On the CUSP: May 2023

Awards and Recognitions:

• Dr. Lawrence Brown was a contributor that gave a CE on Motivational Interviewing at the Kappa Psi Pac West Province Meeting in Anaheim, CA on April 22, 2023.
• Dr. Moom Roosan and Dr. Ajay Sharma received the 2023 AACP Innovations in Pharmacogenomics Teaching Award.
• Dr. Rennolds Ostrom is the organizer and chair of the symposium at the ASPET 2023 Conference in St. Louis, MO on May 21, 2023. The symposium is entitled “Space: The Final Frontier of CAMP Signaling”.
• Dr. Rakesh Kumar Tiwari was a reviewer for a proposal in Spring 2023 for the discipline of pharmaceutical sciences at the National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan.

Faculty in the News:

• Dr. Karl Hess was quoted in the Washington Post Article, “You Have a Medical Emergency on a Flight. Here’s What You Can Do”

Presentations

Oral (e.g., Platform Presentations, Symposiums, Plenaries, Keynotes)

• Dr. Karl Hess collaborated to present “Carrying Medicines Overseas” at the Congress of the International Society of Travel Medicine Biannual Meeting in Basel, Switzerland.
• Dr. Jerika Lam spoke on “Patient-Centered COVID-19 Care: Expert Insights on Optimizing Outpatient Management” for Medscape Education.

Posters

• Dr. Enrique Seoane-Vazquez presented several research findings, including “Renal Toxicity Boxed Warnings of Drugs Marketed in the US” with recent alumni Mohammad Alghamdi, and “Trends in Approvals and Price at Market Entry of New Drugs for Breast Cancer in the US (1980-2022)” with recent alumni Abdullah Althomali, at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA.
• Dr. Lawrence ‘LB’ Brown, Dr. Marc Fleming, Dr. Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, and Master’s of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences candidate Turki Altowairgi presented on the “Authorizations of Therapeutic Biologics in Saudi Arabia and the US (1982-2021)” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Laressa Bethishou and PharmD candidate Tali Faggiano presented “The Impact of Pharmacist Transitions of Care Interventions in Identifying Medications Errors for Patients Discharging to a Skilled Nursing Facility” at the ACCP Virtual Poster Symposium.
• Dr. Enrique Seoane-Vazquez and Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences candidate Khulud Bukhari presented “Price Analysis of New Nervous System Drugs Marketed in the US (1980-2021) at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Rennolds Ostrom, Dr. Moom Roosan, Dr. Isabella Cattani P. Cavalieri, and laboratory technician Jordyn Margolis presented “Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis defines distinct cAMP signaling networks emanating from AC2 and AC6 in human airway smooth muscle cells” for the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
• Dr. Laressa Bethishou, Dr. Jeff Goad, and Dr. Karl Hess, with PharmD candidates Nikki Derleth, Inna Tagarino, Helen Vu, Tristian Domingo, Bryy Le, Rose Le, Anabelle Gantman, and Elyn Lam presented “Pharmacy-Based Immunizers Comfort Vaccinating Pediatric Patients” at the CPhA Annual Meeting 2023.
• Dr. Lawrence ‘LB’ Brown, Dr. Marc Fleming, Dr. Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, and PhD candidate Buthainah Ghanem presented “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel, Lisocabtagene Maraleucel, and Tisagenlecleucel CAR T-Cell Therapies for Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma (LBCL)”, and “A Disproportionality Analysis of the Serious Adverse Drug Events Associated with Gene Therapy Products Using the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)”, at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Lawrence ‘LB’ Brown, Dr. Marc Fleming, Dr. Enrique Seoane-Vazquez presented “Gender, Ethnic, and Racial Disparities Among Cell and Gene Therapy Clinical Trials” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Lawrence ‘LB’ Brown, Dr. Marc Fleming, Dr. Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, and CUSP PharmD alumna Dr. Ana Mir-hosseini presented on the “Trends in Prices of New Oral Drugs for Chronic Use Approved by the FDA (1980-2021)” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Science candidates Vrushali Kamerikar and Priyanka Dheer presented both “A Comparison of Orphan Drugs Approved by the FDA and EMA, 1995-2022” and “Trends in FDA Approvals of Cardiovascular Drugs and Medical Devices (1980-2021)” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Karl Hess and PharmD candidate Vivian Ly presented “Prevalence and Barriers of COVID-19 Testing Services at Community Pharmacies in Southern California” at both the APhA Annual Meeting 2023 and the CPhA Annual Meeting 2023.
• Dr. Marc Fleming, Dr. Sherry Wang, and research associate Dr. Saharnaz Nedjat presented “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Receiving Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Hindu Rao, Dr. Neeloufar Fakourfar, and recent PharmD alumna Chelsea Masisado presented “Implementation of a Layered Learning Model in a First Year Pharmacy Course” for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
• Dr. Rakesh Tiwari and Dr. Keykavous Parang presented “Cyclic Antimicrobial Peptide (IFX-301) As A New Generation of Antibiotics Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria” at TIDES USA 2023 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, USA.
• Dr. Jerika Lam, Dr. Sherry Wang, Dr. Mary Gutierrez, and research assistant Dr. Jianwei Zheng presented “Neighborhood Characteristics of Availability of Buprenorphine Prescribing Clinicians and X-Waivered Clinicians” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.
• Dr. Sherry Wang, Dr. Marc Fleming, and research assistant Dr. Jianwei Zheng presented “The Sustained Impact of COVID-19 on Opioid Dispensing in California” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 annual conference in Boston, MA USA.

Publications:

• Dr. Reza Mehvar, Dr. Jennifer Totonchy, Dr. Ajay Sharma, and post-doctoral fellow Devaraj Chandrashekar published “Generation and Characterization of CYP2E1-Overexpressing HepG2 Cells to Study the Role of CYP2E1 in Hepatic Hypoxia-Reoxygenation Injury” in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences
• Dr. Sherif Elshahawi, PharmD alumni Dr. Christopher Nguyen and alumna Chelsea Pan, Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences candidate Ahmed Aoun, and PharmD candidate Tae Ho Kim published “Structure-guided mutagenesis reveals the catalytic residue that controls the regiospecificity of C6-indole prenyltransferases” in Chemistry Europe.
• Dr. Karl Hess and Dr. Albert Bach contributed to Applied Therapeutics, The Clinical Use of Drugs. 12^th Edition’s Chapter 72: “Sexually Transmitted Diseases”.
• Dr. Karl Hess and Dr. Albert Bach contributed to Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach. 12^th Edition’s Chapter 136: “Genital Herpes, Gonococcal, and Chlamydial Infections”.
• Dr. Rachita Sumbria and Devaraj V. Chandrashekar published “Alcohol as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease—Evidence from Experimental Studies” in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
• Dr. Rakesh Tiwari, Dr. Keykavous Parang, Dr. Shilpi Gupta, PhD alumni Dr. Shang Eun Park, and Dr. Saghar Mozaffari published “Design, synthesis, and antiproliferative activity of benzopyran-4-one-isoxazole hybrid compounds“. in Molecules.
• Dr. Marc Fleming contributed to “Effect of a motivational interviewing intervention on medication discontinuation among nonadherent patients with diabetes and hypertension” in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.
• Dr. Sharon Xavioer, Dr. Richard Beuttler, and PharmD candidates Tiffany Nguyen, and Thomas Cheetham published “Factors Affecting Initiation and Retention of Medication-Assisted Recovery (MAR) within a Pilot Pharmacist-Involved Practice Model at a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center (FQHC) during the COVID-19 Pandemic” in Healthcare.
• Dr. Kimberly Won, Dr. Laura Tsu, and Dr. Richard Beuttler published “The effect of interprofessional simulations on pharmacy and physician assistant students’ learning of advanced cardiac life support concepts” in Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 
• Dr. Miao Zhang, Dr. Keykavous Parang, and post-doctoral fellow Dr. Young Woo Nam published “SK Channel positive allosteric modulators” in US Patent App.