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Unicorn News Kappa Epsilon – Tau Chapter

A Message from the president

It's hard to believe that the small Tau Chapter at VCU School of Pharmacy of years past now has a strong sisterhood made up of 92 sisters either on campus or on their P4 rotations! With our chapter growing so large, so quickly, this newsletter is meant to keep all sisters, both old and new, up to date on all that we are accomplishing. There are so many of our sisters doing such amazing things in the world of pharmacy, we'd like to take just a moment to recognize them. Thank you to all that have helped the chapter this summer and represented KE in such high fashion! We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events in October and hope many of you will consider making the trip to Richmond to help us host the

KE National Convention, July 17-20, 2013!

Skate For The Cure [Friday, October 24th, 2012] Come join us from 7-11pm at Skate-A-Way for a night of roller-skating in your best 80’s attire to help raise our goal of $2,500 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Making Strides Walk [Sunday, October 21st, 2012]

Walk with the sisters of the Tau Chapter in our fight against cancer at the Kanawha Plaza in outrageous awareness gear!

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In this issue 1. Message from Kristen LaCoe

2. Summer service

3. Summer Internships & Service

4. Congratulations!

5. Weddings & Engagements

Cogit Ergo Sum.

I think, Therefore, I am.

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Summer Service Sisters have been helping the

communities near and far under the sun this summer

Women’s Health Fair Elizaveta Budko, Makenzie Page, Danielle Clare, Kristen LaCoe, Margaret Robinson, Tressy Ann Coats and Sydney Hien Nguyen participated in the Women's Health Fair at George Wythe High School to raise awareness for breast cancer and educate participants on how to perform self-breast exams at home. Our efforts were noted by Delegate Betsy Carr who also attended the event and was interested in hearing about our PharmCORP efforts too.

Hombre Some sisters had the experience of a lifetime traveling abroad to provide health care services as part of the Honduras Outreach Medical Brigada Relief. Sarah Park participated in the program in the Dominican Republic. Abbie Arches, Lauren Grecheck, and Hibah Rehman

RAM – Remote Area Medical Natalie Nguyen, Katelyn Nguyen, Lauren Grecheck, Tina Lowe, Allison Smith, Erika Lambert, and Rebecca Saunders all had a fantastic time providing triage services, medication reconciliation, pre-op care, traditional pharmacy dispensing and counseling services, A1C screenings, and tobacco and smoking cessation education, for over 2,400 patients in Wise County, Va, a rural area with little access to care.

Vsu Cares Student leader, our very own Shaema George, and VCU SOP student volunteers performed health screenings, medication reconciliation, and patient counseling on medications & post-op care for over 600 patients treated by volunteer dentists and student dentists, working alongside medical and nursing students as well. Sisters among the volunteers include Kelsey Billups, and Dani Nguyen.

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Summer Internships & Activities

So much to do, so little time! The sisters of tau have been up to a lot

of big things this summer.

SACGP on the hill Kappa Epsilon sisters are taking D.C. on this summer. Margaret Robinson, Linda Barstow, and Natalie Nguyen, who are SACGP members joined "SACGP on the Hill" to advocate for issues affecting older adults. VALOR Program

Danielle Clare and Sarah Aesy (Salem, VA) were chosen to participate in the VALOR program this year. They had the privilege of learning about the future of pharmacy and improving their clinical skills base through this Veterans Affairs Learning Opportunities Residency Program. What an

amazing opportunity for these two KE sisters!

AshP Summer Internship Jessica Libuit served as the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists summer intern in 2012! This opportunity allowed her to learn first hand about ASHP initiatives and how they are used to advance the role of health-system pharmacists. Some of the projects she was involved in included navigating state laws and regulations pertaining to pharmacy technician standards, collaborating with other pharmacy foundations, and advocacy productions. She was also able to attend the ASHP Summer Meeting in Baltimore, MD where she met and networked with numerous leaders of our profession from across the country and gained insight of various pharmacy practice models across the US!

Paul G. Cano Legislative Internship

Natalie Nguyen was selected to spend the summer in Washington, D.C. to learn about how to educate policymakers and help pharmacists make their voices heard on Capitol Hill and in state governments around the country.

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Congratulations!

APha Grant Congrats to Kelley Miller on receiving another $10,000 grant on behalf of VASP at VCU for a new project called STEAMM, photographed here with KE alumni, Dr. Amy Rudenko. This project is currently co-chaired by KE sister, Erika Lambert (P2).

KE Graduates & Awards Best of luck to the new graduates who include: Reneka Austin, Tonya Coles, Whitney Conroy, Ashley Darden, Cristina DeFraia, Cary Goin, Kristen Gregory, Marcia Hocutt, Jessica Mills, Swati Mishra, Holly Moore, Drewry Nickerson, Ashley Savage, Erika Stiene, and Cassidy Trom. Congratulations to Erika Stiene who received the Patient Care Award and Ashley Savage who received the Distinguished Service Award this year at the Senior Awards Banquet.

Residencies We'd like to congratulate the following sisters on getting PGY1 residencies: Tonya Coles (VCU Health System, Richmond, VA), Ashley Darden (Sentara Healthcare System, Norfolk, VA), Drewry Nickerson (Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX), Erika Stiene (Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC). And congrats to all those sisters completing a second year of residency: Van Tran (Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC) and Katie Smithwick (VCU Health System, Richmond, VA). Way to represent VCUSOP and KE in such an awesome way, ladies! We'd love to hear from you all to see how residencies are going and what sisters on campus now can be doing to follow in your fabulous footsteps!

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Weddings & engagements Congratulations to our beautiful unicorn

brides! Summer is the season for weddings. Four of our sisters celebrated their nuptials under the sun. Clockwise:

Sarah Kropp & McFall Pearce, Alison Avance & Kevin Burchardt, Laura Hunter Ford & Aaron Kirk. Next in line is Sydney Whitaker,

whose boyfriend, Peter Hurley, proposed this summer.

PHarmcorp Tau Chapter has taken on the KE National Project called Pharmacy Career Opportunity Recruitment Project (Pharm-CORP) here at VCU! This project was piloted last year at a local career fair day with sisters (Abbie Arches, Shae George, Kristen LaCoe, Kelley Miller, Natalie Nguyen and Jillian Stanton) presenting to classes of elementary school students on what being a pharmacists is all about! Our chapter recently submitted our PharmCORP Foundation Grant Application to KE Nationals to help us expand our project this year. We want to thank the efforts of the sisters over the past year on the PharmCORP Committee: Stephanie Culbertson, Kristen LaCoe, Erika Lambert, Kimberly Means, Kathy Nguyen, Natalie Nguyen, Kimberly Reese, Jillian Stanton and Amanda Walls. A special thanks to the faculty members, Dean Tom Reinders, Dr. Ron Ballentine and our chapter advisor Dr. Mary Jayne Kennedy for their support in getting this project up and running.

Women Leaders in Pharmacy - KE Alumni Panel We are looking forward to hosting six of our fabulous alumni from the greater Richmond Area on Wednesday, October 10 from 11-11:50 am at our KE Dean's Hour in Smith 103. This segment will highlight the leadership roles of women in the field of pharmacy and also serve as a way for us to reconnect with our alumni in the Richmond Area. We are so happy to have the following alumni joining us for this event: Dr. Ashley Joan Allmond, Dr. Sharon Gatewood, Dr. Kerri Musselman, Mrs. Rita Quinn, Dr. Amy Rudenko, and Dr. Van Tran. All students and faculty are welcome to attend and all KE sisters are encouraged to attend our KE Alumni Luncheon immediately following the panel in the glass rooms in Smith.

New this year

A Special Thanks Thank you to Tram-anh "Dani" Nguyen and our historians Sarah Park and Andrea Ravelo for putting all of these submissions together and making this summer update newsletter idea become a reality! Thank you to our Alumni Liaison, Natalie Nguyen, for reaching out to our alum and communicating these updates to our extended KE Family! We hope to see many of you over the year at

our events and look forward to having you all help us host at the KE National Convention, July 17-20, 2013 in Richmond!

Calling all alumni

Kappa Epsilon – Tau Chapter VCU School of Pharmacy

Richmond, VA

KAPPA ESPSILON – TAU CHAPTER

SUMMER 2012

If you are still in contact with other KE alumni, please inform them about updating their contact information with our Alumni Liason, Natalie Nguyen at NguyenNL2@vcu.edu so that we can let them know about upcoming events and to just stay in touch! Thank you!