News @ VCU School of Pharmacy

School of Pharmacy in the news

VCU faculty, staff, students and alums have appeared in several print and online publications recently:

• Barry L. Carter (Pharm.D. ’80) had a letter to the editor published in the April 22/29, 2009; 301 (16), issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. To view his letter, click here.
• SOP student organizations’ Community Health Fair at Manchester Middle School was announced in the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s “News Near You” item April 16. To see, click here and scroll down to Chesterfield.
• Amy Whitaker, assistant professor, was quoted about Latisse, an eyelash-growing drug, in an April 11 Health Q&A column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. To read the column, click here.
• National Community Pharmacists Association’s April 2009 issue of America’s Pharmacist features Ron Davis (B.S. ’73) and Buford Road Pharmacy in Richmond, along with staff pharmacists Michelle Gore (B.S. ’88), Tyler Stevens (Pharm.D. ’06), David Williams (Pharm.D. ’06) and Kelly Rea, a former VCU Community Pharmacy Practice Resident. This issue is not yet online, but the story begins on page 20. For information on Davis’ newest pharmacy, Good Neighbor, click here.
• Bronwyn Burnham (B.S. ’89) discusses the Regional Rallies in her president’s message in the April 2009 edition of Virginia Pharmacist – click here and go to page 4. Also: A note by Al Schalow (B.S. ’61) on page 10 mentions a new Financial Oversight Committee, whose chairman is Otto Wachsmann (Pharm.D. ’86), and a Grants and Programs committee, whose chairwoman is Becky Snead (B.S. ’85).
• The March 2009 edition of the e-newsletter for university alumni featured several items that included or were about the School of Pharmacy. To view the entire newsletter, click here.
  To go directly to a specific item, please click its title and scroll down to see that particular headline:
  “It’s reunion time”
  “Pharmacy dean talks about curriculum change”
  “Pharmacy school, alumnus accept award”
  “Pharmacy students win team grant”
  “Pharmaceutical fraternity members lend a hand”
• A presentation by Baylor Rice (B.S. ’94) was noted in the March 25 edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Click here.
• Features in the March 2009 Virginia Pharmacist include: a president’s message by Bronwyn Burnham (B.S. ’89) on cutting salaries at VPhA (page 4); a report on the Peninsula Pharmacists Association by PPhA’s president, Pat Resto (B.S. ’84); and various photos and mentions of SOP representatives at the VPhA Midyear Meeting in Roanoke. Click here to see this edition.
• The story now has gone offline, but news of Ron and Nancy McFarlane’s $250,000 endowment for an SOP professorship appeared in early March as part of AACP.org’s “Pharmacy School News.”
• In the February 2009 edition of Virginia Pharmacist, Bronwyn Burnham’s (B.S. ’89) president’s message centers on mentoring. Click here and scroll down to page 4. Also, see photos on the cover and inside of SOP representatives at the 2009 Virginia Pharmacy/Legislative Day Review.
• The January 2009 edition of Virginia Pharmacist features a guest editorial by Ellen Leverich, director of development, on charitable giving law (complete with photo of 1953 graduates and donors Barbara and Harry Plunkett). To read the editorial, click here and scroll to page 5 of the magazine. Also featured: the Pharmacy Services Clinic’s 30th anniversary celebration (page 13) and a president’s message from SOP alumna Bronwyn Burnham (B.S. ’89) on page 4.
• The Edmonton (Canada) Journal picked up the Reuters version of a story about research by Ron Polk and colleagues on the use of antibiotics in U.S. hospitals. To see the story online, click here.

Submitted By:
Cynthia McMullen
4/23/2009