UF represented at the 61st Indian Pharmaceutical Congress

   

     Indian Pharmacy Congress held its 61^st conference in Ahmadabad, India, from December 11-13, 2009. Drs. Sekar and Melethil, faculty members of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Findlay, were invited to make scientific presentations. Dr. Sekar’s presentation was on the five decades of phosphoinositides as signaling molecules, while Dr. Melethil presented the need for intellectual property and drug regulation in pharmacy education.

    During this trip, Dr. Sekar and Dr. Melethil were also invited to be the guests of RAK Medical and Health Sciences University in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. There they made presentations on pharmacy practice and pharmacy education in USA to the faculty and administrators of the University, who were very interested in developing a quality pharmacy curriculum that will meet US standards, such as  the Pharm.D. program. 

Side trip to the seventh Wonder of the World, Taj Mahal 
    
With colleagues from RAK Medical and Health Sciences University

Pharmacy Students Volunteer to Help City of Findlay with Medication Collection Day

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Earlier this spring, students and faculty members from the College of Pharmacy were asked to participate in Medication Collection Day, a joint effort of the City of Findlay Health Department, Water Pollution Control and the Findlay City Police Department, as well as the Hancock County Community Partnership and the University. “The oldest thing I saw was something that had to have been at least 40 years old,” said Donald Stansloski, R.Ph., Ph.D., dean of the College of Pharmacy. He also noted that many medications were much more recent. At Stansloski’s station, students confirmed that tablets matched the package label and counted the number of tablets. Stansloski entered that data into a computer system. Three barrels full of discarded drugs were collected that day, which is thousands of unused medications.    

Global Health Online

The University of Findlay's College of Pharmacy and College of Business have collaborated to develop a new online journal, Global Health Online, which can be found at http://globalhealthonline.findlay.edu.  

The mission of Global Health - an Online Journal for the Digital Age is to provide writing and editing opportunities for students preparing to enter the field of health care in venues that span the globe. Faculty members and guest authors are encouraged to contribute articles that will help students in their quest for knowledge. Student, faculty and guest contributors will use the Journal as a repository for scholarly articles on: 1. Careers in Global Health Care (articles on interesting careers that people, especially young people, have carved out for themselves in various health care settings) 2. Entrepreneurship in Global Health Care (articles on exciting entrepreneurial businesses and initiatives within larger businesses could be featured, especially entrepreneurial businesses and ventures initiated by younger individuals) 3. Having an impact (articles about people, businesses, organizations, or initiatives that are having a demonstrable impact on some facet of global health care and/or people) 4. Alternative Health Care (articles about nontraditional approaches to health care around the globe) 5. Guest article (by a recognized authority) 6. Reviews of health care in various countries