Western University of Health Sciences’ Board of Trustees has created a $6 million endowed scholarship to help remove financial barriers for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds and increase student diversity in graduate health sciences and the health professions workforce.
After a temporary shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Care Harbor Los Angeles returned to provide services to those who cannot afford health care. Western University of Health Sciences once again played an important role in care coordination and serving as volunteers.
COMP student Azaria Lewis will serve as an invited panelist at Educating Leaders 2022, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Annual Conference, April 27-29 in Denver, Colorado. She will be a member of the inaugural Dr. Meta Christy Panel. She was invited by AACOM due to her "dedication to equity and inclusion in medicine."
COMP Associate Professor Katherine Mitsouras, PhD, is acknowledged in Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Review, 6th edition for reviewing chapters in the book, which is the most comprehensive medical school textbook for biochemistry.
College of Pharmacy news
Congratulations to Dr. Anandi Law for her appointment to the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE) as an Associate Editor. AJPE is a premier journal for pharmacy education scholarship and receives hundreds of requests for peer review of manuscripts from around the world. In 2019, 530 manuscripts were submitted to the Journal with 480 undergoing peer review. Out of this, only 125 were accepted for publication (26% acceptance rate).
Dr. Don Roosan’s research team in collaboration with WesternU IT and Claremont Graduate University developed a digital health game application, called Medscrab, and are releasing a beta version of it. Medscrab is a scrabble-based game about medication information that is fun and intuitive. Participants can play and learn about crucial medication information in an interactive mobile or web platform. The game is free to download from the Apple or Android store for smartphones. The game can also be played online. You can learn about the game in this short video.
Congratulations to Dr. Roosan and his team for their innovation applied to an important and practical issue faced by so many patients.
Dr. David Pham recently published the study "Prevalence and Roles of Vice-Chairs in Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy" in the journal Pharmacy Education. This study was inspired when he was in the role of Vice-Chair for PPAD when Dr. Anandi Law was Department Chair. This was a collaboration with two other Vice-Chairs from local pharmacy schools, Dr. Karl Hess from Chapman University School of Pharmacy (and former COP faculty), and Joycelyn Yamzon from Marshall B. Ketchum College of Pharmacy. This is the first pilot study of its kind that estimates the prevalence of Vice-Chair positions within U.S. schools and colleges of pharmacy and describes their roles and responsibilities, including to support the Department Chair’s responsibilities and focus on specific departmental mentorship and developmental needs.
Dr. Rachel Ryu was recently featured in a California Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CSHP) newsletter that is sent out to all CSHP members and is also published on their website. Dr. Ryu was invited to share her pharmacy journey, especially all of her service/involvement with CSHP.
This WesternYou Webinar will provide an overview of the fentanyl crisis and expand on overdose prevention awareness. Attendees will better understand strategies to educate our communities on harm reduction and how to best support the well being of people who use drugs, connecting them to various services. WesternYOU Webinars are informational only. No CE credits are provided. For more information about this event, please contact alumni@westernu.edu.
