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Amanda Owens and Kim Trinh with poster at ASHP

CPPI Travel Scholarship Recipients Present Latest Research Projects at ASHP Midyear Conference

Jan. 14, 2024

CPPI Travel Scholarship Recipients Present latest research at ASHP Midyear Conference

Erica Mitchell and Kim Trinh

New Life Baptist Church Launches Diabetes Prevention Program

Nov. 6, 2023

New Life Baptist Church has undertaken a proactive effort to combat diabetes and pre-diabetes in its community.

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CPPI welcomes new faculty member, Vasco Pontinha, PhD

Aug. 10, 2023

Vasco Pontinha, Ph.D. joins CPPI’s core faculty, bringing expertise in the economic value generated by pharmacist interventions. 

Artificial intelligence can push pharmacy practice forward, say experts

May 17, 2023

VCU School of Pharmacy Associate Professor Dayanjan Wijesinghe, Ph.D., and Ph.D. candidate Tyler Wagner, Pharm.D., discuss the implications of AI on pharmacy education and practice

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Clinical pharmacist from Cairo joins CPPI faculty for postdoctoral fellowship

Feb. 8, 2023

Mona Al-Shahawey, Ph.D., current assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy-Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, is joining Teresa Salgado, Ph.D. for a postdoctoral fellowship with the goal of expanding her knowledge and skills in qualitative, survey and practice-based research. Further, she will work with CPPI core faculty member David Holdford, Ph.D., who also serves as director of international programs within the VCU School of Pharmacy, to learn the foundation of pharmacoeconomic analyses.

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Sisson takes on role of CPPI assistant director

April 1, 2022

Evan Sisson, Pharm.D., has joined the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation‘s leadership team as the new assistant director. He has been a core faculty member since CPPI began in 2015.

From left: Vimal Mishra, Dayanjan Wijesinghe, Emily Ko, Amir Behdani, Teresa Salgado

Digital health showcase celebrates student group Pharmacists for Digital Health’s first year

Feb. 24, 2022

VCU School of Pharmacy student group Pharmacists for Digital Health, the first and only pharmacy digital health student group in the country, celebrated their first year of growth with a digital health showcase on Tuesday.

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New CPPI grad student plans to expand neurocognitive research in HIV population

Jan. 12, 2022

Aimalohi (Aima) Okpeku joined fellow Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation graduate students studying pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes in the fall after earning her master’s in pharmaceutical outcomes and policy at the University of Florida. With a plan to graduate in May 2026, Okpeku is the first Ph.D. student to study under CPPI core faculty member Julie Patterson.

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Salgado to focus on policy in new CPPI director role

Jan. 6, 2022

Teresa M. Salgado, Ph.D., previously the co-director of the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation, is kicking off 2022 as the new director of CPPI.

VCU Health: Diabetes and hypertension Project ECHO. Virtual Learning Community.  Learn more about today's best practices in diabetes and hypertension care from real,  de-identified patient cases presented by a multidisciplinary team through the Project ECHO model.  Free CE credit offered. Tune in on Zoom second Thursdays at noon ET. Learn more: vcuhealth.org/echodmhtn

Diabetes and Hypertension Project ECHO connects providers across VA, shares best practices

Sept. 7, 2021

Diabetes and hypertension are conditions that plague many of the communities VCU Health serves. These conditions are disproportionately prevalent in the disadvantaged communities that rely on VCU for care.