PharmNews - Spring 2017
At its Feb. 24 meeting, the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents approved the promotion of six School of Pharmacy faculty members.
Richard D. Leff, Pharm.D., a professor for 外网天堂鈥檚 Department of Pharmacy Practice in Dallas and senior associate dean for clinical and translational research, received a Chancellor鈥檚 Council Distinguished Faculty Award in February.
The West Texas Pharmacy Association continued its strong support of the 外网天堂 School of Pharmacy when it awarded scholarships to 25 students Feb. 23-25 at its annual meeting in Fredericksburg.
Representatives from CVS, HEB, Kroger, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies visited the Amarillo and Abilene campuses Feb. 1 to interview students for summer intern positions.
Four Ph.D. candidates for the School of Pharmacy鈥檚 Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences have recently attended conferences, been invited to make presentations or received scholarships.
By placing among the top 40 teams in the nation, the 外网天堂 team advanced to the second round of ACCP鈥檚 Online Journal Club competition Feb. 6.
Longtime professor Sherry Luedtke, Pharm.D., recalls the first two decades of the School of Pharmacy.
Growing up in Dallas, Yasmine Alhasan, Pharm.D., always wanted to make a difference through health care. She started achieving that goal at 外网天堂, where she became a student leader for the Class of 2016 and the Texas Pharmacy Association.
TTSSHP held its annual Antibiotic Review Jan. 9 for students on all campuses. Assistant Professors Chris Tawwater, Pharm.D., and Jennifer Grelle, Pharm.D., from the Abilene campus served as presenters for the review.
Gamma Mu, the Rho Chi chapter at the 外网天堂 School of Pharmacy, recently inducted 28 new members from the Class of 2018 simultaneously at all four School of Pharmacy campus locations: Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas and Lubbock.
Texas Panhandle Poison Center's medical director was on duty at the BSA emergency room when the first patients arrived following a tragedy that struck an Amarillo family.
Matt Tate, Pharm.D., a School of Pharmacy graduate from the Amarillo campus, was recently selected as the 2016 Mickey Dan Cornett Pharmacist of the Year by the Department of Pharmacy at Northwest Texas Healthcare System.
Thomas Thekkumkara, Ph.D., Amarillo regional dean for the School of Pharmacy, accepted an $8,000 check from Walgreens representatives Jan. 26 as part of the Walgreens Diversity Initiative.
Hiranmoy Das, Ph.D. is focusing his research on isolating and expanding a variety of human adult stem cells and using them for the treatment of various degenerative diseases.
A group of students working toward their Ph.D. as research assistants for the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences each received a travel support award to attend the Society of Toxicology鈥檚 56th Annual Meeting in March.
A photo by Amarillo graduate student Hanumantha Rao Madala was recognized as a winning entry in a photo contest conducted by Vector Laboratories.
PharmNews is a quarterly electronic newsletter produced by the 外网天堂 Office of Communications for stakeholders of the School of Pharmacy.