Pharmacy News

August 2021 news from faculty and staff of the College of Pharmacy Duluth.

Department Head and Associate Professor G.W. Anderson engaged community members about vaccine hesitancy at the South St. Louis, North St. Louis, Central St. Louis County Fairs; July 30/31, August 6 and 20).

S. Barnett, C. Gallimore, K. Begley, and Assistant Professor Jared Van Hooser presented “Better Together: Supporting Pharmaceutical Care Skills Through Interprofessional Activities” at the  American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting. Virtual, July 21, 2021. 

J.R. Bishop., R.S. Huang, Assistant Professor Jacob Brown, P. Mroz, S.G. Johnson, J.D. Allen, S.J. Bielinski, J. England, J.F. Farley, D.Gregornik, J. Giri, C. Kroger, S.E. Long, Post-Doctoral Associate Tiana Luczak, E.J. McGonagle, S. Ma, E.T. Matey, P.K. Mandic, A.M. Moyer, A. M., Nicholson, W. T, N. Petry, P.A. Pawloski, A. Schlichte.  S.W. Schondelmeyer, Professor Randall D. Seifert, M.K. Speedie, Associate Head & Associate Professor David Stenehjem, R.J. Straka, J. Wachtl, Stephen C. Waring, B.V. Ness, H.A. Zierhut, C. Aliferis, S.M. Wolf, C.A. McCarty, and P.A. Jacobson had their article “Pharmacogenomics education, research and clinical implementation in the state of Minnesota” published in Pharmacogenomics, 22(11), pp. 681–691. doi: 10.2217/pgs-2021-0058.

Assistant Professor Jacob Brown was elected as the Treasurer/Secretary for the ACCP PK/PD/PG PRN. 

Luczak, Stenehjem and Brown, had their article, “Applying an equity lens to pharmacogenetic research and translation to under‐represented populations,” published in Clinical and Translational Science. doi: 10.1111/cts.13110.

Assistant Professor Olihe Okoro, V. Arya, C.A. Gaither. and A. Tarfa, published their article “Race in Patient Cases–​ What’s the Point?” in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical EducationePublished June 2021.

G. Sakamaki, Researcher Kayla Johnson, M. Mensinger, E. Hmu,  and Assistant Professor Amanda Klein had their article ”Loss of SUR1 subtype KATP channels alters antinociception and locomotor activity after opioid administration” published in Behavioral Brain Research. 2021 Jul 15;414:113467. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113467.PMID: 34274374.

Stenehjem and R.N. Schwartz were invited to present “The Role of the Pharmacist in Tailored Management of Renal Cell Carcinoma” at Great Debates & Updates: Oncology Pharmacy.  Virtual, July 24 and August 21, 2021.  

Van Hooser, N. Rupnow, M. Stoa presented a poster,“Working together: Assessing an interprofessional activity with pharmacy and veterinary medicine students,” at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting. Virtual, July 19 – 22, 2021. 

A. Verdi, K. Johnson, R. McFarland, A. Edwards, A. Doucette, and Klein presented “Adenylyl cyclase activity during morphine tolerance in mice”  at the Swenson Science BURST and SURP poster presentations.  August 6, 2021.