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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 ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY College Receptionist 314.367.870 0 Script Magazine 314.446.8397 DEPARTMENTS President’s Office 314.446.8307 Deans’ Office 314.446.8342 2 News Briefs Admissions 314.446.8312 Financial Aid 314.446.8320 10 Feature: How to Expand Global Outreach Alumni Office 314.446.8398 Development Office 314.446.8394 12 Student Profile: Miss Missouri USA Ellie Holtman Public Relations 314.446.8393 Continuing Education 314.446.8539 22 Alumni Profile: Greg Boyer ’76 WWW.STLCOP.EDU/SCRIPT 26 Alumni News 30 Class Notes News Briefs 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.