This past weekend, Belmont College of Pharmacy students teamed up with Walgreens and Nashville Cares to administer free HIV tests at Walgreens locations around Middle Tennessee. The free testing was part of the Greater Than AIDS campaign and was in honor of National HIV Testing Day. The students participating in the event were members of the Belmont chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) who had completed HIV testing and counseling training with Nashville Cares and become certified in the Spring. SNPhA plans to offer the training to its other members during the upcoming school year. SNPhA hopes to maintain their partnership with Nashville Cares so that they can continue to serve their community through HIV education and early detection.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
OT Professor is presenter at Swiss Conference
Dr. Teresa Plummer, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, was a presenter this spring at the Interdisciplinary Seating and Mobility Conference in Nottwil, Switzerland. The conference was held at the Switzerland Paraplegic Center, a 150 bed facility dedicated to spinal cord injury rehab and research. Dr. Plummer’s presentation was on the Relationship of Vision, Posture and Mobility.
Pharmacy staff member publishes article
Erin L. Wikle, assistant to the dean in the College of Pharmacy, has published an article on new Tennessee legislation impacting women who use narcotic drugs while pregnant. The law, effective July 1, states that a woman can be prosecuted for assault if she takes a narcotic drug while pregnant and the baby is born addicted, is harmed or dies as a result. Wikle discusses services offered by The Salvation Army in Tennessee to support both the mother and effected family members. She also proposes key questions that result from the controversy of the legislation. Click here to read the article.
Pharmacy Faculty and Students join Medical Mission to Honduras
A small group of faculty and students from Belmont University College of Pharmacy recently traveled to Honduras as part of the Baptist Medical Dental Mission to that country. Dr. Adam Pace, Dr. Alisa Spinelli, and two fourth year pharmacy students, Erin Oakley and Erin Mullen, joined a team of about 30 medical professionals who made the trip.
The team set up a medical clinic, dentistry clinic, and pharmacy in a schoolhouse in El Cedrito, a mountain village in the state of Yoro, and saw approximately 1500 patients. About 5,000 prescriptions were dispensed through the pharmacy, 250 teeth were pulled by the dentist and 200 pairs of eyeglasses were distributed. In addition, 180 individuals either professed a new found faith in Jesus Christ or expressed a renewal of their Christian commitment during the church services or through personal evangelism at the medical stations.
Mission to Cambodia: A bittersweet day
Mission to Cambodia 2014
from Jessica Cammuse, Nursing student
It’s our last day in Cambodia and it is bittersweet! I have enjoyed my time here but am also ready to get home. Today started out going to church. Church is fun but definitely longer than in the states. Last Sunday we invited the family from our service project to church and they came. This Sunday, they came back! It was a happy moment when we all saw them this morning. God new what he was doing when he gave us that family this trip. I hope they continue to go to church even after we leave. After church we had a free afternoon. For me, it was a relaxing afternoon and for others it was a shopping spree! Tonight we took an hour boat ride along the river. As soon as we arrived to the boat it started storming. Can’t say that I didn’t enjoy the rain because it made it feel amazing outside! It was extremely hot but the rain cooled it off. We had finally escaped the heat for a little bit. Even though it stormed, it was a fun time to be with everyone one last night! I will miss Cambodia and all the loving, beautiful people. I will also miss our wonderful group that we have made into a family. It was a great experience and feel so blessed to have been able to come to this beautiful country.
