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Pharmacy students travel to Texas for conference
Betsy Cohen
Issue date: 4/16/09 Section: News
04/16/09 - Twenty students from the University of Rhode Island's pharmacy program traveled to San Antonio, Texas to attend an annual conference along with more than 7,000 pharmacists and student pharmacists from across the country.
Members of the URI chapter of the American Pharmacists Association's Academy of Student Pharmacists garnered two awards during the three-day conference held the first weekend in April.
The awards were presented to the group for their efforts in Heartburn Awareness and its Operation Diabetes projects.
Earlier this year the students set up booths at local health fairs and pharmacies to educate the public about the causes and preventions of heartburn. For Operation Diabetes, the group visited Rhode Island elementary schools to spread the word that diabetes is increasing among children.
"The two awards we won were rewards for us for all the hard work we have been doing this past year, and that was something really special for us," Nick Dorich, a second year pharmacy major and the president elect for URI's chapter, said.
During the conference, the students also had a chance to contribute their opinions during a voting session in which attendees discussed different proposals concerning the pharmaceutical industry.
Each year, APHA invites a house of delegates comprised of various pharmaceutical organizations from across the country that address existing bills and propose new bills pertaining to issues with drugs in the pharmaceutical industry.
The delegates came up with resolutions and proposals for issues and took majority votes on each. There were seven proposals in total.
"Any proposals or resolutions that are made are debated back and forth, much like as in Congress," Dorich said.
Ezekiel Payne, also a pharmacy student at URI, served as the voting member representative of the university. Payne also participated in a closed-door committee meeting that was concluded with the revision of two of the seven proposals.
Members of the URI chapter of the American Pharmacists Association's Academy of Student Pharmacists garnered two awards during the three-day conference held the first weekend in April.
The awards were presented to the group for their efforts in Heartburn Awareness and its Operation Diabetes projects.
Earlier this year the students set up booths at local health fairs and pharmacies to educate the public about the causes and preventions of heartburn. For Operation Diabetes, the group visited Rhode Island elementary schools to spread the word that diabetes is increasing among children.
"The two awards we won were rewards for us for all the hard work we have been doing this past year, and that was something really special for us," Nick Dorich, a second year pharmacy major and the president elect for URI's chapter, said.
During the conference, the students also had a chance to contribute their opinions during a voting session in which attendees discussed different proposals concerning the pharmaceutical industry.
Each year, APHA invites a house of delegates comprised of various pharmaceutical organizations from across the country that address existing bills and propose new bills pertaining to issues with drugs in the pharmaceutical industry.
The delegates came up with resolutions and proposals for issues and took majority votes on each. There were seven proposals in total.
"Any proposals or resolutions that are made are debated back and forth, much like as in Congress," Dorich said.
Ezekiel Payne, also a pharmacy student at URI, served as the voting member representative of the university. Payne also participated in a closed-door committee meeting that was concluded with the revision of two of the seven proposals.
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