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Seminar speaker discusses the economics of patient decision-making

On November 10 Senior Economist Brett Hauber spoke with Washington State University pharmacy students about patient decision-making based on the benefits and risks of health care alternatives. Hauber is the vice president of Health Preference Assessment at RTI Health Solutions. This company conducts research and consulting for the pharmaceutical and biotech sector.

hauber gives a seminar

Vergara receives top prize for research

Spokane-based pharmacy graduate student Ana Vergara won first place for the Best Poster presentation competition at the International Symposium on Microsomes and Drug Oxidations (MDO) in Davis, California. Vergara was presented the award at the closing session of the conference on October 6.

vergara accepts top prize

College of Pharmacy History – Lho Chi

LHO CHI. The piquant humor of some members of the class of 1978 was exhibited by satirically adopting the name of Lho Chi for a renegade social group that had its beginning in some secret place. The nature of its activities suggest that it most likely was on the sands of the Snake River.

College of Pharmacy History – WSU Drug Garden

A project that Asa F. Maxwell began working on shortly after his arrival as Head of the pharmacy program was the development of a medicinal plant garden. The place of pharmacognosy in the education of pharmacy students was very strong at that time and it was common for colleges of pharmacy to maintain gardens as a source of plant materials so that students might become familiar with their identities and to instruct students in the collecting, drying and storing of them.