Monthly Archives: July 2021

College of Health Sciences and Nursing Hosts High School Educators, Advisers for Tennessee Career and Technical Education Conference

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Learning about Physical Therapy

On July 13, the College of Health Sciences and Nursing hosted approximately 70 high school teachers and advisers for the Tennessee Career and Technical Education Conference. The participants rotated through demonstrations and presentations of each of the disciplines in the College of Health Sciences and Nursing, exposing them to the professions and giving them suggested activities to introduce their students to these careers. 

In addition, this was an opportunity to showcase the Belmont facilities to teachers and advisers who will be working with high school students as they consider their college options.

The feedback from the participants was overwhelmingly positive, including “I have been going to this conference for years and this has been the best.” Many expressed interest in bringing their students to campus. 

Pharmacy Faculty to Present at AACP 2021

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Dr. Hope Campbell

Dr. Hope Campbell, associate professor of pharmacy practice at Belmont, will be presenting multiple sessions at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s (AACP) upcoming annual meeting scheduled for July 19-22. As a scholarship lead for the Health Disparities and Cultural Competency Special Interest Group (SIG) within AACP, Dr. Campbell will share along with her research team a session entitled Teaching on Half the Story: The case of systemic racism.

As schools and colleges of pharmacy nationwide grapple with declining enrollment, they are also seeking to diversify their student body. To that end, she will share her sabbatical research on Attracting Diversity: What factors are important to underrepresented minorities when selecting a school of pharmacy?  On Tuesday, July 20 Dr. Campbell and her colleague Dr. Edgar Diaz-Cruz, associate professor of pharmaceutical, social and administrative sciences in the College of Pharmacy, will share the podium with Dr. Lakesha Butler, clinical professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, to present on the timely topic of how to incorporate structural racism in pharmacy curriculum to address health inequities. Her presentation is titled Daring to Teach the Whole Truth: Structural Racism, Structural Competence and Health Inequities. 

Dr. Campbell continues to contribute to the national discourse on race, diversity, equity, COVID-19 and representation in pharmacy at the student, faculty and organizational level. She recently published the following two manuscripts that the president of the American Association of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), Dr. Jimmi Kolpek, highlighted in her recent letter to constituents, Building a Road to Equitable Representation.

  1. Riley AC, Campbell H, Butler L, et al. Socialized and traumatized: pharmacists, underserved patients, and the COVID-19 vaccine. J Am Pharm Assoc 2021 Jun 1: S1544-3191(21)00202-8. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2021.05.020.
  2. Allen JM, Abdul-Mutakabbir JC, Campbell HE, et al. Ten recommendations to increase Black representation within pharmacy organization leadership. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2021; 78:896-902.

Dr. Blash’s Article No. 1 Promoted Search Result on Google for Pharmacy Informatics

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When Googling “Pharmacy Informatics,” the popular search engine returns 38,100,000 results in an impressive 0.84 seconds. What’s more impressive is the fact that the no. 1 search result is an article written in 2019 by Dr. Anthony Blash entitled “Pharmacy Informatics and Its Cross-Functional Role in Healthcare.”

Google’s systems have determined that this featured article “will help people more easily discover what they’re seeking, both from the description about the page and when they click on the link to read the page itself. Features are especially helpful for those on mobile or searching by voice.”  

The term “Pharmacy Informatics” has been queried by users of the search engine over 1,600 times since the article’s publication. Dr. Anthony Blash, Pharm.D., BCompSc., CPHIMS, associate professor in the College of Pharmacy’s Healthcare Informatics concentration, has created a sequence of five courses and a one-month Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiential (APPE) rotation at various sites in the city to prepare Belmont’s student pharmacists to become future leaders in healthcare informatics.