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Pritchard Announces Administrative Leadership Changes UH College of Pharmacy Dean Lamar Pritchard, Ph.D., has announced several new appointments to the college’s administrative leadership team. Andrea L. Smesny, R.Ph., Pharm.D. (’97), M.P.H., has been appointed Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. A faculty member in the Department of Clinical Sciences & Administration (CSA) since 1999, Smesny previously served as Associate Dean of Academic & Student Affairs for the Pharm.D. Smesny program. Smesny has oversight of curriculum development and delivery, the admissions process, academic standards, faculty/student relations, and the offices of Experiential Programs and Student & Professional Affairs. Shara L. Zatopek, R.Ph. (B.S. ’74), M.A., has been appointed Associate Dean of Operations. A faculty member since 1992, Zatopek has held various administrative positions at the college, including most recently serving as Associate Dean of Administration. In her new role, Zatopek is responsible for oversight of universal program assessment within the college, as well as facilities management, technology programs, and graduate programs. Zatopek Barbara Tatum Lewis, R.Ph. (B.S. ’74), M.A., L.P.C., , has been promoted to Assistant Dean of Student & Professional Affairs. A CSA faculty member and Director of Counseling & Advising for the Pharm.D. program since 1994, Lewis is responsible for the development, implementation and oversight Lewis of Pharm.D. student services (including financial aid and graduation), student professional development and support of the admissions process. Nancy Ordonez, R.Ph., Pharm.D. (’98), BCPS, has been appointed Assistant Dean of Experiential Programs, which oversees the college’s introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experience programs involving more than 700 preceptors. Before her promotion, Ordonez had served as a CSA faculty member and director of the institutional based experiential program since 2000. Ordonez succeeds the recently retired Ray Hammond, Pharm.D., BCPS, Associate Dean for Practice Ordonez Programs. The college’s Office of Practice Programs also has been renamed the Office of Experiential Programs. After serving as Chair of the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences for five years, John and Rebecca Moores Professor Yuen-Sum (Vincent) Lau, Ph.D., recently stepped down from the administrative position to focus on teaching and his research on Parkinson’s disease full time. Douglas C. Eikenburg, Ph.D., an Eikenburg associate professor and researcher in the PPS department, has been appointed Interim Department Chair while the college conducts a national search for a permanent successor. A UHCOP faculty member for 30 years, Eikenburg served as PPS Chair from 1995 to 2005. Hussain In addition, Associate Professor Brian J. Knoll, Ph.D., has stepped down as Director of Graduate Education, which oversees the Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics degree program and the graduate program portion of the Pharm.D./Ph.D. combined program. Associate Professor Tahir Hussain, Ph.D., has been appointed to succeed Knoll, as well as serve as Vice Chair of the PPS department. Michael L. Johnson, Ph.D., an assistant professor and researcher in CSA, has been appointed Director of Graduate Studies, which oversees the graduate and combined programs leading to Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Pharmacy Administration. A UHCOP faculty member since 2006, Johnson succeeds Associate Professor Sujit S. Sansgiry, Ph.D., M.Pharm. Johnson Closure of CE Office to Allow College to Focus on Experientials On Aug. 1, UH College of Pharmacy closed its Office of Continuing Education (CE) in order to focus its resources on the growth and enhancement of the college’s Experiential Program. The cost of maintaining CE accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, the current and forecasted state budget restrictions, and the availability of CE credits through other professional organizations and institutions were also among the factors in the decision to close the CE office. However, the college is continuing to deliver select CE programs for preceptors in collaboration with other accredited CE providers. The college presented the first such collaborative CE program, the UHCOP Invitational Preceptor Continuing Education Conference, at its Texas Medical Center campus in November. Co-sponsored by the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the program was provided free of charge to more than 130 UHCOP preceptors. 4 University of Houston College of Pharmacy
SLEH, UHCOP Center Earns ASHP Best Practices Award The Department of Pharmacy at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, in conjunction with the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, recently received recognition from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy (ASHP) for Best Practices. This honor was earned for the collaborative efforts with St. Luke’s Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Epidemiology (CASE): Improving Patient Care Through Clinical Service, Teaching and Research. CASE is devoted to improving patient care, training the next generation of infectious diseases pharmacists, and changing local and national policy through high-level, cutting-edge research. Clinically based research initiatives performed by the CASE team have been published in leading infectious diseases journals and resulted in changes to local and nationally recognized standards for antimicrobial use that could potentially save lives and prevent the rise of drugresistant infections. “The goal is to optimize the use of antimicrobials, eliminate the overuse of inappropriate drugs and limit antibiotic selection pressure,” said Angela A. Shippy, M.D., vice president of Medical Affairs, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. “This prestigious recognition is a testament to the St. Luke’s pharmacy team’s dedication in achieving excellence in all that they do for our patients and their families.” CASE was formed in 2008 with the purpose of improving the quality of care for patients as it relates to antimicrobial therapy, as well as furthering clinical research and training the next generation of clinical infectious diseases pharmacists. With antimicrobial resistance and the cost of antibiotics skyrocketing, the members of CASE say the group was developed as a collaborative approach with leadership from pharmacy, infectious diseases physicians, infection control, microbiology and nursing interventions. The goal is to detect the inappropriate use of antibiotics, screen patients and initiate antifungal therapy to those at high risk of dying, and otherwise assess disease severity to guide drug therapy. “Our CASE team has demonstrated the valuable contribution they have made for patient care through their commitment to clinical service, research and fostering the training of future pharmacists,” said SLEH Clinical Manager Kimberly Putney, Pharm.D. CASE team member Kevin Garey, Pharm.D., M.S., UHCOP associate professor and SLEH clinical specialist, said healthcare photos courtesy of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital Members of the Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Epidemiology include, front row, Elizabeth Hirsch, Dhara Shah, Hannah Palmer, Layne Gentry, Joyce Tipton, Cecilia Tran and Katherine Lusardi; middle row, Jessica Cottreau, Craig Frost, Kimberly Putney, Miguel Salazar and Nicholas Beyda; and, back row, Vincent Tam and Kevin Garey. institutions across the globe walk a fine line in how to best treat patients with a limited arsenal of antimicrobials and avoid the development of resistance by bacterial and fungal pathogens. “With the slow pace of new antimicrobial drugs being approved and introduced, it’s imperative that we make the most logical, scientifically backed decisions about when, how and how much we use what’s available today,” Garey said. UHCOP Dean Lamar Pritchard, Ph.D., proudly noted the involvement of several college alumni and faculty members on the CASE team. “The fact that a collaborative program such as CASE can progress from start-up to being a nationally recognized ‘Best Practice’ in only two years is an overwhelming affirmation of the synergy between the clinical expertise at St. Luke’s and the research expertise at UH College of Pharmacy,” Pritchard said. “Not only does St. Luke’s serve as a clinical site for our faculty, but CASE and our other collaborations also encompass jointly supported infectious diseases pharmacy residents and fellows, experiential training sites for our students and professional practice sites for many UHCOP alumni.” The award was presented at the 35,000-member ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting & Exhibition in Anaheim, Calif., in December. Credited with the success of the CASE initiative were: SLEH: Hannah Palmer, Pharm.D., BCPS, Jaye Weston, M.S., R.Ph. (BS ’80), Layne Gentry, M.D., Miguel Salazar, Pharm.D. (’06), Ph.D., Kimberly Putney, Pharm.D., Craig Frost, R.Ph. (BS ’92), M.B.A., and Joyce Tipton, R.Ph. (BS ’79), M.B.A., FASHP (now with Memorial Hermann Memorial City); UHCOP: Jessica Cottreau, Pharm.D., BCPS, Kevin Garey, Pharm.D., M.S., Vincent Tam, Pharm.D., BCPS; SLEH/UHCOP Fellowship Program: Elizabeth (Betsy) Hirsch, Pharm.D., Dhara Shah, Pharm.D. (’08), Cecilia Truc Tran, Pharm.D. (’08), Nicholas Beyda, Pharm.D.; PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency Program: Kimberly Halton, Pharm.D., and Katherine Lusardi, Pharm.D.; and PGY1 Residency Program: Frank Le, Pharm.D., Cary Rogers, Pharm.D. (’08), Raymond Yau, Pharm.D., James Tyler, Pharm.D. (’09), and Ran Xu, Ph.D., Pharm.D. (’09). University of Houston College of Pharmacy 5
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