{"id":5406,"date":"2011-06-24T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2011-06-24T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:40:18","slug":"pharmacy-professor-receives-award-for-innovative-educational-endeavors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2011\/06\/24\/pharmacy-professor-receives-award-for-innovative-educational-endeavors\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy professor receives award for innovative educational endeavors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 24, 2011 \u2013 Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Erica Estus<\/a> was recently awarded the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Leadership in Education Award for her work with pharmacy students and older adults.
\nEstus \u2013 who received the award at the society\u2019s conference in Las Vegas in May \u2013 titled her project \u201cStudents and Older Adults Learning from One Another: Intergenerational Activities Between URI College of Pharmacy and South Bay Retirement Living\u201d and submitted it to the society in a portfolio.
\nThe society review committee members said that the Wakefield resident\u2019s work was beneficial for the students and senior citizens. Estus focuses on geriatrics in her career, emphasizing the importance of bridging generational gaps. She hopes that her Intergenerational Activities program, which attracted many freshmen this year, will help her students create and sustain an interest in cultivating personal relationships with patients.
\nEstus has become so accustomed to this type of community activity that she forgets that not everyone does it. She stresses that pharmacy is \u201cmuch more than counting pills.\u201d
\nThe society\u2019s Leadership in Education Award was established in 1994 to honor members\u2019 unique educational methods and accomplishments. The nomination application requires a portfolio of the professor\u2019s educational experience. Estus included in her portfolio letters of support from colleagues, a video clip of a prom that she and her students organized at South Bay Retirement Living, and a cookbook that the students and older adults compiled together, titled Cooking Through the Ages. Besides the physical products that have come from this project, the students regularly visited the seniors and were able to become friends with them, playing Wii Bowling to help improve everyone\u2019s physical and mental health. The students and South Bay residents appreciated the opportunity to teach one another about their different walks of life.
\nThe impact of Estus\u2019 work impressed members of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. An email to Estus from Joe Gerber, educational affairs director of the organization, shared the following comment from a society member:
\n\u201cI\u2019m impressed with her passion and drive and that is what we need in this upcoming generation of pharmacists. Not only to have the necessary clinical knowledge, but the communication skills, and compassion and caring for older adults to engage them in the process. So often, I see that spark of passion and drive to connect with older adults missing.\u201d
\nEstus received her bachelor\u2019s and doctor of pharmacy degrees from URI. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center, which is based at URI, and a member of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. She founded a student chapter of the society at URI, of which she serves as the faculty advisor.
\nMedia Contact: Dave Lavallee<\/a>, 401-874-5862<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 24, 2011 \u2013 Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Erica Estus was recently awarded the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Leadership in Education Award for her work with pharmacy students and older adults. Estus \u2013 who received the award at the society\u2019s conference in Las Vegas in May \u2013 titled her project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[152,35,50,53,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-awards","category-news","category-news-pharmd","category-news-php","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}