On the CUSP: April 2025

Awards and Recognitions

• Dr. Laressa Bethishou began her term as the chair-elect for the APhA Transitions of Care Community.  
• Dr. Kamaljit Kaur co-organized/co-chaired a symposium titled “DNA-encoded libraries for Drug Discovery” at the ACS Spring 2025 Meeting and Exposition, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar 23-27, 2025. (Organizer: Kamaljit Kaur, Chapman University; Gunda Georg, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy; Alice Wong, Genentech Inc.) 

Quotables (Faculty in the News)

• Dr. Jerika Lam was interviewed by American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Podcast on Pharmacy Student Resilience and Wellness: Insights from Pharmacy Professionals.
• Dr. Emmanuelle Schwartzman participated in a published health care roundtable for the Orange County Business Journal entitled Healthcare Roundtable: An Informative Q&A with OC’s Top Healthcare Professionals on April 14, 2025. 

Publications

• Dr. Albert Bach, Dr. Laressa Bethishou, and others published The Pharmacist Patient Care Process Across the Health System and Patient Assessment for Pharmacists: How to Use This Textbook in “Patient Assessment in Pharmacy” with McGraw Hill. 
• Dr. Laressa Bethishou and others published Communicating With Patients and Healthcare Professionals and Addressing Patient Adherence in “Patient Assessment in Pharmacy” with McGraw Hill.
• Dr. Laressa Bethishou, Dr. Albert Bach, and others published Continuity of Care. In “Patient Assessment in Pharmacy” with McGraw Hill. 
• Dr. Albert Bach and Dr. Laressa Bethishou published Assessment of Drug Therapy. In “Patient Assessment in Pharmacy” with McGraw Hill. 
•  Dr. Rachita Sumbria, Rudy Chang, and others published “Brain endothelial cells as phagocytes: mechanisms and implications” in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 
• Dr. Jelena Lewis and Fatema Haider published “The Impact of Telehealth on Pharmacy Practice” in Topics in Evidence-Based Pharmacy Practice in March 2025 with McGraw Hill. https://accesspharmacy-mhmedical-com.chapman.idm.oclc.org/updatesContent.aspx?gbosId=653348
• Dr. Jelena Lewis, Dr. Hindu Rao, and Dr. Farida Mossaad published “Diarrhea and Constipation” in Patient Assessment in Pharmacy with McGraw Hill. 
•  Dr. Jelena Lewis, Dr. Sun Yang, and Dr. Beshoy Saad published “Nausea and Vomiting” in Patient Assessment in Pharmacy with McGraw Hill.
• Dr. Laura Tsu and Dr. May Mak published “Heart Failure” in Patient Assessment in Pharmacy with McGraw Hill. 
• Dr. Sun Yang and others published The Assessment of Pediatric Patients in “Patient Assessment in Pharmacy” with McGraw Hill.

Presentations

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

• Dr. Albert Bach and Dr. Jelena Lewis presented “Break the Code: A Pharmacy Escape Room” at the Western Pharmacy Exchange in San Diego, CA on April 6, 2025.
• Dr. Laressa Bethishou and Dr. Jelena Lewis presented Cultivating Your Personal Brand in Pharmacy School at the California Pharmacist Association Western Pharmacy Exchange in San Diego, CA on April 6, 2025.
• Dr. Laressa Bethishou and others presented “The Future of Pharmacy Practice Under the Standard of Care Model” at the California Pharmacist Association Western Pharmacy Exchange in San Diego, CA on April 4, 2025.
• Dr. Jeff Goad presented “APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery Certificate Training Program and Train-the-Trainer” at Dubai Medical University on April 25-26, 2025 in Dubai, UAE
• Dr. Jeff Goad and Dr. Albert Bach presented “Navigating the Future of Pharmacy: Integrating AI into Practice” at the CPhA Western Pharmacy Exchange in San Diego, CA, on April 4, 2025.
• Dr. Jeff Goad and others presented “Immunization Update 2025” at the CPhA Western Pharmacy Exchange in San Diego, CA, on April 4, 2025.
• Dr. Jeff Goad and others presented “Empowering Pharmacists in Travel Medicine” at the 15th Annual CE Midwest Conference Directions in Pharmacy virtually on April 5, 2025.
• Dr. Kamaljit Kaur presented “Peptide-drug conjugates for selective uptake by triple-negative breast cancer” at the ACS Spring 2025 Meeting and Exposition, in San Diego, CA, on March 23rd, 2025.
• Dr. Keykavous Parang presented “Peptide Drug Conjugates and Drug Discovery Chemistry” at the 20th Annual Cambridge Healthtech Institute Symposium on Oral Peptides & Macrocyclics in San Diego, CA, on April 15, 2025.

Posters

• Dr. Rennolds Ostrom, Camelia Anicolaesei, Jordyn Margolis, Isabella Cattani-Cavalieri, and others published “Proximity-Dependent Proteomics Identifies Unique Interactomes of Adenylyl Cyclase Isoforms 6 and 9 in Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells” in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
• Dr. Sun Yang, C. Chung, T. Awarad, and others presented “Exploring Vitamin D Levels Upon Diagnosis in Pediatric Oncology Patients” at the 2025 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Annual Conference on April 9-12, 2025, in Portland, Oregon.
• Dr. Sherif Elshahawi, Dr. Deborah Nguyen, and Alice Oum presented “Enzyme Immobilization for Large-Scale Biocatalytic Synthesis of Novel Antibiotic Analogs with Enhanced Antimicrobial Activity” at the Western Pharmacy Exchange in San Diego, CA.
• Dr. Aftab Ahmed, Adva Shilon, and Basir Syed presented “2D-Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (ESI-TOF LC/MS/MS) Protein Profiling of Moringa (Moringa oleifera) Seeds” at the ASBMB Annual Meeting on April 12-15, 2025, in Chicago, IL.
• Dr. Kamaljit Kaur, Shih-Jing Yao, and Keon Jafari presented “Biodistribution of a peptide-drug conjugate targeting triple-negative breast cancer in mice” at the ACS Spring 2025 Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, CA, on March 23-27, 2025.