UNMC for the record

Omaha native awarded MMI’s Rhoda Davis Blatt Scholarship
The Munroe-Meyer Institute Board member Sue Seline presented the Rhonda Davis Blatt Scholarship certificate earlier this month to Omaha native Benjamin Ashby. Ashby is a former volunteer and staff member at Camp Munroe who is currently an undergraduate student at Georgia Tech studying molecular biology. He also is working at UNMC this summer. The scholarship is in memory of longtime UNMC and MMI staff member Rhoda Davis Blatt, who was the first administrator of Camp Munroe.

PT hosts interprofessional continuing ed conference
The Division of Physical Therapy Education is hosting a two-day continuing education conference, Oncology Rehabilitation Principles, Application, and State of Practice on Aug. 7-8. This interprofessional conference will feature the expertise of two national speakers from MD Anderson and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. For details, fees and registration, click here.

PT2 wins Lincoln half-marathon
Second-year PT student Katie White won the women’s half-marathon at last month’s Lincoln Marathon. As a physical therapy student, “I knew what was going on with my body, and I didn’t know if I had anything left to get my legs going again,” she told the Lincoln Journal Star. But after having stopped running with 600 yards to go, she pushed on to win the 13.1-mile race in a time of 1 hour, 18 minutes, 16 seconds.

Dr. Scarsi elected to national post for 2016-17
Kim Scarsi, Pharm.D., associate professor of pharmacy practice, has been named 2016-2017 APhA-APRS Clinical Sciences Section Chair-elect in the recent American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APhA-APPM) elections. Dr. Scarsi, an HIV pharmacotherapy specialist who emphasizes the role of the clinical pharmacist, was lauded for her work building capacity of HIV treatment and prevention programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Newly elected officers will be installed at the 163rd APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Baltimore, March 4-7, 2016.

Pharmacy grad student lauded at international conference

Yinnong Jia

Yinnong Jia, a graduate student in the lab of Jered Garrison, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, recently won first place, poster, Molecular Targeting Probes division, at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s (SNMMI) recent annual international conference in Baltimore. Also at the conference, her work/poster was recognized as a highlight at the Radiopharmaceutical Summary session, which synopsizes the most prominent abstracts out of the more than 400 submitted. “We are very proud of her accomplishments and how well she represented our lab, our department/graduate program, the Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine, the College of Pharmacy and UNMC,” Dr. Garrison said.