Pharmacy News

October 2020 news from faculty and staff of the College of Pharmacy Duluth.

Heather Blue, assistant professor, is featured in a September 17, 2020, Facebook post about how having pharmacists in the St. Luke's Emergency Department benefits patients

.J. Dinh, Jacob T. Brown, assistant professor, and S. M. Abdel-Rahman, wrote the article “Pediatric Pharmacokinetics” for Pediatric Pharmacotherapy. Benavides, Nahata, eds. 2nd Edition. American College of Clinical Pharmacy; 2020.

Brown presented the following at the University of Minnesota Biennial Pharmacogenomics Virtual Conference on September 10–11, 2020:
• A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the CPIC Evidence Review Process for Drug-Gene Pairs.
• Providing Pharmacogenomics-Guided Care in the Absence of Clinical Guidelines.
Brown moderated a session at that conference:
• Primacy Care Pharmacogenomics.

Keri D. Hager, associate professor and co-associate dean for clinical affairs, presented “Putting Out the Welcome MAT for M.A.T. (or how to support people getting the help they need)” at Itasca County Health and Human Services. August 31 and September 4, 2020 (Zoom). Funded by SAMHSA Technical Assistance Award 1H79T108900-01.

Hager and B. Thompson presented “Putting Out the Welcome MAT for M.A.T. (or how to support people getting the help they need)” at Pine County Health and Human Services. August 19, 2020 (Zoom). Funded by SAMHSA Technical Assistance Award 1H79T108900-01.

K. Dooley, B. Elstad, Hager, E. Becher, R. Tomaszewski, S. Medina, and Laura Palombi, associate professor, presented “Recovery in Northeast MN: Results of a Needs Assessment” at the University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute Annual Poster Session (virtual). September 16, 2020.

M. D. Johnson-Jennings, D. R. Jennings, K. Paul, and Meg M. Little, assistant professor, had their article, “Identifying needs and uses of digital Indigenous food knowledge and practices for an Indigenous Food Wisdom Repository,” published in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 2020 September.

Olihe Okoro, assistant professor, L. A. Hillman, and A. Cernasev had their article, “We get double slammed!”: Healthcare experiences of perceived discrimination among low-income African-American women,” published in Women's Health 16. 2020;16:1-12.

Okoro, C. S. Nelson, S. P. Witherspoon, S. F. Witherspoon, and G. E. Simmons Jr., had their article, “Culturally responsive health promotion to address health disparities in African American men: A program impact evaluation,” published in the American Journal of Men's Health. 2020;14(4).

Palombi, M. Gurno, and D. Hernandez presented “Naloxone to Reverse Opioid Overdose” at a virtual training for Sixth Judicial Treatment Court staff and participants. August 17, 2020.

Palombi, M. Gurno, and D. Hernandez presented “Naloxone to Reverse Opioid Overdose” at a virtual training for Bois Forte Tribal Nation (recorded). September 2, 2020.

Palombi, M. Gurno, D. Hernandez, and B. Bilden presented “Naloxone to Reverse Opioid Overdose” at a virtual and recorded training for St. Louis County Group Residential Housing (GRH) Staff. September 16, 2020.

Zachary Rivers, mentee of David Stenehjem, associate professor and associate department head, received the Social and Administrative Pharmacy St. Peter & Leiner Family Outcomes Research Fellowship Award, September 2020.

Stenehjem presented abstracts and on-demand posters at the European Society of Medical Oncology Virtual Congress on September 17, 2020:
• Stenehjem, S. B. King, K. A. Betts, S. Rao, F. Castriota, M. Mahin, E. Orvis,  S. Marathe, J. Ma, and S. Lubinga. Trial-based costs of all-cause adverse events in first-line therapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: Findings from CheckMate-9LA.
• S. Lubinga, S. B. King, K. A. Betts, S. Rao, F. Castriota, M. Mahin, E. Orvis,  S. Marathe, J. Ma, and Stenehjem. Trial-based costs of all-cause adverse events in first-line therapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: Findings from CheckMate-227.

Stenehjem, S. Lubinga, K. Gupte-Singh, Y. Zhang, T. Le, J. Penrod, and C. Smith had their article, “Real-World Effectiveness of Nivolumab Monotherapy After Prior Systemic Therapy in Advanced Non–Small-cell Lung Cancer,” published in the journal United States Clinical Lung Cancer. In press.

A. Leopold, T. Grupa, and Michael Swanoski, associate professor and senior associate dean, had their article, “Adverse events in older adults taking fluoroquinolones,” published in Senior Care Pharmacist. 2020;35(8):355-359.

Swanoski was interviewed by Slate Magazine about the general concept of medications or supplements being viable options to improve memory for the September 29, 2020, article, "Hypothetically, Would Adderall Turn Joe Biden Into a Debate Whiz?

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