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Faculty Spotlight                           

Kim Scarsi, Pharm.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, is a new faculty member at the College of Pharmacy.
 
Interests: Dr. Scarsi practices as an ambulatory clinical pharmacist as part of the University of Nebraska Medical Center HIV Program.  She is the principal investigator of an NIH grant that supports her work.  Her research focus is the clinical pharmacology of antiretroviral agents, as well as the safe and effective management of medications frequently used in combination with antiretroviral therapy. Ongoing projects include investigator initiated and AIDS Clinical Trial Group collaborative studies in both domestic and international sites, with an emphasis on women infected with HIV.  Dr. Scarsi also works on HIV clinical care and Medication Therapy Management demonstration projects in both sub-Saharan Africa and the US to improve access to high quality HIV care throughout the world.
 
Teaching Activities:
Dr. Scarsi teaches in the Pharmacotherapy course on topics related to HIV infection and associated opportunistic infections. She is also a preceptor for the Ambulatory HIV Clinic rotation beginning in the summer of 2014.

Previous positions: Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chicago, IL; Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacist, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

Education: Pharm.D., Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa; Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Honors: Panel Member, US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents; Editor, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; International Advisory Council, Drake University, Des Moines, IA; Young Alumna Achievement Award, Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Des Moines, IA

  

UNMC's Fletcher part of groundbreaking HIV research study

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These treatments have turned what used to have been a death sentence into a manageable, chronic condition. Thousands of people who previously likely would have died have instead gone on to live long, full, otherwise largely normal lives. ...read more
  

Rapid Diagnostic Testing

The UNMC College of Pharmacy and Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., are collaborating on a study with several Midwest community pharmacies that make them among the first pharmacies in the United States to offer customers rapid-diagnostic influenza or Group A Streptococcus tests.

  

Hy-Vee stores in Omaha and Papillion are among 60 sites throughout three states to have trained pharmacists administering these tests...read more 

  

  

Education is one of the four pillars of UNMC's mission and our students are the lifeblood of that aspect of campus life.

  

In UNMC Today's Student Spotlight, we get to know some of these students, who will become tomorrow's health care professionals. ...read more

  

Ashley Neumann (P3) and representatives from the SHARING Clinics presented posters at the 2014 conference of the Society of Student-Run Free Clinics in Nashville, Tenn., last weekend.

  

The SSRFC promotes and supports student-run clinics, advocating for resources and health policy that benefit patients....read more