Homecoming Olympiad

On Thursday, Feb. 14, students, faculty, and staff were in the Pillbox creating human pyramids. During Homecoming Week, the Student Body Union had planned a variety of activities to rouse school spirit. And at the basketball games against the Logan Llamas, first-year students began to learn from the upperclassmen what it means to be a Eutectic. But on Thursday, the entire College community came together to focus on the ridiculousness and fun that can be had at balloon juggling or toilet-paper rolling against a team of your professors or students. Then it was back to work.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIC PAN, SECOND-YEAR STUDENT ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

SCRIPTVOLUME 23, NUMBER 1 Spring 2013

Editor Sheila Haar Siegel FEATURES

Designers Adrienne Hooker Colleen Krutewicz Tackling Tough Topics Contributing Writers From world religions and cultural heritage to illness, identity, and Stacy Austerman Brad Brown 4 inequality, STLCOP classes cover a wide range of social issues— Blaire Leible Garwitz Maureen Harmon all to help prepare students to positively impact patients and society. Greg Katski

Proofreader Blaire Leible Garwitz Nancy Busch

Class Notes Kristine Bryant Responding to the Ebb and Flow Andrew Crannage ’08 was going to be a dentist—until he starting President, Alumni Association 8 working in his local pharmacy. Add the defining moments of his sixth- Bill Reed ’67 year rotation and residency year, and he now practices as an internal Chairman, Board of Trustees medicine clinical pharmacist and assistant professor at the College. Nancy Konieczny ’77

President John A. Pieper, Pharm.D. Brad Brown

Vice President, Marketing and Communications Marc Long Clearing the Air on Asthma

Vice President, Advancement e College is squaring off against asthma on multiple fronts. Brett T. Schott 14 Collectively, our professors illustrate here both the complexity of Director, Alumni Relations the disease, the unique role of pharmacists in treating it, and the Necole Powell interdisciplinary approach needed to diminish its toll.

Director, Institutional Giving Jason Huff Stacy Austerman

Script magazine is a joint effort of the College and the Alumni Association, published three times a Full Immersion year for alumni, students, and friends of the College. Questions or comments In the 21st century, academic research in pharmacy is more than drug may be addressed to Sheila Haar discovery. It involves highly specialized research, development and Siegel at [email protected]. 16 application, and patient care. It is about taking what works and making ADDRESS CHANGES OR the most of it. TO UNSUBSCRIBE Office of Advancement, 314.446.8394 or [email protected] Maureen Harmon

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Associate professors PRESS Abigail Yancey (left) and Alicia Faculty at the College continue to be Forinash reviewed widely quoted across the country as studies of herbal experts in the practice of pharmacy. and pharmaceutical Here are some recent highlights: products to determine which options increase President John A. Pieper wrote an milk supply for op-ed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch breastfeeding mothers. about the new role Missouri pharma- cists can take in medication therapy (MTS) services. Terry Seaton, professor of pharmacy practice, spoke with KMOX-AM in St. Louis about the new MTS rules as well. Amie Brooks ’99/’00, associate professor of pharmacy practice, spoke with a reporter from Everydayhealth.com about ways Was Mom Right: Does Fenugreek Help? patients can better manage their For decades, breastfeeding mothers have tried to stimulate milk production by using diabetes medication. herbal products and pharmaceutical options to feed their babies. Alicia Forinash ’00/’01, When a new study questioned Pharm.D., BCPS, BCACP, associate professor of pharmacy practice; Abigail Yancey ’02/’03, the effectiveness of amoxicillin in Pharm.D., BCPS, associate professor of pharmacy practice; and Kylie Barnes ’10, assistant respiratory infections, St. Louis’ professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Charleston, reviewed studies and trials KTVI (Channel 2) interviewed Ryan of the most popular treatments and found there was no data to show they worked. e Moenster ’04, assistant professor of review, co-authored with omas Myles, M.D., Saint Louis University, was published in the pharmacy practice, about the details October 2012 issue of e Annals of Pharmacotherapy. and patients’ treatment options. Anastasia Roberts, assistant e review focused on studies of herbal have been the result of mothers going to professor of pharmacy practice was products, including fenugreek and milk see a physician or a lactation specialist and quoted by AMN Healthcare in an thistle, along with pharmaceutical options learning non-pharmacological techniques,” article looking at ways pharmacists oxytocin, metoclopramide, and domperidone. she says. “Maybe it was the support that was and nurses can help patients “Our goal was to educate pharmacists and increasing the milk supply, or maybe it was improve medication reconciliation. physicians with the options that are out there the pharmacological agent.” After a news report focused on to increase milk supply,” Yancey says. “ere e idea for the review came about through the amount of vitamin D in some is a lack of literature out there in this area. personal and professional experience. supplements, KMOV in St. Louis ere are random case reports and some small “Both Dr. Forinash and I are working (Channel 4) talked to Terry Seaton, randomized control trials, but there is not a mothers,” Yancey says. “We wanted to learn professor of pharmacy practice, really good review of available medications.” what kind of support mothers get and what about buying supplements from e authors found that mothers should first kinds of resources are available,” Yancey says. reputable sources and looking for pursue and exhaust all non-pharmacological e pair regularly responds to patients’ request supplements with well-established options. at includes making sure the for information on increasing milk supply at standards, such as those that bear mother has enough rest, good fluid intake, their clinical site at St. Mary’s Health Center. the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention and nutrition. Forinash is the ambulatory care clinical phar- (USP) label. “Relaxation is important so mothers don’t macist at the OB-GYN Clinic while Yancey When Nicole Gattas, assistant pro- get uptight and stressed when trying to is a clinical pharmacy specialist in internal fessor of pharmacy practice, came breastfeed because that has negative effects medicine. Barnes also worked at St. Mary’s as down with a cold she told John Pertz- on milk production,” Forinash says, “If you’ve a PGY-2 ambulatory care pharmacy resident. born from KTVI (Channel 2) what she tried that without success, the evidence out “As I talked with more of my patients and stocked in her medicine cabinet. there right now shows that taking prescription friends, maintaining an adequate milk supply When a skydiver was preparing medication or herbal products is not very ef- is something mothers struggle with on a daily to jump from outer space, Richard fective. Anecdotally, the next best step would basis,” Barnes says. McCall, professor of physics, spoke be to try metoclopramide or fenugreek.” “Breastfeeding is hard,” Forinash says. “And with The Wall Street Journal and St. Yancey says in reviewing other studies, mothers need a lot of support. I think it could Louis’ KSDK-TV (Channel 5). He dis- it was difficult to determine if either the be a natural fit for pharmacists to help since cussed the effects of the human body medication or herbal product was increasing we are so easily accessible.” during the Red Bull Stratos jump. milk supply. “Increased milk could also

2 Spring 2013 News Briefs

Holstad Named Interim Dean of Pharmacy On Jan. 1, Sheldon G. Holstad, Pharm.D., professor of pharmacy practice, was appointed to the position of interim dean of pharmacy. Holstad succeeds Wendy Duncan, Ph.D., who will be leaving the College this spring. Holstad has been with the College since 1987. He earned both his Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Iowa. He also completed a post- graduate psychopharmacology research fellowship at the University of Iowa prior to joining STLCOP. Holstad has served in teaching, College Honored clinical, research, and administrative roles within the College’s pharmacy practice division. He has taught in most of the College’s pharmacy practice courses, most for Community recently focusing on literature evaluation and the application of biostatistics. “One Engagement of the things I’ve derived the most satisfaction from in the past few years is working with junior faculty,” Holstad says. “I think mentoring is an important part of faculty St. Louis College of Pharmacy achievement and satisfaction in academics.” was recently named to the 2013 Since 1999, Holstad has been clinical pharmacist and faculty coordinator of President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by DrugDigest.org, an ongoing collaboration between the College and Express Scripts. the Corporation for National and e site is designed for patients to learn about drug effects and interactions. His Community Service, which is the research experience includes collaborative projects in clinical psychopharmacology, highest honor a college or university molecular psychobiology, and pedagogical methods and implementation. Most can receive for its commitment to recently, he has been involved in the early stages of research into health outcomes volunteering, service-learning, and and pharmacoeconomics. civic engagement. “It’s very encouraging to see the advancement of research on campus. I’m looking “The recognition acknowledges forward to seeing what I can do to contribute to the advancement of that goal,” the hard work everyone at the Holstad says. College does to improve the health and well-being of those living in the St. Louis region,” said College President John A. Pieper, Pharm.D. BPS awards specialty certifications in “Through our community work with President Named six areas of pharmacy practice, includ- organizations, we’re demonstrating ing ambulatory care, nuclear pharmacy, how pharmacists are medication to National nutrition support pharmacy, oncology, experts and are an intergral part of psychiatric pharmacy, and pharmaco- the health care team.” Pharmacy Board therapy. Many pharmacists have chosen The College was commended for College President John A. Pieper, to pursue these advanced certifications the thousands of hours of community Pharm.D., FCCP, has been appointed to further their career and document service performed during the past to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties their specialized experience. year by students, faculty, and (BPS). His three-year term began on “Specialty certifications recognize the staff through STLCOP C.A.R.E.S. Jan. 1. In addition to the board, he was expertise and extra work pharmacists pur- (Community Awareness Reaching chosen to serve as a member of the BPS sue to benefit their patients,” Pieper says. Everyone in St. Louis); the St. Louis executive committee. This year the board is set to consider Medication Disposal Initiative in “I am honored to join this prestigious two petitions to recognize Critical Care partnership with the city of St. Louis board,” Pieper says. “I look forward to Pharmacy and Pediatric Pharmacy and the DEA; and our collaboration working with my new colleagues as we as certified specialties. The board’s with the Saint Louis Science Center continue to advance the profession of origins date to 1973 when the American for STLCOP students’ fourth-year pharmacy.” Pharmacists Association (APhA) introductory practice experiences. As a member of the board, Pieper will established a task force on specialties Of the more than 5,000 colleges be among those responsible for oversee- in pharmacy. The BPS was officially and universities in the country, fewer ing the specialty certification process organized as an independent agency of than 700 received this recognition. for pharmacists across the country. APhA in 1976. Read more about the award at www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll.

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World Religions In this course, students are introduced to the major world religions as well as the basic religious values. The Doctor of Pharmacy program involves Religions discussed include Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Chinese Religion, Jainism, and more than just physics, medicinal chemistry, Sikhism. “I want to make sure that students understand different religions and overcome misconceptions that they might have,” says Steve Werner, Ph.D., adjunct and therapeutics courses. STLCOP students instructor. “My goal is to set the record straight and let students make their own judgments.” also tackle some social issues in classes such One of the most controversial topics discussed is Islam. “A lot of people are misinformed about Islam,” as Cultural Heritage; The Global Pharmacist; Werner says. “In this course, students learn that the Muslims they are seeing in the news—extremists or Illness, Identity, and Inequality; Public terrorists—don’t represent the vast majority of Islam.”

Students also explore different views on health care. Health Research Perspective in Pharmacy; For example, Christian scientists do not believe in receiving medical treatment, vaccinations, or medications; and World Religions. We talked to STLCOP Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions. “Learning about the beliefs of different religions makes students more aware of different people they might professors to discuss how lessons learned encounter as practicing pharmacists,” Werner says.

In addition to participating in class discussions, students in these courses help student-pharmacists are encouraged to visit churches and places of worship in the St. Louis area and experience different types of become more effective practitioners. services. “Students are able to gain knowledge and appreciation for other religions,” Werner says. “They learn that even though they may not agree on what to believe, they can still be open about other cultures and religions.”

Tackling BY BLAIRE LEIBLE GARWITZ Tough Topics

4 Spring 2013 Cultural Heritage The Global Pharmacist Cultural Heritage integrates history, political science, Students in this course explore the human experiences sociology, literature, and the arts as a means of of suffering and healing across historical periods, diverse understanding civilization and culture in the Western cultures, and the life cycle. Two models are discussed: the world. Students also learn about global diversity and biomedical model—modern Western biomedical science how Western culture interrelates with other cultures. and practice—and the biocultural model—multiple “Cultural heritage is historically based,” says Bob cultural, social, economic, and individual forces that shape Zebroski, Ph.D., professor of history and interim director the culture of healing in and beyond ofcial medicine. of the Division of Liberal Arts and Administrative “We deal with difcult topics that students typically Sciences. “I try to make it relevant for modern people.” don’t talk about in pharmacy programs,” says Brenda Topics include cultural achievements, the construction Gardenour Walter, Ph.D., assistant professor of history. of race and identity, origins of religion, politics, slavery, Students explore global views of contraception, alternative wars and revolutions, and climate change. Students also medicines and practices, and euthanasia. One of the discuss the role of health care providers in the world. class exercises involves Walter creating a timeline on the For example, in times of widespread illnesses—like white board with conception at one end and infanticide in uenza and bubonic plague—health care providers at the other. Students then debate where contraception have a responsibility to help others. However, in past and the morning-after pill go on that timeline. worldwide health crises, some health care providers “Another controversial issue we discuss is have ed to protect themselves. “Pharmacists have an transgendering—the uidity of gender, the role of immense responsibility for others’ health,” Zebroski medicine, ways we can better help people who are says. “I want to distill lessons from the past so that caught between worlds, and the construction of people don’t make these same errors in the future.” gender paradigms in our society,” Walter says. Learning about history can also make it easier for The goal is for students to look beyond categories of pharmacists to understand where their patients are people—to realize that even though different people coming from, since many of the patients they work see the world very differently, they can still make with are older people. meaningful connections with others who may not share “All of the class discussions ultimately help students their views. “Pharmacists need to understand how to learn about the world and their place in it,” Zebroski build a bridge with patients because they will encounter says. “There’s a world out there that is larger than patients that believe and feel very differently than they any of us, but individuals can make a difference.” do,” Walter says. “They also need to see through the lens of someone who has a biocultural point of view.” Tackling Tough Topics

SCRIPT MAGAZINE 5 Illness, Identity, and Inequality Illness, Identity, and Inequality examines the historical Students in the course also examine cases where patients role that social identity has played in mediating the were stereotyped as having certain diseases even without delivery and experience of health care in the U.S. statistics to support this. For example, students learn Students explore disparities in diagnosis, therapeutics, about the actual case of a patient presenting u-like overall health outcomes, and access to care. “We symptoms who lived in Michigan and had emigrated discuss what parts of a patient’s identity matter, from Somalia. “There had been stories in the news when they matter, and when they don’t,” says Dennis about cholera outbreaks in refugee camps in Somalia, Doyle, Ph.D., assistant professor of history. so the health care provider thought the patient had cholera,” Doyle says. “The lab samples came back Groups that can experience health disparities include showing he only had rotavirus, a common infection in women, homosexuals, African Americans, Asian the U.S. The patient had lived in the U.S. for a year; Americans, Latino Americans, children, and older adults. there was no way cholera could have been present.” One disparity involves HIV/AIDS and African Americans. “African Americans are the majority of HIV/AIDS patients Learning about health disparities and stereotypes such in the U.S. even though they only make up 12 percent as these will help future pharmacists. “I want to get of the population,” Doyle says. “This is due in part to students thinking about the ethical dilemmas they will the lack of access to health care and information in face in their professional careers and how to effectively areas where African Americans tend to dominate.” deal with different types of people,” Doyle says.

6 Spring 2013 Public Health Research Perspective in Pharmacy This course provides a public health perspective for one person from a disease helps protect themselves and issues related to pharmacy and the pharmaceutical others. This opens students’ minds to see that sometimes needs of populations. Students discuss health paying for things like this really ends up beneting them.” promotion, disease prevention, epidemiology, health Managed care and wellness programs are also policy, ethics, culture, law, health education, and examined. “How do you reward health practitioners disaster management. “Pharmacists usually focus on for keeping people healthy when they are getting the individual patient, but this class gets students paid to treat someone who is ill?” Hurd asks. “I teach thinking about society’s overall health,” says Peter students in this course to look at things from a public Hurd, Ph.D., professor of pharmacy administration. health perspective of health promotion and disease One of the topics explored in this course is disaster prevention, not an illness treatment perspective.” management. “We talk about what happens if a Most importantly, this course prepares students natural disaster like a tornado or earthquake prevents to be practicing pharmacists in an ever-changing pharmacies from opening or causes people to lose health environment. “The future of pharmacy is the records of their medications,” Hurd says. health promotion and disease prevention, and this Another topic involves discussing the value to society class helps students begin to think about that,” of paying for things like vaccinations through taxes and Hurd says. “For example, many pharmacists now government programs and spending. “Students often ask give u shots; it’s a way for them to prevent disease. why they should pay for somebody else’s vaccination,” It’s a good direction for pharmacy to go.” Hurd says. “They don’t always think about how protecting

SCRIPT MAGAZINE 7 Responding to the Ebb and Flow

BY BRAD BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNIFER SILVERBERG

Andrew Crannage ’08 was preparing for a life of cavities and root canals. “Back then I was 100 percent AT 16, sure I was going to be a dentist,” Crannage says. Plans quickly changed when he received information about St. Louis College of Pharmacy in the mail, which piqued his interest in pharmacy. So he decided to learn more about the profession and found a job at Hideg Pharmacy in Belleville, Ill., owned by Don Johnston ’80.

“My dad and Don are really good friends, so During Crannage’s sixth-year at the College, I started talking to Don about pharmacy his final rotation was with Jack Burke, and he told me about the benefits of Pharm.D., BCPS, currently the director of the profession,” Crannage says. pharmacy practice and associate dean of professional development and clinical affairs “His father told me Andy was going to at the College. At the time, Burke lectured pharmacy school, and he was working for me on therapeutics and pathophysiology and the next day,” says Johnston, who took over was an internal medicine preceptor at the the business from founder Joe Hideg ’40. Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Louis.

As Crannage worked his way through The rotation had a big effect on STLCOP at the pharmacy, he began Crannage—enough to make him consider moving up from stocking shelves to practicing in acute care medicine. It was helping the pharmacist. “I enjoyed working a difficult choice for him to veer away at the pharmacy, so I never wavered in from Hideg, but Johnston understood. what I wanted to do, and a lot of that was because of Don,” Crannage says. “I always told him to go out and try different aspects of practice,” Johnston recalls. “I also A‡er graduation, Crannage thought he told him that if he got tired of something would head back to Hideg and eventually within a couple of years to come back. I’ve become part owner of the community been here 40 years; I’m not going anywhere.” pharmacy. “I jokingly said, ‘Boy, hurry up and graduate so I can retire,’” Johnston recalls. The residency year was a chance for Crannage to build on two areas of He also enjoyed Johnston had a long history of hiring high pharmacy which interested him most— school and St. Louis College of Pharmacy teaching at the College and acute care at the independence, students. Among the dozens who have St. John’s Mercy Medical Center. He also passed through his doors during 40 years in enjoyed the independence, autonomy, autonomy, and high business, Johnston says Crannage stands out. and high expectations which were thrust

“He was always willing to learn and to upon him during the residency year. expectations which observe. He would ask you questions Residency Director Amie Brooks, Pharm.D., at the right time,” Johnston says. “It were thrust upon BCPS, 99/’00 and Residency Coordinator is very important that students have Julie Murphy,, Pharm.D., BCPS. along with the opportunity to learn from the him during the Burke, had a huge influence on Crannage. boŒom. They learn all the different circumstances that come up and learn “Seeing how they taught and residency year. to address them in the proper way.” practiced confirmed what I wanted to do,” Crannage says. “I was really enjoying that side of pharmacy.”

8 Spring 2013 SCRIPT MAGAZINE 9 Faculty Profile

Crannage currently practices as an internal students meet once a week to talk about medicine clinical pharmacist at Mercy case studies and treatment options. It also Hospital in St. Louis, where he conducts challenges students to think on their feet. rounds as part of an interdisciplinary “I ask them ‘Why did you choose that team. The group of nine physicians, treatment? What if the patient responded nurses, and pharmacists visits patients poorly to the medication? What is daily. Crannage also conducts research another option?’” Crannage says. “It’s the into anti-coagulation and nephrology. students’ opportunity to use examples of “A lot of my work is antibiotic optimization— how they’re actually going to use their making sure patients are not on two knowledge in the real world.” And he medications for a specific outcome when doesn’t take the discussion groups lightly. “Resident candidates one would work,” Crannage says. “I also “My job is to push students to be the best make sure medication is being used they can be,” Crannage says. “If I’m not ask me all the time efficiently. There have been a few times challenging them, I’m not doing what when someone on my team caught a I’m supposed to be doing. I’m here to potentially serious drug-drug interaction.” what kind of teacher make sure that they’re successful. Crannage was recently named the residency “I had a student on rotation who was program director for the St. Louis College I am. And I usually say struggling,” Crannage adds. “He was puŒing of Pharmacy and Mercy Hospital (PGY-1) in all the required work, but something residency program. In this role, he oversees wasn’t quite clicking,” The student ended that I am challenging, four PGY-1 residents in internal medicine. up spending four extra weeks with He mentors and recruits the residents Crannage and successfully passed the but supportive.” and ensures the preceptors are well rotation. “I felt good about that because supported in meeting residents’ needs. if he hadn’t had that opportunity, I’m not “Resident candidates ask me all the time sure what would have happened.” The what kind of teacher I am. And I usually student is now a practicing pharmacist. say that I am challenging, but supportive. Drawing on his experience, Crannage They usually get freaked out when I say also hopes to show the next generation of that,” Crannage laughs. “The teaching pharmacists a broad range of career options, part of what I do is my favorite aspect of which may lead a few into unexpected paths. practice, which is why I’m at STLCOP.”

“Whether you practice at a community Like most college professors, Crannage pharmacy or if you become a faculty has stood in front of hundreds of member, you’re responsible for the care students in a large lecture hall. But of patients or students,” Crannage says. personal connections made with students “People’s lives—regardless of what you end individually or in small groups are most up doing—are in your hands in some way.” fulfilling to him. Crannage co-coordinates a pathophysiology course and lectures in both pathophysiology and therapeutics. He leads discussion group sessions with 25 or 30 students in the courses, in which

8 Spring 2013 SCRIPT MAGAZINE 9 How to Expand Global Outreach Every day, St. Louis College of Pharmacy is reaching further to become globally prominent in education, patient care, and research. We are exposing our students to diverse opportunities and welcome scholars to campus from around the world. Focusing on cultural awareness and interacting with people from different backgrounds makes STLCOP students better health care providers—and truly educated people. Our curriculum integrates international experiences that give our students a first-person perspective in global health care—exposing them to the wider world while strengthening pharmacy education. Here are eight ways and some of the many places that are expanding the College’s worldview.

ESTABLISH A PARTNERSHIP WITH NELSON MANDELA 1 METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (NMMU) IN SOUTH AFRICA. STLCOP has been selected for an $80,000 grant from the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) to assist with developing a pharmacy technical assistant program and pharmacy technician program at NMMU. Pharmacy technicians in South Africa practice with limited supervision and are an essential resource for providing care for the more than 5 million HIV and AIDS patients in the country. STLCOP faculty will share the same teaching methods used at the College, CANADA such as providing students with practical experience on how to interact with patients

to improve their health. UNITED STATES

OFFER OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE PATIENT- 2 CENTERED CARE AROUND THE WORLD. MEXICO The College established the Office of International Programs GUATEMALA last year to expose STLCOP students to the wider world and to enable students to think broadly about issues concerning HONDURAS

humanity. The office has coordinated an advanced pharmacy COSTA RICA practice experience (APPE) in SWAZILAND, AFRICA, where two STLCOP students worked at a public hospital and AIDS clinic. In 2014, students will be completing APPE rotations in hospitals in SAUDI ARABIA, CHINA, and ETHIOPIA.

FORGE A STUDENT AND FACULTY EXCHANGE 3 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF NUEVO LEON (AUNL) IN MEXICO. In 2012, AUNL faculty visited the College to learn more about pharmacy education in America. An agreement to start an exchange program resulted from their visit. Since then, two STLCOP students have visited the AUNL to determine what kinds of exchanges could be developed for introductory or advanced pharmacy practice experiences at the College. This summer, AUNL will visit STLCOP again as part of the exchange program.

10 Spring 2013 PROMOTE OPENNESS TO DIFFERING CULTURES, 5 ETHNIC GROUPS, AND WAYS OF THINKING. The College offers International Service Learning, a course that has given students the opportunity to help build houses with Habitat for Humanity in GUATEMALA and COSTA RICA. In July, students will be volunteering in POLAND as part of the course. STLCOP also has created the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to lead efforts in expanding diversity on campus.

BUILD A NETWORK OF ALUMNI WHO SERVE 6 AS INFORMAL AMBASSADORS FOR THE COLLEGE AND THE PROFESSION OF PHARMACY. Alumni currently practice in 14 different nations, including, GREECE, INDIA, ISRAEL, JORDAN, and the KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA, and the UNITED STATES.

SEEK OUT NEW 7 RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHARMACY PROFESSIONALS AND FUTURE PHARMACY LEADERS THE WORLD OVER. In February, four STLCOP faculty members shared POLAND their expertise across the Middle East—at the KUWAIT GREECE International Pharmacy ISRAEL Conference, held at Kuwait JORDAN University, and at a conference CHINA on pharmacy education KUWAIT in SAUDI ARABIA. The SAUDI ARABIA INDIA conferences invited prominent educators from America to provide an overview of current and best practices in pharmacy ETHIOPIA education.

COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS TO BROADEN IMPACT. SOUTH AFRICA 8 STLCOP students and faculty will work SWAZILAND with the Washington University in St. Louis Global Health Scholars program in HONDURAS to treat respiratory problems associated with cooking indoors over an open fire, which is common in the country. In March 2014, ATTRACT STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. two STLCOP students will complete In January, STLCOP welcomed four students from 4 their APPEs as part of the program, SAUDI ARABIA into the professional program. They already caring for patients at a clinic to address have pharmacy degrees from universities in Saudi Arabia. the health concern. However, an American degree is highly valued so they are here to expand their education. All four have practiced as pharmacists and are hoping to develop their clinical skills at STLCOP.

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BY BLAIRE LEIBLE GARWITZ After months of lifting weights and doing cardio workouts, practicing her interview skills, and learning how to walk onstage auty gracefully and confidently—third-year student Ellie Holtman entered the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts in St. Charles for her first big pageant last fall. Holtman had woken up early that morning and rolled her hair in curlers before joining the 40 other Miss Missouri USA contestants to rehearse choreography. Afterward, she rushed to change into her dress and finish her hair and makeup. en, taking a deep breath and gathering her composure, she smiled and took the stage. e evening was a blur as Holtman modeled her elegant ivory gown and then donned her swimsuit to demonstrate the physical fitness she had achieved after months in the gym. At the end of the night, the 40 contestants were whittled down to the top 15, and Holtman progressed to the next round. She came back the following day to meet with each of the five judges individually for personal interviews. at night, the top five contestants were chosen. Holtman and the other four contestants faced the onstage questions portion of the competition. “Although I was nervous before the pageant began—I’m pretty new to this—once I got onstage the nerves just went away,” Holtman says. “e fear turned into adrenaline and pumped me up.” e first question was about the increased popularity of the adult entertainment industry. “I said that it needed to be regulated and restricted to make sure it doesn’t get into the eyes of people who should not be seeing it,” she says. For her second question, she was asked what she thought of the controversy surrounding Lance Armstrong—how he was stripped of his titles and what this tells other athletes and role models. “My mind blanked on this one,” Holtman says. “It was crazy because, in my physiology class, we had just discussed blood doping, so I knew what was going on, but I was just like a deer in headlights.” Finally, she was asked what she notices when she first sees a guy—the inside or the outside. “I said both because how can you not notice his looks and his personality at the same time?” Holtman says. After each contestant finished the onstage questions, the five women clasped hands and nervously awaited the announcement of the runners-up. “I was sure my name would be the first one called, and I would get fourth runner-up,” 12 Spring 2013 Student Profile

Holtman says. But her name was not called for that position Holtman dispels the stereotype of pageant girls not being or for any of the runners-up positions. “When they announced very smart. “e judges look for intelligence and confidence, that I was the winner, I kept thinking ‘oh my goodness, are and STLCOP really helps with the intelligence part! I also these people serious?’ I was shocked!” Holtman says. think they’re looking for somebody little girls can look As Miss Missouri USA, Holtman gets much more than up to,” she says. And Holtman is quite the role model. In just a crown. She gets a dress designed for her for the Miss addition to her challenging course load at the College, she is USA pageant (to take place in June 2013); fitness training; a involved with Lamba Kappa Sigma, a professional pharmacy wardrobe for her public appearances; and coaches to prepare fraternity, and even serves on their professional committee. her for the next round of competition. “I make a lot of “We held an event last year—sort of a fashion show—to appearances. I visited with little girls in St. Louis at Chick demonstrate to students what to wear when you need to dress Fil-A’s ‘Princess Night’ [an event where girls who come to the professionally,” she says. restaurant dressed as their favorite princess get a free meal].” A big part of winning Miss Missouri USA involves giving back to the community. Holtman chose to work with two organizations: Warriors for Ross and International Crisis Aid. “Warriors for Ross is named for a little boy who had died of cancer,” she says. “I will be helping the organization raise money to help other families, who have children with cancer, pay for treatments.” Holtman also helps raise awareness of human trafficking through her work with International Crisis Aid. “e group recently opened a home in the St. Louis area for victims of human trafficking,” she says. “I want to make people aware that this isn’t something that only happens in other countries—it is a big issue right here in St. Louis.” Her biggest pageant takeaway has been the confidence she’s gained and the amazing people she’s been able to meet. “I’ve met so many people that I would not normally have met—people outside of St. Louis College of Pharmacy with so many different career goals,” she says. She also formed In the future, Holtman hopes to either work in a friendships with the other contestants. “I was really nervous community pharmacy or a children’s hospital. “My going into the competition because I had heard awful stories mom [Janet Holtman ’85] and dad own a pharmacy in about how mean the other girls can be, but they were all so our hometown of Montgomery City, so I grew up in a nice and sweet.” pharmacy,” she says. “It’s just second nature to me.” STLCOP also helped prepare her for the competition. “My For now, though, Holtman is taking a year off from Professional Communications class involved a lot of impromptu STLCOP and will return to the College in January 2014. speaking, which was incredibly helpful because public speaking “I did not think I would be able to give my studies as much is something I struggle with,” she says. “I’ve also developed time time as I should this year,” she says. “Being Miss Missouri management skills in pharmacy school, which really helped me USA is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I want to devote balance school with all of the pageant training.” all of my time right now toward preparing for the Miss USA pageant and being the best Miss Missouri USA possible.” Holtman is grateful for all that STLCOP and the Miss Missouri USA pageant have brought to her. “Competing in Miss Missouri USA was an amazing experience,” she says. “Winning gave me some incredible opportunities, and I am able to better give back to the community, too.” Holtman is also appreciative of the support her professors and classmates have provided. “I’ve gotten so many kind e-mails and so many people congratulating me. I know you don’t get this at every school,” she says. “St. Louis College of Pharmacy is definitely the place for me!”

And hopefully the winner’s spot at the Miss USA pageant is too.

SCRIPT MAGAZINE 13 clearing the air on Asthma

Asthma, a chronic disease a ecting nearly 20 million Americans, is one of the most common and costly diseases in the U.S. While the statistics are staggering, understanding the causes and triggers of asthma and knowing the best medications for prevention and treatment can allow patients to lead healthy, active lives. Tricia Berry ’94/’95, Pharm.D., BCPS, director of experiential programs at St. Louis College of Pharmacy; eresa Prosser, Pharm.D., BCPS, professor of pharmacy practice; and Suzanne Bollmeier ’99/’00, Pharm.D., BCPS, AE-C, associate professor of pharmacy practice, lend their expertise to give insight into the anatomy of this disease.

I. Asthma is characterized by in ammation of the air passages, resulting in the temporary narrowing of the airways that transport air from the nose and mouth to the lungs. “A few things are happening in the lungs that make it dicult to breathe,” Berry explains. “e muscles are constricting, the lining of the airways gets in amed and thickens, and mucus is accumulating.”

II. Research has shown that asthma has genetic links. If only one parent has asthma, chances are one in three that each child will have asthma. If both parents have asthma, the probability increases to seven in 10. Environmental triggers, such as pet dander, molds, cigarette smoke, and perfume, can also cause asthma.

III. Asthma accounts for 25 percent—1.75 million—of all emergency room visits in the U.S. each year, and African Americans are three times more likely to be hospitalized “Poverty is a common link to many of these disparities,” Prosser says. “Older housing has a higher incidence of indoor mold. Lower income people may also be more likely to have occupational exposures to dust and fumes and live in industrial urban areas with poorer air quality.”

I V. Among children ages 5 to 17, asthma is the leading cause of school absences from a chronic illness. It accounts for a loss of more than 14 million school days per year—about 8 days for each school-age child with asthma—and more hospitalizations than any other childhood illness. “Asthma may impact a child’s quality of life,” Bollmeier says. “If not well controlled, a child’s symptoms may require they sit out from desired activities such as gym class, recess, and organized after-school sports.”

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V. Asthma medications may be either inhaled or taken in tablet form and are divided into two types: quick-relief and long-term control. “e majority of asthma medicines are inhaled, both short and long-term,” Berry says. “When a patient uses an inhaled medicine, it goes directly to the lungs, which reduces the side eects that may come from a tablet.”

VI. An asthma management plan—reviewed together by the patient and pharmacist—can help the patient manage their asthma. is management plan has four parts: identifying and minimizing contact with asthma triggers; taking medication as prescribed; monitoring one’s condition and recognizing early signs that it may be worsening; and knowing what to do when asthma worsens.

VII. Bollmeier also recommends repeat instruction on properly using asthma treatment devices. “When pharmacists routinely review proper technique with patients, it improves regimen adherence,” she says.

VIII. Understanding environmental triggers and knowing ways to prevent them is also key to controlling asthma. “Pharmacists can educate patients to avoid exercise during poor air quality days, to empty trash receptacles often to avoid the presence of cockroaches, and to use mattress encasings that limit dust mite exposure,” Bollmeier says. “Smoking cessation techniques and pharmacotherapies should also be discussed with asthma patients and their household contacts.”

IX. e Asthma Friendly Pharmacy (AFP) program was initially created as the pharmacy component of a multi- disciplinary partnership, the Controlling Asthma in St. Louis Project, coordinated by the St. Louis Regional Asthma Consortium and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An AFP is certied by the College and instructs patients on how to use their asthma devices and medications eectively, stresses the importance of following an asthma management plan, and oers ways to minimize medication side eects. Currently, eight pharmacies in St. Louis are recognized as AFPs.

*Additional information taken from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, www.aafa.org

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SCRIPT MAGAZINE 19 20 Spring 2013 SCRIPT MAGAZINE 21 Se ing High Standards

“Most of your life you’re told to plan for your career, but some things you can’t possibly plan for,” says J. Gregory “Greg” Boyer ’76, Ph.D., assistant executive director and director of professional degree program accreditation at the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). “It’s what I most o en mention to students: the pharmacy profession prepares you for so much, and I’m a prime example.

Who plans for a career in accreditation?”

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BY STACY AUSTERMAN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNIFER SILVERBERG

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Growing up in a small Illinois town near Charleston, Boyer’s original plan was to become a community pharmacist. “Observing the landscape of my town,” he explains, “I realized the pharmacist was the person who really touched a lot of people. It was the community aspect that drew me to the profession.” Although his career began in community pharmacy, chance circumstances opened several opportunities within the profession for Boyer. “Just when I had made the decision to be a pharmacy professor, I saw an ad in a pharmacy journal about a new program at the University of North Carolina that offered a doctorate in public health policy through its pharmacy school and school of public health,” he says. “They accepted me, and that changed everything.” After completing his Ph.D., Boyer worked both overseas and in the U.S. in the pharmaceutical industry, which eventually took him back to the Midwest. Eager to remain in Illinois when faced with a possible relocation to the East, Boyer saw a job posting in Chicago at ACPE. “I thought what I knew about outcomes research from my experience at pharmaceutical companies must apply somehow to education,” he says. “I was hired as a staff person, and I learned everything I know about accreditation from on-the-job training.” Eleven years later, Boyer’s passion for the work of ACPE continues to grow. “I believe our work is an important part of our profession,” Boyer says. Founded in 1932 as the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education, ACPE is the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education. An autonomous and independent agency, ACPE’s board of directors consists of members from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Pharmacists Association, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, and the American Council on Education. Jennifer Silverberg Jennifer

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“One of the most important things about ACPE extra year of general studies coursework is twofold. is that we’re an independent agency,” Boyer explains. “First, this change allows certain foundational courses “We are not beholding or in any way influenced by a to be shifted to the pre-professional curriculum, relationship to someone or some organization. Our thus freeing up time for emerging topics such as board of directors are appointees who are asked to genomics, informatics, and the increasing focus on think more broadly about the profession of pharmacy interprofessional education, something STLCOP, by and accreditation’s role in the profession. We don’t virtue of its location, has as an advantage in many have a shared governance of any kind with any other aspects. Second, the additional year to general studies pharmacy organizations.” coursework brings in more mature students into In his role as director of professional degree the professional degree program, something I hear program accreditation, Boyer leads and oversees repeatedly noted as an advantage in both the classroom site teams who perform accreditation reviews for and practice-based experiences.” Boyer continues, established and developing pharmacy education “Within the autonomy we afford programs to determine programs. Established programs are reviewed every their entrance requirements, there are some who are eight years, preceded by a period of self-study deciding more pre-professional preparation is needed. performed by the pharmacy school. During a site visit, Programs like STLCOP are making this change without an ACPE site team uses a rubric to evaluate ACPE the ACPE mandate because they believe if they want to standards, including the mission and strategic plan of become a leading program in the future, they need to the program, curriculum, facilities and resources, and make changes now.” the organization of the school. The site team makes an ACPE not only influences the development of assessment based on each of these standards and then pharmacy programs, but also pharmacy students. communicates with the school to help them discover “If a pharmacist is going to be licensed in the U.S., ways to grow and improve. “We have practitioners and they must have graduated from an ACPE accredited educators who serve on these teams,” Boyer explains. program,” Boyer explains. “Even though each state “They have wisdom and insight they can share with can determine how students will be licensed to the programs. We try to incorporate as much of a CQI practice pharmacy, all state licensing boards now [continuous quality improvement] component into our require graduation from an ACPE accredited program work as we can to help programs move to a higher to be eligible for examination and licensure. As plane.” He continues, “The programs may be meeting pharmacists’ roles in health care continue to change the standards, but there could also be areas our teams and adapt, so will ACPE. “The role of pharmacists identify as opportunities to improve. Any aspect of is changing; we’ve gone from primarily a dispensing the program, from curriculum to student services to role to a much more information-focused practice. even facilities, might be given suggestions for ways to The council’s role is to ensure that programs of improve, helping the school become a better place.” pharmacy develop curricula and teach students the Currently, ACPE standards require a two-year core skills needed for today as well as for tomorrow. minimum of pre-professional coursework before Whatever tomorrow will look like, the role of ACPE entering a Pharm.D. program; however, some schools, will still be prominent.” including STLCOP, have expanded the length of their programs. Boyer thinks the benefit of adding an

SCRIPT MAGAZINE 25 Alumni News

Le er from the Alumni Association President DON’T MISS THE CHANCE TO For many of us, spring brings a renewed sense of optimism and change. It is also a time of reflection on what we hope to accomplish in the coming weeks. Experiencethe world with STLCOP This year, the association will celebrate its 138th anniversary. I believe members of our organization would ALASKAN CRUISE agree that collaboratively working AUG. 3–10, 2013 for a shared cause or mission is the Join us for a seven-day cruise underlying foundation of any great organization. No one through the Inside Passage person can do it alone. I encourage each of you to champion for aboard the ms Westerdam, the purpose of our association and the mission of our College providing astoundingCANCELLED views of massive glaciers, by a‘ending activities and contributing to the College’s rainforests, and magnificent annual appeal. fjords. Earn up to 16 hours of I’d like to thank the alumni board of directors and all of continuing education credit. you who have financially invested in the growth and success of our College. The more alumni who support the College, the stronger our alma mater’s reputation will become. Corporate and foundation donors take seriously the active participation of alumni, and as alumni, it is imperative that we make the Alumni Travel necessary investment. Several very special alumni were honored at this year’s Program 2013 “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” gathering. Those receiving ALUMNI.STLCOP.EDU/TRAVEL the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Black Heritage Awards were Doris Bryson ’57, Dr. Kendra Holmes ’90, and Dr. Michael Railey M.D. ’72. We invite all area alumni to stay connected to our alma mater by visiting the College Web site and becomeing a fan on our Alumni Association Facebook page, where you can find Join us for the kick-off BBQ, a‡er-hours parties, a updated information on STLCOP activities and events and continuing education program, a Trolley Tour of connect with other alumni. We welcome your input and stand St. Louis, reunion receptions, and dinner. ready to assist you in any way we can. ALUMNI Bill Reed ’67 President reunion weekend

Honoring class years ending in 3 & 8, but all are encouraged to aŒend!

e the date! O Sav ctober 4-5

Please register online for Reunion Weekend events by Sept. 19 at alumni.stlcop.edu/reunion.

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You’re Invited to the new Alumni House!

In January, the College opened the doors to its new Alumni House, located at 4557 Laclede Avenue, just two blocks from campus. The Alumni House includes offices for the development and alumni relations departments in the Office of Advancement. Open houses and alumni events will also be held at the new location. “The Alumni House not only helps our campus needs for additional space, but it also celebrates our alumni by giving them a place that recognizes their ongoing commitment to the College and our community,” says Bre‘ T. Scho‘, vice president of advancement. “The Alumni House is a visible sign of STLCOP’s continued growth.” Stop by and visit the Alumni House any time! Office hours are 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

It’s not about the destination… it’s about the discounts you get along the way.

Whether you’re planning a weekend getaway or a cross-country trip, your Alumni Association benefits get you the best travel discounts, including: • 10 percent discount from Endless Vacation rentals; • Up to 20 percent off the “best available rate” at participating Wyndham Hotels and Resorts; • Car rental discount and free Enterprise Plus membership at Enterprise Rent-a-Car; and • Bonus rewards points every time you shop in-store or online with your STLCOP Custom Visa® Platinum Rewards Card.

Best of all, when you use your Alumni Association benefits, you are showing your support for and giving back to the College and our future pharmacists!

To learn more about Alumni Association benefits, visit alumni.stlcop.edu/benefits.

SCRIPT MAGAZINE 27 SOLID GOLD

A blast of cold air rushes in as about the profession. Most the banquet room door swings importantly to many is the open. A bustling group ushers in, time the classmates spend trading heavy coats and snow- together. dusted hats for warm handshakes “It’s about camaraderie,” and hearty hellos. Despite the says Dave Kean ’52. “It’s a frigid temperature and snow- time to see people you don’t flakes beginning to fall, the room normally socialize with anymore. walking down the hallway and is packed with people who are You sit and talk and learn what’s he said, ‘Told you so.’ It was six part of St. Louis College of Phar- going on in each other’s lives and years later, and he remembered macy’s Gold Alumni, a group of what’s going on in the profession me and he remembered what he STLCOP graduates who gather we all once worked in. We all told me. Faculty like Dr. Zimmer together throughout the year to started our professional lives and Dr. Frank Mercer made it reconnect with the College and together, and this way we stay possible for me to go to school each other. connected.” while I was working full time. Named after the 50th “golden” Dave Wahlbrink ’60 agrees. I never would have graduated anniversary of their graduation “We’re all pharmacists,” he says. without their support. I am in from STLCOP, the Gold Alumni “We speak the same language. their eternal debt, and I’ll always Club was born from a collabora- We really enjoy the time we feel that way about them and tion between the St. Louis Phar- spend together. We feel like a about the College. I could not macists Association and the family.” A past member of the have succeeded anywhere else.” Veteran Druggists Association. Alumni Association board of Art Perry ’72, a past member After the St. Louis Pharmacists directors, Wahlbrink and his wife, of the Board of Trustees and Association disbanded and atten- Diane (Braner) Wahlbrink ’60, past president of the Alumni dance at the Veteran Druggists often attend the lunches together. Association, expresses a similar Association had begun to wane, “It’s so nice to get together sentiment. “I had spent 30 years the College’s alumni relations once a month and listen to the in community pharmacy, and then department and the Alumni stories.” Dave adds, “There’s another 19 ½ years with Eli Lilly, Association worked to reconnect always a new story you didn’t traveling across the country and and rebuild relationships with the hear before.” then working in their government graduates. About once a month, Although their graduation division,” he says. “No matter the alumni relations department years vary and their careers in where I went, I received accolades hosts a Gold Alumni luncheon so the pharmacy profession may for being a graduate of St. Louis old friends, classmates, and col- have taken different paths, College of Pharmacy. I was really leagues can stay in touch with the this special group is united by proud, and I still am.” College, the profession, and each their pride as graduates of the If you are interested in other. The luncheon occasionally College. “I didn’t attend the attending the next Gold Alumni includes a guest speaker who College for six years,” shares event or learning more about the discusses topics of interest to Barry Kidder ’67. “My wife was Gold Alumni Club, please contact the group, including the future of pregnant, and I had a family to Necole Powell at 314.446.8398 pharmacy, new pharmacy regula- take care of, so I had to quit. or [email protected]. tions, and updates about the When I quit, Dr. Art Zimmer said College. They may also give to me, ‘You’ll be back.’ When I updates or share new information came back, Dr. Zimmer saw me

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At this year’s event, Dr. Michael Railey M.D.’72 and Dr. Kendra Holmes’90 were honored with the Distinguished ASHP MEETING IN LAS VEGAS, Dec. 2-6 Alumni Black Heritage Award.

LOOK WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, February 9

Alumni and friends of the College spent an evening at Tabu Ultra Lounge in Las Vegas during the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ annual meeting.

Mardi Gras Breakfast, February 9

SAINT LOUIS ZOO WILD LIGHTS, DEC. 9

Young Alumni and fifth and sixth-year students enjoyed Mardi Gras Breakfast on campus before Alumni brought their families to the Saint Louis Zoo during the Wild Lights exhibit. STLCOP taking MetroLink downtown for guests had a private room where they enjoyed beverages and desserts. a shuttle ride to Soulard. MardiGras and Wild Lights photos by StephanieHoffman, Look Who’s Coming to Dinner photos by Eric Pan second-year student, and ASHP photosby Brett Schott. T.

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1950s James Dille ’59 has 1976-2012 on April 1. His Sr. Evelyn (Cecilia) published his book novel Baxter’s Friends will be Marie Peterman ’53/’57 Questions With Answers released June 1. Ned lives in is celebrating 70 years as a From…Saints, Poets, Philoso- Smithton, Ill. Franciscan Sister of Mary. phers and Old Men, which Some of her professions is available from WestBow Stan Reents’ ’77 company, have included pharmacy, Press. James still works part AthleteInMe.com®, was nursing, chaplain service, time at Dille Drug Store. recently recognized by and work as a missionary in He and his wife, Mary, live Web Health Awards for its PETERMAN Africa. She is now retired in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Exercise Calorie Converter and volunteering with the app, which translates the Jefferson City Correctional 1960s calories in common food Center, a local hospice, and Don Hagen ’65 and his items into minutes of her parish. Evelyn lives in wife, Pat, recently enjoyed exercise specific for the Jefferson City, Mo. visiting with fellow person’s body weight. For classmates on a trip to the the second year in a row, Donald Becker ’54 Ted Smallwood Store on Web Health Awards has recently retired as staff Chokoloskee Island, Fla. recognized AthleteInMe. DILLE pharmacist from Sansum Pictured in front of the com® for its innovative Clinic Pharmacy in Santa pharmacy of the 1906 health and fitness resources. Barbara, Calif. Donald and trading post are (left to Stan is president and CEO his wife, Doris, have been right): Jim Erdman ’67, Ray of AthleteInMe.com®. pursuing his “bucket list” of Cordes ’65, Diane Erdman traveling to five oceans and ’65, Dominick Caleca ’65, 1980s seven continents. Over the and Don Hagen ’65. Starlin Haydon-Greatting years, they have been able to ’81 was named a Fellow of HAGEN visit every continent in the 1970s the American Pharmacists world, except Antarctica, Ned Randle ’73 has signed Association (APhA) and every ocean. eir most a publishing contract with Academy of Pharmacy recent trip was to Iceland. Coffeetown Press, which Practice and Management. will release Running at Starlin is a clinical Night-Collected Poems pharmacy consultant. She

Reynolds Head of IPhA HUESEMAN Garth K. Reynolds ’00 was recently appointed executive director of the Illinois Pharmacists Association (IPhA). He has served IPhA for many years in several different capacities, including student director representing St. Louis College of Pharmacy, chair of the public affairs committee, chair of the chain practitioners section, vice president, and president (a FROIDL position his late father, Gary Reynolds ’71, also held). “I have devoted myself to serving IPhA, bringing forward the profession, and advo- cating for pharmacists, students, technicians, and our patients to our elected representa- tives, government bodies, professional associations, and the public,” Reynolds says. During his career as a community pharmacist, Reynolds has practiced independently and at national and regional community pharmacies including, most recently, as pharmacy supervisor and immunization program coordinator for Dierberg’s Markets, Inc. In 2012, Reynolds received the Distinguished Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to the College. He is a former president of the College’s Alumni Association and is currently an adjunct clinical laboratory instructor in pharmaceutics and advanced pharmacy practice at STLCOP. NGUYEN

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and her husband, Mark The Rewards of a Greatting ’81, M.D., reside Long, Influential in Springfield, Ill. Career Catherine (Sampel) Goetz Dennis K. Helling ’71, ’85 was a speaker at the MOYE Pharm.D., D.Sc., FCCP, Eighth Annual St. Louis FASHP, recently received Business Journal Women’s the 2013 Remington Honor Conference in January Medal, which recognizes on “When ey Rely on distinguished service on behalf of the pharmacy profes- You: Caring For An Aging sion. The accolade, awarded annually by the American Parent.” Catherine is a Pharmacists Association (APhA), is the highest recogni- pharmacist at St. Luke’s tion given in the profession of pharmacy and was Hospital and has served on presented at the APhA annual meeting in Los Angeles. the Board of Trustees of the SUMMERFIELD Helling retired from Kaiser Permanente, Colorado College since 2010. Region in January a¨er 20 years as the executive director of pharmacy operations and therapeutics. During his 1990s career, he oversaw more than 800 employees at 29 Paul Hueseman ’97/’98 pharmacies and influenced the expansion of pharmacists’ opened Greentree Health roles and ambulatory clinical pharmacy services. His Mart Pharmacy in Kirk- research and practice focused on the importance of wood, Mo., on Nov. 5, 2012. documenting the impact pharmacists have on improving He lives in St. Louis. patient outcomes and the costs of health care. VOGT “I am invigorated by the future that is calling out to 2000s us right now,” he says. “The health care climate in our Medicap Pharmacy. e Mark Froidl ’00 and his country is begging for solutions. How do we get higher family lives in Eldorado, Ill. quality care, healthier patients, and lower costs—all at wife, Jessica, welcomed the same time? Pharmacists are key to the solution.” their second child, Calvin Kelly (Morin) Summerfield Helling was also recently named a Fellow of the APhA Grey, on Nov. 13, 2012. ’04/’05 and her husband, Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management. He He weighed 7 pounds, 3 Dennis, welcomed their has received numerous other awards during the course ounces. He joins big sister, third child, Zachary John, on of his career, including the American Society of Health Helen, who is 5. e family Aug. 20, 2012. He weighed System Pharmacists (ASHP) Award for Achievement of lives in Fenton, Mo. 8 pounds, 13 ounces and Sustained Contributions to the Literature of Hospital measured 20 ¾ inches. He Kenny Nguyen ’00 Pharmacy, the American College of Clinical Pharmacol- and his joins big sister, Hannah, ogy (ACCP) Paul F. Parker Medal, the ASHP Best Practice Nancy Hoang ’02 wife, , who is 6, and big brother, Award, the APhA-Academy of Pharmacy Practice welcomed their first child, Dylan, who is 3. Kelly is and Management Distinguished Achievement Award Kristen Tien, on Dec. 12, employed by Senior Scripts in in Specialized Pharmaceutical Services, the APhA’s 2012. She weighed 5 pounds Chesterfield, Mo. e family Pinnacle Award, the Colorado Pharmacists Society Bowl 12 ounces, and measured resides in St. Peters. of Hygeia award, and the ACCP Distinguished Achieve- 19 inches. Nancy and ment Award in Ambulatory Care. In 1988, he received Kenny are both employed Kim (Stephens) Vogt the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College and by Walgreens. e family ’06 and her husband, Jim, delivered the 2012 Commencement address. resides in St. Louis. “I truly believe that if each one of us finds the capacity welcomed their second child, Drew Robert, on to expect a li‘le more than we think possible, risk a li‘le Ashley (Cathey) Moye ’04 Nov. 1, 2012. He weighed more than we think is safe, and do a li‘le more than and her husband, Joseph, we think we can—we have the ability to improve our 7 pounds, 14 ounces and welcomed their second families, community, and profession,” Helling says. measured 20 ½ inches. He child, Claire Lyndsey, on Helling is a clinical professor with the University of joins big brother, Colby, June 6, 2012. She weighed Colorado School of Pharmacy, fellow of the ACCP and who is 2. Kim is a staff phar- 4 pounds, 4 ounces. She ASHP, and past president of the Accreditation Council macist at Tara Pharmacy in joins big brother, Eli. Ashley for Pharmacy Education and ACCP. St. Louis. e family resides is pharmacist in charge for in Valmeyer, Ill.

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2010s Joseph E. Vogelsang Micah Howell ’12 opened ’51 died Oct. 3, 2012, Alumna Receives Residency Award Howell Health Mart in Decatur, Ill. Pharmacy in Edwardsville, Ill., on Feb. 20. Micah Raymond A. Carroll ’57 and his wife, Cheri, live in died Jan. 16 in Evanston, Ill. Edwardsville, Ill. R. Eugene Herren ’59 died July 30, 2012, in In Memoriam Kampsville, Ill. Bernard S. Esser ’47 died Dec. 20, 2012, in Richard J. Ahrens ’75 Washington, Mo. died Nov. 30, 2012, in Noel O. Nuessle ’49 Eureka, Mo. died Dec. 11, 2012, in Overland Park, Kan. Stacy L. Mullen ’86 died Aug. 13, 2011, in Martha J. Hounsom Murphy ’50 died Dec. 26, Eureka, Mo. 2012, in Moss Point, Miss. Aaron D. Rosenbloom Sr. M. Doris Poettker ’50 ’92/’93 died Nov. 9, 2012, died Jan. 13 in Springfield, Ill. in Roscoe, Ill. Elizabeth A. Neuner ’06, Pharm.D., BCPS, AQ-ID, has been named the recipient of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Research and Education Foundation’s 2012 Pharmacy Residency Excellence New Preceptor Award. The award recognizes a pharmacy residency SPEAK UP preceptor who has excelled in the training of Tell your STLCOP friends and pharmacy residents in the first three to five years classmates about the latest of serving as a preceptor. news in your life. Neuner is an infectious diseases clinical specialist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. To date, she has acted Submit to: as a preceptor to 21 residents for 51 resident months. Alumni Office • St. Louis College of Pharmacy “I am truly honored to be selected by the ASHP 4588 Parkview Place • St. Louis, MO 63110 [email protected] • alumni.stlcop.edu/classnotes Foundation to receive the new preceptor award,” Neuner says. “I am thankful for the preceptors who mentored and trained me and the past, present, and name class year future residents who continue to inspire and engage address me. I look forward to being a part of shaping the next home/cell phone generation of pharmacists through residency training.” In just four years, Neuner has transformed the e-mail address pharmacy residency program at the Cleveland Clinic. current employer(s) She led the development and implementation of the pharmacy vancomycin dosing service and a staphy- my news lococcus aureus screening and eradication protocol. She also co-authored the Guidelines for Antimicrobial Usage Handbook. Neuner has contributed to the improvement of pharmacy staff training with innovative modules, such as “Antimicrobial Jeopardy” and a primer on empiric antimicrobial therapy.

32 Spring 2013 CLASSROOM TOOLS

These half sheets of colored cardstock paper with printed letters are handed out to students in the Introduction to Pharmaceutical Are these just colored Care: Nonprescription Drugs and Drug Information course as part of team-based learning—which is incorporated into several classes at pieces of paper? the College. You see, before showing up to their class, students view a pre- Well, yes, they are. recorded lecture by their professor or read their textbook to learn the lesson for the week. If, for instance, the lesson is on smoking cessation, students learn the necessary information beforehand, When students come to class, they take an individual exam, then take the same exam as a team, debating their answers and coming ough, at STLCOP, to a consensus. Two days later, the teams discuss a case study and use the colored paper to hold up their responses (so everyone can they are quite a bit more. see each other’s answers) to in-class questions prepared by Assis- tant Professor Nicole Gattas.

Team-based learning empowers students to apply their knowledge, to go over more complex information in class, and to think through each case. It is active learning—encouraging questions, clarifying difficult points, and helping students re-focus on the lecture. It also allows students to learn in the way that is best for each of them. Which, in the end, leads to higher learning in the classroom.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2013 CRESCENT FARMS GOLF CLUB

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