The USC School of Pharmacy will be renamed the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and will receive a $50 million endowment for student scholarships, faculty recruitment and more.
The newly-renovated Margaret and Biles Leadership Center, located in Seaver Hall on the USC Health Sciences Campus, is a state-of-the-art, student-centric facility for programs, services and events.
Soon after Vassilios Papadopoulos became dean of the USC School of Pharmacy in October 2016, he approached Raffi Svadjian, executive director of community pharmacies, with a bold idea. What about launching a new pharmacy in South Los Angeles, an underserved area for pharmaceutical care?
Dima M. Qato, associate professor of pharmacy and director of the Program on Medicines and Public Health at the USC School of Pharmacy, spoke to Academic Pharmacy Now about pharmacy deserts and the Pharmacy Access Initiative--a multiyear effort launched in 2021 that will produce research to help identify communities lacking pharmacy access.
USC School of Pharmacy students achieved a 97% passing rate on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) exam from April to October 2021, according to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.
Starting January 1, the No Surprises Act will make surprise out-of-network billing illegal across the U.S. In a MedPage Today op-ed, Erin Trish and Loren Adler of Schaeffer Center explain how the new law will benefit patients, employers, and consumers.
A new USC Schaeffer Center study published in Health Affairs and led by John Romley and colleagues finds that almost 20% of counties in the nation have high levels of both hesitancy and social vulnerability, and continue to be most at risk of failing to achieve high COVID-19 vaccination coverage.
