It's
#FacultyFriday
—Let's celebrate some well-deserved promotions 🥳
⭐️ Stacy Taylor – Clinical Professor
⭐️ Khaled Shaaban – Assoc. Research Professor
⭐️ Jeff Cain – Professor
⭐️ Gavin Howington – Clinical Assoc. Professor
⭐️ Daniela Claudia Moga – Professor
#PharmEd
#TwitteRx
Hey
#TwitterRx
our pharm fam keeps being referred to as “just” pharmacists. So, let’s talk about what that REALLY means. We’ll go first: Our faculty have trained over 2,600 people on proper Naloxone administration. You know who’s combatting opioid overdoses?
#JustAPharmacist
Today at the college we managed to load down two lab carts full of personal protective equipment (PPE) for our friends and colleagues at
@UK_HealthCare
. THANK YOU pharm fam for making these much-needed donations.
#TeamKentucky
#COVID19
#ukcopeffect
Ready for this match?! Travis Smith accepted a job at an independent pharmacy back in his hometown of Hendersonville, NC. This was his first pharmacy job way back when, and it's what made him want to pursue a career in pharmacy.
#UKMatch2020
#RxMatchDay
Congrats to our own
@AFlanneryPharmD
, who was honored as a 2022
@ASHPOfficial
Fellow during the 2022 summer meeting! 👏👏👏
Members who achieved FASHP status have demonstrated sustained commitment or contributions to excellence in practice for at least 10 years.
#ukcopeffect
Join us in congratulating Dr.
@ClarkKebodeaux
, named a
@universityofky
2021 Great Teacher Award recipient from a competitive group of nominees! We're lucky to have him part of our pharm fam. We snagged a screenshot of the moment he found out - we see that eyebrow raise. 😉
Shout out to Brent Raley who matched with St. Elizabeth in northern Kentucky! Love it when our grads get to continue to serve our community right here in KY.
#UKMatch2020
#RxMatchDay
Dr. Gallagher (PharmD 2020) administers the first COVID-19 vaccine in the state of Utah! So proud of all our alumni on the frontlines. Dr. Gallagher is currently a PGY1 resident at the University of Utah.
#beyondthescript
Alex Flannery (PharmD '11, R398) has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology in recognition of research and practice excellence!
@ASNKidney
fellowship recognizes outstanding credentials, professional excellence, and scholarly contributions.
#TwitteRx
News from
@KyPharmAssoc
: This afternoon Governor Andy Beshear signed an Executive Order giving emergency authority to pharmacists. In accordance with provisions of KRS 315.500 and 201 KAR 2:330, the executive order gives pharmacists the following authorities effective 3/10/20:
Abby Bailey (PharmD 2011, R394) is one of the first frontline workers to receive their vaccination from
@UK_HealthCare
nurse Janie Lawson, RN. Abby is an emergency medicine pharmacist at UK. Thx for all your hard work, Dr. Bailey!
Meet Alex Flannery, a Clinical Researcher who was recently granted UKCOP's $50,000 Inaugural CRC Pilot Award for his research on sepsis-associated acute kidney injury. Read more to learn about Alex and Dave's efforts to help find a treatment:
Reports have surfaced that many COVID-19 patients responded well to a drug called Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine. Hear what faculty member Frank Romanelli, a pharmacist and medication expert, had to say.
#COVID
@RunBlue
Ok, seriously. Who is running the
@UK_COP
Twitter account today? Because those puns are TOP NOTCH. I am now almost as invested in your students as I am with
#KateGate
Get this SoMe team a raise!
#RxMatchDay
It’s no exaggeration when we say pharmacists save lives. Our students have been busy helping our alumni and employees in vaccine efforts across the Commonwealth (and the US). We can’t say enough about the enormous collaborative effort this has been. 1/x
Alexandra Wallem accepted a 2-year fellowship position in Health Economics and Outcomes Research with
@UofMaryland
and
@Novartis
. She's a dual degree pharmacy and master of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy candidate.
#UKMatch2020
#RxMatchDay
Congrats to
@GTsodikova
and PharmNMR Center Director Vivek Subramanian on their successful efforts in securing an $1.5M NIH High-End Instrumentation grant to advance chemistry and drug discovery at UK.
#ukcopeffect
#ResearchHighlight
It’s the end of an era. Dr. Joe Fink is retiring this year! ☹️😭
Help us recognize his immense impact
@UK_COP
by sharing stories, comments and congratulations. A student org is putting something special together. 🥰
How has Dr. Fink impacted you? 📝
$87 million to. . .
save lives.
reduce harm.
inform the nation.
The
@NIH
and
@NIDAnews
believe we have the knowledge, skills, resources and passion to address one of the nation's largest crises and heal our communities.
#HEALingCommunities
#ukcopeffect
This weekend—like most weekends—we have groups of volunteers from the College working to vaccinate thousands of Kentuckians. So proud of the work this pharm fam is doing! It’s kind of like our...Super Bowl. (Okay. We’ll see ourselves out.)
Happy Birthday to Us! We turn 150 years old today! To celebrate, we're gifting our pharm fam 15% off our pop-up web store. Emails and texts went out this afternoon with the code. 🥳🎈🎁💙 We'll be celebrating all year long!
Alum Tiffany Self Vicars, PharmD 2004, competed on an episode of
@Jeopardy
! It aired on 5/29/20 and re-aired yesterday. 90k people took the online qualifying exam, and only 3k were invited to an in-person audition. 400 of those were asked to appear on the show. 🤩
#ukcopeffect
Meet Dr. Gavin Howington, a UKCOP Clinical Assistant Professor and Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist. Read more about how Gavin contributes to the frontline battle by using monoclonal antibody therapy to help high-risk COVID-19 patients:
UKCOP announces Assoc. Dean Romanelli (
@RunBlue
) will take a sabbatical to tour with the DunKings, a pop band of celebrities Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Tom Brady. Romanelli won this opportunity via Dunkin's ultimate fan search contest.
Full story:
"Every pharmacist I know has saved a life somewhere, but they never talk about it. Pharmacists save lives every day by identifying problems and alerting the physician who makes the change..." - Gloria Doughty (Class of 1951)
#WhyImAPharmacist
Congratulations to Dr. Bjoern Bauer, whose research project "Blood-Brain Barrier Repair in Alzheimer’s Disease with Epilepsy" received over $3.6M in funding.
Bauer will serve as co-PI with Dr. Anika Hartz of
@UKSBCoA
.
#ukcopeffect
The UKCOP team has made it to the Elite Eight for the
@ACCP
Clinical Pharmacy Challenge! The student team is now 1 of 8 left, which started with 109. Shoutout to Kellen, Katelyn, Jonny, Kennedy, and Megan for all their hard work!
First ever college grad in her family,
@JimmiHatton
R151 speaks to a full house of colleagues, mentors, and mentees as she receives the Paul F. Parker Award.
#ukcopeffect
Blake is heading to Mass Gen Hospital (with Emma) where he’ll be doing a 2yr Health-System Pharmacy Administration residency training program. He’s also been accepted to
@uncpharmacy
to pursue a Master of Science degree. Proud of you, Blake!
#UKMatch2019
#RxMatchDay
#ukcopeffect
And because we're celebrating each and every match (not just residency placements) we've gotta high-five Catherine Van Doorn on joining the UKCOP PhD program. She'll be continuing her research from the PharmD/MSPS dual degree program in Dr. Pauly's lab.
#UKMatch2020
#RxMatchDay
Congratulations to
@MelodyRyan
(PharmD 1993) on receiving the Global Impact Award for Distinguished Faculty Achievements in Internationalizing the Curriculum! We are lucky to have her as part of our pharm fam.
#BeyondTheScript
#WildlyPossible
When
@universityofky
pharmacy students and
@jimbeam
get together they go all-in on
#TeamKentucky
. We helped repackage 250 gallons of hand sanitizer produced and donated by the Jim Beam Distillery for healthcare workers and first responders. Take a look.
We've got some exciting news! We are happy to announce that alumnus Brooke Hudspeth will be joining us as our new Chief Practice Officer, effective April 13, 2020.
Katie Olney, PharmD, BCIDP, has received a Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (
@SIDPharm
) Early Career Award for her project "Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Evaluation of Fixed-Dose Daptomycin."
Congratulations, R512!
@UKPharmRes
@ResearchKY
@UK_HealthCare
“I know I would not be here if it wasn’t for those that helped me along the way."
Meet
@UK_COP
's 2022-2023 University Research Professor Dr. Daniela Moga (
@epidmoga
).
Read more about this prestigious professorship:
PharmDawgs: whether you’re traveling to Indy or watching from home, we want to connect with you when the Dawgs roll over the Alabama Crimson Tide this Monday! Tag us in posts of your Dawg watching celebrations 🐾
If you're headed to Indy, email kihamby
@uga
.edu to connect! 🐶🔛🔝
Congratulations to
@DrJeffCain
who received the Alumni Award from the Alpha Xi Rho Chi chapter! Thank you for all the hard work you do for our College and for our students.
#ukcopeffect
So proud of you, Brandy!! 4 yrs ago she started a journey toward her dream career w/ a 2-week-old baby boy. She knew every sleepless, hard, tear-filled night would pay off. And it did. Today she matched with St Claire Regional Medical Center!
#UKMatch2019
#RxMatchDay
We've crunched the numbers, and *drumroll*, please...🥁
This is the highest Match rate EVER at UKCOP! In Phase 1 & 2, we had 67 matches for an 85% match rate.
Congratulations, Class of 2022! 👏👏👏