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Division of CLINICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PHARMACY
The Division had a great year building and strengthening relationships. One highlight of the year was the recognition of the Division’s strong positive working relationship with its volunteer faculty.
In July, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy recognized the College’s and Division’s exceptional working relationship with Osterhaus Pharmacy in Maquoketa, Iowa, by awarding the 2007 Crystal Academic-Practice Partnerships for Learning Excellence (APPLE) Awards. Matt Osterhaus, ’80 BSPh, and Marilyn Osterhaus, ’80 BSPh, accepted the award along with Jay Currie, ’80 BSPh, ’84 PharmD, and Jordan Cohen.
In June, members of the Division met with local community pharmacy practitioners, resulting in the initial formation of an Iowa pharmacy practice based research network. The initial attendees at the meeting represented several pharmacies, the Iowa Pharmacy Association and scientists from the Division.
William Doucette continued to construct a geographically broad practice-based research network of 135 practitioners that covered the seven states of the Medicare region that includes Iowa. These networks are bringing together practitioners and scientists to create evidence for quality patient care.
The Pharmacists Professional Advisory Committee of the United States Public Health Service deemed the College of Pharmacy Immunization Program led by Jay Currie as one of only 15 programs nationally that meet or exceed the American Pharmacists Association Immunization Program. USPHS officers certified through the COP program will be eligible to provide immunizations during USPHS deployments to national and international natural disasters, medical emergencies and humanitarian missions.
Seven faculty members received board certification. They are: Robert Shaw, Kristin Horning, Kathleen Horner, ’04 PharmD, Heather Bream-Rouwenhorst, ’05 PharmD, Susan Staggs, CoraLynn Trewet, and Sarah Johnson, ’95 BSPh, ’97 PharmD.
William Miller, PhD, professor, retired from the College. He served as chair of the Division from 1997-2001. For the past six years he has been an active faculty member and course coordinator.
NEW RESEARCH & PRACTICE DEVELOPMENTS
Barry Carter, ’78 BSPh, professor, has built a complex collaboration with faculty in the College of Public Health, the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the departments of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine and the Statewide Family Medicine Network in the Carver College of Medicine.
Gary Milavetz, PharmD, associate professor, has a new role developing medication related research studies with the National Advanced Driving Simulator.
Jim Hoehns, ’92 BSPh, ’94 PharmD, through his practice in Waterloo, has begun to collaborate with Dr. Oksana Mativienko at University of Northern Iowa on a new venture, “Fitness plus: A community-focused program to enhance diabetes self-management.” He also is a member of the (Waterloo) Community Diabetes Task Force.
The College of Pharmacy/UI Hospitals and Clinics shared faculty (Kathleen Horner, Deanna McDanel, ’01 PharmD, Erin Newkirk and Beth Phillips), established a new Smoking Cessation Group Clinic with 72 patients referred in 2007 and initiated a smoking cessation ‘ask-advise-refer’ program that connected with nearly 4000 patients over four months.
Many of the College’s Family Medicine faculty have created collaborative agreements with the physicians in their practices to deliver state of the art anticoagulation therapy. Recent improvements in those practices include Assistant Professor (Clinical) CoraLynn Trewet’s Broadlawns practice and the Sioux City practice of Lucinda Buys, PharmD, associate professor (clinical). John Swegle, ’96 PharmD, associate professor (clinical) helped to develop a Palliative Medicine team at Mercy Hospital in Mason City. Susan Staggs, PharmD, assistant professor (clinical), has been building a stronger foundation for our preceptor faculty. We are developing educational development tools that will help pharmacists become better clinical teachers.
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