Summer 2007 Scholarly Activity

Advanced Concepts Institute

Poster Presentations

Joshua J. Spooner#, Matt Groesbeck#, et al., “Projected Cost Savings to Third Party Payers for the Year Following Generic Simvastatin and Pravastatin Availability in the U.S.” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Annual International Meeting in Arlington, VA, May 19–23.

Joshua J. Spooner#, et al., “A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Prophylactic Therapies Against Air Traveler Thrombosis” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Annual International Meeting in Arlington, VA, May 19–23.

Publication
Joshua J. Spooner#,
“Medication Therapy Management Programs: When Will the Outcomes Come Out?” commentary in Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, 13:276–7, 2007.

College of Graduate Studies

Presentations

Robert Feld#, panelist on “The Politics of Health Information” at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Philadelphia, May 21.

Michael Marchetti#,
“Broadening the Vision: Building an Infrastructure to Support Enrollment Growth” at the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (NAGAP) Annual Conference in Orlando, April 25–28.

Richard Stefanacci#

1. “Medicare Medication Management in Long Term Care” at the Annual Leadership Summit on Medicare in Washington, DC, May 8.
2. “Assisted Living Facility Clinical Practice Update” at the American Geriatric Society in Seattle, May 6.
3. “Medicare Update” at the American Geriatric Society in Seattle, May 3.
4. “Medicare Part D Update” at the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Senior Symposium in Foxwoods, CT, April 27.
5. “Alzheimer’s Disease Management Update” at the American Medical Directors Association in Hollywood, FL, March 13.

Publications
Robert Feld#, “America’s Drug Abuse Problem Increasingly Starts in the Medicine Cabinet,” Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 32(6), June 2007.

Richard Stefanacci#

1. “Medicare: Overtaxing Health-care Providers,” Clinical Geriatrics, 15(3):22–24, 2007.
2. “Medicare: Reimbursement Politics,” Clinical Geriatrics, 15(2):9–13, 2007.
3. “Medicare: Reimbursement Politics,” Annals of Long Term Care, 15(2):12–16, 2007.
4. “Let’s Not Lose Sight of Residents’ Visual Health,” Assisted Living Consult, 3(2):23–26, 2007.
5. “Check Please!” Assisted Living Consult, 3(2):9–11, 2007.
6. “Why Many American Children Won’t Be Seeing a Geriatrician,” Medicare Patient Management, 2(2):26–29, 2007.
7. “Consumer Driven Primary Healthcare,” Medicare Patient Management, 2(2):8–11, 2007.
8. “Catered Living,” Assisted Living Consult, 3(1):8–9, 2007.

Richard Stefanacci#,
et al., “The Application of Evidence-Based Principles of Care in Older Persons: Alzheimer’s Disease,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 8:183–193, 2007.

College of Health Sciences

Poster Presentations

Pamalyn Kearney#,
“Literacy, Health Literacy, and the Impact on the Health of Older Adults” at the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference in St. Louis, April 20–23.

Paula Kramer#, Roger Ideishi#, Pamalyn Kearney#, Michelle Cohen#, Joanne Ames#, et al., “Learner-Centered Teaching Techniques as a Means of Achieving Curricular Themes” at the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference in St. Louis, April 20–23.

Gregory Thielman#,
“Upper Extremity Control Thematic Poster Presentation—Rehabilitation of Reaching After Stroke: One Year Follow-up” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Boston, February 14–18.

Presentations

Michael Johnson#, Stephen Metraux#, “Impact of the Outpatient Therapy Cap and the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule on Individuals with Musculoskeletal Conditions: An Analysis from 1997 to 2000 Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey” at the Annual Conference of the American Physical Therapy Association in Boston, February 14–16.

Pamalyn Kearney#, Roger Ideishi#, “Service Learning Embedded within a Curriculum: In Confronting Race in the Classroom & Community with Health Science Students” at the American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference in St. Louis, April 20–23.

Carol Martiz#, “Using a Pictorial Assessment Method to Measure Student Learning” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Boston, February 14–18.

Stephen Metraux#, et al., “Incarceration & Homeless-ness” at the National Symposium on Homelessness Research sponsored by the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development and the United States Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, March 1–2.

Lora Packel#, “Making Exercise Accessible and Interactive through the Internet” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Boston, February 14–18.

Susan Wainwright#,
“Novice and Experienced Physical Therapy Clinicians: A Comparison of Decision Making Abilities” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Boston, February 14–18.

Publication
Stephen Metraux#, et al., “Assessing Residential Segregation Among Medicaid Recipients With Psychiatric Disability in Philadelphia,” Journal of Community Psychology, 35(2): 239–256, 2007.

Department of Athletics

Grant

Professional Activity

George Downs#, Paul Furtaw#, et al., “An Internet-Based Survey of Pharmacy Student Prescription Drug Misuse” at USP Scholars Day, April 19, and accepted for presentation at American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting in Orlando, July 15–16.

Presentation
Aminta Hawkins-Breaux#, William Cunningham#, Paul Furtaw#, “Student Early Intervention Response Team (SEIRT): A Collaborative Strategy for Supporting Students with Behavioral and Emotional Needs” at the Delaware Valley Student Affairs Conference in Lafayette Hill, PA, February 16.

Misher college of Arts and Sciences

Award
Natalia Coleman*, Adeboye Adejare#,
$100,000, WBT Pharmaceuticals, “Investigation of Anticancer Properties of an Herbal Preparation.”

Poster Presentations

Danny Benau#,_“A Day in the Life of a Full-Time Asynchronous Online Professor in 2006” at the Lilly East Conference on College and University Teaching at the University of Delaware in Newark, April 13.

Peter Janis@, Stephen Moelter#, et al., “Proactive Interference in Schizophrenia: Correlates with Regional Brain MRI and Cerebral Metabolism” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, DC, May 26.

Neena Majumdar*, Gin-Nene Middleton#, Evan Cooke*, Daniel R. Marenda#, “Drosophila Importin7/Moleskin Alters Delta/Notch Expression and Activity in the Developing Wing” at the Genetics Society of America 48th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Philadelphia, March 7–11.

Neena Majumdar*, Daniel R. Marenda#, “Phenotypic Effect of the Over-Expression of Ras/MAPK Components in the Developing Drosophila Wing” at the Genetics Society of America 48th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Philadelphia, March 7–11.

Stephen Moelter#,
“Student Impressions of Self-Correcting Multiple Choice Exams in Cognitive Psychology” at the Teaching Institute of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, DC, May 24.

Stephen Moelter#,
et al., “Emotional Sequelae of Sports-Related Injuries: Concussive and Orthopedic Injuries” at the Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Portland, OR, February 2007.

Presentations
Salar Alsardary#, Phyllis Blumberg#,
“Interactive, Learning-Centered Methods of Teaching Upper Level Mathematics Courses” at the Lilly East Conference on College and University Teaching at the University of Delaware in Newark, April 13.

Michael Bruist#, “It’s Alive!: Animated IHF” at the symposium “Cellular Responses to Environmental Changes: Genomics, DNA Rearrangements, and Signal Transduction” at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at LaJolla in San Diego, May 5. This was a special symposium to honor Dr. Melvin Simon for his 70th birthday.

Bernard Brunner#,
“Using Multiple Active Learning Techniques in Introductory College Physics with Assessment of Problems and Outcomes” at the Lilly East Conference on College and University Teaching at the University of Delaware in Newark, April 13.

Susanna Dodgson#, Danny Benau#, “Regulatory Writing: Turning Information from Treatment Development into Regulatory Knowledge” for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society in Philadelphia, March 22. Department of Student Affairs

Anne Marie Flanagan#,
“Crossing the Border between Text and Film: Machiavelli’s The Prince and Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth” at the Association for Core Texts and Courses Conference in Williamsburg, VA, March 31.

Christine F1anagan#
was the faculty sponsor for Courtney Cavalieri*_who presented scholarly research in literature (Paper title: “Please Stop Talking: Deteriorating Relationships in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”) at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference at Weber State University, Ogden, UT, April.

Paul Halpern#, “Einstein’s Viscous Advice Flowed Freely Nevertheless” at the American Physical Society Meeting in Jacksonville, FL, April 14–17.

Ashwini Khanna*, Suzanne Murphy#, Margaret Kasschau#,
“Cortical and Medullary Kidney Cells: A Comparative Study of Acute Response to Hypertonic Stress” at the 18th Annual St. Joseph’s University Student Research Symposium and USP Scholarly Day, April.

Ryan Marek*, Suzanne Murphy#, “Heat Shock Protein 70 and the Role of Protein Kinase C in Oncogenic Transformation” at Thomas Jefferson University Sigma Xi and USP Scholarly Day, April.

Peter Meek#, “Shape Signatures: Computer Aided Drug Design from a Nonspecialist Viewpoint” at the Conference and Expo of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology in Shanghai, China, May 28–June 5.

Alison Mostrom#, “Using Conceptual Diagram/Maps to Promote Deep, Meaningful Learning in the Classroom” at the Lilly East Conference on College and University Teaching at the University of Delaware in Newark, April 13.

1. At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman in Library Journal, 132(8):80–81, May 1.
2. The Mistress’s Daughter by

A.M. Homes in Library Journal,
132(3):123, February 15.

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Poster Presentations

William Mcghan#, Andrew Peterson#, et al., “Evaluating an Online Calculator for Analyzing Incremental Net Benefit and the Expected Value of Perfect Information from Patient Level Data” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Crystal City, VA, May.

Presentations
Meredith Abraham#,
“Factors That Influence the Decision to Staff a Medical Information Booth at a Medical Meeting” at the 26th Annual Eastern States Conference for Pharmacy Residents in Baltimore, May 11. Abraham’s USP mentors were Grace Ear#_ and Emily Hajjar#.

Michael Cawley#@

1. “The Changing Face of Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Skin and Soft Tissue and Bacteremia, including Right-Sided Endocarditis” for the Regional Home Care clinical staff in King of Prussia, PA, March.
2. “Appropriate use of Daptomycin for MRSA Bacteremia, including Right-Sided Endocarditis and Complicated Skin Infections” at Apria Healthcare in Alexandria, VA, February, and at the Reston Hospital Center in Reston, VA, February.

Grace Earl#, “Active Teaching Strategies in a Drug Information Course” at the symposium on “Innovative Teaching Strategies in Drug Information” at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Spring Symposium in Memphis, April 21–25.

Daniel Hussar#@

1. “New Drugs of 2006” at the Connecticut Pharmacists Association Mid-Winter Meeting in Southington, CT, February 8; for Merck pharmacists in West Point, PA, February 21; and at the Advances in Pharmacy Practice Symposium at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, February 25.
2. “New Drugs” at the California Pharmacists Association Outlook Conference in Palm Springs, CA, February 15 and 17.

Sarah Spliner#, “Using Patient Registries, Clinical Trials, and Current Practice Patterns to Guide Long-Term Therapeutic Options in Atherothrombosis” at the American Medical Directors Association Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, March 29, and American Managed Care Pharmacists Meeting in San Diego, April 12.

Publications
Adeboye Adejare#, et al., “Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy System (ANFIS): A New Approach to Predictive Modeling in QSAR Applications: A Study of Neurofuzzy Modeling of PCP-based NMDA Receptor Antagonists,” Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 15:4265–4282, 2007.

Michael Cawley#@,
“Hyponatremia: Current Treatment Strategies Including the Role of Vasopressin Antagonists,” Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 41(5): 840–850, May.

Natalia Coleman*, et al., “In Vitro Maturation and Early Development Capacity of Bovine Oocytes Cultured in Pure Follicular Fluid and Supplementation with Follicular Wall,” Theriogenology, 67:1053–1059, 2007.

Grace Earl#, et al., “Tolerability of B-Blockers in Outpatients with Refractory Heart Failure Who Were Receiving Continuous Milrinone,” Pharmacotherapy, 27(5):697–706, 2007.

Daniel Hussar# *
• “New Drugs: Sitagliptin phosphate, Telbivudine, and Panitumumab,” Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 47:108–111, January/February 2007.
• “New Drugs 07 Part I,” Nursing 2007, 37:53–60, February 2007.
• “A New Year, an Old Theme” (editorial), The Pharmacist Activist, 2:1–2, January 2007.
• “New Drug Review: Paliperidone (Invega–Janssen),” The Pharmacist Activist, 2:3–4, January 2007.
• “Ten Thousand and One Pfizer Employees Lose Jobs— But the ‘One’ Is Very Different,” The Pharmacist Activist, 2:1, February 2007.
• “New Drug Review: Posaconazole (Noxafil–Schering),” The Pharmacist Activist, 2:3, February 2007.
• “New Drug Review: Ranibizumab (Lucentis–Genentech),” The Pharmacist Activist, 2:4, February 2007.

Andrew Peterson#,
“Improving Adherence in Patients with Alcohol Dependence: A New Role for Pharmacists,” American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 64(3):S23–9, 2007.

Andrew Peterson#, et al., “A Checklist for Medication Compliance and Persistence Studies Using Retrospective Databases,” Value in Health, 10:3–12, 2007.

Ruchi M. Shah*,
Anil D ’Mello#, “Stabilization of Phenylalanine Ammonia Lyase Against Organic Solvent Mediated Deactivation,” International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 331:107– 115, 2007.