Student pharmacists to hold health fair at Capitol

 

 

Contact: Ginny Geib, College of Pharmacy, (520) 626-3389 or Susan Guthrie (602) 631-6555

geib@pharmacy.arizona.edu

 

February 28, 2006

 

Legislators from the state with one of the largest shortages* of pharmacists will learn more about health and the profession of pharmacy from students next week.  More than 50 student pharmacists will attend Legislative Day, a health fair on the Arizona State Capitol’s Senate lawn, March 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  Students from The University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy will provide legislators with screenings and educational materials related to hypertension, diabetes, asthma, cholesterol, heartburn, body mass, immunizations, depression, skin cancer, women’s health issues, poison prevention and bioterrorism.

 

“This event takes place for the most part to inform state legislators about the role of the pharmacist today and all that they are and will be capable of,” said Liliana Benavides, one of the student co-coordinators. “Many legislators think of pharmacists only as pill pushers and do not realize the potential of these healthcare providers.”

 

The health fair, in its eighth year, is coordinated by the Academy of Student Pharmacists. Other groups with stations at the fair will be the Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the National Community Pharmacists Association. The event is geared toward legislators, but the public is welcome to attend.

 

The UA College of Pharmacy is ranked fourth in the nation, according to America’s Best Graduate Schools 2006. During his state of the city address on Valentine’s Day, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon announced that the college hopes to develop a program at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus that will prepare about 50 students in clinical pharmacogenomics, the study of how genetic inheritance affects the body’s response to drugs. The city bonding proposals that go to voters March 14 include $1.5 million for expanding College of Pharmacy programs to Phoenix.

 

For more information about the health fair on the Senate lawn, contact Jeremy Smart at smart@pharmacy.arizona.edu or Susan Guthrie at (602) 631-6555.

 

 

*The Aggregate Demand Index of the Pharmacy Manpower Project lists Arizona as the state with the second highest demand in the nation, behind California, in data posted Feb.15, 2006

 

 

Contact: Ginny Geib, College of Pharmacy, (520) 626-3389

geib@pharmacy.arizona.edu 

 

Legislators from the state with one of the largest shortages* of pharmacists will learn more about health and the profession of pharmacy from students next month.

 

More than 50 student pharmacists will attend Legislative Day, a health fair on the Arizona State Capitol’s Senate lawn, March 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

 

Students from The University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy will provide legislators with screenings and educational materials related to hypertension, diabetes, asthma, cholesterol, heartburn, body mass, immunizations, depression, skin cancer, women’s health issues, poison prevention and bioterrorism.

 

“This event takes place for the most part to inform state legislators about the role of the pharmacist today and all that they are and will be capable of,” said Liliana Benavides, one of the student co-coordinators. “Many legislators think of pharmacists only as pill pushers and do not realize the potential of these healthcare providers.”

 

The health fair, in its eighth year, is coordinated by the Academy of Student Pharmacists. Other groups with stations at the fair will be the Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the National Community Pharmacists Association. The event is geared toward legislators, but the public is welcome to attend.

 

The UA College of Pharmacy is ranked fourth in the nation, according to America’s Best Graduate Schools 2006. During his state of the city address on Valentine’s Day, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon announced that the college hopes to develop a program at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus that will prepare about 50 students in clinical pharmacogenomics, the study of how genetic inheritance affects the body’s response to drugs. The city bonding proposals that go to voters March 14 include $1.5 million for expanding College of Pharmacy programs to Phoenix.

 

For more information about the health fair on the Senate lawn, contact Jeremy Smart at smart@pharmacy.arizona.edu.

 

 

*The Aggregate Demand Index of the Pharmacy Manpower Project lists Arizona as the state with the second highest demand in the nation, behind California, in data posted Feb.15, 2006

 

 

Susan Guthrie
Associate Director, Public Affairs

University of Arizona, College of Medicine - Phoenix
4001 North Third Street, Suite 401
Phoenix, Arizona  85012
602-631-6555 (office) 480-241-7738 (cell)
sguthrie@email.arizona.edu

www.phoenix.arizona.edu

 

To read about the expansion of the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix go to http://www.phoenix.medicine.arizona.edu/About/News/Campus/