Class of 2016 pharmacy student Amy Schnees has received a Mary Molina Education Scholarship. This $2,500 award is given to doctoral students who excel academically. Applicants must either work for or be a dependent of an employee within Molina Healthcare. Schnees worked closely with Belmont Pharmacy Assistant Professor Dr. Edgar Diaz-Cruz to prepare her application. This summer Amy has been working with Dr. Amy Ham and colleagues at Vanderbilt University to study resistance of targeted drug therapies for colon cancer.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Susan G. Komen Organization names Belmont University School of Physical Therapy as Outstanding Volunteer Group of the Year
Belmont University PT students help coordinate the 2012 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Nashville
Belmont University School of Physical Therapy has been recognized as the “Outstanding Volunteer Group of the Year” by the Susan G. Komen Organization at their annual Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas. Susan G. Komen is a global leader in the fight against breast cancer with local Affiliate offices in more than 120 locations in the U.S. and around the world. Each year the organization recognizes volunteers who demonstrate dedication, commitment, creativity, initiative and dependability.
The Belmont Physical Therapy students began their commitment to Susan G. Komen Greater Nashville two years ago when they volunteered as a group to manage the race course at the organization’s annual Susan G. Komen Nashville Race for the Cure® event. The Belmont students utilize this opportunity to enhance the schools community involvement and establish teamwork within the physical therapy school.
Residency Project takes OT student on mission to Peru
from Mary Beth Long
2013 Belmont Graduate with
Occupational Therapy Doctorate
As part of my residency project for the Belmont University’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate Program this year, I worked with Eleanore’s Project, a non-profit organization focused on ergonomically appropriate wheelchair provision and education for families and clinicians in Peru. This spring, I traveled to Lima, Arequipa and Cusco to participate in the Eleanore’s Project wheelchair clinics. We provided education and 95 properly fitted wheelchairs for children and families throughout Peru.
OT Professor presents at Seating Symposium in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Teresa Plummer, Assistant Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy at Belmont, was a featured presenter at the 2nd annual Latin American Seating Symposium in Buenos Aires, Argentina earlier this month. The conference aims to educate, train and update health professionals with the latest technology to provide solutions of sitting for people with lifelong disabilities and conditions such as neuromuscular disorders, injuries and diseases of the spinal cord, orthopedic problems, systemic diseases, obesity and polytrauma. Over 250 therapists and medical doctors from 14 South and Central American countries attended.
Dr. Plummer was one of four invited international speakers for the event. She presented on the relationship between vision, posture and mobility, and the kinesiological principles of seating and positioning. She also served on an expert panel to evaluate children with neurological injuries. Dr. Plummer has over 30 years of experience in occupational therapy and has conducted workshops nationally and internationally in the areas of rehabilitation and assistive technology.
Belmont PharmD graduates coordinate internship program for Walgreens
Class of 2012 Belmont College of Pharmacy Alumni, Dr. Rebecca Lucas Chapman and Dr. John Pustulka, are currently co-coordinating the summer internship program for Walgreens in the north and south Nashville areas. Dr. Chapman states that the majority of students in the program are currently enrolled in pharmacy school at either Belmont or Lipscomb. The main focus of the program is to develop strong future pharmacists who prefer to practice in a community setting. The program provides not only real-life experiences to the interns but the tools and resources that the current community pharmacist utilizes on a daily basis.
In addition, Dr. Chapman has recently accepted the position of pharmacy manager for Walgreens in Hermitage, Tennessee. Dr. Chapman will be implementing quality assurance protocols to increase drug safety, providing medication therapy management services as well as overseeing drug inventory. Dr. Chapman’s store is located near Tulip Grove in Hermitage.
2012 PharmD graduate accepts position with GlaxoSmithKline
Dr. Zachary Renfro (Class of 2012) has accepted a position as a Community Pharmacy Account Specialist with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in east Tennessee. He will assist in implementing community pharmacy-based initiatives that are aligned to shared GSK and retail chain headquarter objectives. The Community Pharmacy Team with GSK will focus 100% of its efforts on community pharmacy and will serve as the GSK point of contact for community pharmacists.
Dr. Renfro will work with Community Pharmacists in both independent and retail settings to encourage and support patient interventions/outcomes that result in better patient care in diseases such as asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and hypertriglyceridemia. The primary function will be to work with community pharmacists at the store level to encourage/support patient interventions that result in better patient care (i.e. medication adherence), specifically on GSK products such as Advair, Serevent, Flovent, Avodart, Jalyn, and Lovaza. This is a relatively new position within the pharmaceutical industry, with GSK being the first company to create it approximately 3 years ago.
Dr. Renfro has worked as a resident the past year with the Tennessee Pharmacist’s Association.
Scrubs Magazine Ranks Belmont Nursing Top 5 in the South
Belmont’s School of Nursing was recently listed as the No. 2 Nursing School in the South in “The Nurse’s Guide to Nursing Schools,” published on Scrubsmag.com. The program was also ranked in the top 25 institutions nationwide in the article. All ratings and reviews in the guide were based on data submitted by nurses between June and September last year.
Scrubsmag.com, an active online blog and community for nurses, is the companion website to Scrubs magazine, which debuted in November 2009. Content for both the magazine and the website is based on the full, varied and expansive entirety of a nurse’s life.
