The Drake University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences is pleased to report that its Pharm.D. program is accredited until June 30, 2023, as determined by the ACPE Board of Directors at their January meeting. This eight-year accreditation term is the maximum available to pharmacy programs and represents the high quality of the CPHS pharmacy program...
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Drake University and Community Engagement
Drake University was recently recognized for it’s long-standing commitment to community engagement & service – learning. Feedback from the Community Engagement Audit condected fall of 2013 showed that: Over 80% of Drake students participate in a community service or service-learning experience before they graduate. More than a quarter of our courses include service-learning as a...
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Laura Vollmer – Published in Pharmacy Times
Laura Vollmer, 2015 PharmD candidate and winner of the Parata-Pharmacy Times Next Generation Future Pharmacist Award, has had an article published in the Pharmacy Times entitled “The Future of Pharmacy”. You can find Laura’s article on the Pharmacy Times website: http://www.pharmacytimes.com/publications/Directions-in-Pharmacy/2014/December2014/The-Future-of-Pharmacy
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CPHS Faculty and Students Awarded in Fall 2014 Semester
Recent Faculty & Student Awards and Publications Recent Publications: Craige Wrenn published a paper: C.C. Wrenn, A.M. Heitzer, A.K. Roth, L. Nawrocki and M.G. Valdovinos, Effects of clonidine and methylphenidate on motor activity in fmr1 knockout mice, Neuroscience Letters 585 (2015) 109-113. John Rovers and Aaron Beck, P3 student published a manuscript: John Gitua, Aaron...
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Intervention – For people living with health issues…pneumonia can be particularly dangerous
Pneumonia, or infection of the lung(s), can be severely debilitating—even fatal—to those who are at risk. For people living with health issues such as diabetes, a heart condition, or an autoimmune disease, pneumonia can be particularly dangerous. “I think most people don’t think of pneumonia as a life-threatening disease, “ says Nicholas Lehman, assistant professor...
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Jacqueline Chorzempa – Kappa Psi Scholarship Recipient
CPHS’s Jacqueline Chorzempa,was one of 10 recipients of the prestigious 2014 Kappa Psi Scholarship from the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Foundation. Among Jacqueline’s other significant achievements, she was recently re-elected to serve as Historian for the six states (9 chapters) of the NPP (Northern Plains Province) for Kappa Psi Fraternity over the next year. Congratulations Jacki!...
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Drake Faculty and Alumni Inducted into IPA’s New Board of Trustees for 2014-2015
Congratulations to the Incoming and Continuing 2014-2015 IPA Board of Trustee Members: Michele Evink, (Preceptor) Chair of the Board Iowa Health System, Director of Pharmacy Services at Clarke County Hospital Osceola Osceola, IA John Swegle, PH’92 President Staff Pharmacist Mercy Family Medicine Residency Program Associate Professor University of Iowa Mason City, IA Bruce Alexander, PH’74...
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2014 Hooding and Commencement Archives and Downloads
The 2014 Drake University Commencement Archive is now active and available at http://stream.drake.edu Video copies of all four ceremonies are available to view for free. In addition, viewers can download copies to their computer or mobile device by following the link to Drake University on iTunes U on the website.
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The 15th Annual Leaders and Luminaries Awards
The Leaders and Luminaries ceremony honors student leadership and achievement. Students receive awards for outstanding leadership, community service, student employment and extracurricular involvement. The top students in each class are honored as well as the prestigious Oreon E. Scott Award winner, whose recipient is considered to be the outstanding senior at Drake. Congratulations to the...
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Logan Brinn, PH’13, Receives AMCP Best Poster Award
Tampa, FL, April 4, 2014 — At the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 26th Annual Meeting & Expo in Tampa, FL, the AMCP Foundation announced that Logan Brinn, PH’13, a pharmacy resident with CVS Caremark received the Best Resident or Fellow Poster, titled “Evaluation of Utilization Trends Associated with the Treatment of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia”....