DATE: Tuesday, April 8, 2014
TIME: 2PM EST
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Region 2 Agenda
1. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. Announcements
Meetings:
 NBC- May 19-21 in San Diego
o http://www.aaps.org/NBCProgram/
 AM- November 2-6 in San Diego. Housing now open.
o http://www.aaps.org/annualmeeting/
 Student events - New student awards at membership meetings; student chapter
meeting on Sunday – be there. Mentoring breakfast
 Deadline to submit abstracts – June 11
 Moderators: FDD (Ushma)
 Many of the sections provide travelships
o http://www.aaps.org/Awards-and-fellows/
Student Chapter business
 Renewal documents due October 15 [12 chapters are outstanding at this point].
Complete your elections
 Recruitment materials
o Please send Megan and email with the address you would like the items sent.
 Monthly student emails
 Graduate Focus
o www.aaps.org/NewsmagApr14
SPOD Committee
 Power point presentation available (SPOD Awareness)
 SCOTY award
o http://www.aaps.org/AMAwards/
 INTEL
 SIPs
o http://www.aaps.org/Sections_and_Groups/For_Students/Student/Postdoctoral
_Outreach___Development_Committee_(SPOD)/#SIP
 K-12 outreach
o Materials available upon request.
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USA Science and Engineering Festival
o http://www.aaps.org/Sections_and_Groups/For_Students/Outreach_Events/
eLearning
 Three new eCourses launching this summer (RA, IM, TS). CE credit will be available and
certificates of completion
o http://www.aaps.org/eCourses/
Publications
 AAPS has one print and two online journals. Please consider them when submitting
work.
o http://www.aaps.org/publications/
Outreach
 VSP
o http://www.aaps.org/vsp/
 Social media (blog)
o http://aapsblog.aaps.org/
 Section Mentoring Programs
o Please visit your sections student portion of the website.
 CBE and Ambassador Programs
Foundation
 Teach the Teachers
 AFPE
4. Other
5. Discussion
 Mercer University: Developing PharmaBeat newsletter, including book review. Marilyn
Morris via PPDM EI. Alumni meeting (requirements) via teleom. Vivian Gray discussed
dissolution.
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University of Florida: networking with pharmaceutical industry to find insight on getting
a job. Roundtable discussions or lectures per month with outside speakers. Topics
including: leadership, oncology development. Amgen PKPD speaker. Careers in industry.
Raimund Miller talked about event-driven career models. Multiple campuses (Gainsville
and Orlando). Lectures on communication skills. Plans for fall 2014 – career resource
center presentation. Ben Wu from Amgen. Russ Weiner coming in spring 2015. Rafting
and tubing trip scheduled.
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University of Georgia- Professional development: Assisted the Graduate Students and
Postdocs in Science with preparation of the annual Research Day. Assisted the Graduate
Students and Postdocs in Science with preparation of the annual Career Symposium.
Invited Dr. Michael Dyer from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to give a seminar.
Used the Visiting Scientist Program to invite Dr. Clinton Stewart from St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital to give a seminar. Summer industry tours. Volunteer: Volunteer
opportunities are forwarded and members are encouraged to participate in volunteer
activities such as: AAPS Meeting Abstract Screening, Georgia Science and Engineering
Fair Finals, Experience UGA (high school student tours in college science labs), Relay for
Life fundraising: Hosted a bake sale prior to the event, Sold henna tattoos at the event.
Social Events: Pumpkin carving , Hiking/camping, Bowling, End of the year picnic,
Rafting/kayaking trip.
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University of Mississippi- welcome/recruitment party. Two speakers came last semester,
and another two scheduled this semester. Looking to visit local K-12 (pharmacy and
pharm sci).
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University of Sao Paulo- focus on biotechnology programming. Held workshop in
pharmaceutical biotechnology. Nanocariers, gene therapy, cell culture all highlighted.
Careers in academia noted. Event on PK week-long course.
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University of Tennessee, Memphis- Student presentations for journal club: This is the
most regular activity of the student chapter. Members give short seminars on research
papers of their choice. The rest of the members in turn give valuable comments to the
presenter. Personal and academic Development Seminars: we organize talks on resume
writing, proposal writing and using reference management software’s such as EndNote
every other year. The reason for not organizing each of them every year is that the
content then becomes redundant and the members loose interest. Visiting Scientist
Program: In October last year we invited Dr. Arnab Mukherjee from Pfizer who gave a
talk on ‘The role of Pharmacometrics in Drug Development’. For May this year our
chapter has invited two speakers to give talks at the University of Tennessee. One is Dr.
Leslie Benet from UCSF, and the other is Dr. Terry Allen who is Professor Emeritus at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Social Events: In summer this year we plan to
organize a bowling event for the members which will be the social for this term.
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University of West Virginia- focusing outreach and professional development. Working
with Morgantown boys and girls clubs. Using experiment packet. Working with Ronald
McDonald house. Partnering with pharmacy student organization to promote
collaboration. Last week cosponsored career symposia with graduate student
association. Planning next regional meeting using SPOD. Keynote speakers, student
poster sessions. Partnering with society for pharmacoeconomic outcomes research
student chapter. Starting off conference with a workshop. Invited other chapters on the
call. Faculty dinner series. Industry tours (CPRC) and protea biosystems.
Regrets:
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Florida A&M University
Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
University of Porto (Portugal)
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University of Charleston, WV
University of Kansas
University of Puerto Rico
University of Texas at Austin
University of Houston
Texas Tech University
Union University
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Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil)
University of South Florida