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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.

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.

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.

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.

Pharmacists for Digital Health student group equips students with digital skills, finds home with CPPI

Aug. 25, 2021

The digital revolution is well on its way, and the realm of health care is no exception to that. Health care workers now and in the future require more digital skills than ever before, so it’s important that pharmacy schools equip their students for this shift.

PhD student to study patient outcomes in underserved populations with fellowship funding

July 7, 2021

Tyler Wagner, a Ph.D. student studying health outcomes and pharmacoeconomics under CPPI Assistant Director Teresa Salgado, won the 2021 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Outcome Disparities from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, a $10,000 grant that will fund his current research on differences in patient outcomes between those with pharmacists on their primary care teams and those without. This is the second fellowship he has received from AFPE.

CPPI PhD candidate to study medication adherence with fellowship funding

June 2, 2021

Vasco Pontinha — a Ph.D. candidate in health outcomes and pharmacoeconomics under CPPI core faculty member David Holdford — won the 2021 Predoctoral Fellowship in Health Outcomes Research from the PhRMA Foundation, which gives him $25,000 to use in completing his dissertation.

HOPE Pharmacy helps unite old, new Church Hill

Feb. 3, 2021

When you think of hope, what comes to mind?

CPPI faculty member, PGY-2 resident secure BPS seed grant to study pharmacist job satisfaction

Dec. 16, 2020

Lauren Pamulapati, assistant professor in the VCU School of Pharmacy and Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation core faculty member, and Vasyl Zbyrak, a PGY-2 in the school’s Ambulatory Care Residency, are receiving one of two 2020 BPS PGY-2 Residency Research Seed Grants. Their anticipated project focuses on an area in which no current research exists — job satisfaction among pharmacists with board certification.

CrossOver Healthcare Ministry expands telehealth, COVID-19 testing amid pandemic

Oct. 2, 2020

CrossOver Healthcare Ministry has been partnering with the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation for more than three years, and through this partnership, John Bucheit and other CPPI faculty have made progress on several CPPI initiatives.