August 29, 2004
George Davis will be presenting "Frequency of P2Y12 halotype and GPIIb/IIIa genotype in African American and Caucasian populations" at the ACCP annual meeting in October. His presentation will be on October 24th during the Scientific Paper Platform Session.
July 28, 2004
Congratulations to Kelly Smith, as the Postdoctoral Pharmacy Fellowship in Drug Information and Drug Policy was approved at the July 2004 UKCMC House Staff/Graduate Medical Education Committee Meeting.
July 06, 2004
John Armitstead had an abstract presented at the ASHP Summer Meeting entitled "Design and Implementation of a Web-Based Vendor Registration System". The meeting was held in Las Vegas on June 21st. Phil Empey, Terri Dawson, and Ann Hamlin were co-authors of the abstract.
July 06, 2004
John Armitstead served on the ASHP Ad Hoc Committee on Pharmacy Educators representing the University of Kentucky at the ASHP Summer Meeting in Las Vegas last month.
July 05, 2004
Jeremy Flynn has just been awarded the 2004 ACCP Sanofi-Synthelabo Thrombosis Investigator Development Research Award. His proposal was entitled "Clinical Utility of the Rapid Platelet Function Analyzer." Jeremy will receive $15,000 for this award from the ACCP Research Institute.
July 05, 2004
Scott Akers and Jeremy Flynn have published an article in the July 2004 issue of Pharmacotherapy. Their article is entitled "Treatment of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Pneumonia with Ribavirin and RSV Hyperimmune Globulin in a Lung Transplant Recipient: Case report and review of the literature."
June 15, 2004
Scott Akers has been published in two seperate journals this month. His article entitled "Effects of Clonidine on Cardiac Norepinephrine Spillover in Isolated Rat Heart" was published in this month's "Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology." This manuscript is also coauthored by a recent faculty appointee, Jeremy Flynn.
June 15, 2004
Melody Ryan has published both an article and a book chapter this month. Her manuscript emtitled "Feasibilty and limitations of oxcarbazepine monitoring using salivary 10-hyroxy 10-11- dihydro carbazepine (MHD)" was published in this month's issue of "Therapeutic Drug Monitoring." Ryan also wrote the chapter entitled "Neurology" in the 2004 edition of "Updates in Therapeutics: The Pharmacotherapy Preparatory Course" published by ACCP this month. Ryan presented the information in her chapter this month to the ACCP.
May 18, 2004
The ASHP Commission on Credentialing has approved the accreditation of the College's Community Pharmacy Residency for three years. This is the initial accreditation of this program. Dr. Holly Divine has done an outstanding job of developing this residency program to the level it is at currently.
May 17, 2004
Scott Akers has just been notified that his project entitled "Differential Regulation of MAP kinases and Protein Kinase B by Angiotension II Subtype Receptors During Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury" has been funded by the American Heart Association. The award will be a two year grant, in the amount of $121,000. Congratulations Scott!!