April 09, 2010: UPPOW Auction

This years annual UPPOW auction was a huge success - raising nearly $12,000 for reimbursement of student travel to professional conferences. The theme was pirates of the Caribbean and students had a great time transforming the South Campus Center with Pirate Flags, treasure chests and other themed items.

View http://sites.google.com/site/uppowauction/ for details.

February 24, 2010: Winter Independent Pharmacy Tour

NCPA hosted an event allowing six student pharmacists to visit Bellegrove Pharmacy in Bellevue for a tour of Steve Singer's telepharmacy as well as his traditional pharmacy. The format was different than last years - AND - went over really well.

February 9, 2010: Pharmacy Legislative Day

Pharmacy students from U.W. and W.S.U. joined forces and headed to the state capitol for Pharmacy Legislative Day. The event started off with an address from Senator Linda Evans Parlett, followed by WSPA Director of Government Affairs, Dedi Hitchins and WSPA Chief Executive officer, Jeff Rochon.

Students met with their Senators and House reps and had the chance to talk about Pharmacy Robbery, MTM and DSHS audit bills. We also hosted a health fair with booths for blood glucose testing, bone density readings, body composition and much more.

A huge thanks to all the students who made this event possible; to Brent Liethauser and Karen Craddick for all their hard work and planning and to Svetlana Nozdrina for taking hundreds of pictures to document this event.

January 25, 2010: Patient Counseling Competition

Seventeen student pharmacists participated in this years patient counseling competition. The case was written by a faculty member. A third year student won the competition and competed at APhA Annual in Washington D.C.

January 15, 2010: Winter Mingle

This year's winter mingle was planned by UPPOW's own Annea Bodding-Long and hosted at Talaris. The theme was hollywood and the place was decked out - it even had a red carpet! The evening was a huge success and was filled with great music, food & friends. If you missed out this year - come next year and see what UPPOW has in store for you at this annual event.

January 20, 2010: Independent Pharmacy Panel Dinner

Speakers Steve Singer, Beverly Schaefer, Bill Corriston and Mike Donohue spoke to around 35 student in regards to private pharmacy ownership. The event was a huge success with a Q&A session that lasted for an hour after the speakers finished. If you have interest in pharmacy ownership stay tuned for next years event.

January 08, 2010: Pharmabridge Textbooks to Ethiopia

Speakers Peggy Odegard & Don Downing gave a presentation to chapter members about their experience delivering textbooks donated by IPSF to students at the Jimma School of pharmacy in Ethiopia. They showed pictures from their trip and recounted the lessons learned there. They also conveyed appreciation from the Jimma students to the student pharmacists at UWSOP.