Congratulations to Nick Hopwood on his receipt of the 2011 Rx Portfolio Achievement Award.  Award recipients are chosen from over 9000 other portfolios and recipients will receive national coverage via Rx Portfolio’s website.

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Chris Daly ’12 was featured in recent article in Buffalo Business First for his work in the PharmD/MBA program and how past professional connections have helped him on his career path.

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Congratulations to the following winners of the MEDISCA Student Pharmacist Compounding Competition!

Amy Wojciechowski ‘12

Amanda Paxton ‘13

Andrew Rumpf ‘13

Georgia DiFiore ‘14 (alternate)

The Class of 2014, led by officers Kayla Maxwell, Gina Sutedja and Nick Hopwood, organized the annual Charity Halfway Gala in February.  The event was very successful, raising over $8000 for WNY’s very own Kids Escaping Drugs Campaign (KED).

Ronn Tritto, the Executive Director of the Alcohol and Drug Dependency Services Foundation attended the event and accepted the checks on behalf of KED. An alumnus from the KED program also came to speak at the event and provided a firsthand account on how KED helped change his life.   Independent Health’s representative and a UB alumnus, Dr. Keith Rowe ‘10 was also in attendance and presented a check to KED from another KED fundraiser event held by Independent Health.

Clinical Assistant Professors Nicole Albanese and Erin Slazak discuss how residency training enhances clinical skill development so pharmacists can improve patient outcomes while decreasing health care costs:

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Congratulations to Professors Bob Straubinger and Sathy Balu-Iyer for recognition by the University for their scholarly contributions at the UB STOR Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception.  Both were recognized for their joint work on these patents issued in 2011:

• Patent # 7,875,288: Method for Treating Blood Coagulation Disorders
• Patent # 7,875,289: Compositions for Less Immunogenic and Long-Circulating Protein Lipid Complexes

Spring 2012 Pharmacy Professional Practice Review Series

May 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24

Presented by: University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Goal - To provide a comprehensive review for graduating pharmacy students in preparation for the June 2012 New York State Board of Pharmacy Examination. Areas to be covered include preparation for the Part III Practical Examination (compounding prescriptions and sterile products), and preparation for the Part Three Written Examination.

Program Description -The program consists of four separate sessions, and includes lecture and laboratory components. Individuals may register for all sessions, or only those sessions in which they are interested in.

More information on the Program Brochure

Registration begins on Monday, March 26th, 2012. Registration can be completed online.

Registration Links 

Dr. Javier Blanco, associate professor, pharmaceutical sciences, is investigating whether anthracyclines, cancer fighting drugs used to treat childhood cancers, may actually cause pediatric patients to develop cardiomyopathy and other cardiac problems later in life.

Dr. Blanco sees his work as a bridge between research and clinical practice and hopes to answer underlying genetic questions involved with individualizing drug treatment -  how an individual is genetically coded to respond to a drug once it enters the body and then how to adjust dosage based on this information.

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Congratulations to P4 Student Meghan Rowcliffe and her research mentor, Dr. Fran Gengo, Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice on the acceptance of their abstract Pharmacokinetic Postmortem Evaluation Reveals Death from Carbamazepine to be Accidental Rather than Criminal to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS).  They will also be presenting a poster at the AAFS 64^th Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to P4 student, Kerri O’Connor for her receipt of a travel award from the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis to attend the 5^th Joint Triennial Congress of the European and American Committee for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis in Amsterdam.  Her research presentation was titled Patterns of dietary and herbal supplement use by multiple sclerosis patients was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Murali Ramanathan, Associate professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences. It has also been published as a research paper in O'Connor K, Weinstock-Guttman B, Carl E, Kilanowski C, Zivadinov R, Ramanathan M., Journal of Neurology. 2011 Sep 6.

Congratulations to Stefanie Wiegand, one of four dual degree students nationally, who was chosen as a MedCo Scholar by the Medco Foundation.  Stefanie will receive a $10,000 scholarship as part of the new MedCo Scholars Program administered by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

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The UB SoPPS student team of Becca Campbell P1, Brittany Andrusko P2, Emily Krecko P3, Aleem Merani P3 and Christopher Tanski P3 raised over $500 in the 2011 "Alzheimer's Memory Walk" of Western New York. 

American College of Clinical Pharmacy held its annual Clinical Pharmacology competition.  In the 2011 competition, 84 teams of three students competed against teams from other schools in a ‘quiz bowl’ format. Preliminary rounds were conducted ‘virtually’ at the local level and these rounds keep teams advancing through to the quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds.  Our UB team, consisting of P4 Students: Nicholas Bacon, Curtis Johnson and Aleksey Ushkin, made it to Round Three of the ‘virtual’ local competition, placing us in the top 50%.  Congratulations!

Congratulations to the following top ten winners of the first round of the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists Counseling Competition: 

Nadia Aboley, Michael Bui, Tara Castleman, Jamie Chin, Sarah Farr, Arthur Fyles, Kyle Ma, Melek Turgut, Stephen Wolff, and Tim Zablocki.

Each winner will receive textbook vouchers from APhA-ASP and a chance at the grand prize trip to New Orleans for the APhA national conference.

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences annually recognizes PharmD students who excel within the pharmaceutical sciences focused courses in the 2010-2011 academic year.  Ninety three P1, P2 and P3 students were recognized for their achievements in these courses.  Drs. Ramanathan, Straubinger, Mager and Blanco presented certificates of achievement to these students.