On the CUSP: July 2024
August 2, 2024
Awards and Recognitions
- Dr. Jeff Goad was installed as President of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on July 1, 2024.
Quotables (Faculty in the News)
- Dr. Cintia Citterio was quoted in Endocrine News: 2024 Researchers Roundtable, discussing endocrine science with the other 2024 Early Investigator Award winners.
- Dr. Jeff Goad was quoted in a Pharmacy Times Podcast titled “Pharmacy Focus: What to Know About Medication and Summer Travel” on July 12, 2024. He shares crucial advice for summer travelers and what to know about their medication.
- Dr. Jeff Goad was quoted in the NGID Infectious Ideas Podcast titled “Pharmacists on the Front Line of Prevention” on July 12, 2024. He shares his insights on the critical role pharmacies play in vaccination, his expertise in travel medicine, and his top priorities as NFID president in the podcast here: Pharmacists on the Front Line of Prevention
- Dr. Jeff Goad was quoted in the AJMC Managed Care Cast titled “Bridging the Vaccination Gap: Insights on Global Immunization Challenges on July 30, 2024. He provided a recent report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF on public immunization rates, with national and global health implications. Find the podcast here: Bridging the Vaccination Gap: Insights on Global Immunization Challenges
- Dr. Keykavous Parang was quoted in the World Top Scientists as one of the top scientist in anticancer research in the world.
Grants
- Dr. Gary Fong and his collaborator at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center received the Society of Infectious Diseases (SIDP) Educational Grant with an amount of $2,500 for their project titled: “Developing a Climate and Sustainability Education Model for ID Pharmacists.”
Publications
- Dr. Ren Ostrom, postgraduate researcher Dr. Isabella Cattani-Cavalieri, and others published “Diesel exhaust particles alter cAMP producing capacity and mitochondrial bioenergetics in human bronchial epithelial cells” in Frontiers in Toxicology.
- Dr. Jerika Lam and Dr. Sharon Xavioer published “Impact of a Pharmacist-Led HCV Treatment Program at a Federally Qualified Health Center” in MDPI Pharmacy. The article is published as part of the Special Issue Innovations in Clinical Pharmacy: Towards Optimized Patient Care.
- Dr. Keykavous Parang and others published “Synthesis and Characterization of Levofloxacin-Conjugated Amphiphilic Peptides” in the Egyptian Journal of Chemistry, accepted July 29 2024.
Presentations
Oral (e.g., Platform Presentations, Symposiums, Plenaries, Keynotes)
- Dr. Rocke DeMark presented “Why Are They Doing That?! A Crash Course on College Student Development Theories” at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Boston, MA on July 22.
- Dr. Rocke DeMark and others presented “You Belong with Me: Creating Community During the Cruel Summer” at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Boston, MA on July 19.
- Dr. Moom Roosan and Dr. Ajay Sharma presented “Innovative pharmacogenomic teaching practices in the laboratory, didactic and virtual classrooms” with others at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Boston, MA on July 23. This was an invited talk by Dr. Sharma and Dr. Roosan in a mini-symposium organized by Pharmacogenomics SIG.
Posters
- Dr. Jerika Lam and others displayed “A mixed methods evaluation of pharmacists’ preparedness to provide long-acting injectable HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in California” at the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, Germany, from July 22-26, 2024.
