Posted Sept. 17 – Julie Cogley-Pifko, assistant director of admissions and enrollment management, has completed her completion professional certificate in supervisory management from Michigan State University.

Posted Sept. 14 - Members of the Henney Department of Education faculty have been accepted to present at the annual conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. It is the discipline’s national organization. They are Stacy Stetzel, associate professor and chair; Heather Schilling, director of teacher education and professor of education; and Mistie Potts, assistant professor of education.

They will present about the rubric validation process they have conducted over the past two years.  The conference will be March 4-6 in New Orleans.

Posted Aug. 19 – Kathryn Marwitz, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, is a co-author of “Support pharmacy infrastructure to strengthen US COVID-19 vaccination efforts and beyond” which appears in the Journal of Public Health 2021. She also co-presented “Building Bridges with APHA Colleagues” in a virtual panel discussion of the American Public Health Association Occupational Health and Safety Section Midyear Meeting in July.

Posted Aug. 19 – Melissa Gratz, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, has been appointed to the ASHP Section Advisory Group for Collaboration Between Health Systems and Academia. She also serves on the AACP Lab SIG Communications Committee for 2021-22.

Posted Aug. 19 – The following faculty presented at the 2021-22 Indiana Pharmacy Teaching Certificate program Aug. 12 and 13 via synchronous sessions and asynchronous recordings. The primary goal was to provide pharmacy residents, fellows, graduate students and pharmacists an opportunity to enhance their teaching skills:

Ryan Ades, director of experiential education and assistant professor of pharmacy practice, “Superstar Preceptors: How to Develop into a Preceptor Powerhouse”

Rob Beckett, associate professor of pharmacy practice and director of the Drug Information Center, “Designing an Effective Educational Session”

Teresa DeLellis, associate professor of pharmacy practice, “Effectively Integrating Experiential Students into Clinical Practice”

Melissa Gratz, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, “Panel Discussion: Junior Faculty”

Andrea Wilhite, associate professor of pharmacy practice, “Establishing Classroom Rapport”

Posted July 19 - Teresa DeLellis, associate professor of pharmacy practice, and Marwa Noureldin, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, are among five scholars who developed a situational judgment test to assess ACPE Standards 3 and 4. Their work will appear in an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.

Posted July 19 - Beth Schultz, director of the nursing program, on July 8 successfully defended her dissertation at the University of South Carolina. Her work is titled, “Nurses' and Patients' Perceptions of the Availability of Post-Hospital Instrumental Support as a Predictor of 30- and 60- Day Acute Care Utilization.”

Posted July 19 - Kathryn Marwitz, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, will serve on the 2021-2022 Research and Graduate Affairs Committee of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

Posted July 19 - Michelle Kibiger, director of assessment, presented “Using Assessment Data to Improve Curriculum Mapping and Assessment Practices” at the June 2021 ExamSoft Assessment Conference. She also will present at the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, hosted by IUPUI, in October. 

Posted July 19 - Teresa DeLellis, associate professor of pharmacy practice, was featured in the Advocacy Spotlight of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) pharmacy practice section’s summer newsletter. Read it here. Theresa also was appointed to serve on the 2021-2022 AACP Council of Faculties Task Force on Optimizing Scholarship Efforts.