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Roosevelt University College of Pharmacy
New Updates and Upcoming E-board Elections

College Connection

by Anna Majerczak, PS3, SSHP Webmaster and Membership Chair & Hayden Hagemann, PS-3, Treasurer

Our SSHP chapter at Roosevelt University has been quite busy these past few weeks and has a lot of events planned for our coming term! We have recently added a PAI subcommittee to our organization and welcomed two new members to our Executive Board. We have also worked in conjunction with other student organizations within our College of Pharmacy to promote student involvement, professional development, and raise money for charity.

We hosted our spring journal club on the article, “Cardiovascular Safety of Celecoxib, Naproxen, or Ibuprofen for Arthritis”. There was a great turn-out with 21 attendees, including three clinical faculty members, and lively discussions that had the whole room involved. To close out our spring term, we have a CV workshop set up that will include several of the clinical faculty at Roosevelt. Members will have the opportunity to send their CV in to our Executive Board, and we will then evenly distribute them out for faculty review. This event is very timely as our P3 students are moving closer to APPE rotations and career/residency applications.

Dr. Matt Dandino, PharmD, BCPS, from Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, IL is coming to speak to our organization about a process he worked on to streamline a transitions of care service line. This is a great opportunity for students to learn more about a topic in which pharmacists can play a huge role. We are also gearing up for our annual residency round table event by reaching out to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Rush University Medical Center, Advocate Christ Hospital, and Mount Sinai Hospital to invite current pharmacy residents to RUCOP to answer questions regarding their path to residency. Our last residency round table event was extremely successful and we are hoping this one will be the same.

The SSHP worked concurrently with our student government to sponsor a hot chocolate bar during a finals week De-Stress Fest. De-Stress Fest was created to help fellow students relax and take a break during the most stressful time of the term. We are currently working with Kappa Psi to fundraise for St. Baldrick’s Foundation to raise money and promote awareness for childhood cancer. We made a “pot of gold” basket to raffle off at a trivia night hosted by our student government. Finally, we are also giving back to the community by volunteering at Feed My Starving Children. We are looking forward to volunteering and helping those in need with other classmates and our faculty.

Looking to the next academic year, we are in the process of holding Executive Board elections. We are running elections earlier than in the past to allow the new Executive Board more time to shadow and train under our wing. We hope by electing our new Executive Board early it will allow them to be better prepared to take over next year. We are extremely excited to get our new Executive Board training and hear their ideas for next years’ events.