PrePharmacy Society 4th General Body Meeting

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• Pre-Pharmacy Society 4th General Body Meeting
• March 31, 2009
• umdprepharm_at_gmail.com

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Agenda

• Welcome! Dont forget to sign in!
• Upcoming Meetings
• Active Membership
• Upcoming Community Service Events
• UMB Open House April 4, 2009
• Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs)
• Current Pharmaceutical Issue
• UMB Student Panel

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2009-2010 Executive Board

• President Brittni Botchway-Bradley
• VP of Student Affairs Brandon Keith
• VP of External Relations Olaide Aiyegbusi
• VP of Administrative Affairs Nicole Tromm
• Secretary Sonja Jacobsen
• Treasurer Neer Hershtig
• Public Relations Co-Chair Kathy Tang
• Public Relations Co-Chair Amanda Wang
• Community Service Co-Chair Jenna Rocchio
• Community Service Co-Chair Katie Heavner

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Remember

• Make sure you are on the Pre-Pharmacy Society
  list-serve
• Email umdprepharm_at_gmail.com to be added
• Join Pre-Pharmacy Societys Facebook group to
  receive updates about meetings/events
• Visit our website http//studentorg.umd.edu/prepha
  rm
• All past presentations have been posted and
  todays presentation will be posted either
  tonight or tomorrow
• All newsletters will be posted on our website too

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Upcoming Meetings

• April 14th Kaplan
• April 28th Pre-Requisites, PCATs, PharmCAS
• All meetings will be on Tuesdays at 6pm
• All meetings will be in Stamp

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Active Membership

• 3 Meetings and 3 hours of community service per
  semester
• Please do not wait until the last minute to
  fulfill your community service hours!
• Attending more meetings and events are HIGHLY
  encouraged!

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Upcoming Community Service Events

• April 30, 2009 Charity Event for DPHW (Dinner
  Program for Homeless Women)
• May 2 3, 2009 Relay for Life

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3. Dinner Program for Homeless Women (DPHW)

• Date Thursday, April 30
• Time 430p 730p
• Location Washington, D.C.
• Hours 3 hours
• Event Kitchen Volunteer (Dinner)
• -preparing food
• -serving the meal
• -kitchen clean-up
• Next Step Fill out the sign up sheet!
• Need a group of 5 9 people, first come
  first served
• For more information visit
• http//www.dphw.org/index.php?optioncom_frontpage
  Itemid1
• Questions? Contact Nicole _at_ ntromm_at_umd.edu

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4. Relay for Life

• Date Saturday, May 2 May 3
• Time 700p 700a
• Location Ludwig Field, University of Maryland
• Hours undetermined
• Event Fundraise for the American Cancer Society
  by
• Joining our Pre-Pharmacy Society Team (10
  Registration Fee)
• Raising money for the team is preferred, but
  not required
• Next Step 1. Register at
• http//main.acsevents.org/goto/prepharmacysocie
  ty
• You may also donate here, but no service
  hours will be awarded
• 2. Participate for a minimum of three hours
• A sign-in sheet will be provided at the event
• Questions? Contact Nicole _at_ ntromm_at_umd.edu
• or Jenna _at_ jrocchi0_at_umd.edu

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UMB Open House 4/4/09

• Depart UMCP from Regents Garage at 730am
• Bring your UID or any form of picture ID
• Sign Up by April 1st
• Contact JUNG junghee_at_umd.edu

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Proton Pump Inhibitors

• Reduce production of gastric acid
• Used for acid reflux (GERD) and peptic ulcers
• Block action of H/K ATPase which is needed for
  gastric acid secretion

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The -prazoles

• omeprazole (Prilosec), lansoprazole (Prevacid),
  esomeprazole (Nexium), pantoprazole (Protonix),
  rabeprazole (Aciphex)

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Spreading the Health
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• Repositories for donated, unused drugs

By Salma Srour
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Background information

• Americans spend around 200 billion each year on
  prescription medications.
• With prescription drugs being so costly, 37
  states enacted legislation to allow patients and
  health care facilities to recycle good, unused
  pills.
• These recycled pills are given through local
  pharmacies and are to be donated to patients
  lacking insurance and financial requirements to
  purchase these medications.

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Background information

• Guidelines for these medications
• Donated medications must be in sealed,
  tamper-evident packaging
• Must be within no more than six months of their
  expiration date
• Pharmacies are not held liable if the
  medications next owner comes to an unexpected
  harm from the medication.

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Pros

• Affordable or free medications to the poor
• Using medications for the good rather than
  throwing away unused medications or medications
  unable to be returned

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Cons

• Accepting donations of medications not knowing
  how the drug was stored (was it stored in the
  right place, right temperature?)
• Despite the law, some are afraid of lawsuits if
  dangerous side effects happen as a result to
  donated drugs.

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What would you do?

• If you were put in a situation, where your state
  has passed a law allowing you (who owns a
  pharmacy) to recycle medications to give to
  people who could not afford it, what would you do?

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What would you do?

• Would you use this program?
• Not use this program?
• Use this program with more limitations
• such as (accepting only from specific
• places or patients, accepting only a
• certain type of medications.)

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Credits

• The Scientific American magazine
• Spreading the Health article (page. 18-20)

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Pre-Pharmacy Society Proudly Presents

• UMB Student Panel

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Emails/Websites

• Main Pre-Pharmacy Society Website
• http//studentorg.umd.edu/prepharm/
• Pre-Pharmacy Society Email
• umdprepharm_at_gmail.com