AACP Honors University of Connecticut Team for Outstanding Paper.HARTFORD, Conn. -- Three faculty members and one graduate student from the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. (UConn) School of Pharmacy will be awarded the 2008 AACP AACP American Academy of Child Psychiatry. AACP, n.pr See Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. Rufus A. Lyman Award, honoring the best paper published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. The award will be presented at the 2008 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy is the national association of schools and colleges of pharmacy and their faculty. External links
AFPC American Foreign Policy Council AFPC Alliance de la Fonction Publique du Canada (Public Service Alliance of Canada; union) AFPC Advanced Financial Planning Certificate AFPC Air Force Personnel Council ) Annual Meeting and Seminars Closing Banquet on Tuesday, July 22 at 7:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers in Chicago, Ill. "Number and Impact of Published Scholarly Works by Pharmacy Practice Faculty Members at Accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. U.S. Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy (2001-2003)" was authored by Craig I. Coleman, Pharm.D., Eang Lao, Pharm.D., Lauren S. Schlesselman, Pharm.D. and C. Michael White, Pharm.D. The paper evaluates the quantity and quality of published literature conducted by pharmacy practice faculty members in U.S. colleges and schools of pharmacy for the years 2001 - 2003. It determines that their substantial contributions to biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. literature have had important impacts in biomedical literature and pharmacy education. Coleman is assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the UConn School of Pharmacy. His professional interests include the assessment of the clinical and pharmacoeconomic outcomes of cardiovascular drugs, including drugs used in the diagnosis and evaluation of coronary artery disease coronary artery disease, condition that results when the coronary arteries are narrowed or occluded, most commonly by atherosclerotic deposits of fibrous and fatty tissue. . He is the director of both the Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Studies Group, and the Inpatient and Outpatient Medication Assistance Programs, both at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. In 2003, Coleman was the winner of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and AstraZeneca Health Outcomes Research Award. Schlesselman's professional interests as director of assessment and assistant clinical professor of pharmacy practice at the UConn School of Pharmacy include the evaluation of student development and learning outcomes, development of Pharm.D. curriculum assessment tools, and active learning and self-learning models. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Pharmacist Award from the Georgia Society of Health-System Pharmacists. White is professor of pharmacy practice at the UConn School of Pharmacy. He was awarded the Drug Therapy Research Award in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2005 by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists, recognizing the best research publication by a pharmacist in that year. He was also named the Young Investigator of the Year in 2004 by the American College of Clinical Pharmacists. White's professional interests include arrhythmia arrhythmia (ārĭth`mēə), disturbance in the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. Various arrhythmias can be symptoms of serious heart disorders; however, they are usually of no medical significance except in the presence of detection, prevention and treatment, and the impact of drugs, herbs and natural products on implantable cardiac devices and electrophysiology. His research on herbal drugs effects on the electrocardiogram electrocardiogram /elec·tro·car·dio·gram/ (-kahr´de-o-gram?) a graphic tracing of the variations in electrical potential caused by the excitation of the heart muscle and detected at the body surface. and blood pressure was covered by CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , national NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. affiliates and the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. in 2004. "With the rapid changes in the practice of pharmacy, there is a strong fundamental need for quality research and evaluation of the profession," said David G. Miller, director of pharmacy affairs for Merck & Co., Inc. "The Rufus A. Lyman Award acknowledges the importance of scholarly research within the profession and Merck is proud to support the award which recognizes the authors from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy for their outstanding paper in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education." Supported by Merck & Company, Inc., the award is presented annually as a framed certificate along with a stipend of $5,000 to be shared by the authors of the paper. About AACP Founded in 1900, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) is a national organization representing the interests of pharmacy education and educators. Comprising all 108 U.S. colleges and schools of pharmacy including more than 5,000 faculty, 50,000 students enrolled in professional programs and 3,900 individuals pursuing graduate study, AACP is committed to excellence in pharmacy education. To learn more about AACP, visit its Web site at www.aacp.org. About Merck Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, Merck currently discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. The Company devotes extensive efforts to increase access to medicines through far-reaching programs that not only donate Merck medicines but help deliver them to the people who need them. Merck also publishes unbiased health information as a not-for-profit service. For more information, visit www.merck.com. |
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