Patient Safety Archive - School of Pharmacy

Preventable Harm and the Path Forward: Experts Weigh In at the Pacific Coast Patient Safety Conference

March 5, 2025 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy

The 5th Annual Pacific Coast Patient Safety Conference (PCPSC) brought together healthcare professionals, patient safety officers, and academic leaders for in-depth discussions on advancing patient safety and optimizing medication safety protocols. Co-hosted by Chapman University and the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists (CSHP), this year’s conference provided an advanced platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on clinical

Pharmacist of the Year Award Honors Dr. Yang

February 24, 2025 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy

Dr. Sun “Coco” Yang has been honored with the prestigious Orange County Pharmacists Association (OCPhA) Pharmacist of the Year Award. This high honor recognizes Yang’s exceptional contributions to pharmacy and her dedication to advancing patient care. Yang is a tenured Associate Professor at Chapman University and serves as a pharmacist specializing in pediatric oncology at

Dr. Amy Kang Awarded $90,000 Grant from SIDP for Antimicrobial Stewardship Research

December 11, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Research

Dr. Amy Kang has received a grant from the Society of Infectious Disease Pharmacists (SIDP) in the amount of $90,000 for her proposal “Advancing antimicrobial stewardship: development of the stewardship personnel required for antimicrobial stewardship programs resource calculator (SPARC)”. The reviewers highlighted many strengths of the proposal, including the use of an implementation science framework,

Helping Families in Vulnerable Moments: Dustin Le’s (PharmD, ‘20) Path to a Fulfilling Career in Pharmacy

November 22, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy

Dustin Le, who is now a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Pharmacist at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), earned his Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD) at CUSP. While at CUSP, Dustin participated in student leadership, research projects, and elective courses that directly prepared him for his future career. At CHOC, Dustin works in a 44-bed emergency

On the CUSP: October 2024

November 4, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy

Quotables (Faculty in the News) Dr. Jerika Lam and Dr. Reza Taheri co-authored and were quoted in the Patient Safety Movement Foundation October newsletter, titled “Safeguarding Health: The Critical Role of Pharmacists in Patient Safety.” The article recognizes the significant role of pharmacists in patient safety in celebration of October being Pharmacist Month: Safeguarding Health:

AMCP Awards Tinarena Awaradia the Nexus Scholarship

October 21, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy Industry

Tinarena Awaradia, a PharmD candidate (C’o 2025), was honored with a CA AMCP Scholarship to attend the 2024 Nexus conference in Las Vegas. This scholarship recognized her dedication and potential in the field of managed care pharmacy, which is a reflection of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s (AMCP) aim to strengthen managed care pharmacy

Dr. Rachita Sumbria Awarded NIH R21 Grant to Investigate the Impact of Obesity on Alzheimer’s Disease Progression

October 7, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Research

Associate Professor Dr. Rachita Sumbria has been awarded a new R21 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The grant, “The impact of obesity-induced hepatic amyloid beta dysregulation on Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” focuses on understanding obesity’s effect on the liver’s regulation of amyloid beta, a protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and its impact

Safeguarding Health: The Critical Role of Pharmacists in Patient Safety

October 3, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy

In celebration of American Pharmacists Month, we would like to highlight the essential role of pharmacists to ensure patient safety by safeguarding medication safety and promoting access across the continuum of care. This occurs at both individual patient care and health systems levels. At individual patient care level, pharmacists ensure access to medications, provide medication

$250,000 Awarded to Dr. Sherry Wang for AI/ML Patient Safety Research

October 1, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Research

Dr. Sherry Wang, an assistant professor at Chapman University’s School of Pharmacy, has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the NIH’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program. Her proposal, “Ethics and Equity in healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) application: Bias assessment in machine learning (ML) models for opioid prescribing”,

Shaping Future Pharmacists through Interprofessional Education and Experiential Learning

September 30, 2024 by Luke O'Connell | Pharmacy

At Chapman University, learning isn’t limited to students at their desks- More than a third of Doctor of Pharmacy learning occurs in simulations or in the field through experiential curriculum. Starting their first year, PharmD students take courses in Interprofessional Education (IPE), which trains students to care for patients in a team with other types