More than 180 individuals applied to the Pharmaceutical Sciences Doctoral Program for fall 2015 admission. Twenty-two were offered admission, and the school will welcome the following eight new graduate students this September: Mark Cadena, a …
Clinical Practice, Innovation, and Research
Look and Margolis receive 2015 Curtis A. Johnson Award
Kevin Look, assistant professor, Social and Administrative Sciences Division and Amanda Margolis, lecturer, Pharmacy Practice Division, received the 2015 Curtis A. Johnson Award for their contributions to The Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. …
Barnett named UW-Teaching Academy Fellow
Susanne Barnett, assistant professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, will be among 10 peers inducted as a 2015 Teaching Academy Fellow. Fellowship in the UW-Teaching Academy is an honor bestowed on individuals who have …
Rose is invited speaker for Science on Tap series
Warren Rose, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, will address “Antibiotic Resistance: No Longer Just a Hospital Problem,” to an informal group at the Science on Tap-Minoqua series on Wednesday, May 6. The …
Impacting health care: Older adults and OTC medications
Health care regimens for older adults often include the use of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medication. Among older adults at risk of a major adverse drug event, nearly half of the instances were because of …
Shiyanbola selected for NIH health sciences scholars program
Olayinka Shiyanbola, assistant professor, Social and Administrative Sciences Division, has been accepted to the first cohort of NIH Scholars of the Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences. The goal of the program …
Impacting health care: focus on older adults
As our population ages, attention focuses on ways to improve health outcomes for older adults, and to prevent injuries and harm. For older adults, falls are common and costly. Falls are caused by many things, …
Faculty provide expertise for drug card book
Pharmacy Practice Division faculty Jill Kolesar, professor (CHS) and Director, 3P Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory, UW Carbone Cancer Center, and Lee Vermeulen, clinical professor and Director, Center for Clinical Knowledge Management, UW Health, are editors of …
Chui to lead grad students in writing boot camp
Michelle Chui, associate professor, in the Social and Administrative Sciences (SAS) Division, has developed a writing boot camp for graduate students in the SAS Division. Modeled after the boot camp offered by the UW Writing …
Rose receives collaborative research pilot award
Warren Rose, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, is co-PI with Sanjay Shukla, Marshfield Clinic, on a pilot grant award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and the Marshfield …