Sharks RX Spring 2015 Magazine

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY r 9 Opposite page, top: Richard C. Deth, professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, works with student Farima Fakheri Roaf. Opposite page, bottom: Enrique Nieves, assistant professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and student Juan Rivera-Pacheco are at the College of Pharmacy’s Puerto Rico Regional Campus, which relocated to San Juan in August 2014. This page, top: Brian Hierholzer (center), clinical assistant professor, Depart- ment of Pharmacy Practice, demonstrates injectables and inhalers to (from left) Jeffrey Jurkas, Sushmita Karki, Aiman Rahman, and Ryan Dunn. This page, bottom: Navene Shata (second from left), Class of 2016 Pharm.D. candidate who serves as president of the college’s Student Government Association, collaborates with Ph.D. and Pharm.D. students. COLLEGE OF PHARMACY FAST FACTS • The College of Pharmacy’s Puerto Rico site relocated to the new Puerto Rico Regional Campus in San Juan in August 2014, from Ponce, where it had been since 2001. • David Mastropietro, Ph.D., became the first graduate of the Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences program in August 2014, defending his dissertation “Design and Analysis of Novel Abuse Deterrent Formulations.” • More than 20,000 pharmacists worldwide have success- fully completed the College of Pharmacy’s continuing education programs for pharmacists. • In this year’s ASHP residency match, more than 40 NSU students were placed in residency positions around the United States. • Rates for first-time candidates from NSU’s College of Pharmacy taking the North American Pharmacist Licen- sure Examination (NAPLEX) and Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE) have consistently been above 90 percent. • The Healing and Medicinal Garden, located at NSU’s Davie campus, features the 66-foot, therapeutically stone-studded Reflexology Pathway, the longest of its kind in the United States.