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Zs School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences Tlffi PURDUE PHARMACIST Vol. 71 No. 1 Fall Semester 1993-94 6 1993 Distinguished Alumni Honored 8 Ang Carnaghi Awarded Honorary Doctorate 9 Change of Leadership for Pharmacy Practice Chalmers passes reins to Popovich 10 Professor Emeritus Gustav Cwalina Dies Memorial scholarship established 14 Purdue Vision 21 Gathers Steam Giving to pharmacy reaches new high. Honor roll of donors. 35 Pharmacy Triplets Larry & Paula Grimwood become proud parents three times in one day. Donald L. Moore (B.S. '53) represents pharmacy as president of NARD — Alumnus profile starts on page 3. 2 FROM THE DEAN'S DESK Investing in the Future by Dean Charles O. Rutledge to develop, test, implement and evalu in the wholesale drug industry. This ate innovative pharmacy services and course was jointly sponsored by the management practices in the commu National Association for Wholesale nity setting. They also plan to demon Druggists and Merck. This is a new strate the impact of comprehensive association for the School with the pharmacy services on improving NWDA and with Krannert. We look patient outcomes and enhancing the forward to additional cooperative quality and cost-effectiveness of care. projects with these organizations in the The PharmaCare Center will also pro future. We are of course very encour vide a setting for the development and aged by our longtime association with evaluation of educational programs Merck. intended to prepare pharmacists so that Syncor, the largest chain of nuclear they can better provide pharmaceutical pharmacies in North America, has just care in the community. I appreciate the announced that they will be opening a generous financial support of Hook- free standing nuclear pharmacy in West SuperX, the Hook Drug Foundation, Lafayette. In fact, it will be located in Medi-span, PDX Computer Systems, the Purdue Research Park just north and Glaxo to help us get the research west of campus. The facility will have design and computerized data gather a large conference room to facilitate ing systems off the ground. small discussion groups. I expect that The technological advances in the newly formed student Nuclear telecommunications are enveloping Pharmacy Club will be having some education as well as other aspects of of their meetings at the new pharmacy. As the fall semester began, a number our lives. We have just negotiated We look forward to a working partner of initiatives that we had been working with GTE to provide a demonstration ship with Syncor as we both work on for several months were finally re setup of their V-Tel system to enable toward extending pharmaceutical care alized. It often takes a number of trys us to transmit video, audio and data into the field of nuclear pharmacy. and a series of negotiations to bring sets between the Pharmacy Building Finally I myself have been im projects to fruition, but when they are in West Lafayette and the Pharmacy mersed into the Drug Utilization Review finally launched there is a great feeling Programs Office in Wishard Hospital business by having been elected as of satisfaction. I would like to describe at the IU Medical Center. This will chair of the Indiana DUR Board. This a few of these projects. allow us to conduct classes, meetings is a governor appointed board which We have been working together and even present clinical cases with is to assist Indiana Medicaid in financ with Dr. Dennis McCallian to develop out having the students or the faculty ing quality care to recipients in a cost- a model pharmacy in which pharma spending time traveling back and forth effective way. There is much to be done ceutical care is delivered in a commu on 1-65. The School of Pharmacy is here with DUR since Indiana has the nity setting, and the focus is on service the first school on this campus to take largest payment per Medicaid recipient to the patient rather than the product. advantage of the video capabilities of any other state in the country. We The pharmacy is called "The Family afforded by communication over the will be primarily working through data PharmaCare Center" and is wholly telephone system. analysis and education but we have also owned by Denny. The School of Phar Professor Joseph Thomas working advised Indiana Medicaid on prescrip macy will use this pharmacy for both together with Professor Michael Hope tion coverage. My hope is that if we teaching and research. The research in the Krannert School of Management can save Medicaid money, maybe In will be conducted by both Denny and have just finished providing an Execu diana will have more for higher educa Professor Michael Rupp and is designed tive Management Course for managers tion in general and Purdue specifically. The Purdue Pharmacist Charles O. Rutledge Dean Your comments, opinions, and questions George R. Spratto Associate Dean are welcome. is published twice a year for alumni G. Marc Loudon Associate Dean Please address correspondence to: and friends of the School of Pharmacy Bruce A. Hufford Editor Editor, The Purdue Pharmacist, Purdue and Pharmacal Sciences. Lola Straub Associate Editor University, 1330 R. Heine Pharmacy Student News Section: Bldg., Room 104A, W. Lafayette, IN Rose Olson Editor 47907-1330 Alumnus Profile Don Moore Pharmacy Ambassador Supreme by Bruce A. Hufford After another long flight and a late night to bed, Don awakens to a bright morn ing, nudges his wife Naomi, and says "Honey, the wall paper in this hotel looks just like ours at home." Naomi responds, "Don, we are home." Donald L. Moore (B.S.'53), an independent community pharmacist from Kokomo, has been on the road this past year far more days than he has been at home. As president of NARD, the national pharmacy association repre senting independent retail pharmacists, Don and Naomi have traveled tens of thousands of miles on association business, visiting most states and sev eral foreign countries. His message is straightforward and clear: "' Entrepreneurism is very much alive and well among the pharmacists of tomorrow. It is alive and well be cause we are resilient, because we are talented, and because we are alert to Don Moore, Charles West (Executive Vice President of NARD), and Larry Sage ever-changing opportunities in com (Executive Vice President of IP A). munity practice. We are still corner drug stores, but we are a bewildering teach pharmacy, but by graduation the It was successful from the start. The store array of other things as well. The niches Moores had two children with another carried Hallmark cards, had a good- we are finding for ourselves are limited on the way. It was time to go to work. sized cosmetics and sundries depart only by our imagination and our de His dad had been in business all his ment, and offered a soda fountain that termination. Make no mistake, health life, and Don knew he needed to oper served full meals. As the professional care reform will reshape the future of ate his own drug store. With no money aspects of the business grew, the soda community pharmacy as we know it. It's or experience, Don went to work in fountain gave way to increased space not about being political or apolitical, Marion for the Muir drug chain (about for the pharmacy department. In 1974 conservative or liberal, Republican or 30 small stores). He learned merchan the pharmacy was struck by lightning Democrat. What matters is recognizing dising, advertising layout, and how to and burned. The grocery store had only reforms as opportunities for pharma manage people. After one year, Don light damage. Thank goodness for in cists. " (excerpts from Don's presidential was promoted to manager of a 2,500 surance, but the pharmacy operated out speech at the NARD Annual Convention in square-foot store in Muncie. of two trailers for almost a year. Pre Indianapolis) A year later, Marsh Supermarkets scription volume grew and customers You don't start at the top. How did started building grocery stores through remained very loyal. The grocery de Don evolve into an influential national out Central Indiana. Marsh thought it cided to close, and Don leased the 12,000 leader for the profession of pharmacy? was desirable to have a drug store next square-foot space that was vacated. Don is from Kendallville, Indiana where to each supermarket. A salesman friend The Moore Drug Store has contin his dad owned a dairy. Don attended of Don's dad made a contact with the ued to thrive and grow. Today there Purdue to study dairy manufacturing. president of Marsh who encouraged are more than 36 employees, including After one semester he knew this was Don to open a pharmacy next to their five pharmacists and three nurses. The not for him, and a hometown friend grocery in Kokomo. With a loan from store offers almost everything. Home IV who was in pharmacy influenced Don the local bank and another from the services and home health care supplies. to pursue pharmacy as a career. Don and Small Business Administration, Don Oxygen and general medical equipment. Naomi Strawser were married during was in business at age 25. Back braces, wheelchairs, and hospital his second year of school. In addition to This new 4,800 square-foot phar beds — but no soda fountain. The front studying, Don found time to become macy was rather large by 1955 standards. part of the store is heavily into sundries. involved in Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical It was located in a predominantly blue- There are sections selling automotive, Fraternity. He planned on attending collar neighborhood near a steel mill electrical, and plumbing supplies.