Dean Campbell leading College
Dr. William H. Campbell, Dean and Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina and a past president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, is serving as Interim Dean of the College of Pharmacy while a search is conducted for a successor to Dean James P. Kehrer.
Dean Campbell retired to Washington state after serving 11 years as dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to Chapel Hill, he served four years as dean of the School of Pharmacy at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala.
Dean Campbell has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in pharmacy and pharmaceutical science from Oregon State University, a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical science from Purdue University, and he also has worked at Oregon State University, Kaiser Foundation Health Services Research Center in Portland, and the University of Washington. Dean Campbell served as the AACP president in 1988.
A search is underway for a new dean of the College of Pharmacy to replace James P. Kehrer, who left in August 2009 to become dean of pharmacy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. A Notice of Vacancy is now being circulated, and screening of applications began Oct. 1, 2009.
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Clinical Trials Team Starts 2 More Trials
The Clinical Trials Research Team in the Department of Pharmacotherapy successfully completed its first-ever clinical trial this past summer after eight years of managing more than 140 patients.
A second clinical trial with 36 patients has been underway for three years and the team is now recruiting patients for two additional trials. All these trials are located at the Health Sciences Building at WSU Spokane and are a part of national and international studies. Read more.
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A Second WSU Pharmacy Student
to Lead NCPA Student Council
WSU pharmacy student Andrew Helm is the new president-elect of the National Community Pharmacists Association’s students’ council and will serve as president in 2010-11.
It will be the second time in three years a WSU student has served as president of the 16-member national student leadership council. WSU pharmacy student Jason Doss, who graduated in May, just finished his term as president for 2008-09.
Involvement by WSU students has been supported and encouraged by College alumni who also have been active at the national level of NCPA, including 1978 graduates Holly Whitcomb Henry of Seattle, who will conclude a term as the NCPA president in October, and Linda Garrelts MacLean of Spokane, a former pharmacy owner who is now chair of the WSU College of Pharmacy’s pharmacotherapy department.
In addition to new student council president-elect Andrew Helm and past president Doss, student Manpreet Chahal of the class of 2010 is serving his second year on the NCPA student council. Chahal, like Doss, also served a term as president of WSU’s Graduate & Professional Student Association. Read more.
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Students Place in Business Competition
Continuing what has become an annual tradition, a team of Washington State University pharmacy students has placed in the top 10 in a business plan competition held by the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation.
WSU won first place in the competition in 2006 and took second place in 2007 and 2004, which was the first year it was held. Last year, WSU placed in the top 5. “We’re developing this culture where one team mentors the next one,” said Linda Garrelts MacLean, a faculty advisor for the teams. The three students on the 2009 team were helped by a student from the 2008 team, she said.
Internal competition between students who want to be in the national competition also is starting to occur within the College of Pharmacy at WSU. There were two teams that created business plans, but only one could be entered into the national competition, so judging had to be done within the College first.
The team selected had created a plan to open a pharmacy in Vancouver, Wash., that specializes in pain management. That plan competed with 28 others and ended up in the top 10, but was not one of the three plans that will be considered in the final round of competition in October. WSU team members were Christopher R. Mellon and Jessica L. Moore, both of the class of 2011, and Hung M. Le of the class of 2012. Each will receive $300 to attend the NCPA fall convention in New Orleans in October.
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Quock, Garrison Named Teachers of Year
College of Pharmacy faculty members Raymond M. Quock and Mark Garrison were selected by pharmacy students as the 2008-09 Teachers of the Year.
Quock, who is chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, lectures in neuropharmacology, psychopharmacology and drug abuse to second-year pharmacy students. He has been at the College since January 1999 and has a long list of teaching awards from his faculty career at other institutions, including the University of Ilinois College of Medicine where he received the Golden Apple teaching award seven of the nine years he was there. Quock has won the Teacher of the Year award from WSU students two other years.
Garrison is the primary instructor for a five-credit course on advanced pharmacotherapy, and he actively teaches in other team-taught pharmacy courses including clinical pharmacokinetics, the pharmaceutical care laboratory and pharmacotherapy I. He has been at the College since November 1989 and serves as assistant dean for student services at WSU Spokane and also as a preceptor for students doing clinical rotations at Deaconess Medical Center. This is the third time he has received this award.
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MacLean, Kennedy Get WSU Spokane Faculty Excellence Awards
Linda Garrelts MacLean, chair of the Department of Pharmacotherapy, received the annual WSU Spokane Students’ Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching at commencement ceremonies on May 8, 2009.
Another faculty member in the College, Jae Kennedy, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration, was recognized by his peers with the annual WSU Spokane Faculty Excellence Award in recognition of his excellence in teaching, research, and community service.
MacLean joined the College faculty full-time in 2006 after a career as a pharmacy business owner who received national attention for her contributions to the profession. She is a 1978 alumnus of the College and served as a preceptor to WSU pharmacy students for many years while she owned Jones Pharmacy in Spokane. She is chair of the Department of Pharmacotherapy.
Kennedy is a National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Distinguished Research Fellow and has been involved in aging and disability research since 1989. He is recognized as a leading researcher in the area of access to health and long-term services for Americans with disabilities. Just recently, he received a three-year, $600K grant to assess the impact of Medicare-D on SSDI Beneficiaries.
In addition to his research and teaching, Kennedy provides editorial service for three of the top journals in health management and policy and serves as a consultant to local and national service providers and advocacy groups.
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Brent Albertson named preceptor of year
Brent A. Albertson, the manager of advanced pharmacy practice at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital in Spokane, was named the 2009 Roche Preceptor of the Year by the College of Pharmacy in recognition of his outstanding work with WSU pharmacy students during their final year of the Doctor of Pharmacy degree program.
Albertson has been affiliated with the College since 2003, when he joined the faculty while maintaining a part-time practice in hospital pharmacy. In 2007, he became a full-time employee of the medical center and moved adjunct faculty status in the College, a position he still holds. Albertson received his Pharm.D. in 2002 from North Dakota State University and his B.S. in pharmaceutical science in 2000 from NDSU.
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WSU takes 'Operation Diabetes' Award
WSU pharmacy students won the Northwest Region Operation Diabetes award for the third consecutive year in student competition at the American Pharmacists Association annual meeting in San Antonio in April 2009.
A WSU pharmacy student – Elizabeth Moe from the class of 2011 – also placed in the top 10 national patient counseling competition. It was the second consecutive year a WSU student placed in the top 10.
The Operation Diabetes team submitted a 10-page report detailing their campaign, in which 162 student pharmacists screened and/or educated 818 people, not including the countless viewers of a diabetes outreach the students did on a Spokane television station.
The students held 21 separate screening and education events and were aided by 27 faculty and preceptors. They held events on the Wellpinit and Chewelah Indian reservations, at Riverside Park and Corbin Senior Center in Spokane, at the Bishop Retirement Home, Beasley Coliseum Arts & Crafts Fair, Mom’s Weekend and Dad’s Weekend in Pullman, and at Rosauers and Safeway stores.
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Higgins named Outstanding Alumnus
Robert W. Higgins has received the 2009 Outstanding Alumnus Award from the College of Pharmacy at Washington State University.
Higgins is a 1957 WSU pharmacy graduate and son of 1926 pharmacy graduate Nels Higgins, who owned Higgins Drug Store in Pullman until 1955. During his 23-year Navy career, Higgins rose to the rank of admiral and retired in 1993 as deputy surgeon general of the U.S. Navy.
While serving as a physician in the Vietnam War, he became interested in world health care, and after retirement, he served a term as president of the World Organization of Family Doctors, an organization started in 1972. Higgins also is a past president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Higgins grew up in Pullman and after pharmacy school, he worked as a pharmacist for five years before earning his medical degree from the University of Washington in 1965. He served in the Navy for two years, then practiced family medicine in Wenatchee from 1968 to 1972 before returning to the Navy.
By 1986, he was commanding officer of hospitals at Camp Pendleton, Twentynine Palms, Calif., and 18 military clinics in California, Arizona and Nevada. The next year, he was promoted to admiral, became the senior medical officer in the Marine Corps, and worked in the Commandant’s Office in Washington, D.C.
In 1988, he received the WSU Alumni Achievement Award, and in 2002, he was given the WSU 32nd Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has served the WSU Foundation and has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the College of Pharmacy.
Higgins and his wife, Judy, live in Anacortes, Wash.
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Students Get National Awards for Volunteerism
Two WSU students earned national recognition and were featured in Pharmacy Times for their volunteer service.
Jamie L. Robinson, class of 2010, was profiled in the March 2009 edition of Pharmacy Times after receiving the Pharmacy Times/Wal-Mart RESPy Award for Respect, Excellence and Service in Pharmacy, which includes a $1,000 tuition scholarship and a handcrafted piece of commemorative art as well as the profile in the national magazine.
The RESPy award is given out 10 times a year.
Lindy Wood, who graduated in May 2009, received the RESPy Award for her volunteer work in Spokane with Parkinson's patients and was profiled in the February 2009 issue of Pharmacy Times.
The RESPy award was first given out in May 2006 to a University of Louisiana student who worked at Wal-Mart and helped the victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Award winners are judged on their voluntary public service, their health-related activities outside the classroom and their efforts to advance the pharmacy profession in the public arena. Read more.
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James was Speaker at Health Physics Society
RICHLAND, Wash. – The director of a Washington State University repository and research program in radiation health effects was one of the leading sp
eakers at the 54th annual meeting of the Health Physics Society in Minneapolis in July.
Anthony C. James, director since 2005 of the U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries at WSU Tri-Cities, was the Landauer Memorial Lecturer and opening speaker on the second day of the five-day conference.
James has been a researcher in radiation biology and health physics for almost 40 years. He has a doctorate degree in radiation biology and a bachelor’s degree in physics, both from the University of London. He is a Chartered Radiation Professional (CRadP) of the UK’s Radiological Protection Society.
The USTUR has been a WSU program since 1992 when the U.S. Department of Energy awarded a three-year grant to the College of Pharmacy to manage and operate the program, which was established in 1968 as the federal National Plutonium Registry.
The USTUR is a human tissue repository and research program providing long-term followup of the effects on human tissues and organs of accidental internal ingestion of radioactive elements. It continues to accept donations for research and since 1996, it also has housed and managed a collection of animal tissue specimens and data from government sponsored radiobiology studies performed at various national laboratories and universities since the 1940s.
The Landuer Memorial Lecture began in Chicago in 1971 at Northwestern University in honor of Dr. Robert S. Landauer, a prominent radiological physicist and teacher for many years in Chicago.
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Beary leads Washington Dietetics Assn.
Janet Beary, a clinical assistant professor in the Program in Nutrition and Ex
ercise Physiology in the College of Pharmacy at WSU Spokane, was installed as president-elect of the Washington State Dietetic Association at its annual convention in April 2009 in Vancouver, Wash.
Her one-year term as president is set to begin with the spring meeting in 2010, and will be followed in 2011 with a one-year term in office as past president.
Beary has been a professor at WSU since January 2000. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University in public health. She is a registered dietitian and a certified health education specialist. She also is director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at WSU Spokane.
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Professors help with elementary school lessons
SPOKANE – Ants may be plentiful in California in February, but in Spokane, Lisa Woodard had to order some from a pet store.
She needed them for an elementary school science lesson that was developed in California and is being evaluated with the help of student pharmacists and faculty at Washington State University.
The goal of the project – known as the HealthWISE program – is to determine whether health science instruction in the second and fifth grades can be improved by using student pharmacists in the classroom. The curriculum was developed in San Joaquin County last year and is being field-tested this year at WSU, the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy. Read more.
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Visit to Legislature attracts 78 students
Pharmacy Day at the Washington Legislature on Feb. 20, 2009, included 78 student pharmacists from Washington State University who met with legislators throughout the day to talk about issues important to students as well as professionals.
Organized by the Washington State Pharmacy Association, students from the University of Washington also were there and provided health screenings for the legislators while WSU students were meeting with individual legislators. Specific issues which were discussed with the legislators included the following:
- Tuition Caps for college students
- Financial Aid for college students
- Cutting Pharmacy Medicaid reimbursement rates to pharmacies
- Medicaid Audit Reform Bill
- Tamper resistant prescription drug pads to save money by decreasing fraud for Medicaid prescriptions
See pictures of Pharmacy Day here.
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Diabetes Medications Book Released
College of Pharmacy Professors R. Keith Campbell and John R. White are co-authors of a new book for the American Diabetes Association titled, “Medications for the Treatment of Diabetes.”
The ADA calls the 548-page book “The Most Authoritative Guide to Diabetes Therapeutics Available.”
It is an updated edition of a book Campbell and White wrote that was released in 2000 and is part of the ADA’s Medical Management Series for health care professionals. Other contributors to the book were Campbell’s son, Lance K. Campbell, a pharmacist in Snohomish, Wash.; eight other pharmacy faculty and a College of Nursing professor. Read more.
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Gary Meadows gets NIH award
Gary Meadows, a College of Pharmacy professor at WSU since 1976, has received a Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
The five-year, $1 million grant is to provide him with more time for research and to mentor three to five junior faculty at WSU. Read more.
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Fassett is pharmacy law journal editor
William E. Fassett has been named editor of the bimonthly print newsletter and the monthly electronic newsletter of the American Society for Pharmacy Law.
Fassett is the first non-attorney editor of the print newsletter, which was started when the ASPL was formed in 1974, and the second WSU pharmacy professor to hold the appointment. For many years – 1975 to 1997 – the newsletter was developed and edited by Larry M. Simonsmeier, a now-retired WSU pharmacy professor and former dean of the College of Pharmacy.
The electronic newsletter is new and in its second year of publication.
Fassett teaches pharmacy law and ethics, patient safety and entrepreneurship at the College of Pharmacy, where he has been on faculty since 1999 and where he served as dean from 1999 to 2005.
He has been on the ASPL board since 2002 and is treasurer of the organization, which is based in Springfield, Ill.
The ASPL is a national association of pharmacists, attorneys and others interested in the law as it applies to pharmacy.
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College Acquires High-Tech Mannequin
The College of Pharmacy purchased a high tech manikin in July 2007 from Laerdal®. The Human Patient Simulator can be programmed to have a number of different diseases or conditions.
The College is one of a handful of pharmacy schools in the country to begin using this Human Patient Simulation technology. The technology is more common in medical and nursing schools.
The WSU Colleges of Pharmacy and Nursing are working with community health care providers in Spokane to raise money for a patient simulation training facility where health sciences students can learn and working professionals can upgrade skills needed for certification. See more pictures.
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