July 18, 2018Under the direction of clinical assistant professor Mat Thambi, RxCARES addresses transitions of care for high-risk medicine inpatients. Established in 2011 to counter an unacceptably high number of discharge errors, the innovative program is designed to minimize medication errors and spur improved patient health. “RxCARES is empowering for students,” Thambi says. “They’re catching errors no one else would’ve caught and seeing firsthand how pharmacists can make a difference.”

July 17, 2018Since 2010, Melissa Badowski and Juliana Chan have been treating Illinois state prisoners affected by HIV and Hepatitis C with the help of modern video conferencing technology and other high-tech tools. “We’re able to provide care to high-risk individuals who otherwise wouldn’t have had access to it,” Badowski says. Those efforts have been, in a word, transformative.

May 16, 2018Ashley Hall, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, was interviewed by FOX32 News about the use of DNA data in the Golden State Killer case.