{"id":3859,"date":"2015-07-27T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2015-07-27T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T19:19:28","slug":"pharmacy-student-chosen-as-walmart-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/07\/27\/pharmacy-student-chosen-as-walmart-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy Student Chosen as Walmart Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AACP2015-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3840\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AACP2015-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"AACP2015-1\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Sara Thompson, a fourth year Pharmacy student at Belmont University, was recently chosen as a Walmart Scholar by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).\u00a0 \u00a0The program recognizes select students and their faculty mentors in an effort to strengthen the recipient\u2019s skills and commitment to a career in academic pharmacy.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Edgar Diaz-Cruz, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, serves as Thompson\u2019s mentor.<\/p>\n<p>In speaking of Thompson, Dr. Diaz-Cruz said, \u201cIt is refreshing to see such maturity , determination, and passion for academic pharmacy and patient education in a pharmacy student.\u201d\u00a0 Thompson is interested in medical Spanish and health disparities as experienced in the Hispanic community.\u00a0 After pharmacy school, she plans to pursue a residency with a teaching certificate program and has a career goal to join academia as a faculty member in pharmacy practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Scholar program provides scholarships to student-faculty pairs to attend the AACP annual meeting and Teachers Seminar which was recently held in National Harbor, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Thompson, a fourth year Pharmacy student at Belmont University, was recently chosen as a Walmart Scholar by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).\u00a0 \u00a0The program recognizes select students and their faculty mentors in an effort to strengthen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/07\/27\/pharmacy-student-chosen-as-walmart-scholar\/\">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-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","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=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}