me and said, ‘We’ve got a critical care supervisor position open at Riverside Methodist Hospitals, and you would be perfect for it.’ So I took it.”

As system director of pharmacy services at Lee Memorial Health System, Armitstead runs a health-system pharmacy practice that includes 254 employees. Every phase of pharmacy practice reports to him, including community, infusion, new pharmacy, wholesaling, inpatient, clinical pharmacy and ambulatory care.

And so began a string of leadership positions that continues to this day. He was a critical care pharmacy supervisor and assistant director of pharmacy services at Riverside Methodist Hospitals in Columbus, Ohio. Then came associate director of pharmacy services at University of Cincinnati Hospital and director of clinical

“I’ve got the full range of pharmacy services. We’re really and truly servicing all of southwest Florida. The unique part about Lee Memorial Health System is that, in essence, we are the county’s health system. And my role is to make sure that pharmacy services are provided to all patients, inpatients and outpatients.”

He has even pharmacists technicians departments system.

placed multiple and pharmacy in emergency throughout the

“We’re on the verge of getting provider status from the federal government through Medicare.

We’re pushing for the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act in Congress, and we’re on the verge of being recognized by Medicare as a provider of health care services. It’s really a good time.”

Armitstead developed this far-reaching perspective on pharmacy in part because he’s the current president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), which offers a unique approach to its presidency.

Individuals spend three years as president of ASHP. The first year is spent as president-elect, the second year as president, and the third as immediate past-president.

All three years are spent on the ASHP Board of Directors, with the president serving as chair.

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“I would view it as learning, and then moving to doing, and the third year is really advisory,” Armitstead says. “I’m in my ‘doing’ year, so I’m leading as president.

When you are president and chair of the board, you serve as spokesperson of the society. You drive the philosophy and policies from the perspective of being chair.”

Subconsciously or not, Armitstead’s career has taken him to progressively warmer locales. Yet he still finds time to return to the Tundra. The latest was in February 2016, when ONU’s College of Pharmacy honored him with a Distinguished Alumni Award. He also participated in the college’s health-system pharmacy leadership summit and delivered the Sebok Lecture that same weekend.

“You plan to do well in your career and in your life, but when someone else says that you’ve done well and they think you’re notable, that’s pretty outstanding. I feel honored, privileged, amazed and overwhelmed. When I think of the people that led me, to think that I could lead other people, it feels great. I am one proud Polar Bear in Southwest Florida!” ◆

John A. Armistead, BSPh ’79, and his wife Ima Darling, BSPh ’80.

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With a year under his belt as clinical pharmacist in cardiology at Ohio State University Hospitals, Armitstead’s leadership career began in earnest.

Today, Armitstead finds himself in Fort Myers and Cape Coral, Fla., where even 60-degree temperatures are frowned upon as being too cold. “It’s a little chilly down here in Florida, but I’m not allowed to say that to people in Ohio,” he laughs.

Armitstead views 2016 as a great time to be involved with the profession of pharmacy. He sees unlimited possibilities in demonstrating the medication-expert role of the pharmacist to collaborate with other disciplines to improve the health care outcomes of patients.

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS THE RAABE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY HONORED THREE ALUMNI WITH DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS ON FEB. 12. THIS WAS THE NINTH YEAR THAT DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS WERE PRESENTED

BY THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.

JOHN A. ARMITSTEAD, BSPH ’79, LEONARD L. “BUD” LANCE, BSPH ’70, AND TIMOTHY TRACY, BSPH ’83, WERE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THEIR CONTRI-

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Tracy, is a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, and a 1983 graduate of the College of Pharmacy. He is provost at the University of Kentucky.

Timothy Tracy, BSPh ’83, provost of the University of Kentucky.

Prior to entering academia, he practiced in community and hospital settings throughout Ohio.

Tracy launched his academic career at West Virginia University, where he won six college-wide teaching awards and one university-wide teaching award.

Tracy then joined the University of Minnesota, where he served as head of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, director of the Center for Forecasting Drug Response, and director of Clinical and Translational Research Services.

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In August 2010, he joined the University of Kentucky as dean of the college of pharmacy; from May 2012 until August 2013, he served as interim provost.

Tracy’s research and teaching interests deal with pharmacogenetics and their effect on drug metabolism. Tracy has published approximately 100 scientific manuscripts and more than 15 book chapters, edited two books, and served as a principal and co-investigator on numerous NIH-funded grants. He received his Ph.D. in clinical pharmacy from Purdue University in 1988.

He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical pharmacology at Indiana University.

Lance is a native of Lodi, Ohio, and a 1970 graduate of the College of Pharmacy. He is the former pharmacy editor, technical advisor and pharmacy (information) database coordinator for Lexi-Comp Inc. Along with authoring Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ “Quick Look Drug Book,” he provided technical support to Lexi-Comp’s reference publications. Lance assisted more than 300 major hospitals in producing their own formulary (pharmacy) publications through Lexi-Comp’s custom publishing service. Lance also was manager of the Dosage Forms Database in Lexi-Comp’s Medical Sciences Division.

Since the late 1970s, Lance has focused on using computers to improve pharmacy service. As such, he began his career with LexiComp in 1988. As the company’s first pharmacist, he helped develop its first drug database in 1989. He also was involved in editing and publishing Lexi-Comp’s first “Drug Information Handbook” in 1990.

Lance is past president of the Summit Pharmaceutical Association (SPA). He was a member of the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA), the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA), and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).

Leonard L. "Bud" Lance, BSPh ’70, retired pharmacist

Armitstead has served on the ASHP Board of Directors and on several councils and committees. He is active in the Florida Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists and is a founding member of the Florida Residency Conference.

He is a past president of the Kentucky Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists and Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists and is a recipient of the Clifton J. Latiolais Award from the Ohio State University School of Pharmacy.

Armitstead earned a Master of Science in hospital and clinical pharmacy from Ohio State University in 1982.

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Armitstead, is a native of Port Jefferson, Long Island, N.Y., and a 1979 graduate of the College of Pharmacy. He is the current president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) as well as system director of pharmacy services at Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Fla. and Cape Coral, Fla. He started his practice in pharmacy as a pharmacy volunteer. Since that time, he has been a pharmacy technician, pharmacy intern, staff pharmacist, pharmacy resident, cardiology clinical specialist, critical care pharmacy supervisor, assistant director, associate director, director, associate professor and assistant dean.

John A. Armitstead, BSPh ’79, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, president and system director of pharmacy services at Lee Memorial Health System.

Prior to the Distinguished Alumni Award ceremony, Armitstead delivered the annual Sebok Lecture in the Freed Center for

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the Performing Arts. The topic of his lecture was “Perfecting Your Practice: Continuous Professional Development.”

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SOUTH KOREA LIFE

Angela Chu, a fifth-year pharmacy student from Shawnee, Kan., spent summer 2015 in South Korea as part of the Hanyang University International Summer School program.

Hanyang University in Seoul is one of the leading private universities in Korea, with an undergraduate student population of approximately 32,000. Chu made a series of blog posts during her stay. Here’s one, dated July 20, 2015.

This is my third country I’ve studied abroad in, and it’s amazing

how unique each experience is and what I gain out of it. Because this program brings together over 1,300 students from over 50 countries, I’ve gotten to learn a lot more about global differences and similarities versus just the country I am in. Both classes I’m taking discuss the views of students from each country represented on every issue we talk about.

In my health equity class, we mainly discuss U.S. socioeconomic problems and their effect on the nation’s health. Racism doesn’t exist (at least as extensively) in

Singapore, and the concept of racism was mind-blowing to the Singaporean students. Singapore is a melting pot of mainly Chinese, Malays (Eurasian islanders) and Indians, so they are used to diversity in their culture and everyone being an immigrant. Our professor brought up a good point that, statistically, increased immigration actually lowers crime rates. First-generation immigrants aren’t the problem; it’s the U.S.born generations that continuously grow up in poverty that are.

My “adulthood and aging” class is hands down my favorite. I wish

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that professor taught at ONU because you can tell he legitimately cares about student success and has had so many different life experiences. The professor was born in Ohio, studied in Japan for two years, finished college in Hawaii, and has served in the U.S. Marine Corps. We study life stages progressively, reflect on where we think we are at, and get to listen to speakers from different life stages speak about

what it is like in Korea for people in their age bracket.

Last week, we talked about young adulthood, and today we moved into dating and marriage. No matter what societal expectations each country has, it’s funny to see how people our age still live life the same way. For example, the South Korean government has been encouraging

young adults to get married and Although we may exist under different governments, speak reproduce because their birth different languages, and eat difrate has declined to an average of 1.8 children per household. ferent foods, this study abroad They are experiencing their ba- has brought me back to the reality that everyone values the by-boom generation and need same things in the end. When more children to be born to fill in the job and military gaps pro- we talked about military service jected by 2030. But I’ve talked – compulsory or not – no one likes going to war, and its psychosoto a bunch of Korean students cial stresses affect everyone the here who aren’t even thinking about marriage until they grad- same. In both classes, we talk about death a lot, whether from uate and establish a career, like disease or war, and the emotion in the U.S. Although the U.S. has evoked from pictures, videos and the highest divorce rate in the stories all look and sound the world, common couple issues got same. I think we get caught up laughs from everyone in the class a lot contrasting different cul– showing that in the end, we’re tures, that we forget we are all all the same.

AN URGENCY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Farano chose to serve through the Junior Recruited Commission Officer Student Training Extern Program (JRCOSTEP) and was partnered with a pharmacy colleague from Drake University to live and work among the Fort Apache Indian Reservation people of White River, Ariz. Their workweek consisted of serving 40 hours a week for three months.

The work was structured through the Reservation’s Indian Health Commission and an agency of the federal government, the Public Health Service. The initial emphasis was serving the Apache Tribe’s needs regarding ambulatory care. This component addressed one serious health concern as the Indian people tend to have higher rates of diabetes and substanceabuse problems. Long before she came onboard, Farano was interested in learning about how to serve these challenges.

During the early phase of the three-month service project, a typical day started at White River Hospital in the White Mountain Apache Tribe reservation. Farano and her colleague shadowed a licensed hospital pharmacist for the first two or three hours, then counseled reservation patients for two hours, and worked on select projects like implementing a patient satisfaction survey and analyzing ongoing patient care and how it can be improved within the hospital setting.

Joelle Farano

In the months that followed, another facet of this servant leadership project involved the painclinic where Farano and her colleague shadowed pharmacist specialists and monitored tribe patients’ progress regarding their healing from physical ailments and pain. She shadowed a pharmacist who promotes healthy heart lifestyle and diet and the proper taking of medications.

Farano learned about the different roles that pharmacists play within just one hospital. “I felt that I was giving back and using my education to help those who need it the most,” she says. “The Indian Health Service takes good care of its people and understands improving quality of life and that the pharmacist plays a critical role.”

As the three-month service project wound down, Farano traveled to a remote clinic. “I was able to assist patients coming in who otherwise doubted their need for proper health care. I saw one patient in particular and managed her health concerns all the way through and was able to follow up with appropriate care.”

H I G H - I M PAC T L E A R N I NG I N T H E L A B Students in the pharmacy college’s molecular pharmacology lab have been researching breast cancer cells under the leadership of Dr. David Koh, assistant professor of pharmacology. Check out page 16 to read more about the work being done by Joy Hoffman, Dan Powell and Steven Blake. ◆

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A sense of urgency ignites the passion and the determination to make a difference of a servant leader. Such a sense of urgency led Joelle Farano, a fifth-year pharmacy student from Darien, Ill., to serve those who have less during summer 2015.

human beings. Unlike past study abroads, I haven’t gotten myself familiar with the history and government of the country but have definitely gained a lot culturally.

PRECEPTOR CORNER STUDENTS HAVE GREAT Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE)

Preceptor: Esther Jeon Practice Site: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.: Investigational Drug Service (IDS) ONU Student on Rotation: Sandra M. Thorarensen, a sixth-year pharmacy student from Stow, Mass.

Sandra M. Thorarensen

Student Experience Summary: ”My preceptor, Esther Jeon, was a great teacher and very easy to approach with questions. I had a great experience learning more about Investigation Drug Services, and I recommend this rotation to future ONU students. Everyone on staff was very experienced in this field of pharmacy.”

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Robert T. Reed

Preceptor: Tim Weigle Practice Site: Elmendorf AFB 3rd Medical Wing Pharmacy, Anchorage, Alaska ONU Student on Rotation: Robert T. Reed, a sixth-year pharmacy student from Springdale, Ark. Student Experience Summary: ”It was a joy working with and learning from Capt. Weigle! From our first phone conversation, when we established a common bond of having family in northwest Arkansas, to each moment in the pharmacy, Capt. Weigle always had a smile, an eagerness to help us learn and a great sense of humor! This incredible rotation served as a great place to complete my general hospital rotation and gain an understanding and practice in all that goes on in a hospital pharmacy.”

Preceptor: Dwight C. Paulson Practice Site Kaiser Permanente, Aurora, Colo.: Continuing Care ONU Student on Rotation: Tiffany G. Kneuss, a sixth-year pharmacy student from Dennison, Ohio

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Student Experience Summary: “Dwight was extremely open to discussion on specific patients and on general health care topics. He was quick to answer my questions and had a very organized approach to the rotation. Additionally, Dwight was very accommodating in ensuring my experience was tailored to my interests, and he provided me projects to help expand my clinicalpharmacy knowledge and meet my rotation goals and objectives.”

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OUTREACH The College of Pharmacy organized 14 events, and 13 student organizations attended 60 events, for a total of 74 events in fall 2015. Completed events included 345 hours of outreach in which 1,650 patients were served (August 2015 to December 2015).

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Pharmacy students were active in a variety of educational events held to provide health and wellness outreach to campus and citizens of Ada and Hardin County.

Events included: • Presentations on hygiene to preschool children • Over-the-counter medication bingo at local nursing homes • Health screenings, such as blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and bone-mineral density checks, held on campus and throughout the community

Two large health fairs also were held. The first, conducted during ONU’s Homecoming, was organized by the students in the National Community Pharmacist Association (NCPA). The second event, held at the Hardin County YMCA, was organized by students in the Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists (SSHP).

The outreach program also provided screenings and medication reviews at a number of local community events, including: • • • • •

Ada’s Harvest and Herb festival Ada Music Feast Councils on Aging in Allen and Auglaize counties Hardin County Fair Hardin County Business Alliance LEAD program

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INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Interprofessional education (IPE) has become an important topic in pharmacy education as it is featured prominently in the new ACPE 2016 education standards.

IPE has been a focus at ONU since 2012, when a committee made up of representatives from the pharmacy, nursing, exercise physiology and medical laboratory science (MLS) programs formed to begin the task of developing IPE activities within the University.

The committee has developed IPE activities that have been integrated into courses offered in each discipline throughout the curriculum. The activities in pharmacy include three Profession of Pharmacy courses that conclude with a Capstone in Phar-

macy Practice. In 2015, fifth-year pharmacy students and senior nursing students participated in an activity that simulated the care of a complex patient. Nursing students received a report from another “nurse” (portrayed by a faculty member) regarding the patient, while pharmacy students interviewed the “patient” (also portrayed by a faculty member).

The students then worked in interdisciplinary groups to share information and formulate a care plan for the patient, which was then submitted for evaluation by faculty members. All students then participated in a debriefing session to share and discuss approaches

to the patient case. After the activity, students provided feedback on the activity, including the impact on their readiness to work with other disciplines in the future. The activity served to help students apply their therapeutic knowledge to a practical situation, improve communication and teamwork skills, and gain

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experience working with other disciplines. The activities built into the curriculum offer students unique opportunities to hone skills essential for success as they prepare for rotations during their final year of study.

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Hundreds of research laboratories are looking at TRPM2 channels to prevent damage from stroke and cardiovascular disease, but only about a dozen are looking at these proteins as a way to kill cancer cells while keeping normal cells healthy. One of those is the molecular pharmacology lab in Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy. The lab's focus is breast cancer cells and is staffed by ONU undergraduate pharmacy students, under the leadership of Dr. David Koh, associate professor of pharmacology.

He calls his students “warriors” who do the day-to-day work and are not afraid to work nights and weekends. These hands-on lab warriors are Joy Hoffman, a sixth-year student from Fremont, Ohio; Dan Powell, a fifth-year student from Cranberry Township, Pa. and Steven Blake, a fourth-year student from Ravenna, Ohio.

After three years of work, they have just had their research published in Oncology Reports, an international journal devoted to fundamental and applied research in cancer treatment. Their work looks at difficultto-treat breast cancers, including triple negative, and their results are very encouraging. It appears that cancer cells may use TRPM2 channels differently than normal cells. That difference could be the key to killing only cancer cells while sparing normal cells and preventing many of the debilitating side effects of cancer chemotherapy.

While the current research is basic (at the cell level) Koh, the primary investigator, hopes to see future studies that investigate animal models and possibly lead to studies in humans. He already is applying for grants to further the work.

Koh started his cancer research in 2007 and moved into the TRPM2 studies just before he joined the faculty at ONU because it offered a novel, still-to-be-explored way to target cancer. “In research, you go with the best lead,” he says. “This research was kind of a side project, and now it’s turned out to be a main project for my lab.” It is also turning into a challenging and long-term experience for his students.

Hoffman, who now is off campus doing her sixth-year clinical rotations, had been involved in pharmacokinetics research with her ONU pharmacy advisor and jumped at the chance to continue research in Koh’s lab. She says it was the professor’s enthusiasm for research that keeps her interested.

Blake spends six to eight hours a week in the lab, in addition to his academic work and extracurricular activities as a pianist with the ONU Symphony Orchestra and Women’s Chorus. “Initially, it’s a little overwhelming working with the professor doing this kind of research.

I’m incredibly lucky and blessed to have this opportunity.”

Powell, who was introduced to research in high school, had hoped to find a one-semester research experience when he answered Koh’s request for lab workers. His work is now entering its third year. “I love it,” he says.

The lab work is unpaid, but the students earn credit hours. “I’ve already met all those hours,” Powell says. “Now it’s just because I love getting the experience and working with Dr. Koh.”

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The students are doing day-to-day work, but they count on Koh for support. He trains the students in core lab techniques. “We meet

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every week and discuss the results and the next steps. I call them “semi-independent researchers” because they know the techniques and they just need some direction now and then. They’re very enthusiastic, and they do just about every technique,” Koh says.

While Blake feels comfortable with the work after three years, if he has a question or a problem, he’ll take it to Koh or save it for their weekly meetings.

Powell says his professor showed him what to do.

“Then he’ll step back and say, ‘I trust you; now go to work!’” The result is both a confidence booster and exposure to research that few undergraduates get to experience. “It makes me feel good, as a student, to be trusted,” Powell says.

a lifelong career of research-oriented work. Right now, cancer is of interest, but I’m very open to other projects involving drug development or characterizing drug actions and side effects.”

Hoffman adds, “I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to participate in research as an undergraduate student. It is a very unique opportunity that sets the pharmacy program at ONU apart from others.”

“I was quite ecstatic when he told us we were being published,” Blake says. “It is a very big deal. This is just the first step in hopefully a lifelong career of researchoriented work.”

Powell believes he and the other student researchers really understand the research because of the instruction they receive. “It’s not that we’re just going to put something into this liquid and then measure it. We know what’s going on, and I think that, going forward, this basic level of knowledge is setting a firm base.

Gaining the fundamentals right now is very, very valuable.”

Those fundamentals will have an impact on the students’ futures.

Powell will begin his sixth-year rotations next year and is still making career decisions. He says, “I know that I love research, and it’s a strong option, whether in the immediate future or a couple of years down the road, whether it’s clinical research or this sort of laboratory research.”

Blake still has two years before graduation. Research is definitely in his future. He says, “I finally found something that I really, really want to do. I finally found some course for my future, and I know I belong somewhere in the research field, exactly where, I’ll figure out eventually.” He’s planning on additional certification, training or Ph.D. studies for work in an industry or academic setting. He’s even considering teaming academic research and teaching, like his mentor, Koh. “I was quite ecstatic when he told us we were being published,” Blake says. “It is a very big deal. This is just the first step in hopefully

More than the experience, ONU’s research is showing real results. “Published research is very exciting, as it distributes our results to others in the field of oncology,” says Hoffman. “Our work has the potential to lead to a novel and targeted approach in treating breast cancer and impact many patients.”

Koh explains that his work is much more than an academic exercise.

“There is a great need for cancer research. Breast cancer is still the No. 2 killer among cancers in women. Although there are a lot of drugs out there, we need better drugs. What we are looking at are drugs that will selectively kill cancer cells and leave the rest of your body alone. A lot of cancer-treatment failures aren’t because the drugs can’t kill cancer cells but because of the side effects.”

Preparing students for a potential life in science is part of the curriculum. “We train future leaders in health care, whether pharmacy or medicine or biochemistry,” Koh says. And he expects more good reports and scientists to come from the research labs at ONU.

PHARMACY PROFESSOR RECEIVES AACP NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Dr. Manoranjan D’Souza, an assistant professor of pharmacology pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences in the Raabe College of Pharmacy, was among 14 recipients of New Investigator Awards announced by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) on Jan. 14.

His research project, “Brain kappa opioid receptors and aversive effects of nicotine,” investigates the role of kappa opioid receptors in specific brain regions, thus advancing the understanding of the neural circuitry mediating the aversive effects of nicotine and providing a novel target for future smoking-cessation medications. ◆

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Although Hoffman does not plan to pursue a career in research, she calls the experience invaluable. “Conducting research at the ‘bench’ level gave me a better appreciation of drug development.” She plans to complete a residency after graduation and believes the basic research skills developed as a student researcher prepare her for future projects she will conduct as a pharmacist. “It was rewarding knowing that my efforts in the lab were contributing to results and that our work could potentially impact drug development and current standards of care.”

It’s not just ONU’s pharmacy students who have this opportunity. While not every ONU student will be working in a lab, students from psychology to statistics have the opportunity to work on real-world research, directly with their professors.

RICK KEYES NAMED MEIJER PRESIDENT Rick Keyes, BSPh ’92, was named president of Meijer in October 2015. Keyes joined the company more than 25 years ago as a pharmacist, and he had been executive vice president of supply chain and manufacturing since 2006. Keyes is the 11th president in the company’s 81-year history. Keyes also is a current Pharmacy Advisory Board Member.

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all state average of 95 percent as well as the national average of 93 percent. In addition, 100 percent of the ONU graduates who took the Ohio Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE) passed on their first attempt.

Cathy Rosenbaum, BSPh ’76, founder and CEO of Rx Integrative Solutions, recently published Don’t Sweep It Under the Drug, a book on health and healing aimed at baby boomers. In this book, Rosenbaum aims to use her pharmacological knowledge to help people manage prescriptions and improve their health through a holistic mind-bodyspirit paradigm.

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The college ranks 14th amongst 64 private pharmacy schools in the country and is ranked in the top five direct-entry programs in the nation. U.S. News & World Report ranks colleges

and schools of pharmacy that are accredited by Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). ONU’s College of Pharmacy’s net score increased from 2.2 in 2012 to 2.7 in 2016.

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Graduates of the Raabe College of Pharmacy continued their record of outstanding achievement on the North American Pharmacists Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) with an overall passage rate of 97 percent, which ranks among the top scores for 2015 graduates from all Ohio pharmacy schools who took the examination for the first time. ONU’s passage rate was above the over-

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PHARMD PROGRAM RE-ACCREDITED BY ACPE Ohio Northern University’s doctor of pharmacy degree program has been re-accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) for a full cycle of eight years. This is the maximum length of re-accreditation bestowed upon pharmacy degree programs in the United States.

ACPE requires the programs it accredits to meet 30 accreditation standards. Ohio Northern University’s pharmacy program was evaluated in October 2015 and found to be fully compliant in all 30 standards. ACPE is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy.

“The faculty and staff of the ONU Raabe College of Pharmacy are pleased that ACPE recognizes the high quality and outstanding outcomes from our program. Our commitment to continuous quality improvement is a distinguishing feature of the program” says Dr. Steven J. Martin, dean of the Raabe College of Pharmacy. “We are especially proud to earn the full re-accreditation allowed by ACPE. It recognizes the dedication of our faculty and staff, and our vision to lead the nation in the preparation of practice-ready pharmacists who serve as primary care providers and team leaders.”

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NEW STUDENT CLUBS College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) and the Medicinal Herb Club prepare that plant for a particular use (such as making a poultice for placing on a surface wound).

CNPA: Joelle Hall, Dr. Lindsey Peters, Dr. Manoranjan D'Souza, Kelsey Robinson, Lyndsay Albert, Mikayla Shea, Aaron Salwan, Rachel Jackson

The first group, the Medicinal Herb Club, was developed by Dr. David Kinder, professor of medicinal chemistry, and Vicki Motz, assistant professor of biological sciences, as an extension of the medicinal herb elective course they co-teach.

“The club is not limited to those who have taken the course,” Kinder explains. “One of our hopes (which has materialized) was that students who were not able to take the course, but were

interested in medicinal herbs, would join and participate.”

The primary purpose of the club is to teach members and the community about the proper use of medicinal plants. The club meets twice monthly. One meeting is devoted to the discussion of a specific medicinal plant and its various activities, which includes information as to how much is known and how extensive the research has been to study that plant’s activity. The second monthly meeting is a project meeting in which members learn how to grow a plant and how to

Ohio Northern University’s College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) Student Chapter was formed

by Lyndsay Albert, a fifth-year pharmacy student from West Seneca, N.Y., after the suicide of a close friend. “It brought to my attention that mental health was something that was not openly talked about here on campus or even between friends,” Albert says. “The overwhelming negative stigma of having a mental illness

Christian Theriault, Daniel Meeks, Sarah Lance, Alyssa Mattson, Brooke Kohls, Lucy Wagala, Dr. David Kinder, Dr. Vicki Motz, Amanda Everlove, Rachel Bulko, Julia Anspach, Amanda Swanson, Joel Luecke

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The group’s advisors, Dr. Lindsey Peters, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, and Dr. Manoranjan D’Souza, assistant professor of pharmacology, support students in their vision to help those who suffer with psychiatric and neurologic issues.

The primary purpose of this group is to raise awareness about mental health and substance abuse not only here on campus, but also in Ada and the surrounding communities. CPNP meets monthly to hear from speakers who are experienced pharmacists, psychologists and trained educators from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). CPNP also has teamed with other pharmacy organizations on campus to plan mental health week, April 4-9, 2016, which ended with “Light Up the Night,” a remembrance and awareness walk for family members of anyone who has suffered from mental illness or substance abuse.

“The future for CPNP is bright,” Albert says. “We are changing the face of pharmacy day by day, and that is an unbelievable feeling.”

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Excitement, creativity and tradition are the cornerstones of campus life at Ohio Northern.

Students of all backgrounds come together to form a common bond in and outside of the classroom. With more than 200 clubs and organizations, students have ample opportunity to develop leadership skills. The 2015-16 academic year saw the number of pharmacy-specific groups grow to 15 with the formation of two new student groups in the College of Pharmacy.

The Medicinal Herb Club also helps maintain the University’s four campus herb gardens. The club will soon re-furbish the Bible Garden to make it into a knot garden with medicinal plants related to the Bible planted between the thyme used to make the knot.

is what prevents people from openly talking about what they are personally going through because they feel that they are alone, no one will understand them or that they will be seen as ‘crazy.’”

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During the College of Pharmacy’s 16th annual Professional Commitment Ceremony on Nov. 14, 2015, third-year pharmacy students received their white coats from their pharmacist mentors – a symbol of a student’s transition from the first three years of pharmacy school to the last three professional years. Each student received a white coat from one of the more than 100 alumni who returned to campus to serve as mentors for the students as they progress in the pharmacy profession.

2015 White Coat speaker, Hanley Wheeler, BSPh, ’82, senior vice president of field operation for the west division of CVS Pharmacy.

Evan Murtha is presented his white coat from Chelsea (Bowers) Ebert, PharmD ’15.

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Mentors take their places during the ceremony. Here they carry their student mentee’s coats to the Professional Commitment Ceremony stage.

Members of the Pharmacy Quartet perform before the ceremony. All members are pharmacy students. Here Helena Ladd, plays the violin.

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THANK YOU TO OUR 2015 PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT CEREMONY DAY VOLUNTEERS (ALUMNI): Susan Bailey, BSPh ’88

Raymond Carlson, BSPh ’85

Jim Barnett, BSPh ’75

Ed Chessar, BSPh ’93

Brittany Bates, PharmD ’06

Justin Coby, PharmD ’07

Dennis Bluhm, BSPh ’63

Lori Crockett, BSPh ’88

Jason Bockis, BSPh ’98

Amy DeMarsh, BSPh ’91

Ernest E. Boyd, Hon. D. ’10, CAE

JoDee DeMond, BSPh ’04

Benjamin Brocious, PharmD ’13

Cathy Dill, BSPh ’82

Amy Brown, PharmD ’15

Amanda Dobrzynski, PharmD ’15

Tyler Bulcher, PharmD ’11

Chris Dolfi, BSPh, ’01

Bryan Burkholder, BSPh ’82

Donald E. Duran, Jr., BSPh ’85

Mark Butler, BSPh ’79, Hon. D. ’14

Chelsea Ebert, PharmD ’15

Andrew Cain, PharmD ’08

Jeremy Ebert, PharmD ’13

Theresa Cain, PharmD ’10

Ann Ellis, BSPh ’89

Interview team Tina (Rogers) Love, BSPh '86, with sixth-year pharmacy student, Taylor Reed and Professor, Dr. Jessie Hinson.

Megan Elliott, PharmD ’13 Michael Finn, BSPh ’95 Angela Flory, PharmD ’09 Jolynne Francis, BSPh ’84 Erin Fuschetto, PharmD ’04 Jamie Gallaspie, PharmD ’09 Ruth Graham, BSPh, ’97 Angie Guinn, BSPh ’00 David Haberland, BSPh ’82

Margot Marincic, PharmD ’15

Scott Hall, BSPh ’81

Austin Marquart, PharmD ’15

Corrine Haney, BSPh ’86

Lisa Martin, BSPh ’92

Kaitlin Horton, PharmD ’15

Robert Martin, BSPh ’91

Kristen Howard, PharmD ’05

William Martin, BSPh ’93

Melannie Hunsicker, BSPh ’95

Willam R. McCarthy, BSPh ’53

Samar Hussein, PharmD ’15

Rachel McCubbin, PharmD ’11

Amanda Ilenin, PharmD ’13

Gary McMahan, BSPh ’79

Joshua Ilenin, PharmD ’13

Mike Michelsen, BSPh ’73

Joseph Jeffries, BSPh ’89

Sue Michelsen, BSPh ’71

Randy Jennings, BSPh ’98

Charles R. Mohr, BSPh ’84

Dennis Jones, BSPh ’78

Gale Musselman Jr., BSPh ’87

Vickie Kahle, BSPh ’88

Kendra Napolitan, PharmD ’14

Kathy Karas, BSPh ’75

Kara Nedderman, PharmD ’10

Tim Lanese, BSPh ’78

Tera Parrella, PharmD ’15

Ashley Leis, PharmD ’07

Robert Parsons, BSPh ’71

Rachel Leis, PharmD ’09

Shea Pennington, PharmD ’15

Robert Mabe, BSPh ’71

Jennifer Pingle, PharmD ’04

Natalie Madison, PharmD ’11

Michael D. Pugh, BSPh ’97

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Michael Sabol, BSPh ’76 Jeff Sanner, BSPh ’93 Maggie Sant, PharmD ’14 Mark Schuller, BSPh ’79 Bethany Schultz, PharmD ’12 Philip Sheridan, BSPh ’96 Thomas Smailes, BSPh ’53

Robert Stahler, PharmD ’14 Joseph Stecyk, PharmD ’14 Jeannette Taylor, PharmD ’15 Richard Theodore, BSPh ’83 Erica Tolle, PharmD ’15 Jim Turner, BSPh ’63 Molly Wascher, PharmD ’15 Jamie Wehage, PharmD ’08 Hanley Wheeler, BSPh ’82 Mary Frances Wheeler, BSPh ’82 Lisa Wirth, PharmD ’12

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THANK YOU TO OUR 2015 INTERVIEW DAY VOLUNTEERS (ALUMNI): Jeannie Alexander, BSPh ’82 Rick Bachman, BSPh ’77 Dennis Blank, BSPh ’71 Janet Blank, BSPh ’71 Karen Fitzpatrick, BSPh ’79 Anthony Fritz, PharmD ’14 Megan Fritz, PharmD ’13 James Hay, BSPh ’72 Drew Harmon, PharmD ’08 Renee Jacquemin, PharmD ’10 Ginny Kemmerer, PharmD ’08 Tom Kier, BSPh ’82 Katherine Koller, BSPh ’13 Warren Kramer, BSPh ’66 James Krebs, BSPh ’84 Marsha Lefeld-Hess, BSPh ’98 Brittany Long, PharmD ’15 Tina Love, BSPh ’78 Barbara MacEwen-Mogren, BSPh ’82

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A HURSH FAMILY HISTORY GENEROSITY ESTABLISHES $1 MILLION ENDOWMENT

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It gives me the opportunity to study at my dream school

Take a look through the archives, and you’ll discover a few common themes running through the history of Mansfield’s Hursh Drug.

Like a braid woven through the Hursh family history, Hursh Drug was built on a three-pronged set of traditions: Ohio Northern, pharmacy and philanthropy.

and sets me on a path to my career as a pharmacist,” Rachael says.

2015 Hursh Endowed Scholarship Award recipient.

It started with Arthur J. Hursh, PH G 1895, who, after graduating from Ohio Northern’s fledgling College of pharmacy in 1895, returned to Mansfield, Ohio, and opened the Hursh Drug Store on the corner of Fourth and Diamond Street. It was

Hursh Pharmacy soon after it first opened in the 1800s.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON William’s son Richard H. Hursh, BSPh ’35, joined the family business after graduating from ONU in 1935; he opened Hursh Drug in Bellville, Ohio, in 1937. When When Arthur’s brother William T. his father William died in 1943, Hursh, PH G 1898, graduated from Richard purchased the Mansfield Northern, the pair joined forces Hursh Drug and managed both and the store’s name was changed stores. to Hursh Brothers. William soon took over the store’s operations, In 1955, William Zacharias, BSPh and Arthur gave his brother inter- ’53, joined the Hursh fold; he bought into the business with est in the business in 1902.

Richard in 1960. Richard retired And thus, a career was born. in 1979, and Zacharias followed During his nearly half-century as suit in 1985. exactly what you would envision a turn-of-the-century pharmacy to be: glass cases stuffed with bottles and vials of every size and shape, friendly atmosphere, chrome-laden soda fountain, attentive service.

a pharmacist, William became well-known in the Mansfield and surrounding areas through the medicines and ointments that he compounded. Many were patented and sold under his name.

Steven J. Martin, dean of the College of Pharmacy; Robert “Rob” Knowlton, BSPh ’84; Brittany (Barnhisel) Poehler, PharmD ’15; William “Bill” Spurling, PSPh ’79.

By 1922, the company was known as William T. Hursh Drug Store, although William was not the last member of the Hursh family – or the ONU family for that matter – to get involved.

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Before he left the business, however, Zacharias sold Hursh Drug to three Northern pharmacy alumni who worked in the store: Wayne Williams, BSPh ’81, Bill Spurling, BSPh ’79, and Rob Knowlton, BSPh ’84. Robert remains the sole owner today; he opened a third Hursh location in Shelby, Ohio, in 2013.

KEEPING THE MEMORY ALIVE Meanwhile, Richard’s brother Raymond Hursh, BA ’48, graduated from ONU in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. His wife, Marilyn (Metzger) Hursh, BSEd ’49, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in education a year later.

Marilyn joined Libbey-Owens-Ford in Toledo, Ohio, in 1950.

She was a salaried administration staff assistant prior to her December 1980 promotion to manager of salaried retirement programs. She moved to director of benefit design and administration in December 1981.

Robert “Bill” Knowlton, BSPh ’84, and William “Bill” Spurling, PSPh ’79

When Marilyn passed away in February 2014, the Hursh Endowed Scholarship was established in the amount of $1 million. This fund benefits students in the College of Pharmacy. First awarded for the 2014-15 school year, this scholarship is distributed to academically eligible pharmacy students with demonstrated financial need.

The current recipient of the Hursh Endowed Scholarship was Rachael Borgman, a first-year pharmacy student from Middletown, Ohio.

“I am very grateful to have received this scholarship. It gives me the opportunity to study at my dream school and sets me on a path to my career as a pharmacist,” Rachael says.

JOIN THE HERITAGE CLUB When you remember ONU in your will, your good deeds continue well past your lifetime. A charitable bequest is a flexible tool that you can easily revise or change throughout your life. You can bequest to ONU any part or percentage of your estate, such as cash, real estate or stock. You may choose to support a specific ONU program or initiative, or make a general bequest that gives ONU the ability to apply your gift toward the greatest need. Whatever your wishes, careful planning allows you to remember your family and friends, as well as the Ohio Northern you care about, in your will.

CREATE AN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP Assist today’s students in becoming the leaders of tomorrow by establishing an endowed fund. By fulfilling your own personal philanthropic goals, you can support the needs and mission of future ONU pharmacists.

Current location in Mansfield, Ohio.

Endowments can be established for many reasons. Examples include honoring a loved

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one or mentor, celebrating personal and professional achievements, or leaving a permanent legacy in your name.

Your generosity will enable the college to: • Provide student scholarship opportunities for current and future students • Support faculty teaching and research needs • Enhance academic and program support • Support strategic priorities of the future Endowed scholarship funds are designed to be permanent and perpetual and can be created with gifts totaling a minimum amount of $25,000, contributed in full at the outset or with an initial commitment that is added to over time until the endowment level is attained.

TO ESTABLISH YOUR OWN HERITAGE FUND OR PROVIDE AN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP GIFT, PLEASE CONTACT SCOTT WILLS, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, AT S-WILLS@ONU.EDU OR 419-772-2705.

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Raymond worked for Prestolite in Toledo, Ohio, as a sales office administrator for 27 years before he retired in 1975. He passed away in January 1994. To honor his legacy and the legacy of pharmacy in her husband’s family, Marilyn included Ohio Northern in her estate plan and noted her gift intentions to establish an endowed scholarship with her bequest. In doing so, she joined ONU’s Heritage Club, a giving society that

recognizes donors who include ONU in their estate plans. Membership in the Heritage Club is open to all alumni and friends who include the University in the will for $10,000 or more, or have arranged deferred gifts of $10,000 or more with ONU as the ultimate beneficiary.

CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL SPONSORSHIPS Thank you for the generous donations bestowed upon us from our corporate and individual sponsors. Your support is seen and felt within the walls of our college.

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AND David, BSPh ’90, and Donna Burke, BS ’89 FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP SUPPORT OF THE WHITE COAT CEREMONY AND RECEPTION

Many thanks for the combined contribution from Jenelle Sobotka and Vince, BSPh ’82, and Laurie Mauro, BSPh ’82, for the Student Organization Room enhancements.

State Sen. Dave Burke, BSPh ’90, and his family donated funds to purchase white coats for third-year pharmacy students.

Hanley Wheeler with mentee Kara Kubbs.

Tyson Cromeens with mentee Weston Pitstick.

Leadership from CVS/Health supported the ceremony by volunteering as mentors and donating funds to cater the (post-ceremony) reception.

Rite Aid leadership donated funds to support a mentor/mentee breakfast during the Professional Commitment Ceremony.

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PHARMACY ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Bruce Bouts BSPh ’82 General Internist Blanchard Valley Medical Associates Inc. Findlay, Ohio Mark Butler BSPh ’79 Chief, Pharmacy Services Dayton VA Medical Center Dayton, Ohio

George Hill BA ’69, BSPh ’74 Semi-Retired Pharmacy Consultant Director, Pharmacy Services, Retired Catholic Health Initiatives Erlanger, Ky. Kathy Karas BA, BSPh ’75 Staff Pharmacist Acme Akron, Ohio

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 Bonita Springs, Fla.

Robert “Bob” Parsons BSPh ’71 Executive Vice President Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists Marietta, Ohio 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 Catalina Health Resource Cincinnati, Ohio

HONORARY EMERITUS BOARD MEMBER Dr. Ervin Pierstorf ’53, Hon. D. ’78 Chairman of the Board and CEO, Retired Fairview Photo Services Rocky River, Ohio, and Pinellas Park, Fla.

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Shawn Eaton PharmD ’01 Regional Sales Manager CVS Health Twinsburg, Ohio

Richard Keyes BSPh ’92 President Meijer Inc. Grand Rapids, Mich.

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