State Legislature Honors Pharmacy School
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The resolution, co-sponsored by Assembly member Kevin de Leon, recognizes the school’s Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Economics & Policy for exemplary work in eight safety-net clinics serving the neediest neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
The school’s community pharmacy work also was honored earlier this year in Washington, D.C. with the 2007 Pinnacle Award presented by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation.
Receiving the proclamation in Sacramento was USC School of Pharmacy Dean R. Pete Vanderveen; department chair Kathleen Johnson, holder of the William A. and Josephine A. Heeres Endowed Chair in Community Pharmacy; professor Mel Baron; and clinical pharmacist Marie Martinez.
The resolution applauded the school’s success in delivering clinical pharmacy services to homeless and low-income patients in Los Angeles. These services primarily care for patients with chronic diseases, most frequently diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension, and have demonstrated significant improvements in patient outcomes directly attributed to pharmacist interventions.
Further, the resolution points to the program as a national model to improve health outcomes while saving precious health care dollars. By achieving improved disease control, the school’s work in the clinics has reduced medical costs by keeping patients out of emergency rooms and hospitals generally.
By implementing various pharmacy programs, the school’s work in the clinics also has produced drug cost savings.
While in Sacramento, the USC School of Pharmacy delegation met with elected officials to discuss the role of the clinical pharmacist in today’s health care environment, discussing pharmacy policy issues with members.
In addition to meeting personally with the resolution sponsors, the group met with Assembly members Mervyn Dymally and Alan Nakanishi. In addition, the group briefed staff from the offices of Sen. Alex Padilla, Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas, Assembly member Karen Bass and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kimberley Belshe.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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