{"id":2664,"date":"2013-11-11T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2013-11-11T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:37:03","slug":"pharmacy-faculty-students-provide-medical-screening-for-local-special-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2013\/11\/11\/pharmacy-faculty-students-provide-medical-screening-for-local-special-olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Pharmacy helps with medical screening for local Special Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SpecialOlympicScreenings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2665\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"SpecialOlympicScreenings\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SpecialOlympicScreenings-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SpecialOlympicScreenings-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SpecialOlympicScreenings.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The College of Pharmacy recently participated in a health screening exercise with Special Olympics Tennessee.\u00a0 Seventy-five Davidson County Olympians, who compete worldwide in various events, were screened for athletic readiness.\u00a0 College of Pharmacy faculty and students were involved in screening medication profiles of the athletes, making sure proper cautions concerning allergies, exposure to the sun, drug adverse effects, and drug interactions were not an issue for these participants.<\/p>\n<p>According to Joanne Drumright of Special Olympics, \u201cthe process went very smoothly, and we hope to scale up the screening, inviting athletes from a much broader area in an upcoming event\u201d.\u00a0 Participants from the College included Dr. Andy Webster, Dr. Phil Johnston, and three fourth-year PharmD students: Marian Roufael, Razia Shamsuddin and Darrilyn Prout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Pharmacy recently participated in a health screening exercise with Special Olympics Tennessee.\u00a0 Seventy-five Davidson County Olympians, who compete worldwide in various events, were screened for athletic readiness.\u00a0 College of Pharmacy faculty and students were involved in screening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2013\/11\/11\/pharmacy-faculty-students-provide-medical-screening-for-local-special-olympians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}