School of Pharmacy Student Affairs News

School of Pharmacy
Student Affairs News
August 2012
Dean’s Notes
A new academic year begins. The incoming class
will be our sixteenth professional class (and our
eighteenth pre-pharmacy
cohort). Upon reflection
we can consider this a
milestone.
We are no
longer a “new” School of
Pharmacy.
Most of the
individuals accepted into
the
entering
prepharmacy class were born
the year we accepted our
first class or the year after. The Wilkes School of
Pharmacy
has
always
been here for them.
Each member of the Class
of 2012 has moved to the
next stage of her/his life’s
journey. The 63 graduates have joined the more
than 700 previous graduates from the Wilkes
Pharmacy program.
As
seen in this publication
many from the Class of
2012 have started postgraduate training. Many
more elected to start their
professional lives in community practice. (It is in-
teresting to note that
most of these are in the
employ of organizations
where they previously
worked. This exemplifies
the importance of parttime work and summer
internships.)
Continuing
on a theme from last
year, many in the class of
2012 had international
professional experiences
in countries such as England, Uganda, Peru and
Guatemala.
Academic year 2012/2013
will be an exciting time
for the University, the
School, and the Profession. Promising a new
beginning and renewed
enthusiasm, the 6th President of the University, Dr.
Pat Leahy, began his tenure in July. His formal
inauguration will be in
September
(the
same
weekend as our professional initiation ceremony). The new Science
building is reaching new
heights and will bring increased expectations for
both
instruction
and
scholarship for the entire
University.
The most significant event
for the School of Pharmacy will occur in October.
We will be visited by an
ACPE team to review our
program in anticipation of
re-accreditation. This is
the culmination of major
efforts over the past year.
Under the able leadership
of Dr. Rhonda Waskiewicz
and direction of the steering committee (including
Dr. Adam Welch and Dr.
Dan McCune) the faculty,
with appropriate input
from students and other
stakeholders, have completed a comprehensive
self-study. This will be our
third major accreditation
effort since the inception
of the program. We are
confident of a positive
outcome which will give
us another multi-year accreditation to deliver the
professional program.
You may also notice this
year that Dr. Adam Welch
is the Interim Chairperson
of the Department of
Pharmacy Practice. He
has accepted this position
for the one year in which
Dr. Ed Foote is on sabbatical with The Commonwealth Medical College.
Dr. Foote’s scholarship
with TCMC, in the area of
interprofessional
education, will pay enormous
dividends to our academic
programming in pharmacy.
The year 2012/2013 will
usher in changes in the
US health care system
which has the potential of
revolutionizing pharmacy
practice. Affordable Care
Act implementation will
bring many previously
uninsured individuals into
the system. There will be
major efforts to control
costs and to assure positive health outcomes. In
my opinion, this is the
pathway for “Medication
Therapy
Management”
and the opportunity for
pharmacists to assume a
leading role in the delivery
of
pharmaceutical
care.
So, welcome to another
year of great opportunities and challenges. The
future is what we make it.
Have a great summer and
be prepared!
Mark Your Calendar
P1 Orientation
Sunday, August 26, 10 AM
Classes Begin
Monday, August 27
White Coat Ceremony
Sunday, September 16, 11 AM
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Welcome and Welcome Back
Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences
by Dr. Arthur Kibbe
For the past decade and
more I have been writing
brief notes to the students
on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department. I am pleased to be
able to do that again this
year.
Welcome to the new P1
students.
We are all
pleased to see that you
have made it through a
rigorous
pre-pharmacy
program that has prepared
you for the next 4 years.
If you continue to apply
yourself as you have in
the past, you will do well
and, in four short years,
you will be a Doctor of
Pharmacy with a bright
future in one the country’s
most well-respected professions. There is lots of
help available to you
from the faculty and
students who are one to
two years ahead in the
program.
Take advantage of all that is
here for you.
I also want to thank you
for the confidence you
demonstrate in us and our
ability to help you prepare
for your pharmacy career
by attending the School of
Pharmacy at Wilkes University. We believe that
our graduates are better
prepared for the practice
of pharmacy in all its settings than most of the students who graduate from
other schools or colleges
of pharmacy in the country.
Welcome back to our returning students. I look
forward to our continued
interactions, both in and
out of class. One of the
great joys of the faculty is
watching students grow
and
mature
in
their
knowledge and skills in the
profession.
You are all
closer to your goal of a
career in the profession.
Keep up the good work.
Help the newer students
get started in the process
and involved in the profession. Please invite them
to join your organizations
and become full members
of the student body.
If you have an in-depth
(or even a general), interest in research in the
pharmaceutical sciences, I
encourage you to visit
with any of the faculty in
the department to determine if their area of concentration is something
that you would enjoy being involved with. We research in the areas of
pharmacology (how the
drug affects the body),
medicinal chemistry (the
chemistry of dugs), pharmaceutics (the design and
evaluation
of
dosage
forms), and health care
delivery (the analysis of
how heath care is provided).
Please feel free to come to
any of us in the department with any academic
issue. We are pleased to
be a source of information
on the science that makes
up the core of your
knowledge base and to act
as a role model for those
of you who would be interested in advanced education in the pharmaceutical
sciences.
HAVE A PRODUCTIVE
YEAR!
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Department of Pharmacy Practice
Department of Pharmacy
Practice
by Dr. Adam C. Welch
On behalf of the faculty
and staff in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, I would like to welcome you to the school of
pharmacy (or welcome
you back). No doubt the
campus looks different
with the new science
building wrapped around
the Stark Learning Center.
The new building will not
displace our department
and we will still call SLC
336 our home.
We’ve made a lot of internal changes for the upcoming year. First, I will
be serving as Acting Chairperson of the department
during Dr. Foote’s one
year sabbatical. We wish
him the best of luck. For
details about his sabbatical, please see below. I’ve
also closed out my term as
president of the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association. It was a successful
year and I think we planted the seeds for expanding the pharmacist’s role
in healthcare and providing exciting opportunities
to practice in Pennsylvania.
In May, the department
went on its annual retreat.
This year’s retreat was at
the Lands at Hillside Farms
in Shavertown. We used
this time to strategize on
ways to improve the curriculum and our department. We will be continuing our work on transitioning to a pass/fail grading
system for advanced pharmacy practice experiences
(APPEs) and will begin to
pilot this transformation
this year. In addition, you
may see a shakeup with
the professors in your
classes. We’ve realigned
the instructors to better
match their expertise and
to provide balance. In addition, your care labs may
look a little different and,
we think, better with the
creation of “modules” instead of isolated topics
each week.
On a more personal note,
Dr. Manning had her third
child last September. Drs.
Ference welcomed their
second child in January.
Drs. Longyhore and Bolesta each had their second
child in April. Finally, Ms.
Sromovski welcomed her
first grandchild in June.
We wish them well with
their expanding families.
Our faculty and staff have
certainly been busy. Below
is a little summary of what
we’ve been up to:
Dr. KarenBeth Bohan
maintains a clinical practice in Internal Medicine at
the Wilkes-Barre General
Hospital where she precepts both IPPE and APPE
students. She works with
the Wilkes-Barre Family
Medicine Residency Program physicians to help
improve health outcomes
of our patients. Her specific areas of interest are
infectious diseases and
global education. Dr. Bohan’s biggest new endeavor has been working with
Makerere
University
in
Kampala, Uganda, to develop a collaborative international learning experience for Wilkes students
which includes assessing
the impact of safe water
initiatives on the health of
rural villagers. She took
one P4 pharmacy student
to Uganda last summer
and is preparing to take 4
students for an APPE rotation in September 2012.
Details of her trip last year
and plans for this year
appear in an another article in this newsletter. Dr.
Bohan continues to lead
the
development
of
E*Value as an assessment
tool, particularly in the
areas of student portfolios
and clinical intervention
documentation. She presented her work on eportfolios at a national
meetings.
Dr. Scott Bolesta carries
on his clinical practice in
internal medicine at the
Regional
Hospital
of
Scranton
and
precepts
pharmacy
students
on
IPPE and APPE rotations.
He works closely with the
Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education residency program. He is currently working on two research projects. The main
one is a prospective randomized study assessing
the effect of vitamin C on
the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation
in cardiac surgery patients. The other is a project, begun by a student
who recently completed
his Clinical Research elective APPE, looking at the
bleeding risk associated
with omega-3 fatty acids.
He also plans to complete
and submit a manuscript
this year describing the
results of a survey the
class of 2013 completed
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along with students from
the School of Nursing after
an interprofessional Care
Lab they participated in.
Dr. Bolesta serves as the
advisor of the Student
Chapter of the American
Society of Heath-System
Pharmacists which visited
Lancaster General Hospital
in Lancaster, PA this past
spring during their annual
field trip. However, Dr.
Bolesta is most proud of
the birth of his and his
wife’s second child this
past April.
Ms. Kristen Billek –
Boyle is a registered
pharmacist with a background in retail pharmacy.
She started her career as
an adjunct faculty member, and is currently the
Experiential
Coordinator
for the Pharmacy Practice
Department,
worki n g
closely with Ms. HoltMacey. After graduating
from St. John’s University
in New York, she returned
home to her family’s independent
pharmacy
in
Trucksville,
where
she
would be the third generation pharmacist in the
family, working there for
14 years. While working
there, she also was an
adjunct teacher for our
program which gave her a
“taste” for academia. She
has been in her current
position for about 4 years
full time. Currently she
coordinates the IPPEs for
Pharmacy Practice and has
her own site, Commonwealth Home Health and
Hospice
(formerly
the
VNA), where she precepts
an APPE student and those
on the P3 IPPE. She also
advises students in the
guaranteed
seat
pharmacy program.
Cont’d
pre-
Dr. Jonathan Ference
maintains an ambulatory
care clinical site within the
Wilkes-Barre Family Medicine Residency Program.
In addition to teaching
pharmacy students at site,
Dr. Ference has a faculty
appointment in the residency program. Dr. Ference teaches in the Information Mastery elective in
the spring and will continue to coordinate the clinical skills series of the P2
pharmacy care lab. He
also has teaching responsibilities in the hypertension and endocrine pharmacotherapy
(PT)
sequences.
Dr. Kimberly Ference
continues to offer ambulatory care services at the
Volunteers
in
Medicine
(VIM) Clinic in downtown
Wilkes-Barre. She provides a variety of learning
experiences at VIM for
both IPPE and APPE students as well as pharmacy
residents. Dr. Ference precepts
the
Medicine
Shoppe’s community pharmacy resident and will
offer an elective experience to the Wilkes-Barre
VAMC resident this year.
Dr. Ference teaches a longitudinal care section as
well as information mastery in the P1 and P2
pharmacy care labs.
Dr. Edward Foote continued to chair the department of pharmacy practice
last year, which he has
always called the best job
in the world. With that
said, Dr. Foote will be taking a one year academic
sabbatical this year. His
new “soap box” is interprofessional
education
(IPE). Dr. Foote will join
the faculty of The Commonwealth Medical College
as a Visiting Professor for
one year. During this time
Dr. Foote hopes to build
relationships
that
will
make all of our regional
health
profession
programs better. In addition,
he’ll be writing and learning new research skills
related to IPE. This past
year Dr. Foote taught his
normal
courses
(Foundations,
Research
Design, Kinetics and Renal
PT). In addition, he precepted IPPE students at
the W-B hemodialysis unit.
With regard to interprofessional education, he was
chairperson of the 2012
regional summit (rising
P4s should know about
that). He presented at the
BPS board review prep
course in Reno, NV in
April. Most recently, he
presented a poster with
Drs. Jonathan Brady (WU
2012) and Scott Bolesta at
the annual meeting of the
American Association of
Colleges of Pharmacy in
Florida. Dr. Foote says,
“I’m going to miss everyone this year but, whether
you like it or not, I am
coming back!”
Dr.
Judith
Kristeller
maintains a clinical practice in the intensive care
unit at Geisinger Community Medical Center in
Scranton where she precepts APPE students in the
areas of cardiology and
critical care. The majority
of her teaching is during
the P3 year in the cardiovascular module, but she
also teaches a Hospital
Pharmacy elective, as well
as in the care lab and P2
Pharmacotherapy
sequences. Her research involves
improving
outcomes for patients undergoing cardiac surgery and
she recently submitted her
study manuscript to a peer
reviewed journal. Several
students participated in
her prospective, randomized, blinded study to determine if an infusion of
sodium
bicarbonate
or
normal saline could prevent kidney injury following heart surgery. Dr.
Kristeller’s abstract for this
study was presented at
the Society of Critical Care
Medicine’s Annual Congress in Houston, TX in
January 2012 and was
selected as a “Research
Citation Finalist.” In addition to clinical research,
Dr.
Kristeller
is
coauthoring a review article
on the use of steroids in
cardiac surgery with two
pharmacy graduates who
started the paper at the
beginning of their P4 year.
She is a faculty member
for the ACCP Board Review
course each year, teaching
sections on Critical Care,
Fluid, Electrolytes, and
Nutrition to approximately
500 conference attendees.
This course is designed to
help pharmacists prepare
for the board certification
(BCPS) exam. Dr. Kristeller serves as Chairperson of the Tenure and Promotion
Committee
at
Wilkes University and also
is Chairperson of the
Board of Trustees at the
Wyoming Valley Montesso-
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ri School in Kingston, PA. growing Experiential curShe is also the advisor of riculum, Ms. Shelli HoltLambda Kappa Sigma.
Macey had an exciting
year helping to foster the
unique partnership beDr. Daniel Longyhore is tween our School of Pharan Associate Professor in macy and the University of
School
of
the Department of Phar- Huddersfield
macy Practice and manag- Pharmacy in the United
es an Ambulatory Care Kingdom. The relationship
site with St. Luke’s Univer- building included hosting
sity Hospital in Bethlehem, four Huddersfield students
PA. At this site, Dr. Longy- at Wilkes, sending four of
hore is active in the edu- our P4 students to study in
cation of pharmacy stu- the UK for 3 weeks, and
dents,
pharmacy
resi- travelling to Huddersfield
dents, and medical resi- herself. She also spent a
dents. He recently started great deal of time this
a COPD discharge clinic at year assisting in the selfhis practice site. On cam- study for accreditation,
pus, Dr. Longyhore is both as a member of the
making a transition this Curriculum and Executive
academic year by having Committees, as well as
less responsibility in the with the Experiential asP3 Pulmonary Module so pects of that review. She
he can focus his efforts on was asked to serve as a
the P3 Endocrine module. member of the Resolutions
Also, Dr. Longyhore coor- Committee for the Experidinates the P3 Care Lab ential Section of the Amerand is in the process of ican Association of Collegrestructuring the lab to be es of Pharmacy for a 1-2
more skills based and to year commitment. Two
hold students accountable other big accomplishments
for learning and maintain- for the year were creation
ing these skills. Profes- of a preceptor web page
sionally, Dr. Longyhore is with the help of Ms. Nanvery active with the Amer- stiel and Mr. Craig Thomas
ican College of Clinical and creation of a PrecepPharmacy (ACCP) and will tor Advisory Board.
serve as chairperson of
Dr. Jennifer Malinowski
the Ambulatory Care Pracrecently transitioned her
tice and Research Network
ambulatory care practice
(AmCare PRN) starting in
to a new site, The Wright
October.
Finally,
Dr.
Center for Primary Care, in
Longyhore continues his
Jermyn, PA. Along with the
quest to find the latest
leadership of her P4 APPE
and greatest (and fun)
students, Dr. Malinowski
technology to use in stucreated an interprofessiondent learning. Your sugal team-based medication
gestions are always welreconciliation service. She
come.
serves as team lead for a
government based safety
initiative called the Patient
In addition to her major Safety Pharmacy Services
responsibilities in the ever
Cont’d
Collaborative (PSPC). The
clinic team (which includes
pharmacy
students)
is
tasked with improving patient outcomes and safety
in patients 75 and older
with
uncontrolled
high
blood pressure and multiple medical conditions.
The “Wright Script” team
is proud to share that over
½ of all patients are now
at blood pressure goal
within the first 6 months
of
management.
The
Wilkes pharmacy students
identified and corrected an
average of 4 potential/
actual adverse events per
patient! Way to go! Special
acknowledgement
goes out to pharmacy students Allison Kelleher and
recent grad Dr. Troy Gibson who assisted with data
interpretation.
Future
plans are to expand the
PSPC program to involve
additional populations (email Dr. M if interested!).
She completed two poster
presentations:
one
in
Herndon, VA with the
“Wright Script” clinic team
on the PSPC experience
and the second with Dr.
Bohan at the American
Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy (AACP) meeting
in Florida on assessment
of the Self-Directed IPPE
program (SD-IPPE), which
she coordinates. She completed her first official national platform presentation with Dr. Bohan and
colleagues from the University of Iowa on the process used to assess the SD
IPPE program, also at
AACP. She spoke at 2 CE
programs on osteoporosis
and immunization updates
at the annual PA Pharmacists Association meeting
in Harrisburg, PA and continues to train pharmacists
for the Immunization Certification program with
APhA. She published a CE
article on dyslipidemia for
America’s Pharmacist and
co-authored an article on
gout with recent graduates
Drs. Jon Brady, Sarah
Pupo and Eric Sidman,
which is expected to be
published in fall 2012. She
serves as a reviewer for
Annals of Pharmacotherapy, American Journal of
Health-Systems Pharmacists, and The Journal of
the American Pharmacists
Association.
Dr. Dana H Manning, a
graduate of the Nesbitt
School of Pharmacy, has
been teaching at Wilkes
for the last four years.
Prior to coming to the
world of pharmacy, she
received her undergraduate degree in nutrition
from Cornell University in
Ithaca, NY and completed
her Dietetic Internship at
Geisinger Medical Center
in Danville, PA. Dana
worked as a clinical nutritionist at United Health
Services Hospitals in Binghamton NY for approximately 5 years before pursuing her pharmacy degree, and has been involved in all aspects of
clinical nutrition care in
both the acute care and
outpatient settings. As a
clinical pharmacist, Dana
practices in all aspects of
acute care clinical pharmacy. She also works to expose students to the practice of clinical nutrition and
the intersection of pharmacy and nutrition care.
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During the academic year,
she teaches in the Alternative Medicine and Nutrition
course. Her clinical responsibilities take her to
the Regional Hospital of
Scranton where she precepts students in Internal
Medicine. Dana has recently begun to develop a
clinical pharmacy practice
in Oncology, and she will
be assuming responsibility
for
teaching
Oncology
Pharmacotherapy
within
the didactic curriculum.
Her research and scholarly
writing interests include
obesity (nutrition and behavioral
interventions,
pharmacology, and bariatric surgery), supportive
care in oncology, and motivational
interviewing
techniques.
Dr. Kimberly Metka’s
practice site is the Regional Hospital of Scranton
(like Drs. Manning and
Bolesta) where she rounds
with an internal medicine
team associated with the
Wright Center for Graduate and Medical Education.
She precepts both APPE
and IPPE students at this
site. Dr. Metka taught in
the drug information series in P2 Care Lab and
clinical decision making in
the P3 Care Lab this year.
Dr. Metka also teaches in
the online nursing pharmacology course for the
DNP curriculum. Dr. Metka
was the author of the article “Bacterial Pathogens in
Our Food: An Update on
Foodborne Illness” in U.S.
Pharmacist published in
August 2012. She also
serves as the secretary for
the
Pocono
Graduate
Chapter of Kappa Psi Phar-
maceutical Fraternity. Dr.
Metka was the faculty advisor for our student chapter of PPA in the spring
(while Dr. Ference was on
maternity leave) and continues to be active in
Pennsylvania Pharmacists
Association and the American College of Clinical
Pharmacy.
Ms. Barbara Nanstiel
continues to keep us all up
to date via her work in
maintaining the collections
and services of the Pharmacy Information Center.
She recently developed a
new LibGuide on Information Mastery to support
students’ ability to identify
clinical information needs
and formulate relevant,
evidence-based answers.
She also maintains the
Pharmacy LibGuide and is
working on a new one for
students who need to submit posters documenting
their
independent
research. In addition to
managing the PIC, she
guest-lectures in two P1
classes and is available for
one-to-one guidance in
using resources. Ms. Nanstiel is active in the medical library community. She
was
recently
elected
Chairperson of HILNNEP, a
local consortium of health
sciences librarians and is
responsible for the Lung
Diseases and Heart Diseases
pages
of
their
Health Info NEPA, a website that focuses on local
health concerns. She continues to co-edit the nationally-recognized
Basic
Resources for Pharmacy
Education, a list of recommended works to be included in the collections of
Cont’d
libraries that serve colleges of pharmacy.
Dr. Julie Olenak continues to run a successful
clinical practice at the
Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Dallas, PA where she
is also the PGY1 Community Residency Program
Director. This summer Dr.
Olenak
welcomed
her
fourth resident, Dr. Katie
Ferguson, a 2012 graduate from the University of
Maryland who will be
working with the University
and
the
Medicine
Shoppe
Pharmacy
this
year. Dr. Olenak and Dr.
Jennifer McMicken presented their research project, “Tdap: An Educational Intervention,” in poster
format at the 2012 APhA
Annual Meeting in New
Orleans. They are currently working on preparing
the manuscript for publication. Dr. Olenak continued her work in diabetes
community outreach and
also served on the NovoNordisk degludec insulin
advisory board in 2012.
Dr. Olenak will be one of
the educators providing
the immunization training
program on behalf of APhA
at the annual PPA convention and will also be
providing continuing education programs on OSHA
training/regulations
and
updates on acetaminophen.
Dr. Tricia Russell continues in her part-time faculty role and ambulatory
care practice. She transitioned from her site in
Scranton (Geisinger Lake
Scranton) to practicing at
Geisinger clinics in Wilkes-
Barre where she works
with endocrine, rheumatology and family practice/
internal medicine groups.
Dr. Russell was busy this
year as a section editor for
the pharmacotherapy textbook, Koda-Kimble and
Young’s Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of
Drugs, published in the
spring. She also published
an
osteoporosis
article
with a former student,
Lindsay Baun, PharmD. in
US Pharmacist, and coauthored a continuing education article on lipid
therapy cases in America’s
Pharmacist. She conducted a roundtable discussion
on shared-faculty positions
at the AACP meeting and a
podium presentation on
diabetes management at
the ACCP meeting. Dr.
Russell is a certified trainer for pharmacy-based
immunization and teaches
both in care lab and to
pharmacists in the community. She is also a
board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and a
certified diabetes educator.
Dr. Dominick Trombetta
continues his clinical services at Allied Services, a
rehabilitation hospital in
Scranton, where he precepts both IPPE and APPE
students for required internal medicine and elective geriatrics experiences.
Dr. Trombetta has a very
distinctive
service.
He
rounds with a medical
team but also maintains a
collaborative practice in
pain management. He presented a poster at the annual meeting of AACP and
also was an author of book
chapters in the textbook
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Applied Therapeutics: the
Clinical Use of Drugs, 10th
edition and ASHP’s Basic
Skills in interpreting Laboratory Data, 5th edition.
Dr. Trombetta will be
working on a research
writing project, writing a
case report of an adverse
drug reaction with an APPE
this upcoming spring.
Dr. Eric Wright's role
within the department has
changed significantly following his sabbatical in
2011. In January 2012
he handed over his role as
an ambulatory care clinical
pharmacist in the Medication Management Clinic at
the Wilkes-Barre VA to
other VA pharmacists in
order to take on the role
of
Investigator
at
Geisinger's
Center
for
Health Research. Over the
past year, Dr. Wright has
been working on many
investigations
within
"epidemiology and outcomes research." His particular focus is in the area
of medication adherence,
and he is working to study
the extent of the issue
(i.e. epidemiology), and to
form, with a team of investigators from Geisinger
and around the country,
innovative solutions to this
problem. With his new investigative
role,
Dr.
Wright is stepping away
from the Endocrine module in the P3 year of the
PT sequence and is taking
over for Dr. Foote in Clinical Research and Design in
the spring of 2013. In addition, in the years ahead
he hopes to add the issue
of population health to the
Cont’d
school by completing a
master’s in public health
(MPH) from Johns Hopkins
University and by serving
as faculty advisor to the
new student chapter of the
Academy of Managed Care
Pharmacy (AMCP).
Message from Student Senate President
On behalf of Wilkes University Pharmacy Student
Senate (WU PSS), I would
like to welcome and congratulate all of our fellow
students for making it one
step closer to earning our
PharmD! WU PSS is already excited and eagerly
working on plans for this
upcoming year. This summer we finally started revamping our constitution
and finalizing the budget
to best meet students’
needs. We hope this will
expand the opportunities
for professional development by providing better
resources for student organizations. We anticipate
the changes will increase
the value of the healthcare
education programs our
clubs plan for our local
community, and we are
optimistic that they will
increase student representation at pharmacy conferences. WU PSS is also
busy planning our annual
Career Fair for the P4 students, so P4s mark your
calendars for October 20th.
It is an exciting time for
you, as that may be the
day you meet your future
employer!
On a different note, currently all of the pharmacy
clubs are getting involved
with P1 Orientation and
Pharmacy Welcome Week.
Both of these events are
planned to help the incoming professional students
find their niche in the
pharmacy school extracurricular activities.
My advice to everyone this
year is to get involved in
something you are interested in! The variety of
pharmacy clubs on campus allows students to
work on projects such as
Operation Immunization,
Generation Rx, Pharmacy
Week, Legislative Day, the
Residency Fair, and much
more. There are also plenty of socials such as ASHP’s monthly dinners, KY/
LKS formals, and Pharmacy Ball that help ease the
stress of pharmacy school.
Student involvement and
support is what develops
our continuously growing
profession, so I challenge
you to use your time here
at Wilkes to its fullest.
Find a pharmacy project
you’re passionate about,
and make an impact. Much
has been said about the
success already achieved
by the Wilkes pharmacy
program, but I believe the
best is yet to come. Together with our education,
involvement, and commitment, we can not only improve Wilkes but the entire pharmacy profession.
Enjoy the rest of your
summer and good luck
with the upcoming year!
Stacy Prelewicz
Pharm-D Candidate Class
of 2014
Pharmacy Student Senate
President
P3 Class President
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Out of the Pharmacy Classroom and Into Africa
by Dr. KarenBeth Bohan
My trip to Uganda last
summer (2011) was the
fulfillment of a few years
of planning a project to
help a non-profit organization, The Water Trust
(TWT) (formerly Busoga
Trust America), assess the
impact of their safe water
initiatives and sanitation
and hygiene education
programs on the health of
the people living in a rural
village in Uganda. In addition, I had been researching the possibility of
developing this project
into an advanced pharmacy
practice
experience
(APPE)
for
fourth-professional year students. A
P4 student, Joe Shipula,
joined me in Uganda last
year to help with the research and the on-theground exploration of opportunities for trips with
future pharmacy students
from Wilkes. Together, we
met with faculty and a
pharmacy student at Makerere University in Kampala to plan our future collaboration.
This fall, from September
7 through October 7, I will
accompany four P4 students to Uganda. This trip
will fulfill a patient-care
elective APPE.
The trip
begins upon arrival in
Kampala, Uganda with two
weeks at Makerere Univer-
Dr. Bohan giving pillowcase dresss to
was the Rev. Evas
Kabagabu Ssenyonga
of the Church of
Uganda.
sity School of Pharmacy.
Wilkes students will participate in classroom experiences with the Ugandan
students whose entire curriculum uses Team Based
Learning. Wilkes students
will deliver a prepared lecture on Pharmacy Practice
in the US, which has been
requested by the Makerere
students. The 2-week experience in Kampala will
also include observing and
assisting in both community and hospital pharmacy
practice settings.
The
Ugandan
students
and
faculty are especially interested in observing clinical pharmacy in practice-students interacting with
healthcare providers to
make decisions about patient care. This area of
pharmacy is not widely
practiced in Africa and one
of the goals for this exchange is to help Makerere
students and faculty learn
how they can advance
pharmacy practice in their
country. At the end of the
first 2 weeks we will take
a day trip to Jinja, Ugan-
da, to the source of the
Nile River. It is the site of
a beautiful park with wildlife and falls, and lots of
opportunities for shopping
for souvenirs.
The next 2 weeks will be
in Masindi District, a rural
area about 3-4 hours
northwest of Kampala.
Students will volunteer
service and learn about
the related health issues
by working with one or
more of the following organizations: TWT (a nonprofit improving access to
safe water); TASO (a nonprofit
organization that
provides medical care and
support to those with
AIDS); the Red Cross of
Masindi, Uganda (a nonprofit providing a wide
variety of services to the
community but that, in
particular, provides first
aid training to the youth);
the Masindi-Kitara Medical
Center (a non-profit inpatient and outpatient facility); the Church of Uganda
Diocese (a religious organization providing health
education to young moth-
ers); and a variety of rural
governmental health clinics. The trip will culminate
with a 2-day safari at Murchison Falls National Park
where the students will
have a chance to see elephants, giraffes, crocodiles,
lions,
baboons,
many kinds of antelopes,
and much more.
In addition to participating
in the learning experience,
we will be transporting a
large quantity of used
pharmacy textbooks for
the library at Makerere
University School of Pharmacy. When I visited last
summer, I saw that the
shelves were bare. Even
though many of the textbooks we will carry are
old, the faculty and students will still benefit from
having
standard
references for the basic sciences and clinical pharmacy
practice. We will also be
taking donated knit and
crocheted
infant
hats
along
with
pillowcase
dresses (Little Dresses for
Africa®
http://
www.littledressesforafrica.
org/blog/) made by friends
of this project to be delivered to rural clinics and
social service agencies in
Masindi. If you would like
to learn more about the
Uganda experience from
last year or follow us on
the upcoming trip, check
out my blog at: http://
p h a r m a c y c l a s s i n t o a f ri ca.wordpress.com/.
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The Experiential Corner
by Ms. Shelli Holt-Macey
The Experiential staff has
had a very busy, but nice,
summer.
We hope you
have had a great break!
Amidst preparation for the
upcoming
accreditation
visit by ACPE, we have
been working on the transition to pass/fail grading
in APPEs for 2013-14 and
beyond,
documentation
requirements for practice
sites, preparing for the fall
IPPE site assignments, and
continuing to enhance the
use of E*Value. Since Mrs.
Boyle and I serve as academic advisors for PPGS
students, we have also
been welcoming our new
freshmen
and
refining
their class schedules.
Mrs. Boyle attended the
recent American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy meeting in Florida,
along with several other
faculty members from the
School. It was a valuable
meeting with some helpful
sessions related to experiential programs. She also
travelled to the LKS convention in CA. I will be
going to the E*Value Users
Conference this fall.
The newest IPPE, SelfDirected
Experience
Hours, has now been fully
implemented.
Dr. Malinowski will continue to
communicate the requirements and process to you
as Coordinator of this portion of your introductory
experiences. Please take
opportunities to participate, especially in university run events that relate
to these required service
hours.
We have some new and
updated APPE sites this
year as we typically do;
however a very exciting
one I’d like to highlight is
the student exchange with
the University of Huddersfield in the UK. Last November
P4
“inaugural”
students Ayla Kile, Caitlin
Kelly, Steve Kheloussi,
and Laura Eckman travelled to the UK. This fall
Taylor
Bridges,
Angela
D’Allesandro,
Steve
Gruver, and Alexandra
Pagano will spend 3 weeks
in the UK learning more
about the education, practice and regulation of
pharmacy, and the promotion of quality health care.
I visited the pharmacy
school at Huddersfield and
related facilities last fall,
as well.
Dr. Mahendra
Patel, Visiting Professor for
the Department of Pharmacy Practice from the
University of Huddersfield,
will visit us again this year
as well. You can learn
more about him at http://
www.hud.ac.uk/courses/
supporting/sci/ourstaff/
profile/index.php?
staffid=748&ippref
In return, we are pleased
to host three of Huddersfield’s students at the start
of
the
fall
semester.
Please welcome the following students as they engage in pharmacy student
life at Wilkes from August
28 – Sept 13.
They will be visiting faculty
practice sites, sitting in on
some didactic courses and
labs, and attending some
meetings of clubs, organizations and committees.
Moreover, they will give
some brief presentations
about pharmacy school
and the profession of
pharmacy in the UK. Socially we hope the student
organizations
will
help
keep them busy, as I appreciate that many of you
have already volunteered
to do. For more information or to suggest or
volunteer for activities, ,
please contact me at
shelli.holtmacey@wilkes.e
du.
Enjoy the rest of your
summer, and we look forward to seeing you in August!
· Hazel Jones
· Saima Kauser
· Alex Yusef
Nesbitt News—Your “Official” Means of Communication
Last fall we launched Nesbitt News, an e-newsletter
for the College of Pharmacy and Nursing. One of
the main reasons it was
created was because students complained of receiving so many individual
messages from various
members of the School.
However, it has become
apparent that not all stu-
dents are reading the articles when they come out.
This is to remind you that
you are responsible for
reading all relevant articles (i.e., those directed
to your cohort) in Nesbitt
News.
If you miss important
information/
deadlines, you will still
be accountable for the
content; you should not
expect individual e-mails.
To submit an item to be
included in Nesbitt News,
go to the form on http://
wilkes.edu/nesbittnews or
click on the link (under
Related Links at the right
hand side) on the School
of Pharmacy homepage
(http://wilkes.edu/
pages/390.asp).
To locate/search for old
news items in the archive,
click on the “Wilkes
News” link at the bottom
of any wilkes.edu page
and change the Category
drop down menu to Nesbitt News.
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PIC “Privileges”
The Pharmacy Information
Center (the primary library
for pharmacy students) is
open from Monday thru
Thursday from 8 AM until
5:30 PM and Friday from 8
AM until 4 PM. Students
who go through a special
orientation, however, may
be given “privileges” to
access the PIC after these
hours and on weekends.
This fall the orientation will
be held at these dates/
times:
Tues., Aug, 28 at 2:05 PM*
Wed., Aug. 29 at 8:00 AM
Thur., Aug. 30 at 2:30 PM
*Dr. Jacobs has agreed to
dismiss his class at 2:05.
You will be done in time
for A&P at 2:30 so be
prompt!
Please note that orientation for PIC Privileges is
only held at the beginning
of the school year, not
each term. If you are interested, please attend
one of these sessions.
Students who have gone
through the orientation
before do not need to attend again. Privileges carry over.
White Coat Ceremony
Dr. Arnold Gold, a teacher
and pediatric neurologist at
Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons
is responsible for beginning
the custom of the “white
coat
ceremony.”
While
watching a graduation ceremony which included the
recitation of the Hippocratic
Oath, he realized that the
students, who were thus accepting the obligations of the
medical
profession,
were
doing so four years too late.
And so began his advocacy
for the White Coat Ceremony
which occurred before students had contact with patients.
Over subsequent years the
ritual spread to veterinary,
podiatric,
optometry
and
pharmacy schools to mark
students’ shift from preclinical to clinical study and practice. The white coats which
physicians have traditionally
worn for decades have been
adopted by other health professions and the ceremonies
involve a formal donning of
this garment.
Wilkes has held a White
Coat Ceremony each year,
beginning with the inaugural class in 2000. During
the ceremony students gain
a sense of the respect, integrity and caring values of
pharmacy, and acknowledge the responsibilities of
the profession when they
recite the Oath of a Pharmacist.
This year’s White Coat Ceremony will be held on Sunday, September 16 at 11
AM in Room 101 of the
Stark Learning Center.
Students will be advised
when they may pick up
their invitations.
P1 Orientation
Orientation is held annually for all first year
Pharm.D. students.
The orientation provides
important information for
incoming students and
gives them an opportunity to meet their advisors
and other members of
their teams.
Attendance at orientation is required. A detailed agenda will be
provided in a following mailing.
Date: Sunday, August 26
Time: 10 AM—4 PM
Place: Henry Student
Center Ballroom
A light
served.
lunch
will
be
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Wilkes students at Legislative
Day in Harrisburg oppose mandatory mail-order pharmacy
for patients.
The Pediatric Pharmacy Advisory
Group teaches kindergarten students
about healthy eating.
Pharmacy and Nursing students
take part in an Interprofessional
Education simulation activity as
part of a Care lab.
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Pharmacy Professional Hooding and Awards Ceremony
On Friday, May 19, the
School of Pharmacy held its
annual Professional Hooding Ceremony at the Arnaud C. Marts Center. During the event, the sixtythree members of the Class
of 2012 were “hooded” by
the Dean, assisted by their
academic advisors.
This
academic attire has its
roots in medieval European
universities and the olive
green facing signifies the
pharmacy profession. The
hoods were worn during
the university commencement the next day.
Several awards were presented at the event to honor exceptional dedication,
leadership and academic
performance.
Recipients
were
Justin
Balint,
Dean’s Award;
Michelle Davis, Luzerne
County Pharmacists Association Academic Achievement Award; Theresa
Romaldini, APhA Mortar
and Pestle Professionalism
Award;
Sarah
Pupo,
TEVA
Pharmaceuticals
Outstanding
Student
Award; Travis Reinaker,
Mylan Excellence in Pharmacy
Award;
Justin
Balint, Eli Lilly Award;
Jessica Sowinski, Facts
and Comparisons Award
for Excellence in Clinical
Communication;
Tiera
Hickman,
Pennsylvania
Pharmacists
Association
Outstanding
Pharmacy
Student Award; Gregory
Castelli
and
Jacob
Reichert, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Recognition Award;
Jonathan Brady, Lacka-
wanna County Pharmacists
Association
Academic
Achievement Award; Sarah Pupo, Lackawanna
County Pharmacists Association
Jurisprudence
Award; Michael Scalese,
School of Pharmacy Excellence in Clinical Practice
Award; and Arthur Jankowski, School of Pharmacy Excellence in Pharmaceutical Science Research Award.
Caitlin Kelley
receives her
hood from Dean
Bernard Graham.
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Grads Move into Residency Programs and Fellowships
Post-graduate training for
pharmacists is not new
and it is not required for
practice, but is becoming
more prevalent each and
every year.
Pharmacy
residencies are 1 to 2 year
post-graduate
training
programs designed to prepare pharmacists for more
advanced positions within
the profession. The focus
of most residency programs is on increasing
practical exposure to medication use, while participating in the selection and
monitoring of drug therapy
for patients. In a way it is
very similar to the residency experiences of medical programs.
Most pharmacy organizations have agreed that
pharmacists will be required to have residency
training by the year 2020
in order to provide direct
patient care. The encouraging part about our numbers (22.7% acceptance
rate this year) is the consistent growing interest
and passion Wilkes University students show for using their education to the
fullest capacity years before
this
requirement
comes to term.
Graduates committing to
this training sacrifice time
and income to further advance their career and
impact the health of patients. Only a select number of graduates are
awarded a residency or
other post-graduate position, adding to the honor
and value of the opportunity.
As a community, we con-
gratulate them on receiving this honor and wish
them good luck!
Those who received good
news this year and their
sites are Kristin Bohnenberger
(University
of
Pittsburgh Medical Center
Presbyterian,
Pittsburgh,
PA), Gregory
Castelli
(University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center St. Margaret, Pittsburgh, PA), Troy
Gibson (Reading Hospital
and Medical Center, Reading, PA), Tiera Hickman
(St.
Luke’s
University
Health Network, Allentown, PA), Erica Hoot
(Western New York Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Buffalo, NY), Kelly
Hummel (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA), Steve Kheloussi (Medco Health Solutions,
Inc.,
Franklin
Lakes, NJ), Arthur Jankowski (Hershey Medical
Center, Hershey, PA), Sarah Pupo (Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA),
Jacob
Reichert
(St.
Luke’s University Health
Network, Allentown, PA),
Travis Reinaker (York
Hospital/Wellspan Health
S y s t em ,
York,
PA ) ,
Aundrea
Robertson
(York
Hospital/Wellspan
Health System, York, PA),
Theresa
Romaldini
(Memorial Health System,
Colorado Springs, CO),
Michael
Scalese
(Palmetto Health Richland,
Columbia, SC), and Alison
Stetzler (St. Luke’s University Health Network,
Allentown, PA).
In addition to these grads,
Jessico Lopatto has been
given a 2-year fellowship
with Health Economics &
Outcomes
Research,
Thomas Jefferson University
of
Public
Health
(Philadelphia,
PA)
and
Janssen Scientific Affairs,
LLC (Titusville, NJ), and
Justin Balint has been
given a 2-year fellowship
with Bristol-Myers Squibb
and Rutgers University
(Princeton, NJ).
Class of 2011 grad Alison
McDonald has moved into
a PGY2 residency (York
Hospital, York, PA) while
her classmate Timothy
Aungst has moved into in
a
2-year
fellowship
(Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy and Health Science).
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The Nesbitt College of Pharmacy and Nursing Welcomes New Pharmacy Residents
While many of our grads
go off to residencies in
other cities, Wilkes is happy to welcome a number
of pharmacists who will be
completing residencies in
our own programs (Wilkes
University/Medicine
Shoppe in Dallas, PA and
Hartzell’s Pharmacy/Wilkes
University in Catasauqua).
The Nesbitt College of
Pharmacy and Nursing is
also affiliated with other
programs and offers a
teaching certificate to participating area and regional pharmacy program residents.
Those you may see around
campus over the next year
are
Katie
Ferguson
(Medicine Shoppe, Dallas),
Andrew Wills (VA Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre),
Andrea Tanzella (VA Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre),
Tara Muzyk (VA Medical
Center, Lebanon), Brett
Read (VA Medical Center,
Lebanon), Ahmedul Ambia (Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton), Dominique
Cipollone
(Hartzell’s
Pharmacy,
Catasauqua),
and
Leah
Smith
(Geisinger
Health
Plan
(Danville).
By committing
time, resources,
faculty and
finances, Wilkes
assures the
continuation and
growth of
residency
programs within
the region.
Student Research Posters
Emily Thudium discusses her
poster with Dr. Arthur Kibbe.
The research interests and
practice innovations of faculty
members of the School of
Pharmacy are revealed in their
publications and platform and
poster presentations.
In a
move to nurture a similar research culture among students, the School of Pharmacy
inaugurated its first Student
Research Poster Day this year.
Mohamed Jalloh, Kathleen Garrett and Megan Blusius present
their research.
Students who take an independent research study are now required to produce a poster that
showcases the results of their
work. Advancing the pharmacy
body of knowledge is an important part of student professional development and the
poster session contributes to
this. In addition, it combines the
academic demands of the course
with time management and
coping skills, enhances students’ ability to deliver a message to diverse populations,
and often allows them to connect the basic science curriculum to the care of a patient.
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Pharmacy students livened up their Health Fair
in February with a musical flash mob in the
concourse of the Student Center.
Kappa Psi students pose with Sam Campion
of the Good Morning America TV show during their visit to New York City.
PPA students dressed up to help raise money for the Volunteers in Medicine dental and health clinic . Fall 2012 Schedule
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