Upcoming Events
Past Events
Digital Health and Informatics
February 27th, 2024
Join PDH as we learn about navigating post-graduate training opportunities in industry and traditional pharmacy settings. Featuring Amir Behdani, P4 and co-founder of PDH. Join us on Friday, February 27th on Zoom or in Smith 225 at 12pm.
Breaking Into the Digital Health Arena
January 26th, 2024
Join PDH as we explore nontraditional pharmacy practice. Featuring Emily Ko, P4 and co-founder of PDH. Join us on Friday, January 26th on Zoom or in Smith 224 at 12pm.
Personalized Learning Assistants with GPT agents
November 17th, 2023
Join PDH as we demonstrate how to use AI technology to create learning material for the Virginia pharmacy law exam. Join us on Friday, November 17th on Zoom or in Smith 224 at 12pm.
Achieving Real Results with Extended Reality (XR)
November 2nd, 2023
Join PDH as we learn about using extended reality. Featuring Silas Contaifer from VCU School of Pharmacy Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Sciences. Join us on Thursday, November 2nd on Zoom or in Smith 221 from 12-1pm.
How to Harness AI Tools to Become More Effective in Your Studies
Join PDH as we learn more about different trajectories of digital health and how pharmacy students can make the most of them. Featuring Dr. Dayanjan Wijesinghe, a VCU faculty member specializing in biomedical research.
Pharmacy Informatics Panel
October 5th, 2022
Join PDH to learn more about careers in pharmacy informatics with:
Annie Vo(left)
PGY1/PGY2 at Aurora Health
Pharmacy Informatics Analyst at WVU medicine
Application Analyst at VCU health
Tiffany Yoon (Right)
PGY1 at CRMH
Master Candidate in Health Informatics
Internal Medicine Rounding Pharmacist
VCU Heath IT
Pharmacist for Digital Health Panel
August 31, 2022
Monther Alsultan (center)
Pharm.D
PhD in Pharmacotherapy
Master’s Degree in Clinical Research
Former Pharmacy Intern at FDA
Malik Graves (right)
Pharm.D Candidate, Class of 2023
KNiME Certified
APPE Student on Digital Health Rotation
Amir Behdani (left)
Pharm.D Candidate, Class of 2024
Current Intern at Johns Hopkins Medicine
Co-founder of KBHealthTech LLC
Former Informatics Intern at Sheltering Arms Institute
Pharmacy Informatics
January 25, 2022
Join PDH as we learn more about pharmacy informatics from Dr. Annie Vo, a pharmacy informatics analyst at WVU Health System! Dr. Vo graduated from VCU School of Pharmacy in 2019 and completed a combined PGY1/PGY2 residency in pharmacy informatics at Advocate Aurora Health. Join us on January 25, 2022 over Zoom or in Smith 221 as Dr. Vo shares her experiences in a nontraditional pathway in pharmacy!
Growth and Opportunities in Digital Health
November 17, 2021
Dr. Parisa (Risa) Vatanka, PharmD, is a thought leader, strategic thinker, and champion of health care delivery optimization through digital health integration. She is the Senior Director of Corporate Alliances at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and has founded and chaired pharmacist-led digital health conferences across the United States, including DHX (CPhA), Digital Health.Rx (APhA), and the Digital Health Institute (AACP). Dr. Vatanka is the Creator & Editor of the Digital Health Corner e-newsletter via CPhA.
She brings her early roots in community pharmacy and significant contributions to the pharmacy profession and development in digital health to help us grasp the full breadth of digital health and its plethora of opportunities in digital health that are rapidly developing for pharmacists.
Challenges in Modern Healthcare
October 12, 2021
Dr. Michelle Harrison, PharmD, is a graduate of VCU School of Pharmacy who is the Director of Pharmacy at Sheltering Arms Institute (a Collaboration with VCU Health) and Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Inpatient Pharmacy Services at VCU Health. Today, she will be helping us identify the major challenges in the junction of healthcare and technology. These are the research opportunities for us, as students of pharmacy and digital health, in the immediate future and the areas of opportunity in the healthcare we will graduate into.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications
September 9, 2021
Dr. Bridget McInnes, PhD, joins us today from the VCU School of Engineering. Her research is in the area of NLP with a specific interest in semantics. During today’s session, she will be delving into uses cases in information extraction and literature-based discovery.
Pharmacogenomics Panel
March 15, 2021
Inviting leading voices in pharmacogenomics (PGx) and translational research:
- Eric Matey, PharmD, RPh, BCACP, who is a clinical PGx pharmacist and PGY2 Residency Program Director at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
- Adrijana Kekic, PharmD, BCACP, who is a clinical PGx pharmacist, leader in PGx research, and the Assistant Program Director of Pharmacy Education at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, AZ
Hospital Systems Informatics Panel
February 15, 2021
High-level informatics professionals will be joining us for this panel including:
- Susan Steagall, Chief Informatics Officer, VCU Health
- Janet Onieal, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, VCU Health
- Jeremy Utz, Director of Enterprise Analytics, VCU Health
- Julianna Burgess, PharmD, Epic Pharmacy Application Manager, VCU Health
Inaugural Meeting with Robert Oscar, RPh
January 14, 2021
Robert Oscar, RPh, is a pharmacist and true pioneer in the field of digital health as the Founder and President of RxEOB, a health informatics and big data analytics company that integrates data science and technology like machine learning engines to improve health outcomes for millions of Americans. He has developed programs to manage pharmacy benefit risk, including pioneering work in the Medicare HMO market.