College of Pharmacy
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…
August 16, 2017
UAMS Study Finds Day-Supply of Prescribed Opioids Most Decisive Factor in Likelihood of Long-Term Use
Aug. 16, 2017 | The single biggest factor determining whether a patient is likely to use opioids long term may be the number of days’ supply initially prescribed, according to a study by UAMS researchers. “Compared to someone prescribed two days versus seven days, that person with a seven-day supply is twice as likely to…
July 31, 2017
UAMS Researchers Receive $2.9 Million Grant to Study Possible Treatment for Radiation Injury
July 31, 2017 | A team of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research scientists recently was awarded a $2.97 million, five-year grant by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases to investigate a possible treatment for the long-term health effects from injury caused by exposure to high levels of radiation. Marjan Boerma,…
April 18, 2017
UAMS’ Peter Crooks, Ph.D., D.Sc. Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
April 18, 2017 | Peter Crooks, Ph.D., D.Sc., chair and professor of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, recently was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Being named a Fellow recognizes NAI members who have, according to the academy, “demonstrated…
April 7, 2017
Dean Keith Olsen, Pharm. D., Invested in UAMS College of Pharmacy Dean’s Chair
April 7, 2017 | Keith Olsen, Pharm.D., dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy, was invested April 6 as the recipient of the College of Pharmacy Dean’s Chair. Olsen was presented with a medallion commemorating the investiture by UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., UAMS…
January 9, 2017
Harps Foods Teams with College of Pharmacy
Jan. 9, 2017 | Pharmacists at Harps Food Stores Inc. have long enjoyed developing relationships with their customers. So when given the opportunity, they didn’t want to just fill prescriptions; they wanted to work directly with patients to improve their health. That’s when they looked for ways to fit medication therapy management (MTM) into the…
Harps Food, UAMS Create Program to Teach Pharmacists to Work More Directly with Patients
Jan. 9, 2017 | Springdale-based Harps Food Stores Inc. and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Pharmacy together have created a novel training program to teach pharmacists to work more directly with patients to improve their health. Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be trained to work as a team on medication therapy…
July 5, 2016
Pharmacy Camp Shows Career Possibilities
July 5, 2016 | Learning how to take a blood pressure reading by practicing on a manikin that reacts like a human or getting hands-on experience and instruction compounding medicine aren’t common experiences at a summer camp. For the last ten years though, that’s been the idea behind the Pharmacy Camp at the UAMS College…
April 13, 2016
College Bids Farewell to Jon Wolfe, Thanks Donors
April 13, 2016 | Thanks and goodbyes peppered a convivial evening of relaxed socializing and good food at the College of Pharmacy Dean’s Donor Recognition Dinner on March 31 at the Clinton Presidential Center. About 100 people, most of them donors, gathered for the event. Students and faculty joined donors and Dean Keith Olsen, Pharm….
March 25, 2016
UAMS Student Pharmacists Named Best in the Nation
March 25, 2016 | UAMS College of Pharmacy students proved themselves to be doubly good this year by earning recognition for the second year in a row as the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) National Chapter of the Year. APhA-ASP, as it did in 2015, presented the chapter with the honor at its…
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