Daily Archives: March 4, 2019

Pharmacy Student Presents at Health Information Management System Society Global Conference

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Angelina Babakitis, a Doctor of Pharmacy student in the pharmacy informatics focus track at the Belmont University College of Pharmacy, recently presented a poster at the Health Information Management System Society (HIMSS) 2019 Global Conference in Orlando, Florida.

The poster, entitled “Enhancing pharmacist intervention effectiveness by implementing custom clinical decision support,” was authored by Babakitis, PharmD Candidate 2020, Wesley Geminn, PharmD, BCPP and Erica Schlesinger, PharmD. It describes the development of clinical decision support (CDS) tools to aid pharmacists when verifying medication orders for pregnant patients at four state-funded regional mental health institutes.

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Dr. Voight Serves as Invited Faculty Member at Annual Scandinavian Congress

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Dr, Mike Voight, professor in Belmont’s School of Physical Therapy, was recently an invited faculty member at the Annual Scandinavian Congress of Medicine & Science in Sports. The aim of this Congress is to create contact between physiotherapists working in sports and physical activity, provide training, share knowledge and create working relationships with other professionals with the same interest.

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Ability App Inventor Alex Knoll Works Alongside Belmont Occupational Therapy Students

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App inventor presents to class, teams up with OTD student for Experiential Component 

Students in the Occupational Therapy Doctoral (OTD) Program and the O’More School of Design spoke with 14-year-old inventor, Alex Knoll, about a new tool called Ability App during a class earlier this week. OTD instructors Dr. Teresa Plummer and Dr. Missy Bryan and O’More instructor Jayme Jacobson joined students for the presentation as part of the OT/Interior Design collaboration. The students had the opportunity to discuss specific details regarding the app via Skype. The meeting came two years after Knoll first debuted his app to the world on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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Belmont Pharmacy AI Team Featured on ‘Talk to Your Pharmacist’ Podcast

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Belmont University College of Pharmacy student A.I. team’s Artificial Intelligence Software for Amazon Alexa was the subject of the “Talk to Your Pharmacist” podcast earlier this month.

The podcast is for pharmacists, student pharmacists and others across the country to hear from industry leaders about their leadership stories and current healthcare topics. Talk to Your Pharmacist was founded and hosted by pharmacist Dr. Hillary Blackburn.

In this conversation, Blackburn and Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Dr. Anthony Blash discuss the intersection of health care and technology, the groundbreaking work done using AI and Amazon Alexa by the Informatics students in Belmont’s program and how current clinicians can successfully transition into an informatics role in their workplace.

The episode can be found on Itunes and Spotify.