ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY SCRIPTVOLUME 18, NUMBER 1 Winter 2009 It is no surprise to anyone that the recent economic downturn Editor Sheila Haar Siegel FEATURES has hit nearly every business sector in our economy. Private colleges and universities have been particularly hard hit because Designer Colleen Krutewicz The Doctor is In their endowments have often lost a quarter or more of their Contributing Writers value. St. Louis College of Pharmacy is no exception; our Bryan Daniels There’s only one pharmacy in Scotland County, Missouri: the one run Marc Long by Matt McKee ’04. As a rural pharmacist, he has to be a social worker, Iendowment has lost nearly 24 percent since June 30, 2008. Connie Mitchell 6 lawyer, and community activist — all while building a notable career. However, I believe that successfully navigating these tough Proofreader conditions and, at the same time, securing the College’s future Nancy Busch sheila haar siegel independence will create many opportunities for long-term Class Notes growth. Sandy Doyle For instance, the College has longed to expand its five-acre President, Alumni Association Student Profile: Joel Henneberry campus, and this summer STLCOP will acquire approximately Tom Meyer ’71 During high school, Joel Henneberry traveled every year from his home- 1.2 acres of land to plan future expansion of facilities (see Chairman, Board of Trustees 10 town of Decatur, Illinois, to hear the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra News Briefs, pg. 3). And though the markets have declined, Ronald T. Hofmeister perform. Now, in his third year at STLCOP, he sits on the same stage as donor-funded scholarships for STLCOP students are on the President Thomas F. Patton, Ph.D. his classical mentors in the symphony’s Youth Orchestra. upswing, with this year’s 198 awards totaling $331,940 — aan Vice President for Marketing increase of more than nine percent from last year. and Communications sheila haar siegel Everywhere there are signs that, while these are leaner times Marc Long for institutions that are relying heavily on endowments, the Vice President for Advancement Brett T. Schott wisdom of the College’s endowment management strategy Pharmacy in the Forest remains clear. Not only does our endowment build principal Script magazine is a joint effort Getting back to nature might be our best shot at finding new treatments value to sustain funds despite tough economic times, but the of the College and the Alumni 12 and cures. In the field and in the lab, pharmacists, researchers, and the Association, published three times a money available to spend from the return on its investments year for alumni, students, and friends pharmaceutical industry are taking varied approaches to unlocking the of the College. Questions or comments traditionally has been used only for facilities growth and may be addressed to Sheila Haar hidden power of plants. Siegel at [email protected]. restricted scholarship funds, not general operations. connie mitchell When the going gets tough, the best get better, and I am SUBSCRIPTIONS confident that St. Louis College of Pharmacy is in a very Through your relationship with St. Louis College of Pharmacy, you competitive position. Your college attracts the very best are a subscriber to Script magazine. St. Louis College of Pharmacy President Generation Rx students, faculty, and staff. As long as we continue to do that, Thomas F. 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As with WUSM on the effects both future pharmacists a result, both children of inositol polyphosphate and the community on and adults are gaining 4-phosphatase on platelet medication safety, the a better understanding activation, hemostasis, College has created a new of what pharmacists do and thrombosis. introductory practice in retail, clinical, and Dr. Elizabeth Rattine- experience (IPE) option. As research settings. Flaherty is assistant part of a clinical prevention Last semester, Assistant professor of health com- and population health Director of Experiential munications at the College. course, the IPE allows Programs Amy Tiemeier Rattine-Flaherty received fourth-year students to share ’01/’02 collaborated on her Ph.D. in health commu- important safety tips with the project with Debbie nication studies from Ohio children and adults at the Wutdke, life sciences New faculty members, from left: Chaya Gopalan, Jasna Marjanovic, Elizabeth Rattine-Flaherty, Brenda Gardenour University in Athens, Ohio. St. Louis Science Center. gallery leader at the Science At STLCOP, she is responsi- Every Monday during Center, who agreed that the New Faces, New Perspectives anesthetic, which resulted ble for teaching professional the school year, STLCOP partnership made a lot of in several publications. communications, a required students spend two hours sense for both organizations. Dr. Brenda Gardenour, Hagiography of the Latin Currently, she is conduct- course for all students. at the center explaining Fourth-year student Keith Nagy helps a young St. Louis Science Center visitor “With this partnership, make a bottle of calamine lotion to take home. assistant professor of history, West, which is scheduled for ing independent research on Rattine-Flaherty’s the benefits and possible everyone benefits,” says teaches cultural heritage publication with University inositols and their insulin- interests include health dangers of medications to associated with the body parents and grandparents Wutdke. “Our visitors get courses and an elective on of Notre Dame Press. like effects in the body in and social change within young visitors. Student- and medicine. Visitors on various side effects to find out what pharmacy the history of pharmacy Dr. Chaya Gopalan collaboration with WUSM. traditionally marginalized pharmacists teach kids can even practice using and remind them of the is all about with great and medicine. Gardenour is associate professor of She will present a poster on communities, and how to not consume an object a mortar and pestle with importance of properly activities and interactions, also is currently leading a physiology at the College. her findings at the Experi- dialogue and small group that looks like candy the students and make a storing medicine, how and the student-pharmacists research seminar on the Gopalan graduated with a mental Biology Conference discussion are part of pro- because, in fact, it could be small bottle of calamine to correctly dispose of get a chance to share their College’s collection of phar- Ph.D. in physiology from in New Orleans in April. moting better health within medicine. They also talk lotion to take home. medicines, and how to keep passion with an interested macy artifacts on campus, the University of Glasgow Dr. Jasna Marjanovic those communities. She also about scientific processes Students also educate kids safe with medicines audience.” and is co-advisor for the in Scotland and did her is assistant professor of has traveled extensively in STLCOP Outdoor Club. postdoctoral training at the pharmacology. Marjanovic Peru, the Philippines, and Gardenour holds a Ph.D. Medical Research Council earned a Ph.D. in pharma- Israel to research the use of Property Swap Paves Way for Expansion in medieval history from in Edinburgh, Scotland, cology from the Univer- photography, theater, and Boston University. Her and Michigan State Univer- sity of Illinois at Chicago, sketching combined with With an eye toward future Whelpley Hall (along both to Washington University. to sell to BJC Health System most recent research focuses sity. For the past 13 years, where she did research on narrative in gaining an building opportunities, sides of Parkview Place “I am excited that we a property it acquired last on the use of medicine as she had been teaching at the molecular pharmacol- understanding of individuals St. Louis College of Pharmacy at Taylor Avenue). were able to work with year at 4333 W. Clayton a language of authority in Maryville University and ogy of platelet activation. and communities. She has plans to acquire approximately In return, the College our neighbors to secure Avenue. For the time religious texts in the 13th St. Louis Community College. She comes to the College co-authored several articles 1.2 acres of land adjacent will transfer ownership of this important expansion being, the College will and 14th centuries. To col- Gopalan has been awarded from WUSM, where she and chapters, including a to campus. the Rabe Hall property to opportunity for the retain parking rights on lect data for the project, she numerous grants and has did postdoctoral training in chapter in Intercultural and Under the terms of a land Washington University. College,” says President the property’s lot, which spent a year as a Fulbright published several scholarly the Division of Hematology Business Communication swap agreement between the After all current student Thomas Patton. “This is located across the street Scholar in Madrid, Spain, and professional articles.