Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

From all of us at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, we hope you have a nice time with your family and good memories of all those who gave their lives in order to honor their sacrifice on this beautiful Memorial Day! #landofthefreebecauseofthebrave

Growing up in a family of engineers, Matt Bahr PhD (Pharmaceutics) was always interested in a career in the sciences, but it was when he realized that he would defend his PhD dissertation on the 30-year anniversary of the Persian Gulf War, where he engaged in combat as a Marine in Kuwait, that he’d seen how far he’d come. https://www.usciences.edu//veteran-defends-dissertation-on

What an amazing Commencement ceremony for our 200th year as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy! Inspirational speeches from University President, Dr. Paul Katz and Keynote Speaker Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. sent our students off on a great path. Congratulations to the class of 2021 including our own Scott Greene, Ph.D.!

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Graduation season is here! Always fun to see some of the creative cap designs of our students. The Usciences' Commencement Ceremony takes place Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. The virtual ceremony stream will appear on this webpage beginning at 12:30 p.m. with a pre-show. https://www.usciences.edu/events/commencement/index.html

BLACK HISTORY MONTH | DAY 25 Let’s shine the spotlight on Lisa Liburd, PharmD, MBA! Lisa is a proud a graduate of the University of Sciences at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy where she earned a Doctor of Pharmacy. But she didn’t stop there. Lisa also attended Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business where she earned a Masters of Business Administration, and on top of that, she had previously attended George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science that ...provided the foundation that she needed for her academic success. Lisa has held several roles throughout her tenure at Independence Blue Cross and is currently the Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services. In that position, she is responsible for setting the strategic direction for cost-effective, clinically appropriate formulary management and quality improvement. Lisa’s previous experiences include direct patient education for chronic conditions such asthma and diabetes, hospice care and retail pharmacy dispensing. As an avid reader, Lisa is a lifelong learner and encourages others to do the same.

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Outstanding 1st Annual PHB Summit!

Congratulations Dr. Zhiyu Li, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences who was awarded the USciences Faculty Award of Merit at yesterday’s Founders’ Day! Dr. Li is applauded for his commitment to students and pioneering spirit in research! So proud! Check out more about Founders’ Day at https://www.usciences.edu//usciences-celebrates-bicentenni. #usciences200 #pcpfacultyrock

BLACK HISTORY MONTH | DAY 24 Give a warm welcome to Josie Berry! She is currently a P1 pharmacy student here at USciences. She also works as a pharmacy intern at Walgreens Pharmacy, and this April will actually be her one year workiversary! Josie serves as the Public Relations Manager for both BSU (Black Student Union) as well as G.E.N.E.S. (Generating Excellence and Negating Exclusion for Students of Color). These two organizations were createdto cater to African American ...students like herself and to give them a safe place to embrace and share their culture. And as a first generation college student as well as the first future doctor in her family, Josie wants to make her family proud and prove that she can persevere through adversity. Josie had found that the initial transition from U2 to P1 was a little challenging, but with the help from her peers as well as her professors, navigating the transition has become a lot smoother. Although the classes are more difficult than the classes she has had in the past, she is appreciative of the fact that all that she is learning is essential to her success as a future pharmacist. Josie’s goal as of now is to start her career in retail pharmacy. She loves the fast-paced setting as well as the patientinteractions. A dream of hers would be to open up multiple pharmacies in her home country of Liberia, West Africa. Growing up, she was taught to always help those in need and to always give back. She would love for her way to give back to be by giving individuals access to the medications that they need. Wish Josie well on her journey!

We are ready to see these potential business plans turn into action! This week, 3rd year PharmD students, presented marketing forecasts for their Entrepreneurship course pharmacy business plans! Each group developed a service or business they felt met an unmet market need and we had some great competition for best name! All students did phenomenal, but check out a few of the amazing examples below! #pharmacybusiness #comingtoaneighborhoodnearyou #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurshipinpharmacy #usciences #proveneverywhere

More to celebrate for National Pharmacy Week! Just a day after National Pharmacy Technician Day, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services granted the ability for pharmacy technicians and interns to administer childhood vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines when they become available. This is great recognition for our very capable technician workforce and a great leap forward for public health, as communities will now have expanded access to these much needed vaccines. #pharmacytechnician #HHS #vaccines #NationalPharmacyWeek #immunization

It’s our week to shine This week is National Pharmacy Week! We are celebrating and showing our appreciation to all pharmacists and especially our future pharmacists out there! #nationalpharmacyweek #americanpharmacistsmonth #ipharm #studentpharmacists #wesupportyou #usciences

Ending our week on a high note! Dr. Elizabeth Harris, Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, was recently named one of the recipients of the Pennsylvania Pharmacist Association #ppa Ten Under Ten Award. This award recognizes ten pharmacists in Pennsylvania who have made significant contributions to the profession in less than 10 years of being a pharmacist. Congratulations to Dr. Harris! #ppatenunderten #proveneverywhere #usciences

Show your commitment to support and promote diversity on this gorgeous Fall day! There will be a banner to sign and plenty of free giveaways outside of STC. #diversity #awareness #culturaleducation #culture

Both in and out of the classroom, our students have proven that they are creative, eloquent, and full of passion. Here's your chance to see for yourself! Come as a speaker, artist, or listener at tonight's Spoken Word Event for Awareness and Cultural Education Week. #spokenword #poetry #art #culturaleducation #awareness #storytelling

Today is the day! Join us as we hear our own Dr. Porter and students Patricia Raj and Pengfei Li speak on these important topics. Let's all learn, grow, and be better pharmacists for our patients and community. #intersectionalitymatters #culture #culturalcompetence #awareness #culturaleducation

Join some of our very own students and faculty this week for several days of Awareness & Cultural Education! Stay tuned for more posts this week about daily virtual events. #culture #awareness #culturalcompetence #diversity

October 12th is #WomenPharmacistDay! join us as we celebrate the significant gains that women have made in pursuing careers in pharmacy. Honor the trailblazers who have made such progress possible and recognize the important contributions that women pharmacists make, every day, to delivering quality care to patients in communities, nationwide. While women made up only 8% of all U.S. pharmacists as recently as the 1960s, women currently comprise 55% of the pharmacist workforce, and that number is expected to continue to rise. #welovetoseeit #girlpower #womeninpharmacy #womenpharmacistday #wpd2020

Students Experience the Science Side of Pharmacy in the Industrial Pharmacy Lab! A recent feature in USciences News showed Dr. Pardeep Gupta! Under his direction, the Industrial Pharmacy Lab at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy has seen great success, bringing in over $1 million in funding and grants to develop drugs and drug delivery systems for many pharmaceutical industry partners. Dr. Gupta and his team work to create tablets, capsules, injectables, and other formulations and delivery systems with the end goal of gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and going to the market for patient use. #waytogo #pharmacyresearch #proveneverywhere #usciences #studentsinlabs #labresearch

This month, students and faculty were honored at PPA’s Annual Conference leadership and awards ceremony. Andrej Quatrone (C/O 2020) won the Outstanding Student Award! Annually, the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association presents the PPA Outstanding Pharmacy Student Award to one graduating pharmacy student at each of the seven Pennsylvania schools of pharmacy. This award honors and recognizes students who have been most active in PPA during his/her academic years! #pharmacyaward #studentpharmacist #pharmlife #ppa #proveneverywhere #usciences

Today’s highlight features Dr. Gupta , Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Healthcare Business, who recently presented a paper titled: Value Creation: A Study of Firm Growth & Related Diversification at the Eastern Academy of Management Annual conference this year! In this paper, Dr. Gupta studied how firms generate value as they expand and grow in multiple fields through exploration and exploitation of organizational capabilities. The study is set in the US medical devices industry. #research #EAMconference #usciences #proveneverywhere

Can you guess where these pharmacy students are on rotation?! P4 students Lauren Kaminski, Elizabeth Calderone, Gianna Mazza, and Kelly Houghton are on their ambulatory care rotation located in Crownpoint, New Mexico where they work with the Navajo Nation community. They promote medication adherence through counseling, administering vaccines, and managing patients in various clinics such as diabetes and pain. While on their rotation, they took some time to visit the beautiful New Mexico scenery! #pharmacystudent #appes #ihs #ambulatorycare #brycecanyonnationalpark #usciences