Posted May 29 - Theresa DeLellis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice; Rob Beckett, associate professor of pharmacy practice and director of the Drug Information Center; and Jennifer Henriksen, associate dean of academic and student affairs and professor of pharmacy practice, are part of a team that will present at the virtual annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) in July. Their poster topic is “Initial Development and Pre-Testing of a Situational Judgment Test to Assess ACPE Standards 3 and 4.”

In addition, DeLellis will present on “Avoiding Slipping Through the Cracks: Incorporating Family Members and Caregivers into Improving Transitions of Care” at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Dallas in October.

DeLellis also joined a team presentation on “Caring for Geriatric Patients Across the Care Continuum During COVID-19” at the AACP Geriatric SIG Webinar Series in Arlington, Va., in May.

Posted May 29 - Dean Tommy Smith who was quoted in an article in the April 2020 edition of Pharmacy Today. The complete article, “Beyond Limits: Caring for Patients with Disabilities,” can be found here.

Posted May 29 - Jessica Montalvo, director of student services, made more than 350 masks during her recent maternity leave. The masks have gone to six states and to friends, family, neighbors, essential workers, and community members via Faith United Methodist Church and nurses at Parkview in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jessica continues to make masks as time allows.

Posted May 29 - Congratulations to Holly Robison, Kathryn Marwitz and Rob Beckett for having their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) grant submission selected for funding. Their submission, “Assessing the Use of Emotional Intelligence Training to Teach CAPE Outcomes,” was one of seven projects chosen this year to receive funding. Final research findings from the SOTL-funded research will be presented at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting July 17-21, 2021, in Toronto.

Posted May 29 - Pharmacy faculty members were honored with annual awards May 8 at the virtual Celebrating Accomplishments Ceremony. This year’s recipients were Sarah Gordon, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, the Lorin M. Sheppard Teacher of the Year; Tom Smith, associate professor of pharmacy practice and pharmacogenomics, Scholar of the Year; and Dusty Linn, associate professor of pharmacy practice, Outstanding Service.

Smith recently earned a pharmacy graduate certificate in precision medicine from the University of Florida, and had a paper, “The Association of COMT Genotype With Buproprion Treatment Response in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder,” accepted to the journal, Brain and Behavior.

Posted April 27 - Beth Schultz, nursing program director, is part of a research team that recently published work from an ongoing mixed methods research project. “Workplace Fatigue Within Summer Camp: Perspectives from Camp Health Care Providers and Directors” is in the recent edition of Journal of Experiment Education.

Posted April 17 - Trent Towne, associate professor of pharmacy practice, is a member of the Allen County Coronavirus Task Force, which also includes Dr. Deborah McMahan, Allen County health commissioner, and several other medical and community leaders. They have appeared on live televised community forums this spring to discuss the latest developments and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. You can see the videos here.

Posted April 17 - Teresa DeLellis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, is helping Aging and In-Home Services and the Allen County Health Department create community-based resources and volunteer pools for isolated older adults who are trying to avoid COVID-19. The resources address everything from health care delivery to food and grocery delivery, as well as phone conversations with individual older adults who are isolated.