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May 23, 2023 • Banner feature, College of Pharmacy back to college, graduate degree, Inspirational graduates, never too old, single dad,
Arturo Herrera II began working in a pharmacy as a cashier in high school. He fell in love with the community pharmacy setting and enjoyed a career as a licensed pharmacy technician for a little more than 20 years with companies like Eckerd, Target, Albertsons and MedSavers Pharmacy. “The passion for community pharmacy never left,”…

May 10, 2023 • College of Pharmacy Glenda Lawson McRee Pharmacy Student Award, Kaanan Shah, Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists,
Kaanan Shah, HSC College of Pharmacy third-year student, was recently awarded the Glenda Lawson McRee Pharmacy Student Award, presented at the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists annual conference in Galveston in April. The award recognizes a student who is committed to pharmacy through service, practice, education and research. “I was so honored to be this…
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April 13, 2023 • College of Pharmacy Alexis Richardson, Dr. Annesha White, Economic Evaluation and Policy, HSC Next, Innovation Challenge, Kevin Pham, Mathew Reyna, McLain and Patrick Pithua., Sahar Ghorbani,
A pharmacy course project at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is helping students unlock innovative solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing health care. The Innovation Challenge team-based project is part of Dr. Annesha White’s Economic Evaluation and Policy course offered in the fall for second-year student pharmacists.…

February 14, 2023 • College of Pharmacy Abigail Hulsizer, board-certified pharmacotherapy, internal medicine clinical pharmacist, love in grad school, Oscar Torres, retail pharmacy manager,
Most student pharmacists expect to part pharmacy school with their well-earned degree and a new and fulfilling career path ahead. For Class of 2018 alumni Abigail Hulsizer, PharmD, and Oscar Torres, PharmD, their achievement was much sweeter. They found true love. Introduced by mutual friends during their first semester of pharmacy school, Hulsizer and Torres…

September 16, 2022 • Clinical Practice Group, College of Pharmacy, Interprofessional Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Haley McKeefer, joint interprofessional simulation, Kaanan Shah, Kadi Horn, Matt Wieters, Student Initiative in Medical Simulation, Student Society of Health-System Pharmacists,
More than 100 students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and HSC’s College of Pharmacy participated in a joint interprofessional simulation. The goal of the exercise was to promote the kind of teamwork the students will see in real-world emergency departments and intensive care…

July 8, 2022 • College of Pharmacy, HSC Health, Institute for Healthy Aging, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Dante Paredes, HSC health, James Aston, Maria Crompton, Megan Wesling,
Dante Paredes, DO, looked his patient straight in the eye and with a stern tone told him he simply had two choices. He could either make a course correction now or sign the papers for hospice. “So, is there a way to fix this?” the patient asked. Dr. Paredes told him if he is…

June 30, 2022 • College of Pharmacy, North Texas Eye Research Institute Dimitrios Karamichos, Keratoconus, National Eye Institute, Steph Curry,
Dr. Dimitrios Karamichos was paying particularly close attention to the NBA finals this year. The executive director and endowed chair of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s North Texas Eye Research Institute is a huge basketball fan, but the reason he was watching closer than usual was related to his…

May 10, 2022 • College of Pharmacy
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth recently named Lawrence J. Cohen, PharmD, a Distinguished Professor at the university. He is only the second HSC professor to receive this designation. As a retired professor of pharmacotherapy in the HSC College of Pharmacy, Dr. Cohen was recognized for his significant contributions to…

May 2, 2022 • College of Pharmacy, Education, Multi School, Physical Therapy, School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Professions, School of Public Health, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
On Wednesday, Dr. Keisa Mathis, assistant professor of physiology and anatomy at the School of Biomedical Sciences, was awarded The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s prestigious Faculty Annual Achievement Award – taking home a $10,000 prize in addition to the prestigious award. The Faculty Senate names an annual winner for…

December 2, 2021 • Campaign: People, College of Pharmacy
Dr. Emanuel George, III, aka “DrEG3,” is on a mission to impact and serve 1 million people. He is well on his way, advocating for students, alumni and the greater pharmacy community. “I believe that I am a servant to all people,” Dr. George said. “I hope to help people become and live as their…
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