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	"Last Chance" June Miniseries Continuing Pharmacy Education Programs June 6 & June 13, 2012 Radisson Airport Hotel, Warwick, RI Earn 5 Live CEs (5.0 Contact Hours, 0.5 CEUs) before the pharmacy license year ends when you attend 2 Wednesday evening programs in June. Registration fee of $49.50 per program includes CE and dinner. www.uri.edu/pharmacy/ce/lastchance12
	Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services in the Community A National Certificate Training Program for Pharmacists Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Atlantic Oceanside Hotel and Conference Center 119 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME www.uri.edu/pharmacy/ce/mtm12
	Dean Joan Lausier Retirement Party Saturday, June 2nd, 4pm – 10pm URI Botanical Garden Kingston Campus Please join us as we celebrate Dean Lausier’s fifty-years at URI. We will be celebrating on June 2nd from 4pm to 10pm with a BBQ at the beautiful Botanical Garden on the URI Kingston Campus. Tickets - $100 each www.uri.edu/pharmacy/honoringdeanlausier
	Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Sciences: Global Perspectives September 28 - September 30, 2012 The University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island Fall 2012 brings leading pharmaceutical scientists and researchers from around the globe to do some big thinking at the University of Rhode Island. If you are a scientist, researcher, educator, or student in the area of drug discovery and development, you won't want to miss this opportunity to learn and network with some of most prominent names in the field. http://www.uri.edu/pharmacy/frontiers/2012

2012 News Archive

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Zombies strke URI Campus

Students in public health class to administer fake anti-virals to test emergency response

KINGSTON, R.I. – April 24, 2012 – Don’t be alarmed if you see a person dressed in a biohazard suit Thursday afternoon outside the University of Rhode Island’s Memorial Union.

That individual will just be watching for zombies and making sure they don’t get anywhere near the Ram’s Den while URI pharmacy students try to keep the virus that causes zombiism from spreading.

From 2 to 3:30 p.m., 25 pharmacy students will be running a mock dispensing clinic, during which anti-viral medications mockingly named Zombivir and Gummivir (really just Sour Patch and Gummy Bears candies) will be given to individuals to prevent the disease’s spread.

The mock distribution clinic is the brainchild of Jeffrey Bratberg, URI clinical associate professor of pharmacy and an expert on bioterrorism, pandemics and natural disasters who serves on the Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team, which completed two tours of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Full Story

URI College of Pharmacy & The Matty Fund team up to help parents of children with epilepsy

KINGSTON, R.I. – April 16, 2012 -- The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and The Matty Fund are teaming up to help parents of children with epilepsy who want information about pharmaceuticals used to treat the disease.

URI Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice Brett Feret will answer questions at an Epilepsy Medication Parent Workshop April 24th at the Crown Plaza in Warwick.

“Pharmacy is an important piece of epilepsy treatment,” said Feret, explaining that a majority of children with epilepsy are on medicines that can be difficult to take and have side effects. Full Story

URI pharmacy professor discovers new gene that regulates body weight

Metabolism management could be key

KINGSTON, R.I. – January 4, 2012 – Abraham Kovoor was studying a brain protein, called RGS9-2, that he had previously related to the involuntary, random and repetitive body movements that are side effects of drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.

While studying these side effects, which are called dyskinesia, Kovoor, an assistant professor in the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy, discovered that RGS9-2 also plays a role in regulating body weight.

Results of his study were published in the November issue of PLoS One, an interactive open-access, peer-reviewed scientific and medical research journal. Full Story