Bulletin: April 2019

Faculty Accomplishments

Dr. Maria Mouratidis, professor and chair of psychology, had a paper published with her colleague in the journal Psychiatry, entitled, “The Evolving Concept of a Therapeutic Community.”

NDMU Art Therapy Program Director, Cathy Goucher, recently presented at a half-day workshop in Anne Arundel County as part of an event hosted by Pathfinders for Autism.

Congratulations to Dave Morrocco for his contributions to the Sage publication, Leadership for Organizations by David A. Waldman and Charles O'Reilly, released in January 2019. Dave reviewed the text, developed digital resources and offered suggested content. 

Dr. Patricia Dwyer had another op-ed published in The Baltimore Sun.

Dr. Stephanie Savick, Dr. Mark Fenster and Dr. Gary Thrift had their research article, Is a "Critical Mass" of Teacher Candidates Needed in a Professional Development School to Achieve a Quality Student Teaching Experience? published in the Fall Issue of School-University Partnerships, The Journal of the National Association for Professional Development Schools, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 47-61.

Associate Dean, Dr. Julian Dupuis was asked to present on a panel for “Out of this World Water” Day at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton last month. She joined keynote speaker Astronaut Ricky Arnold to discuss the importance of water education.

Lisa Pallett and Rosemary Poling are launching a new partnership with the Maryland State Education Association. It will be aimed at providing our students with opportunities for professional development, access to conferences and learning how to advocate for education-related issues.

Ryan Schaaf will be presenting A Brief History of the Future of Education at the Maryland International Education Consortium’s Mini Conference on April 26 at Montgomery College, Germantown Campus. The conference is titled “Developing Globally Competent Students.”

NDMU will be making a huge splash at the prestigious AERA Conference in Toronto from April 5-9. Nine of the presenters are from Notre Dame, including Provost Sr. Sharon Slear.

Kappa Delta Pi 2019 Induction Ceremony

Kappa Delta Pi Speaker

The Phi Xi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi also recently hosted a speaker for new members entitled “From Stickers to Celebrations” about restorative practices in the classroom. It was presented by Baltimore County Public Schools Assistant Principal Jennifer Pilarski.

Math Night

Several students in Dr. Lisa Pallett’s methods class recently volunteered at Oakleigh Elementary Schools’ Mathematics Night. On Tuesday, Mar. 19, Niesha Carr, Maxwell Davis, Alexis Gentry, Julie Hipp, Anthea Lowe, Melina Pool and Sierra Vancek volunteered getting students and their families engaged in meaningful mathematics for a fun, learning-filled experience.

Faculty Accomplishments

Dr. Sabita Persaud presented at the 2018 Sigma Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, IN. The presentation titled Project PLAN: Preparing Leaders to Advance Nursing, showcased School of Nursing activities supported by a 2018 Nurse Support Program II Grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

Drs. Marleen Thornton and Sabita Persaud recently published “Preparing Today’s Nurses: Social Determinants of Health and Nursing Education” in The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.

Student Accomplishments

You can read more about Emma in The Daily Record's program. The Leading Women of Maryland’s Future awards were created in 2010 to celebrate successful women who are 40 years of age or younger. The Leading Woman scholarship in partnership with Keswick, was established two years ago.

Three students in the Master of Science in Nursing Program were supported by the School of Nursing to present their work as posters at the 2018 Sigma Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, IN.  

• Michelle Atherton presented Pursuing Pathway to Excellence and Approaches to Nursing Education
• Natasha Maith presented Competence in Caring for Patients with Opioid Addiction: A Phenomenological Approach
• Carrie Ann Roberts presented compassion Fatigue in the Presence of Employee Engagement

On November 18, 2018, the Mu Eta Chapter of Sigma inducted 36 new members. Sigma is the international honor society of nursing and the Mu Eta Chapter is located here at NDMU. Inductees included 18 BSN students, 16 MSN students and 1 Nurse Leader.

Faculty News

Dr. Jennifer Bailey, Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Sciences – appointed to the Bylaws and Policy Committee, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Dr. Asish Dutta, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences – elected Chair-Elect, Section of Pharmaceutics, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Dr. Asish Dutta, Ellison Park ‘20 – “Development of an Improved Reversed-Phase HPLC Stability Indicating Method and Forced Degradation Studies of Curcuminoids” – poster presentation at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Chinyere Onyirimba ’20 , Anjali Patel ’19 , Zoya Ramzan ’19, Dr. Payal Agarwal (Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences) “Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery System (SNEDDS): An Attempt to Develop an Incomplete SNEDDS Formulation for Oral Delivery of Exendin-4 for Treatment of Type-2 Diabetes – poster presentation at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dr. Prashant Mandela, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences presented a poster presentation at the KGI Symposium ‘Use of Rituximab Biosimilars in the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia’ along with colleagues from Marshall B. Ketchum College of Pharmacy.

Dr. Jonathan Thigpen, appointed Dawson Award Committee, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Student News

The following students presented poster presentations at the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting in December 2018.

Olivia Akah ’19 “Incidence of antibacterial prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections and bronchitis in a rural outpatient setting”

Cynthia Clark ‘20 “Characterization of clinical metrics associated with a medication history program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital”

Patricia Dieso ‘19 “Effects of probiotic supplementation on inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review”

Danielle DiFalco ‘19 “Medication use evaluation of prothrombin complex concentration in a small community hospital”

Labasse Doumbia  ’20 “Evaluation of pharmacy technician workload in an inpatient satellite pharmacy at a large academic medical center”

Aara Hall ‘19 “Evaluation of delay in the second dose of antibiotics in patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital from the emergency department”

Samantha Hartig ’19  “Incidence of recidivism for opiate overdose in the absence of naloxone discharge prescription in a rural hospital setting”

Tyffani Howard  ’19 “Identifying potential cost savings with industry sponsored patient assistant programs for patients receiving immunotherapy agents in an outpatient oncology clinic”

Daniel Lee ’19 “Patients’ acceptance of influence vaccination during influenza season of low vaccine match”

Rachel Marrone ’19 “Use of acupuncture in the prevention and treatment of dementia”

Ayesha Nasir ’19 “Effects of probiotic supplementation on hyperlipidemia: a systematic review”

My Nguyen ’19 “Time to attaining therapeutic vancomycin trough in pharmacist pharmacokinetic service”

Amura Ama Oduro ‘19 “Liraglutide as an adjuvant therapy to regular U-500 insulin in a morbidly obese patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus”

Richie Onwuchekwa Uba ‘19 “Assessing risk of medication errors due to non-standardized investigational drug labels in two large academic hospitals”

Anjali Patel ‘19 “Association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children: A systematic review”

Mateo Pelja ‘20 “To Ignore or Not to Ignore: An Analysis of Drug Utilization Review in an Outpatient Pharmacy Setting”

Zoya Razman ‘19 “Evaluating the most common initial empiric therapy for skin and soft tissue infections”

Sulaiman Sesay ‘19 “Cost-avoidance through redistribution of short-dated emergency drug box medications”

Christiana Showunmi ‘19 “Probiotic effects in incidence reduction in clostridium difficile infection”

Arlene Velez-Bartolomei ‘19 “Evaluation of the appropriate use of antibiotics in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations”

Kelly Ward ‘19 “Incidence of continued tobacco abuse in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after smoking cessation education”