Vinayak Shenoy, Ph.D., an assistant research scientist in the UF College of Pharmacy’s department of pharmacodynamics UF researchers are using the leaves of plants to study new ways to deliver drugs…
Juan Hincapie Castillo, Pharm.D., a graduate student in pharmaceutical outcomes and policy was selected by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education as a 2015 Graduate Student Fellow. Created in 2005, He is the second Florida student, and first from UF to receive the fellowship. Hincapie-Castillo, who received his…
Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., the Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development in the UF College of Pharmacy, was one of two faculty named as the UF Foundation 2014 Preeminence Term Professors. Now in its second year, the University of Florida…
Julie A. Johnson, Pharm.D., dean of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. At its 44th annual meeting today (Oct. 20) at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., the…
Steven M. Smith, Pharm.D., M.P.H., a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy and medicine at the University of Florida, has been selected as the 2014-16 Institute of Medicine Anniversary Fellow in Pharmacy. Anniversary fellows in pharmacy, internal medicine and osteopathic medicine were announced Oct. 20 at the…
Dean Julie A. Johnson (right) appointed to the IOM, meets with Steven Smith, who was named an IOM Fellow in Pharmacy. Julie A.
About ribbon cutting photo: UF Pharmacy students assist administrators with ribbon cutting for their new study facilities. From left: David Cunningham, Julie A. Johnson, College of Pharmacy dean, Russ Armistead, CEO of UF Health Jacksonville, Carol Motycka, assistant dean for the college’s Jacksonville campus, Stephany Nunez-Cruz and Patrick Wieruszewski. Collaborative…
Guest Editor: Folakemi Odedina, Ph.D. Director of UF Health Cancer Center Cancer Health Disparities ecancer.org works closely with leading oncologists and healthcare professionals to inform and educate the cancer community. Folakemi Odedina, Ph.D., a professor of outcomes and policy at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, discusses…
Amid state and national trends showing a decline in the demand for pharmacists and an increased emphasis on interprofessional, team-based approaches to care, the University of Florida College of Pharmacy is embarking on a four-year plan to lower its student-to-faculty ratio as part of ongoing curriculum reform. Starting next year,…
Thomas E. Menighan, BSPharm, MBA, ScD (Hon), FAPhA executive vice president and CEO of American Pharmacists Association sent an email to Dean Julie A. Johnson praising one of her students, Christina Beatty (Pharm.D. candidate 2015) for her guest column in the Space Coast Daily news, “Pharmacists Are…
