Feb. 12, 2024 Contact: Lindsay Groth, [email protected], Kim North Shine, [email protected]  ANN ARBOR—Embedding pharmacists as part of the health care team at University of Michigan primary care clinics and community retail pharmacies has proven so effective in controlling blood pressure that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now replicating the model of care […]

The College of Pharmacy is proud to announce that Antoinette Coe, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, has been selected as an American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APhA-APRS) Fellow. This award honors APhA members for exemplary professional achievements in professional practice and/or research and outstanding service to the profession. She is one of […]

Clinical associate professor Mike Smith, PharmD, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is only the sixth individual with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree to have achieved this distinction.    This distinction is given to academy members whose professional activity is devoted to the practice of hospice […]

Co-Author: Toni Shears Co-Author and Media Contact: Lindsay Groth, Director of Marketing and Communications, [email protected] Ara G. Paul, Dean Emeritus, who grew the University of Michigan’s (U-M) College of Pharmacy into one of the nation’s premier pharmacy programs during his long and remarkable career, passed away on November 15, 2023, at his home in Ann […]

  By the time a drug makes it to market, clinical trials have yielded recommendations for dosages. But what if your patient is from a special population that was underrepresented in the trials? Professor Manjunath (Amit) Pai has spent 20 years researching optimal drug doses for patients across the lifespan and those with obesity and organ […]

Students in the new University of Michigan Pharmacy Community College Connect (PC3) Program saw science in action this summer, learning first-hand how product testing protects us all when they toured the US Food and Drug Administration’s Detroit Lab. The PC3 students — all from tribal and community colleges from across the state of Michigan— spent […]

The College of Pharmacy congratulates Greg Eschenauer, Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy, who has been awarded the 2023 Department of Clinical Pharmacy’s Faculty Preceptor of the Year. Eschenauer-Greg-photo.jpeg This honor recognizes both the quantity and quality of his preceptorship. Student nominations describe Dr. Eschenauer as a phenomenal pharmacist and preceptor, who is dedicated to their […]

A paper from a team of University of Michigan pharmacy residents, students and faculty won the Editor’s Choice Award from the journal Pharmacotherapy. Lauren Spreen (PGY1 2022), Emma Dittmar (PharmD 2023), Kyle Quirk (PharmD, PGY1, PGY2) and Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Michael Smith analyzed standard and emerging strategies for initiating use of buprenorphine to […]

Dean Vicki Ellingrod, PharmD, FCCP, FACNP, has been awarded the 2024 Judith J. Saklad Memorial Award by the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (AAPP). This honor is presented annually to a senior psychiatric pharmacy practitioner who has achieved a level of professional distinction and represents these qualities and ideals: professional enthusiasm a passion for optimizing patient […]

[Ann Arbor, August 31st 2023] — In a viral infection, the B lymphocytes in the body immune system can recognize viruses and produce antibodies to fight off viruses, which is an essential body defense mechanism against many natural viral infections.  This process is also the basis for the development of many modern antiviral vaccines, however, […]