The Scholarship and Awards Banquet, Senior Convocation, and commencement exercises were the culmination of an academic year filled with successes, accomplishments and reasons to celebrate. The Scholarship and Awards Convocation was held on March 15th. Through donor and sponsor support we were able to gather students...
A team from Northeastern University, including Dr. Jennifer Kirwin, Dr. Danielle Miller and Dr. Margarita DiVall, will receive one of the 2016 awards for Excellence in Assessment. The national award is given annually by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, a professional association representing...
Kayla Joyal (PharmD ’18) was awarded the Sam Kalman Scholarship from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation. This award recognizes Kayla’s academic achievement as well as her active leadership in the Northeastern University chapter of the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) where she serves...
At the 2016 Northeastern University Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo (RISE), Doctor of Pharmacy students Kevin DeLeonardo and Alyssa Long received first place honors for their project which was an assessment of pharmacy student didactic and clinical preparedness surrounding LGBT and mental illness patient populations. ...
Alexandra Kolwicz (PharmD ‘17) achieved first place honors at the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) National Patient Counseling Competition (NPCC). This annual competition draws from thousands of students at the local level who compete to represent their school and chapter at the APhA-ASP...
Each spring, Northeastern University recognizes top students across the university in the form of three campus-level awards. We congratulate all of the pharmacy students who were recognized this academic year! The Sears B Condit Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement is awarded annually to the 100 graduating...
Northeastern School of Pharmacy alumnus Christopher Lynch has been named the new director of the Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) and chief of the Nutrition Research Branch within the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health....
In the first known study to examine the completeness of clinical data in a large electronic health record (EHR), researchers from Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute found substantial missing data, with profound implications for clinical care,...
Vladimir Torchilin, PhD was awarded a $1.5 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, which will fund a five-year study focused on introducing a novel class of simple-to-prepare therapeutic preparations, that when combined with traditional chemotherapy, could provide a promising strategy against multidrug...
Northeastern University School of Pharmacy faculty member Jane Saczynski, PhD, and co- principal investigator David McManus, MD, of the University Of Massachusetts Medical Center, were recently awarded an R01 grant for their project entitled “Systematic Assessment of Geriatric Elements in Atrial Fibrillation” (SAGE-AF). The four-year,...