College of Pharmacy
April 24, 2020
UAMS Pharmacy Alum Volunteers for COVID-19 Relief in California
A UAMS College of Pharmacy alumnus saw a need and decided to do something about it. Lee (Leland) Turner (class of 2014) traveled to Santa Clara, Calif., at the beginning of April to volunteer with an emergency relief organization called Team Rubicon that is delivering care to recovering COVID-19 patients in Silicon Valley. A native…
March 12, 2020
UAMS Pharmacy Students Help Refugees Navigate Pharmacies
As part of resettlement efforts for newly arrived refugees, pharmacy students from the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus recently gave tours of two local pharmacies to refugees in Washington County. Students also provided gift bags of thermometers, toiletries and other basic essentials.
February 19, 2020
Study: Higher opioid doses fail to lessen pain
Increasing chronic pain patients’ opioid prescription doses does not seem to improve pain, according to a VA study. Researchers from the Central Arkansas and Minneapolis VA health care systems and three universities looked at prescribing data of more than 50,000 VA patients taking opioids. They found that patients who had their opioid dosage increased did…
September 7, 2018
Passion, Dedication Still Evident for Graduates at Alumni Weekend 2018
Sept. 7, 2018 | Although the decades may have separated them, UAMS graduates from all specialties arrived Aug. 17-18 for Alumni Weekend and caught up as if the years didn’t matter.
September 6, 2018
UAMS Warmly Welcomes Exchange Students from Taiwan
Sept. 6, 2018 | The UAMS College of Nursing and College of Pharmacy welcomed nursing and pharmacy students from the Kaohsiung Medical University in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, to campus in August for a four-week, study-abroad opportunity.
July 2, 2018
Pharmacy Students Create Drug-Counseling Videos for YouTube
July 2, 2018 | It all started with a visit to a local pharmacy.
Seth Heldenbrand, Pharm.D., the College of Pharmacy’s associate dean of experiential education and an associate professor, was picking up a new prescription and noticed that with a simple click of a box he had opted out of drug counseling by the pharmacist.
June 25, 2018
Camp Shows Undergraduates Diversity of Pharmacy Career Paths
June 25, 2018 | For a dozen years, Pharmacy Camp at the UAMS College of Pharmacy has been creating uncommon experiences for 17- and 18-year-olds and efficiently compressing them all into a few days. “I could’ve spent the whole summer shadowing pharmacists here and there, but this put everything into one week and I was…
April 17, 2018
UAMS Fights Opioid Epidemic on All Fronts
April 17, 2018 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is attacking the nationwide opioid epidemic on multiple fronts that have produced new research and treatment options for patients and health care providers across Arkansas and beyond. “As the state’s only health sciences university, UAMS is uniquely positioned to address this issue head on…
March 19, 2018
UAMS Dean Keith Olsen First Pharmacist Named Chancellor of American College of Critical Care Medicine
March 19, 2018 | Keith Olsen, Pharm. D., F.C.C.M., dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), recently was named chancellor of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), becoming the first pharmacist to lead the national organization. Olsen has served on the Board of Regents of…
December 20, 2017
Pharmacy Conference Keeps Pharmacists Up to Date
Dec. 20, 2017 | On a Sunday morning in a UAMS auditorium, John Kirtley, Pharm.D., engaged his audience in a brief call-and-response dialogue. “How many hydrocodone pills were dispensed in Arkansas last year?” Kirtley asked. Scattered voices called out guesses. Kirtley told them the total: It was 108 million, and another 49 million oxycodone pills…
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