The Rainbow Alley's Queer Prom is coming up again, and we're looking for volunteers to help chaperon the event. Adult chaperon's help ensure that the event is fun and safe for everyone, and volunteering at the Queer Prom has been a CU SNPhA tradition for the past few years. It's a lot of fun and a great way to get in touch with the local LGBTQ community.

We will be providing the following screenings: blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, early kidney disease screening, and Osteoporosis. We will also be doing “Ask the Pharmacist” so please bring DI Handbooks, or other useful reference books, if you have them.   Skills attire, including lab coat, is required as usual. Don’t forget your experiential forms so you can get credit for your support!

Screened patients for kidney disease. Helped with intake, blood pressure, BMI, and urinalysis.

Health fair to screen patients for dyslipidemia and diabetes.

Increasing awareness about the current AIDS epidemic and remember victims of AIDS.

SNPhA speaker series: Reynaldo Mireles from the Colorado AIDS Project: for National Latino AIDS Awareness Day

A health fair to benefit the community near our school.

Students help teach patients how to manage their diabetes

An annual walk to benefit diabetes.

We will offer many screenings at this health fair including diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, osteoporosis and more.

Help us raise money for chronic kidney disease by participating in the walk or donating to the cause.

The 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) fundraising walk and run begin and end in
Denver's beautiful Cheesman Park. Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. The
opening ceremony will begin at 9:00 a.m. featuring special guests and
speakers. The AIDS Run will kick off at 9:30 a.m. with the AIDS Walk
stepping off immediately following the last runner.

To register or donate with SNPhA's team, visit the AIDS Walk Colorado website at www.aidswalkcolorado.org, and make sure to join the Student National Pharmaceutical Association team when you register.

(You do not have to donate to register, and you do not have to register to walk.)

We will meet in Cheesman Park at 8:45am for snacks before heading out for the walk.

Everyone is welcome to join!

If you have any questions, please contact Noah at 970.412.8228 or ofir.nevo@ucdenver.edu

Oakland Elementary School’s 3^rd grade class will be coming to Anschutz Medical Campus on January 14, 2009 for a fun day with pharmacy students to learn aboutwhat pharmacists do.

Activities for the day include a Poison Prevention game, learning about the importance of accurate measurement, a fun Compounding Activity, a short skit about pharmacy put on by the pharmacy students, and a mock White Coat Ceremony for the kids.

30 volunteers are needed from 9:00am to 2:00pm to help set up, clean up, and facilitate the various activities. Coffee, snacks, and lunch will be provided!

Please contact Vanessa Hennes (Vanessa.Hennes@ucdenver.edu) for more information or to sign up!

*Brought to you by SNPhA, CSSHP, the OSS and the Office of Diversity.*

Cookies, Brownies, Krispie treats & much more!  Complimentary Coffee from Starbucks. 

$1 per bag of yummy goodness!  All donations welcome!   All proceeds donated to AIDS Awareness.  Quench your sugar craving and donate to a good cause!  Sponsored by APhA-IPSF & SNPhA.  Don't forget to wear RED on Dec 1st in honor of AIDS/HIV Awareness!

Recapping old events and introducing upcoming events.

Members of SNPhA volunteering will bring different food dishes that are representative of that student’s culture.  Other students and faculty are then invited to sample the different dished in return for donations.  The money donated at the food fair will go to the DIFHS clinic to help supply patients with medications, such as fish oil for dyslipidemia. 

At the Denver Indian Health and Family Services, students sign up to come and review patient charts.  During this review the student will check for medication appropriateness and efficacy or toxicity.  Students also make recommendations on how to treat patients.  These recommendations are then presented to the pharmacy preceptor at the clinic, and then are later given to the prescribers to consider at that patient’s next appointment.

SNPhA is teaming up with Rho Chi to collect donations for the annual clothing drive.  The entire pharmacy school is invited to donate clothes for men, women, and children that will then be donated to local homeless shelters.  The need for clothing is great during the winter months when more people are using and staying at homeless shelters,  SNPhA and Rho Chi hope the event will be a great success.

SNPhA members will help run the Wellspring Health Fair.  This event offers screenings of: blood pressure, blood glucose, osteoporosis, micoralbuminuria, and cholesterol.  There will also be opportunity for patient counseling with an “ask the pharmacist” type activity.  Another unique opportunity for students is to participate in dental screenings by helping dental professionals with their screening activities.  The event is open to the public but majority of patients that come are Hispanic, underserved, and don’t see a health care provider regularly. 

To help students become more familiar with point of care activities SNPhA will hold an event to practice these different techniques.  Some of the activities to be practiced are checking blood glucose levels, obtaining cholesterol readings, blood pressure readings, bone density screening, and microalbuminuria.  It will be a great opportunity to enhance skills before health fairs start. 

This next lecture in our semester series covered issues in treating transgender patients.  This sensitive topic is something never addressed in the rest of curriculum but will be something seen in practice.  

First lecture of the semester!  We will have a representative from Abbott Renal Care talk about the goals of treating these patients.

Dr. Bi Ndikum runs diabetes education classes for local patients.  Students volunteer to come to the classes and offer counseling to the patients about how and why to take medications.  Students work directly with the patients in an interview format to help the patients understand their disease states and medications.

SNPhA is setting up flu shot clinics at Platte Valley Medical Center and Salud Clinic for students to volunteer at as immunizers. 

We are organizing an event to encourage students to register to vote. Voting this year is a crucial part of being an active member of the community and no matter which candidate each member supports, it is important to state that opinion.

We are recapping all events that had occurred since last meeting, then we will go through all events coming up the remainder of this semester and provide time for members to sign up for activities.  Also, we will discuss future events coming up to keep in mind.

The 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) fundraising walk and run begin and end in
Denver's beautiful Cheesman Park. Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. The
opening ceremony will begin at 9:00 a.m. featuring special guests and
speakers. The AIDS Run will kick off at 9:30 a.m. with the AIDS Walk
stepping off immediately following the last runner.

To register or donate with SNPhA's team, visit the AIDS Walk Colorado website at www.aidswalkcolorado.org, and make sure to join the Student National Pharmaceutical Association team when you register.

(You do not have to donate to register, and you do not have to register to walk.)

We will meet in Cheesman Park at 8:45am for snacks before heading out for the walk.

Find out who SNPhA is, what our mission is, and what we strive to achieve.  Also we will introduce advisors and executive board members.  We will recap of everything that SNPhA did over summer (Pride Fest, Pre-collegiate camps, African Health Fair, and DIFHS chart reads.  Lastly, as well as run through of all events coming up for this semester. 

In order to raise money for the AIDS Walk, members of SNPhA are making cookies and other sweets.  Students and faculty are welcome to "give donations" for the cookies. 

Between donations from the cookies, individual donations and SNPhA matching money raised, our chapter raised $510 for the event. 

SNPhA is selling OTC Notebooks to the incoming first year students.  These notebooks are intended to keep Professional Skills worksheets organized, and those students that purchased the notebooks would get an answer key to worksheets from the class the week after they were due.

UCD SNPhA is providing Top 200 Drug Cards to incoming first year pharmacy students, and updates for other students who have bought the cards in past years.  Each new packet of drug cards is selling for $50 and updates are $10.

Contact Adrian.Larkin@uchsc.edu for more information!