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Accolades received by faculty -- and the new building!
Founding Dean Gloria Meredith accepted the 2019 BC Transformative Award from the Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce at a breakfast ceremony held Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the Holiday Inn Binghamton. The award recognizes a project or organization whose product or service has influenced its industry in a cutting-edge way. A video featuring an interview with Meredith was shown prior to her accepting the award.
William Eggleston, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice, was a featured commentator in an article published by Healio Primary Care Today following the release of a report from the Health and Human Services Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force that details best practices on pain management. Eggleston, who specializes in opioid use disorder and reduction initiatives, said that the new guidelines from the task force that co-prescribing naloxone for patients prescribed opioid medications for chronic pain “have the potential to reduce one form of opioid overdose death in the United States.” He added that other important steps to reduce opioid deaths are to explore non-opioid options for chronic pain management and further expand naloxone access.
Wesley Kufel, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice, served as the 2018 case writer for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) National Clinical Skills Competition held in Anaheim, Calif., in December 2018. He submitted an application with an HIV-focused case to be considered for the case writer position, which underwent peer-review by ASHP judges, and was ultimately selected to write the national case for this competition. The ASHP National Clinical Skills Competition is a well-recognized event among pharmacy schools in the United States and each pharmacy school is invited to send its top team of two students to compete against each other. Approximately 140 teams participated in the competition, including a pharmacy student team from Binghamton University’s School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SOPPS). As the case writer, this clinical skills case is administered to pharmacy schools around the country and the top 10 teams are recognized. This was an excellent opportunity to represent Binghamton’s SOPPS on a national level.