We’re keeping the tradition strong and raising funds to support the White Coat Challenge! This is an excellent opportunity to connect to our future students in a meaningful way. If you happen to know an incoming student (or even if you don’t!), you’ll be able to personalize a note the student will receive in their White Coat pocket. Messages can be anonymous, or you can include your contact info so new students can connect and thank you directly.
We’re incredibly thankful for the students, employees, and friends of the College who support our White Coat Challenge every year. Your generosity ensures that our incoming graduate and professional students feel immediately welcome and a part of the pharm fam.
Dean Guy's open office hour is each Tuesday from 4-5 p.m. Everyone is welcome to stop by suite 214 to chat.
RECENT WINS
Melody Ryan (BS 1992, PharmD 1993) received the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Global Health PRN Rene Holder Award 2021. This award recognizes an individual who has made innovative and meaningful contributions to improving or expanding global health pharmacy practice. It is limited to members of the ACCP Global Health PRN.
Daniela Moga received funding from NCIRE and NIH to develop and evaluate remote strategies to optimize medication use by patients with Alzheimer's Disease cognitive impairment in Appalachian Kentucky.
Jason Collins discussed new technology to help Owensboro Health's Inpatient Pharmacy fulfill prescriptions and focus more on direct patient care.
Nicole Slain (PY3) was a recipient of AACP Honors 2021 Student Chapter Award as an Outstanding Student Chapter Member.
Jim Hallahan (PharmD 2020) was featured in UKNow, providing a COVID-19 pediatric vaccination at UK Healthcare's new clinic.
UPDATES & EVENTS
STAFF HOLIDAY LEAVE REQUEST. The holiday leave accruals are now loaded and available for staff to enter their leave requests. All staff should enter their leave requests for the holiday (December 24, December 27-30, December 31).
SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP. Join the Spanish Conversation for their weekly meeting from 12:00-1:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 18. Click here for the Zoom link.
GLOBAL CANCER CONFERENCE. Register now for the 1st Annual Virtual Global Cancer Conference, December 2-4, presented by Global Cancer Consortium. Cancer immunology and immunotherapy, precision medicine, and cancer stem cells will be discussed over the three days of the conference. Click here for more information.
USING STRUCTURED APPROACHES TO TALENT MANAGEMENT TO INCREASE DEI. Sunny Nakae will join us via Zoom once again for part two of this series on Thursday, December 2, from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. If you missed the Bias Breakers workshop, you can view the recording here.
PAUL F. PARKER VIRTUAL AWARD CEREMONY. RSVP at this link to celebrate the 2021 award recipient and UKCOP alum, Welton O'Neal, on Tuesday, December 7 at 11:00 a.m. EST.
UK INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY SURVEY. Please take some time to complete the UK Innovation and Economic Prosperity Survey. Your honest and thoughtful feedback may help us understand more about how the university can improve its efforts to support economic development across campus, the greater Lexington area, and the Commonwealth. The survey has no known risks for participants and will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. All responses are completely anonymous.
PEDIAKATS SHIRT PREORDER. PediaKATS is selling long-sleeve UKCOP t-shirts. Order one to show it off during winter break!
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.
