Announcements
Attention Mac users!
According to the most recent WVU School of Pharmacy HIPPA risk assessment, employees of the School who use a Mac computer must enroll their device into endpoint management solution. You can do so by contacting HSC IT at 304-293-3631 or by email hsc_helpdesk@hsc.wvu.edu.
Planned power outage for Health Sciences will occur on Sunday, Sept. 22
To accommodate upgrades and repairs to electrical facilities, there will be a planned power outage at Health Sciences on Sunday, Sept. 22, from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Save the Date: Learn how to help your patients kick the habit
Dental school's tobacco treatment training program will host its third continuing education course in May 2020.
Special NIH Presentation "Navigating NIH Systems to Advance Your Career and Tips for Successful Grant Writing"
WVCTSI hosting special NIH speaker on September 16
Pharmacy graduate students win national competition, earn exposure for WVU in health research and data science
PhD students Jayesh Patel, Nazneen Shaikh and Rowida Mohamed, all from the School's Health and Outcomes Research Program, are the winners of this year’s Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj) team competition for students. The competition is sponsored by AcademyHealth and the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The annual competition invites students to use data from the HSRPRoj database in conjunction with other sources to identify research gaps in health services and systems research.
WVU pharmacy professor chosen as academic leadership fellow
A program designed to develop the nation’s most promising pharmacy educators to become future leaders in pharmacy and higher education will soon include an additional faculty from West Virginia University.
Dr. Art Jacknowitz HSC Memorial Service and Reception
A memorial service for Dr. Art Jacknowitz, professor emeritus in the WVU School of Pharmacy and friend and mentor to many in the WVU Community, will be held on June 7 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., in the HSC Pathology Amphitheater, Room 2118. A reception will immediately follow in the HSC Pylons from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
A place for pets in pharmacy
Diabetes. Anxiety. Irritable bowel syndrome. Millions of Americans suffer from these ailments, and so do their pets! This May (National Pet Month), Pharmacy Today celebrates the unique patient population of pets and the pharmacists who help treat them—and explores why you should consider treating them, too. Visit Pharmacy Today to read the article.
SoP students receive scholarships from state pharmacy organization
Third-year pharmacy students Christiana Hess and Andrew Lee are one of three students to receive the West Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists (WVSHP) Student Scholarships.