Telemedicine technology is bringing cutting edge services to remote populations, and the UIC College of Pharmacy is at the center of the telemedicine revolution. Dr. Juliana Chan and her colleague, Dr. Melissa Badowski, currently serve all 26 Illinois correctional facilities, providing care to over 600 Hepatitis C patients each year. While a prison physician directs the diagnostic decision-making, Dr. Chan takes the lead on education and medication plans, providing medication counseling, managing side effects and simplifying inmates’ regimens. UIC’s innovative work has emerged as a prominent example of telemedicine’s potential to drastically reform care.

Dima Mazen Qato, PharmD, Ph.D., MPH, Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy and an affiliate in the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research has been named the 2018 Fellow in Pharmacy by the National Academy of Medicine. During her two-year term as a fellow, Qato will collaborate with researchers, policy experts and clinicians from across the country in support of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s mission to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, technology and medicine.

Dr. Judy Bolton, professor and head of the UIC Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, recently spoke to Chemical & Engineering News about her research into the use of botanical supplements in the treatment of menopause symptoms and cancer prevention.