ACPHS In The News

ACPHS was well represented at the 2024 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, among the largest gatherings of pharmacists nationwide, held in New Orleans Dec. 7-12. Pharmacy faculty, students in their final year of pharmacy education (P4), residents and alumni participated in the conference

Welcome to our series on the plethora of careers in pharmacy. Dr. Lara Tran ’23 is a clinical pharmacist at St. Joseph’s Health, a regional health system based in Syracuse, N.Y. (She is pictured above following ACPHS' May 2023 Commencement at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Paige Spiess was one of the first students to sign up last year for the Bachelor’s in Health Sciences degree program, which became an official ACPHS offering this fall.   Then a junior majoring in biomedical technology, she saw the pre-professional components of the BSHS as the perfect complement to the scientific grounding she’d already received, in preparation for her training as a physician assistant

Despite his name, plenty of evidence seemed to link suspect Ignatius M. Innocent to the murder of a 22-year-old medical student and injury of her 23-year-old roommate, who lived in the same apartment building as he did.   There was a bloody wrench and blood spatter in the med student’s apartment

Dr. Natalie Hart '24 with Dr. Lindsay Ash '21 in South Carolina    Dr. Natalie Hart ’24 is living the dream.   That phrase is more often than not delivered with irony. But for Hart, it is 100% sincere. After graduating with her pharmacy doctorate and a bachelor’s in pharmaceutical sciences in May 2024, Hart started a residency program in July at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

During a week devoted to professionalism, the Phi Delta Chi pharmacy fraternity turned to the College’s chief executive for a lesson in leadership.   ACPHS President Toyin Tofade spoke to an assembly of students on Nov. 19, telling them to SOAR like eagles, using her characteristic approach of creating an acronym to impart her advice:   Set goals  Observe people who have gone before you  Act   Rejoice, relax and repeat   With each suggestion, President Tofade shared stories from her own life, especially her earlier career when she looked to more experienced professionals for guidance

When it comes to research, few can match the output of Dr. Thomas P. Lodise:   Since he joined ACPHS in 2002, he has amassed more than 240 peer-reviewed publications on PubMed, the online database maintained by the National Library of Medicine, averaging nearly 11 publications a year

In a highly contested civil case that has engaged emerging legal professionals across the nation, the verdict could rest on the effects of a banana.   Shahid v. Hopson is in one sense a very common type of lawsuit, involving a contested will

With the goal of working in outpatient pharmacy, Titilayo Sunday knows she may someday encounter a patient overdosing on opioids, whether prescription painkillers or an illicit drug like heroin.   A pharmacy doctoral student in her final year, Sunday is learning how to handle such a situation in her clinical rotation at The Collaboratory, ACPHS’ public health resource

Jenna LeBlanc says she's not sure what she would do if she were not a cytologist. She finds tremendous rewards in being able to use her laboratory expertise to "solve puzzles" and bring patients the reassurance of a diagnosis.  The program director for the Master of Science in Cytotechnology and Molecular Cytology, LeBlanc has had an exciting Fall 2024 semester