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Faculty News
College of Pharmacy receives $20,000 grant
Principal Investigator: Anandi Law, BPharm, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration
Co-investigator: Daniel C. Robinson, PharmD, FASHP, Dean, College of Pharmacy
WesternU College of Pharmacy was one of six applicants awarded a $20,000 grant from the NACDS Foundation through its
Pharmacy Partners Program at the Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, this spring. Awardees were selected from 35 high-
quality applications from deans of colleges and schools of pharmacy across the country. The awarded grant will be used to
establish a program in San Bernardino County to provide medication management and other pharmacist care services to a
community with unfulfilled health care needs.
Grants & Contracts Sheryl Chow
• Served as vice-chair for the AHA Clinical Pharmacology
Sheryl Chow Committee semi-annual meeting at the American College of
• Received an in-kind contribution of $20,000 awarded by Cardiology Annual Meeting, Washington DC, March 2014
Critical Diagnostics for her research proposal entitled
“I-PRESERVE biomarker study: ST2 and IL-33 on Eric Gupta
Treatment Effect and Outcomes in Patients with Preserved • Served on the APhA Policy Reference Committee and
Ejection Fraction.” Drs. Stephen O’Barr, Barry Massie, addressed the Kappa Psi Reception with a State of the
Michael Zile, Inder Anand, Peter Carson, Henry Krum, Fraternity Address as Grand Regent/National President
John McMurray, and Michel Komajda are co-investigators during the American Pharmacists Association Annual
on the collaborative biomarker study Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2014
Fadi Khasawneh Lingyun Liu (Cardiology Fellow)
• Awarded a $140,000 grant by The American Heart • Winner of the “ACC Best Cardiovascular Team Poster” on
Association for his project entitled “Investigating the Role their presentation, “Impact of a Multi-Disciplinary Heart
of The Transient Receptor Potential Channel 6 in Platelet Failure Post-Discharge Management Clinic on Evidence-
Function.” Dr. Khasawneh has brought in $834,398 in based Medication Adherence.” American College of
research funds since July of 2010 Cardiology Meeting, Washington DC, March 2014
Cynthia Jackevicius Karl Hess
• With Drs. Louise Pilote, Vidal Essebag (co-PIs). Population • Interviewed and included in CA Health Report an article on
level evaluation of ablation therapies in atrial fibrillation. pharmacist involvement in primary care and SB 493,
Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Funding of entitled “A Quiet Revolution in Primary Care”
$189,344 over 2 years
Fadi Khasawneh
Olivia Phung • Elected American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
• Received funds from Merck to conduct a systematic review (AACP), Biological Sciences Chair. This is a three year
to determine the prevalence of clinical inertia in patients commitment as Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Immediate
with type 2 diabetes. This grant is for $30,000 over a Chair
9-month period • Invited to serve on the Hemostasis and Thrombosis (HT)
Study Section, of the Vascular and Hematology Integrated
Honors & Awards Review Groups, Center for Scientific Review, NIH Heart,
Arezoo Campbell Lung and Blood Institute
• Invited as a speaker and participant at the U.S.-Iran Lyna Luo
Symposium on Air Pollution in Megacities sponsored by the • Received Director’s Discretionary award of 8 MillionsCPU
American Association for the Advancement of Science, hours on BlueGene/Q supercomputer from U.S. Department
University of Southern California, and the National of Energy (DOE) Argonne Leadership Computing Facility,
Academy of Sciences May 2014
38 WesternU, College of Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy receives $20,000 grant
Principal Investigator: Anandi Law, BPharm, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration
Co-investigator: Daniel C. Robinson, PharmD, FASHP, Dean, College of Pharmacy
WesternU College of Pharmacy was one of six applicants awarded a $20,000 grant from the NACDS Foundation through its
Pharmacy Partners Program at the Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, this spring. Awardees were selected from 35 high-
quality applications from deans of colleges and schools of pharmacy across the country. The awarded grant will be used to
establish a program in San Bernardino County to provide medication management and other pharmacist care services to a
community with unfulfilled health care needs.
Grants & Contracts Sheryl Chow
• Served as vice-chair for the AHA Clinical Pharmacology
Sheryl Chow Committee semi-annual meeting at the American College of
• Received an in-kind contribution of $20,000 awarded by Cardiology Annual Meeting, Washington DC, March 2014
Critical Diagnostics for her research proposal entitled
“I-PRESERVE biomarker study: ST2 and IL-33 on Eric Gupta
Treatment Effect and Outcomes in Patients with Preserved • Served on the APhA Policy Reference Committee and
Ejection Fraction.” Drs. Stephen O’Barr, Barry Massie, addressed the Kappa Psi Reception with a State of the
Michael Zile, Inder Anand, Peter Carson, Henry Krum, Fraternity Address as Grand Regent/National President
John McMurray, and Michel Komajda are co-investigators during the American Pharmacists Association Annual
on the collaborative biomarker study Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2014
Fadi Khasawneh Lingyun Liu (Cardiology Fellow)
• Awarded a $140,000 grant by The American Heart • Winner of the “ACC Best Cardiovascular Team Poster” on
Association for his project entitled “Investigating the Role their presentation, “Impact of a Multi-Disciplinary Heart
of The Transient Receptor Potential Channel 6 in Platelet Failure Post-Discharge Management Clinic on Evidence-
Function.” Dr. Khasawneh has brought in $834,398 in based Medication Adherence.” American College of
research funds since July of 2010 Cardiology Meeting, Washington DC, March 2014
Cynthia Jackevicius Karl Hess
• With Drs. Louise Pilote, Vidal Essebag (co-PIs). Population • Interviewed and included in CA Health Report an article on
level evaluation of ablation therapies in atrial fibrillation. pharmacist involvement in primary care and SB 493,
Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Funding of entitled “A Quiet Revolution in Primary Care”
$189,344 over 2 years
Fadi Khasawneh
Olivia Phung • Elected American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
• Received funds from Merck to conduct a systematic review (AACP), Biological Sciences Chair. This is a three year
to determine the prevalence of clinical inertia in patients commitment as Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Immediate
with type 2 diabetes. This grant is for $30,000 over a Chair
9-month period • Invited to serve on the Hemostasis and Thrombosis (HT)
Study Section, of the Vascular and Hematology Integrated
Honors & Awards Review Groups, Center for Scientific Review, NIH Heart,
Arezoo Campbell Lung and Blood Institute
• Invited as a speaker and participant at the U.S.-Iran Lyna Luo
Symposium on Air Pollution in Megacities sponsored by the • Received Director’s Discretionary award of 8 MillionsCPU
American Association for the Advancement of Science, hours on BlueGene/Q supercomputer from U.S. Department
University of Southern California, and the National of Energy (DOE) Argonne Leadership Computing Facility,
Academy of Sciences May 2014
38 WesternU, College of Pharmacy
