Announcements
Class of 2026 receives white coats at special ceremony
It's a new era for future pharmacists at West Virginia University. Coming off the heels of New Student Orientation Week, the Class of 2026 received their white coats on Saturday, August 13, at a special ceremony in the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.
Return to campus, COVID-19 testing
Dear Colleagues, As part of our continuing efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of our campus community, West Virginia University is requiring* all students, faculty and staff who will be on campus this fall to undergo COVID-19 testing.** Drive-thru and walk-up testing will be available at the WVU Coliseum on the following dates:
Mon County delegate to speak about a House Bill that would cap insulin prices
The WVU Medicine Diabetes Education Center is hosting a Monongalia County lawmaker to discuss a House Bill (HB) that would cap insulin prices for West Virginians. Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer will talk about HB 4543 on Thursday, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the Fukushima Auditorium at the WVU Health Sciences Center. If passed, HB 4543 would cap insulin costs at $25 for a month supply. This event is free, and all students, faculty and staff are welcome.
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.