Student-Practitioner-Newsletter-spring-2019-002

Grace Earl The students at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at the University of the Sciences had several events during the spring 2019 semester.. Temple School of Pharmacy Spring 2

Student Practitioner Newsletter

Spring 2019

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Temple University Page 4 Long Island University Page 7 Fairleigh Dickinson University Page 9 Touro College of Pharmacy Page 13 Committee Members Page 14

CEO Elise M Barry, MS, CFRE President

James Ward, RPh Chair

Aakash Gandhi, PharmD

NEW JERSEY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION

760 Alexander Road

PO Box 1 Princeton, NJ 08540

University of the Sciences Chapter

Update

By Dr Grace Earl

The students at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at the University of the Sciences had several

events during the spring 2019 semester

Karminna Ezpeleta, PharmD 2021 and Monica Nguyen,PharmD 2020 are student leaders of the PCP

student group They organized a state organization advocacy event on campus along with the students

involved in other state organizations from Pennsylvania and Delaware Students were available in the Science and Technology Center atrium to answer questions about state organizations They also gave out pamphlets Plus, participants could create their own advocacy buttons

On Friday, April 5th, Elise Barry, Chief Executive Officer of the NJPhA came to campus to hold a Mock Legislative event The students learned more about opportunities for being an NJPhA member that included advocating for the profession, convention planning, and many opportunities for continuing education The

mock event was a fun and exciting event that prompted students to think on the spot and develop a rationale for supporting a legislative bill The PCP students greatly appreciated the visit from Ms Barry!

We thank Karminna Ezpeleta for serving as NJPhA student leader for 2018-2019 We welcome Beata Zawadzka, PharmD as our student leader for 2019-2020 Grace Earl, PharmD, Associate Professor will

continue in her role to serve as the organization advisor

See pictures on page 3 ->

(State Advocacy event Monica Nguyen, far left; Karminna Ezpeleta, far right)

(NJPhA Button)

Temple School of Pharmacy Spring 2019

Student Events

ByShalana Crudup

Students discussed healthy eating with members of the Elmwood Health Center Students and residents played BINGO and other games to help teach them and promote the importance of keeping a healthy lifestyle

NJPhA members educated 3rd-5th graders at a local Boys & Girls Club about Juvenile Diabetes, and discussed the importance of a healthy lifestyle The members played a video and asked checkpoint question about the video and also played a Jeopardy-style game to engage the students and handed out prizes to the winning team

(Collaboration with the Temple Dental School encouraging oral health and diabetes prevention)

At the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church event, members raised awareness and promoted “men wellness”

Members spoke about blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, prostate and HIV screenings (Above)

Regional Industry Collaborative Event: Associates from Johnson and Johnson and other companies spoke about their role in industry as pharmacists and members were exposed to possible job opportunities in Industry

Chapter Update

ByDavid Samaan and Dr Timothy Nguyen

The LIU-NJPhA Student Chapter continues to strive for success and congratulations to the LIU Pharmacy Teams that competed at the in the College Bowl Clinical Pharmacy Competition and Federal Drug Laws at the New Jersey Society of Health-System Pharmacist’s 2019 Annual Meeting & Exhibition held at the Tropicana Atlantic City on March 29, 2019

Students came up with unique names for their own teams:

Team “Cephaloscorins”: Kamila Yusupov, Daria Meleshkina, Kateryna Maw & Rim Elbeshbeshy

Team “Pill Splitters”: Tuan Doan, Khaled Mohamed, Amin Awad, Laura Bermudez, & Anastasios Demetriou

LIU Pharmacy Teams competed amongst the eight teams that represented local pharmacy schools including LIU, RU, FDU, and Touro’s LIU Pharmacy Team “Cephaloscorins” beat out the first round, advanced to the

“Double or Nothing Round” (Semifinals) and successfully defended the title of this round They advanced to the “Jackpot” Round (Final Round) and came in at the second place from the entire competition Prizes were awarded to all First and Second place winners

Dr Timothy Nguyen, Faculty advisor, accompanied students at the NJSHP’s 2019 Annual Meeting

Members of the LIU-NJPhA Student Chapter also participated at various fairs at school level such as “Diabetes Jeopardy” Students are very active within the organization and continue to strive with many co-curricular activity and professional events

GREAT JOB STUDENTS AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

See pictures continued on page 8 ->

(Team Pill Splitters)

(LIU at NJSHP)

Student-Led Activities at FDU

ByJeremy A Novitsky

(OTC Trivia Competition)

FDU School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences had many successful events the last few months from breakfast

chats, competitions, award ceremonies, and so much more

FDU's APhA-ASP chapter in particular had another outstanding year and was recognized with the Outstanding Service Award at the school’s annual award ceremony Projects this year included Operation Diabetes,

Operation Self-Care, Operation Heart, Generation Rx, narcan training, Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day, Opioid Crisis awareness initiatives, Doctors without Borders Presentation, Patient Education Presentations, a

Thanksgiving potluck, International Health Week including a Yoga event, policy meetings, patient counseling, and OTC trivia competitions

Below are snapshots of some events

See pictures continued on page 10 ->

(Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day, (Heart Walk, above)

on the top left)

Co-curricular event on training for Brown Bag events

ByRachel Quinn, PharmD, BACP

Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice & NJPhA member

A simulated brown bag event was held March 6, 2019 at Fairleigh Dickinson University This event included P1 through P3 pharmacy students educating simulated patients represented by current APPE students The goal

of the simulated event is to prepare student pharmacists APPE brown bag events while in a controlled and low-risk environment A brown bag event can be completed by any health care provider, including pharmacists,

and targets patients and/or caregivers to provide them with a better understanding of their medications This process often identifies medication errors such as therapeutic duplication, drug-drug interactions, incorrect dosing or frequency, and expired medications As a pharmacist, we are medication experts and brown bag

events help provide optimal patient care and prevent medication errors from happening

Pictured is Dr Quinn providing an overview of brown bag events

Other NJPhA members that participated include Drs Julie Kalabalik, Maria Leibfried, and Margaret Slugocki

FDU School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Outstanding Service

Organization Award

ByJeremy A Novitsky

Pictured in the photo above are P3 Pharmacy Students and Executive Board Members: Amanda DeMarzo, Nitin Kumar, Aniya Mazyck, Jeremy Novitsky, Shivani Patel, Michael Saoud, and Elpitha Soussou

FDU’s School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences recognizes that pharmacy practitioners are often the

leaders called upon to provide service to the patients and communities that they serve Service performed by student pharmacists enhances the lives of others and contributes to overall student growth and development into professionals that exhibit compassion, humility, and empathy FDU's APhA-ASP chapter had another

outstanding year and was recognized with an award for outstanding service at the school’s annual award

ceremony Our student organization participated in various community service projects that impacted a

population of others in the School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, our local communities, and beyond By

providing narcan training and taking part in a Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day event, we exposed PharmD

students and our communities to the opioid epidemic facing New Jersey and our nation We also focused on implementing additional projects involving health and wellness

Other projects this year included Operation Diabetes, Operation Self-Care, Operation Heart,

Generation Rx, a Doctors without Borders Presentation, Patient Education Presentations, a Thanksgiving

potluck, International Health Week including a Yoga event, policy meetings, patient counseling, and OTC trivia competitions

FDU's APhA-ASP chapter looks forward to continuing to work hard to represent our wonderful school and profession We have wonderful plans in store to grow and increase involvement and enthusiasm

Pictured is Dr Quinn providing an overview of brown bag events

Other NJPhA members that participated include Drs Julie Kalabalik, Maria Leibfried, and Margaret Slugocki

The Newest Addition to NJPhA

ByDr Aakash Gandhi

The newest addition to NJPhA is the Touro College of Pharmacy, located in New York, New York The student leader for the Touro chapter of NJPhA is Kristie Abdelmalak The faculty advisor for the chapter is Zhe (Amy) Wang, PharmD, MBA, BCPS and she is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Touro College of

Pharmacy

Touro is currently undergoing the steps to become an official member of NJPhA Please join me in welcoming them to NJPhA

University of the Sciences Grace Earl, PharmD, BCACP

Temple University Harold Bobrow, RPh Loretta Brickman, RPh

Rutgers University Donna Feudo, RPh

Long Island University Timothy Nguyen, PharmD, BCPS

Fairleigh Dickson University Maria Leibfried, PharmD, BCNSP

Touro College of Pharmacy Zhe (Amy) Wang, PharmD, MBA, BCPS

NJPhA Student Practitioner Committee

Faculty Members