On the CUSP: January 2025
February 6, 2025
Awards and Recognitions
- Dr. Emmanuelle Schwartzman was presented with the Executive of the Year from the Greater Irvine Chamber during the Excellence in Healthcare & Innovation gala on January 16th in Irvine, CA.
- Dr. Sherry Wang was awarded a $1,500 travel grant to attend the Spring-Summer 2025 NIH and Data Curation Training Workshop.
Quotables (Faculty in the News)
Dr. Sherry Wang’s team launched the Opioid and Buprenorphine Dashboard, which is now publicly available.
Publications
- Dr. Luma Munjy, Dr. Kathleen Besinque, Dr. Richard Beuttler, Dr. Reza Taheri, Dr. Laressa Bethishou, and Dr. Kimberly Won published “A Longitudinal Curriculum to Teach and Assess Empathy Within the Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum.” in Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning.
- Dr. Keykavous Parang published “Orchestrating cytosolic access: The partnership of cationic lytic peptide L17E and potassium channel KCa3.1” in Molecular Therapy on Jan 21.
- Dr. Keykavous Parang, Eman H. Mohammed, Naiera M. Helmy, and David Salehi, published “Antibacterial and antifungal activities of linear and cyclic peptides containing arginine, tryptophan, and diphenylalanine” in Antibiotics, 2025.
- Dr. Jerika Lam and others published “Overcoming barriers to HIV prevention: population health considerations on optimizing PrEP access.” in the American Journal of Managed Care.
Presentations
Oral (e.g., Platform Presentations, Symposiums, Plenaries, Keynotes)
- Dr. Laressa Bethishou presented “Addressing Social Determinants of Health for Geriatric Patients During Transitions of Care.” at the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) National Webinar on January 23rd, 2025.
- Dr. Mary Gutierrez presented “Nutritional Psychiatry.” at The Joint Commission Surveyors Conference in Chicago, Illinois, in January 2025.
Posters
Dr. Keykavous Parang, Dr. Jason Yamaki, Eman H. Mohammed, Zahra Mahdieh, and others presented “Piperidine-Based Cyclic Peptides as Antimicrobial Agents.” at the Peptide Materials portion of the Gordon Research Conference in Pomona, CA on January 19-24, 2025.
