News

Salgado to focus on policy in new CPPI director role

Jan. 6, 2022

Teresa M. Salgado, Ph.D., previously the co-director of the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation, is kicking off 2022 as the new director of CPPI.

Diabetes and Hypertension Project ECHO connects providers across VA, shares best practices

Sept. 7, 2021

Diabetes and hypertension are conditions that plague many of the communities VCU Health serves. These conditions are disproportionately prevalent in the disadvantaged communities that rely on VCU for care.

Pharmacists for Digital Health student group equips students with digital skills, finds home with CPPI

Aug. 25, 2021

The digital revolution is well on its way, and the realm of health care is no exception to that. Health care workers now and in the future require more digital skills than ever before, so it’s important that pharmacy schools equip their students for this shift.

PhD student to study patient outcomes in underserved populations with fellowship funding

July 7, 2021

Tyler Wagner, a Ph.D. student studying health outcomes and pharmacoeconomics under CPPI Assistant Director Teresa Salgado, won the 2021 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Outcome Disparities from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education, a $10,000 grant that will fund his current research on differences in patient outcomes between those with pharmacists on their primary care teams and those without. This is the second fellowship he has received from AFPE.

CPPI PhD candidate to study medication adherence with fellowship funding

June 2, 2021

Vasco Pontinha — a Ph.D. candidate in health outcomes and pharmacoeconomics under CPPI core faculty member David Holdford — won the 2021 Predoctoral Fellowship in Health Outcomes Research from the PhRMA Foundation, which gives him $25,000 to use in completing his dissertation.

HOPE Pharmacy helps unite old, new Church Hill

Feb. 3, 2021

When you think of hope, what comes to mind?

CPPI faculty member, PGY-2 resident secure BPS seed grant to study pharmacist job satisfaction

Dec. 16, 2020

Lauren Pamulapati, assistant professor in the VCU School of Pharmacy and Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation core faculty member, and Vasyl Zbyrak, a PGY-2 in the school’s Ambulatory Care Residency, are receiving one of two 2020 BPS PGY-2 Residency Research Seed Grants. Their anticipated project focuses on an area in which no current research exists — job satisfaction among pharmacists with board certification.

CrossOver Healthcare Ministry expands telehealth, COVID-19 testing amid pandemic

Oct. 2, 2020

CrossOver Healthcare Ministry has been partnering with the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation for more than three years, and through this partnership, John Bucheit and other CPPI faculty have made progress on several CPPI initiatives.

CPPI assistant director selected for Mentored Training in Implementation Science Program

Sept. 14, 2020

CPPI Assistant Director Teresa Salgado, M.Pharm., Ph.D., is one of six 2020 scholars selected for the NIH K12 Mentored Training in Implementation Science (MTIS) Program at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Partner Spotlight: The Center for Healthy Hearts

July 16, 2020

The Center for Healthy Hearts is a partnership-based free health clinic that primarily serves an uninsured and underinsured population. It has been partnering with the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation since CPPI began in 2015. While the projects they’ve worked on together have changed over the years, the focus has been the same: developing models to provide care to patients through sustainable, interprofessional health care teams.