Faculty Doctors Young & Desselle Bestowed Awards
A third Fulbright scholarship and a county grant were awarded to faculty members.
Three cheers to the talented faculty of Touro University California, whose excellence and dedication deserve to be recognized and celebrated. These accolades not only serve as a testament to the unwavering commitment of individuals who shape the future but also inspire a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Dr. Shane P. Desselle Awarded Third Fulbright Scholarship
For the third time, Dr. Shane P. Desselle, RPh, PhD, FAPhA was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Scholarship by World Learning and the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Desselle will spend six weeks with collaborators at the University of Sydney (Australia) to work on several projects. For one, Dr. Desselle will assist them with a plan to further professionalize the pharmacy technician workforce in hopes of them taking on new roles that will afford community pharmacists there more time to provide direct patient care services. Dr. Desselle will also assist with curriculum changes that involve educating students and practitioners on effective management of pharmacy support staff and work with faculty at University of Sydney on the 6th edition of his pharmacy management textbook to provide this new edition with a greater international context. He also collaborates with several researchers there on delineating the role of pharmacists in support of patients’ safe and effective use of complementary and alternative medication. This is Dr. Desselle’s second Fulbright Specialist Scholarship; in 2018, he visited the University of Pristina in Kosovo to help them establish a university-wide Center of Assessment.
Dr. Clipper Young Awarded Solano Community Health Improvement Plan Grant
Dr. Clipper Young, Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, who was awarded a Solano Community Health Improvement Plan Grant for his project titled “Pharm2Home Initiative: Delivering Care to Where Residents Live”. Below is a brief description of the project.
The cornerstone of the project is an illumination of the “zone of darkness” – the time between appointments when chronically ill patients are most vulnerable. The Pharm2Home Team does not wait until patients request assistance. They bring services to patients proactively, truly embracing a spirit of culturally sensitive prevention. Instead of waiting for the patient to develop a problem, Pharm2Home improves care coordination by incorporating a clinical-pharmacist-driven, co-chronic-disease-management approach with telehealth and home visits between enrollees’ medical appointments. The mission of Pharm2Home is to get to know individual patients with socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds beyond their diagnoses to enhance personalized healthcare delivery approaches for chronic disease management. This initiative consists of (1) the Clinic Arm and (2) the Community Health Arm. The program specifically focuses on patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), type 2 diabetes mellitus, heart failure, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease (CKD).