Joseph M. Gabriel, PhD, an historian of medicine and the biomedical sciences, will become the first George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy. Gabriel will also undertake a role in the activities of the …
Social & Administrative Sciences
Pharm Sci and SAS announce incoming graduate students
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
Aboneh recognized for global scholarship
Ephrem Aboneh, a graduate student in the Systems Approach to Medication Safety (SAMS) lab of Michelle Chui, Social and Administrative Sciences Division, embodies the spirit of the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy. Aboneh was awarded a …
Bonnie Svarstad receives 2014 APhA Wiederholt Prize for best published paper
Professor Emerita Bonnie Svarstad received the 2014 American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Wiederholt Prize, an honor that recognizes the best paper published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (JAPhA) within the past two calendar …
Patient communication is symposium focus
Betty Chewning, professor, Social & Administrative Sciences Division and Director of the Sonderegger Research Center, and Beth Martin, professor (CHS), Pharmacy Practice Division presented a symposium at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare held …