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low prescribing rates among MN providers

With opioid overdose deaths increasing at alarming speed, naloxone, an overdose antidote, provides some hope amidst a grave, serious public health crisis. From 2014 to 2015 alone, opioid-related overdose deaths increased 11 percent in Minnesota.

Laura Palombi headshot

Award recognizes her outstanding commitment to raising awareness of the dangers of prescription drug abuse.

Lucinda Maine

A 1985 graduate of the college’s Kellogg Pharmaceutical Clinical Scientist Ph.D. program, Lucinda Maine will receive the U of M Alumni Service Award. The award recognizes her service to the college and the U, and to the profession of pharmacy.

Randy Seifert

Randy Seifert, PharmD, professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, has been named the Peters Endowed Chair in Pharmacy

OAA Steve Simenson

Award is the Highest Non-Degree Conferred by the University of Minnesota.

Randy Seifert

Randall Seifert, PharmD, senior associate dean and professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, has been selected as the 2016 Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal recipient.

Derek Jennings

According to Aristotle, “The soul never thinks without a picture.” So perhaps the image-based research Dr. Derek Jennings does could be defined as a way to ‘discover what the soul is thinking’…

Michelle Johnson-Jennings

Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings is a trained clinical psychologist, a health researcher and advocate for tribal communities and a member of the Choctaw Nation.

Laura Palombi

After seeing her rural Minnesota community struggle with a growing heroin and opioid addiction problem, Assistant Professor Laura Palombi set out to do something about it.

Award

Congratulations to our faculty and alumni who received Minnesota Pharmacists Association 2016 awards at this past weekend's MPhA Annual Learning Networking Event.