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Scholarly Activity (cont.)
System Pharmacists Mid-Year
Clinical Meeting, New Orleans,
December 4–8, 2011.
• “I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff: Using Spirometry
to Expand Pharmacist-
Led Services within the Medical
Home Setting” at the 46th
American Society of Health-
System Pharmacists Mid-Year
Clinical Meeting, New Orleans,
December 4–8, 2011.
• “Inhaled Drug Therapy in the
ICU: Just Blowing Smoke or
the Real Deal” (0.2 CEU) at
the 46th American Society of
Health-System Pharmacists
Mid-Year Clinical Meeting, New
Orleans, December 4–8, 2011.
• “Joint Daptomycin and Fidaxomicin
Clinical Update” for
Regional Clinical Case Managers,
Cherry Hill, NJ, December 2011.
GRACE EARL✦, “What Can
You Do for Your Patients with
Chronic Heart Failure: Advice
for Community Pharmacists,”
a continuing education program
for the New Jersey Pharmacists
Association, South Jersey
chapter, Egg Harbor City, NJ,
October 5, 2011.
GRACE EARL✦, J.-A. Henstenburger+,
“Diet, Medications, and
Self-Care,” a continuing education
program at the Pennsylvania
Pharmacists Association Annual
Conference, King of Prussia, PA,
September 23, 2011.
LAURA A. FINN✦], “Medication
Management for Our Older
Patients—Focus on Heart
Failure,” a continuing education
presentation for the Delaware
Valley Gerontological Advanced
Practice Nurses Association at
Neumann University, Aston, PA,
January 12, 2012.
SARAH A. SPINLER✦
• “Agents on the Horizon: Back
to the Future (Current Role of
GP IIb/IIIa Receptor Antagonists)”
as part of the session
“Adjunctive Pharmacology
in ACS: Anticoagulants and
Antiplatelet Agents” at the
American College of Cardiology
ACC.12 Conference, Chicago,
March 24, 2012.
• “Pharmacology Program:
Pharmacologic Considerations
in the Setting of PCI” at the
American College of Cardiology
ACC.12 Conference, Chicago,
March 24, 2012.
CRAIG B. WHITMAN✦, “Update
on Managing Clostridium difficile
Infections,” seminar for the
Southern Chapter of the New
Jersey Society of Health-System
Pharmacists, Voorhees, NJ,
December 13, 2011.
Professional Activity
CATHERINE MOORE✦ served as
a grant reviewer for the 2011–
2012 Biological Sciences Section
of the American Association of
Colleges of Pharmacy.
CLYDE OFNER III✦ was a
National Institutes of Health,
Center for Scientific Review,
Study Section SBIR, stage 1 grant
reviewer for Small Business:
Biological Chemistry, Biophysics,
and Drug Discovery applications,
IMST (11), February 3, 2012.
RANI QASEM✭ defended his PhD
dissertation in pharmacology and
toxicology, entitled “Long-Term
Metabolic, Physical, and Behavioral
Adaptations in Offspring of Rats Fed
a Low Protein Diet During Pregnancy
and Lactation,” in September
2011. His advisor was ANIL
D’MELLO✦. Qasem is currently
pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship
in the laboratory of Paul Axelsen,
Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania.
Publications
MICHAEL J. CAWLEY✦],
R. Pacitti+, W. Warning+,
“Assessment of Pharmacist-
Driven Point-of-Care Spirometry
Clinic Within a Primary Care
Physician’s Office,” Pharmacy
Practice, 9(4):221–227, 2011.
QUINN A. CZOSNOWSKI✦,
CRAIG B. WHITMAN✦,
“Sedatives, Analgesics, and Neuromuscular
Blockade in the ICU,”
chapter 40 in Comprehensive
Critical Care: Adult, P. R. Roberts,
S. R. Todd, eds., Society of Critical
Care Medicine, pp. 759–778, 2012.
DOUGLAS M. FREDERICK✭,
ERINA Y. JACINTO✭, NITI N.
PATEL✭, THOMAS H. RUSH-
MORE✦, RUY TCHAO✦, PETER
J. HARVISON✦, “Cytotoxicity
of 3-(3,5-Dichlorophenyl)-2,4-
Thiazolidinedione (DCPT) and
Analogues in Wild Type and
CYP3A4 Stably Transfected
HepG2 Cells,” Toxicology In Vitro,
25(8):2113–2119, 2011.
PETER J. HARVISON✦, G. O.
Rankin%, “Diuretics,” chapter 27
in Foye’s Principles of Medicinal
Chemistry, 7th Ed., T. Lemke, D.
A. Williams, V. F. Roche, S. W. Zito,
eds., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
pp. 722–737, 2012.
NITI N. PATEL✭, CHRISTINE
M. CRINCOLI✭, DOUGLAS M.
FREDERICK✭, RUY TCHAO✦,
PETER J. HARVISON✦, “Effect
of Structural Modifications on
3-(3,5-Dichlorophenyl)-2,4-
Thiazolidinedione (DCPT)-
Induced Hepatotoxicity in Fischer
344 Rats,” Journal of Applied
Toxicology, 32(2):108–117, 2012.
A. M. Swensen+, J. Herrington+,
R. M. Bugianesi+, G. Dai+,
R. J. Haedo+, K. S. Ratliff+,
MCHARDY M. SMITH✦,
V. A. Warren+, S. P. Arneric+,
C. Eduljee+, D. Parker+,
T. P. Snutch+, S. B. Hoyt+,
C. London+, J. L. Duffy+,
G. J. Kaczorowsk+,
O. B. McManus+, “Characterization
of the Substituted N-Triazole
Oxindole, TROX-1, a Small Molecule,
State-Dependent Inhibitor
of Ca V
2 Calcium Channels,”
Molecular Pharmacology,
81(3):488–497, 2012.
CRAIG B. WHITMAN✦,
QUINN A. CZOSNOWSKI✦,
“Fidaxomicin for the Treatment
of Clostridium difficile Infections,”
Annals of Pharmacotherapy,
46(2):219–228, 2012.
SAMSON COLLEGE OF
HEALTH SCIENCES
Poster Presentation
GREGORY THIELMAN✦,
P. B. Bonsall+, “Rehabilitation
of the Upper Limb Post Stroke:
Randomized Controlled Pilot
Investigation Evaluating External
Auditory Feedback for Trunk
Control During Two New Training
Methods” at the American
Physical Therapy Association
Combined Sections Meeting,
Chicago, February 8–11, 2012.
Presentations
D. Backus+, THERESE E. JOHN-
STON✦, R. O’Shea+, “How to
Do Research in a Small Teaching
College or Clinical Setting: If Not
NIH, Then What” at the American
Physical Therapy Association
Combined Sections Meeting,
Chicago, February 8–11, 2012.
KARIN GRÄVARE
SILBERNAGEL✦, “Painful
Tendons: What Is the Problem”
and “Painful Tendons: How Can
We Give Effective Treatment”
as keynote speaker, as well as a
workshop on the “Evaluation of
Patients with an Achilles Tendon
Rupture,” at the Forum on Manual
Medicine 2012, Upplands Väsby,
Sweden, March 22–24, 2012.