Posted Jan. 15 - Kathryn Marwitz, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, is joining the editorial board for a new journal in social and administrative pharmacy, Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy. 

Posted Jan. 15 - Teresa DeLellis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, has been elected secretary of knowledge management for the Special Interest Group (SIG) Cabinet Administrative Board of the America Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.  

Posted Jan. 15 - Ryan Ades, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, recently passed the exam for Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist.

Posted Jan. 15 - Trent Towne, associate professor of pharmacy practice, was interviewed recently on WPTA-TV (Channel 21) regarding COVID-19. The story, which aired Dec. 15, is available here. 

Posted Jan. 15 - Teresa DeLellis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, was featured in the December 2020 issue of Academic Pharmacy Now, the news magazine of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). Read the complete article here.

Posted Dec. 16 - Teresa DeLellis, assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Manchester, helped develop and implement new policies and protocols for senior emergency care at Dupont Hospital, which has advanced to the highest standard: a Gold Level 1 accreditation in geriatric care. Learn more. 

Posted Nov. 17 - Manchester University pharmacogenomics students joined forces with their counterparts at the University of Maryland to update the appendix for The Personalized Medicine Report 2020: Opportunity, Challenges and the Future. The Personalized Medicine Coalition publishes the report. Professor Dave Kisor, director of the PGx program at MU, guided the students’ work.

Posted Nov. 17 - Rob Beckett, associate professor of pharmacy practice, presented on “Getting Started and Making Headway as a New Assessment Lead” at the 2020 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis. The institute was held virtually in October.

Posted Nov. 17 - Joe Chambers, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacogenomics, has had three recent publications:

• “Ppargc1a Controls Ciliated Cell Development by Regulating Prostaglan din Biosynthesis” published in Cell Reports can be viewed here.
• Chambers, J.M.; Wingert, R.A. PGC-1α in Disease: Recent Renal Insights into a Versatile Metabolic Regulator. Cells 2020, 9, 2234. View it here.
• Chambers, J.M.; Wingert, R.A. Advances in understanding vertebrate nephrogenesis, Tissue Barriers 2020, DOI:10.1080/21688370.2020.1832844. View it here. 

Posted Nov. 17 - Kaiser Permanente invited Teresa DeLellis to give an encore presentation of “Nurses as Deprescribing Champions: When and How to Seize Opportunities to Reduce High-Risk Medications” at the annual meeting of Nurses Improving Care of Health-System Elders (NICHE). The meeting was held virtually in October. DeLellis also was elected to secretary of knowledge management for the Cabinet Administrative Board of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.