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West-Strum named a fellow of APhA

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Donna West-Strum

For exemplary service and achievement, Donna West-Strum has been named a fellow of the American Pharmacists Association. The professor will receive the once-in-a-lifetime honor in March at APhA’s annual meeting in Orlando, where she also will be installed as chair of APhA’s Economic, Social and Administrative Sciences Section.

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Students organize Vitamin Angels fundraiser

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Pharmacy students collect money for Vitamin Angels in front of the Student Union.

Some 250,000 to 500,000 vitamin A-deficient children become blind annually, and half of them die within a year. More than 4,500 of those at-risk children will receive vitamin A, thanks to members of the University of Mississippi chapter of the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists, who raised $1,126 for Vitamin Angels.

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Malinowski contributes to Japanese educational project

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Scott Malinowski (left) visits with a clinical pharmacist at Okayama University Hospital.

As part of an exchange program, professor Scott Malinowski shared the progressiveness of American pharmacy with pharmacists at Okayama University in Japan, where leaders are working to advance and expand their practice roles. Such global engagement is important to advancing innovations in practice and health care delivery everywhere.

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Ellis impacts education, health care through leadership group

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Ashley Ellis (back row, third from right) with the Leadership DeSoto Class of 2014

As a member of the Leadership DeSoto Class of 2014, Ashley Ellis is learning more about her county and helping to develop ideas to improve it. In the process, the professor is sharing how pharmacists better communities by improving residents’ health and is helping to raise awareness of her county’s Foundation for Excellence in Education.

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Pharmacology announces Pritchard Award recipient

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Tahmineh Tabrizian

While at the University of Mississippi, Ph.D. candidate Tahmineh Tabrizian has maintained a 4.0 GPA, excelled in clinical pharmacology and disease-based research, and been a campus service-project leader. Because of Tabrizian’s outstanding record, she received the 2013-14 Edith Pritchard Pharmacology Award during a luncheon in her honor.

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Alumni Calendar of Events

Feb. 8-11 – American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Interim Meeting, Arlington, Va.

Feb. 9 – Mississippi Pharmacists Association Mid-Winter Meeting, Thad Cochran Research Center, Oxford

Feb. 23 – Mississippi Pharmacists Association Mid-Winter Meeting, Wells Auditorium, Jackson