Ingo Koomoa-Lange, Ph.D. and assistant professor, DKICP, has received the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation Medical Research Program grant from the Victoria S. and Bradley L. Geist Foundation.
This year’s DKICP P4 class was well-represented at the recent American Society of Health Systems Pharmacy (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition, held in a virtual format December 6-10, 2020. Conference attendees can view poster PDFs and audio clips of participants summarizing projects online through March 10, 2021.
Three current and former DKICP researchers are co-authors of a paper featured on the cover of the latest issue of the publication ACS Infectious Diseases. Their paper is titled “Pharmaceutically acceptable carboxylic acid-terminated polymers show activity and selectivity against HSV-1 and HSV-2 and synergy with antiviral drugs.”
In the state’s efforts to vaccinate residents against the COVID-19 virus, DKICP faculty and students have been volunteering to help at various vaccination sites on Oahu and Hawaiʻi Island over the past 1½ months.
This year’s winner of the Hawaii Pharmacists Association Friends of Pharmacy Award has been a champion of pharmacy partnerships for more than 15 years. Allen (Chip) Hixon, MD, is chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health in the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
The Hawaiʻi Pharmacists Association recently presented three members of the DKICP ohana with HPHA annual awards. Dr. Jarred Prudencio, assistant professor in Pharmacy Practice, received the Young Pharmacist award. Christina Method, clinical education support specialist, was honored with the Pharmacy Technician of the Year award. Dr.
To provide information to residents about how state organizations are addressing the opioid epidemic, the State of Hawaiʻi and the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health produced a 24-page insert that appeared in a recent Sunday edition of the Honolulu Star Advertiser. DKICP’s Dr. Roy Goo was one of several experts quoted in the publication.
Teamwork among healthcare professionals is essential in delivering quality patient care. DKICP students are getting important team-based learning experiences through the University of Hawaiʻi Translational Health Science Simulation Center (THSSC), which is anchored by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene.
Forty first-year University of Hawai`i at Hilo students recited the Oath of a Pharmacist at the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy’s White Coat Ceremony Sunday, October 18. DKICP Dean Carolyn Ma and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lara Gomez presented each student with their new white coat, while all observed safe distancing protocol.
Early this month, four DKICP teams participated in the local American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Clinical Skills Competition.
