ACPHS In The News

Panther Profiles are Q&A interviews that highlight Panthers of all stripes -- students, faculty, staff, alum, board members and anyone else in the campus community. Associate Professor Dr. Alexandra Watson ’14 splits her time between teaching pharmacy students and practicing as a pharmacist at Community Care Physicians, the largest primary care practice in New York’s Capital Region

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has been invited by the College of St. Rose to support a teach-out plan for its students.  "Over the past few weeks, we have been meeting with College of St. Rose academic leadership including their Provost, Margaret McLane, and Dean of the School of Mathematics and Sciences, Ian McDonald," said Toyin Tofade, Professor and President, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

En route to her doctorate in pharmacy, Titilayo Sunday became curious about drug discovery.   She still wanted to acquire the deep understanding about drugs that she would need to care for patients. And she also wanted to understand the efforts behind getting those drugs to market

ACPHS had a strong presence at last week's ASHP Mid-year Conference in Anaheim, California.  Fifteen students presented poster presentations, Drs. Grabe and Cardone made presentations on IgA nephropathy and peritonitis respectively, and alum and former Board of Trustees member, Leigh Briscoe-Dwyer '87, was appointed ASHP President-Elect

HVCC Professor and Biotechnology Program Coordinator Donna Barron joined CBET Executive Director Michelle Lewis for the first of four evening sessions of BioConnect, a unique biotech educational program designed to bring awareness of the industry to underserved populations

  Photo credits: Vincent Giordano, HVCC Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences’ Stack Family Center for Biopharmaceutical Education and Training (CBET) is continuing to build a strong biomanufacturing pipeline that reaches individuals where they are at

Panther Profiles are Q&A interviews that highlight Panthers of all stripes -- students, faculty, staff, alum, board members and anyone else in the campus community. Britney Mbeng ’21 holds a bachelor of science in pharmaceutical sciences, with a minor in public health, and is pursuing her doctorate in pharmacy

At an urban farm in Albany, Keely Barletta and Gia Colon (pictured) assist teens in a youth employment program with tasks like planting garlic and pressing cider from fresh apples.   Cruising the city’s streets in a charity-operated van, Abimael Marrero and Gabriel Silverstein reach out to houseless people, offering them blankets, clean needles and a chance for conversation, maybe about their housing options

Left to right: Nurse Practitioner Jacqueline Jordan, Dr. Michael Burke, Dr. Michael Brodeur and Isabella Mortier at the Our Lady of Mercy Life Center in Guilderland  Building on a decades-long collaboration with the Capital Region’s preeminent provider of care to seniors, ACPHS is poised to launch a new residency program in geriatric pharmacotherapy

Panther Profiles are Q&A interviews that highlight Panthers of all stripes -- students, faculty, staff, alum, board members and anyone else in the campus community. Ellis Simerly is a native South Carolinian in his last year of the pharmacy doctoral program at ACPHS