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Jewel Konja and Paige Hanke earn national Lambda Kappa Sigma education grantsDoctor of Pharmacy candidates Jewel Konja and Paige Hanke have been awarded Cora E. Craven Educational Grants from the Lambda Kappa Sigma (LKS) Educational Trust. Students from 83 LKS chapters across the U.S. apply for these highly competitive scholarships, which reward leadership, scholarship, and dedication to the LKS fraternity and the profession of pharmacy.
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WSU represented at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 2022 National ConferenceLast week, Wayne State University sent its first delegation of student pharmacists to the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) annual national convention.
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APhA-ASP and Kappa Psi partner for WSU Sexual Health FairThis annual APhA event took place in the Towers Residential Hall community room and focused on educating and informing undergraduate students on topics of sexual health including birth control options, how to protect oneself from STIs and where to find related local resources.
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LKS Hygeia Day presentation offers pharmacy CE credit, implicit bias training April 13Join the Wayne State Omicron chapter of Lambda Kappa Sigma Pharmacy Fraternity and Dr. Regina McClinton, PharmD, CSP, for the annual Hygeia Day presentation on April 13, which will explore the topics of health disparities and how pharmacy staff can address them in their practice.
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NPR: Interim Associate Dean for Pharmacy Susan Davis quoted in national radio report about the Biden administration's test-to-treat COVID plan"Pharmacists are medication experts," Dr. Davis told NPR reporter Pien Huang. "We have been managing drug interactions and dose adjustments routinely for decades. We could handle this."
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WSU Student Senate partners with PharmD student orgs for COVID-19 protection PSAAs the university resumes in-person instruction, the Wayne State University Student Senate saw the importance of reminding the student body on how to keep themselves protected against COVID-19 with a public service announcement video. Student pharmacist and WSU Student Senator representing the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Obioma Opara led the project.
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Dr. Christine Rabinak appointed editor-in-chief of prestigious international neuroscience journal Behavioural Brain ResearchOn Jan. 1, 2022, WSU Applebaum Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Christine Rabinak assumed the role of co-editor-in-chief alongside Christian P. Müller. Behavioural Brain Research is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of articles in the field of behavioral neuroscience, broadly defined. Contributions from the entire range of disciplines that comprise the neurosciences, behavioral sciences or cognitive sciences are appropriate, as long as the goal is to delineate the neural mechanisms underlying behavior.
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Opportunity for new community pharmacy site with Wayne State UniversityAs part of our commitment to the city of Detroit, our community and our patients, the Wayne State University Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (WSU Applebaum) and Wayne Health are seeking experienced and qualified community pharmacy partners to submit proposals to establish and manage comprehensive community pharmacy services at the Detroit Mack Health Center, located at 400 Mack Ave.
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WATCH: Dean Cummings has a 30-second message for students about staying safeIn this quick video message, Dr. Brian Cummings urges everyone to remain vigilant about keeping each other – and our families – safe. Complete the Campus Daily Screener each day before coming to campus, and continue to wear your masks.
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WSU chapter of Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy to host local P&T competitionThe Wayne State University student chapter of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) achieved an outstanding second-place national performance at the 21st annual P&T competition last April. Now, the group is excited to host a local P&T competition that will be held at the university from November 2021 through January 2022.
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Kappa Psi brothers win Outstanding Professional Program Award from Professional Fraternity AssociationWSU’s Kappa Psi brothers have made an impact not only in the metro Detroit area; they have also garnered national attention, recently winning the prestigious 2021 Outstanding Professional Program Award from the Professional Fraternity Association (PFA), besting thousands of professional fraternities from all across the nation.
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PHOTOS: 2021 PharmD White Coat CeremonyOn August 24, the Class of 2025 gathered in the WSU Student Center ballroom to celebrate the start of their pharmacy education by taking the Oath of a Pharmacist and trying on their white coats for the first time. Share in the experience by checking out our Flickr album.
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2021-23 cohort begins Applebaum PharmD Leadership & Scholars ProgramWayne State University third-year student pharmacists Sara Barakat, Kelly Kepley, Klea Noskey and Brooke Penny will each receive a $4,000 scholarship – as well as a $2,000 budget to build on the work of earlier cohorts to advance community-ambulatory pharmacy practice.
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Model D: Pharmacist, WSU alumna Tania Begum serves Bengali communityBegum opened Community Rx Pharmacy in 2013 with co-owner Mahbubur Motlib after seeing Bangladeshis were moving northward into Warren and Sterling Heights. “We don't have a Bengali-speaking pharmacy in this location… we want to be with the people and be their support center, a resource center for them,” she says.
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WSU establishes new Center for Emerging and Infectious DiseasesThe Center for Emerging and Infectious Diseases builds on the university’s experiences in combating COVID-19 to prepare Detroit and the state of Michigan to tackle pandemic diseases. The center is the first of its kind located in an urban setting within the state.
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Trial by fire: Dr. Paul Kilgore calls on a lifetime of experience to aid in urgent vaccine development and rolloutThe coronavirus was a moment the WSU Applebaum associate professor of pharmacy practice and that program's director of research had prepared for his entire career. “This is something we expected — we thought it would be influenza but I expected to confront a pandemic in my lifetime,” he said. “Everything I learned and experienced during my work with the Centers for Disease Control in the ’90s and the International Vaccine Institute in South Korea in the early 2000s really equipped me to hit the ground running and not be fearful. I knew what we needed to do.”
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Wayne State University joins URC partners in mandating vaccination for all students, faculty and staff coming to campus"As we have from the beginning of the pandemic, we are today revising our campus response to respond to emerging evidence and local data. To best protect the health and safety of our campus community, Wayne State will require all students, faculty and staff who plan to be on campus during the fall semester to receive their COVID-19 vaccination. Proof of your vaccination must be submitted by Aug. 30 for you to be allowed on campus," said WSU President M. Roy Wilson.
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Masks are required inside WSU buildings now through Sept. 15 for everyone, regardless of vaccination status"Full vaccination of our campus community will eventually eliminate the need for masks and allow a renewed sense of normalcy in our interactions. Beginning today through Sept. 15, however, when we can be more confident in our overall vaccination status, masks will be required indoors for everyone, regardless of vaccination status," said WSU President M. Roy Wilson. "At that point, we will revisit the mask requirement, and hopefully eliminate it. Of course, masks will not be required if you are working alone in your office. We recognize that this is inconvenient, but it is temporary, and more important, safe."
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Dr. Richard Lucarotti aces 45-year Wayne State career with professor emeritus honorIn his role as WSU Applebaum's associate dean for pharmacy, Richard Lucarotti was instrumental in significantly revising the PharmD curriculum in 2016 to meet the evolving needs of the pharmacy profession.
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WDET: Dr. Paul Kilgore says virus getting faster, more efficient at transmissionWSU Applebaum Professor of Pharmacy Practice Paul Kilgore says the delta variant could be an issue this fall for unvaccinated people, citing hot spots appearing in areas in Texas where there is a lack of vaccination. “The virus is getting much better at moving from one person to another,” he says. “That means that the virus can be transmitted much quicker, much more efficiently. So I’m particularly worried about unvaccinated populations in Detroit. I’m extremely concerned about this coming fall.”
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All are welcome at COVID-19 vaccine town hall June 29Do you or your family members have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? WSU Applebaum experts can help!
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Women 18-45 asked to respond to Research Scholars project survey: Did COVID-19 affect women's reproductive health?Wayne State Doctor of Pharmacy Research Scholar Karli Pelaccio (P3) and Professor of Pharmacy Mary Beth O'Connell are principal investigators on a research study exploring sexual health and behaviors, and contraception use and access during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PharmD alumnus Frank Prano '20 vaccinates a WSU Applebaum VIPInterim Dean Cathy Lysack is back in Detroit! Yesterday, she received her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a local CVS, where Wayne State PharmD alumnus Frank Prano '20 is the pharmacist. Read what she had to say about the experience.
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AMCP, SNPhA, SPPA support Kappa Psi’s Reach Out and Read initiativeKappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity has adopted Reach Out and Read as its national philanthropy and Wayne State’s Mu Omicron Pi chapter of Kappa Psi has been supporting this initiative over the past academic year through book donation drives and fundraisers. Over the spring semester, the WSU brothers of Kappa Psi invited other student organizations at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences to join in supporting their childhood literacy program.
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Dr. Michael Rybak and WSU Applebaum team receive NIH R21 grant to investigate antibiotic-bacteriophage combinationWayne State University Professor of Pharmacy Practice Michael Rybak received funding as the principal investigator for a new NIH R21 grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a total amount of $423,000. The title of the grant is "Anti-biofilm activity of bacteriophage-antibiotic combinations against MRSA" (1R21AI163726-01).