Pre-Pharmacy Society 4 th General Body Meeting March 31, 2009 umdprepharm@gmail

1. Pre-Pharmacy Society 4th General Body Meeting March 31, 2009 umdprepharm@gmail.com

2. Agenda • Welcome! Don’t forget to sign in! • Upcoming Meetings • Active Membership • Upcoming Community Service Events • UMB Open House: April 4, 2009 • Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) • Current Pharmaceutical Issue • UMB Student Panel

3. 2009-2010 Executive Board • President: BrittniBotchway-Bradley • VP of Student Affairs: Brandon Keith • VP of External Relations: OlaideAiyegbusi • VP of Administrative Affairs: Nicole Tromm • Secretary: Sonja Jacobsen • Treasurer: NeerHershtig • Public Relations Co-Chair: Kathy Tang • Public Relations Co-Chair: Amanda Wang • Community Service Co-Chair: Jenna Rocchio • Community Service Co-Chair: Katie Heavner

4. Remember… • Make sure you are on the Pre-Pharmacy Society list-serve • Email umdprepharm@gmail.com to be added • Join Pre-Pharmacy Society’s Facebook group to receive updates about meetings/events • Visit our website http://studentorg.umd.edu/prepharm • All past presentations have been posted and today’s presentation will be posted either tonight or tomorrow • All newsletters will be posted on our website too

5. Upcoming Meetings • April 14th: Kaplan • April 28th: Pre-Requisites, PCATs, PharmCAS • All meetings will be on Tuesdays at 6pm • All meetings will be in Stamp

6. Active Membership • 3 Meetings and 3 hours of community service per semester • Please do not wait until the last minute to fulfill your community service hours! • Attending more meetings and events are HIGHLY encouraged!

7. Upcoming Community Service Events • April 30, 2009: Charity Event for DPHW (Dinner Program for Homeless Women) • May 2 & 3, 2009: Relay for Life

8. 3. Dinner Program for Homeless Women (DPHW) Date: Thursday, April 30 Time: 4:30p – 7:30p Location: Washington, D.C. # Hours:3 hours Event: Kitchen Volunteer (Dinner) -preparing food -serving the meal -kitchen clean-up Next Step: Fill out the sign up sheet! *Need a group of 5 – 9 people, first come first served For more information visit: http://www.dphw.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Questions? Contact Nicole @ ntromm@umd.edu

9. 4. Relay for Life Date: Saturday, May 2 – May 3 Time: 7:00p – 7:00a Location: Ludwig Field, University of Maryland # Hours:undetermined Event: Fundraise for the American Cancer Society by Joining our Pre-Pharmacy Society Team ($10 Registration Fee) *Raising money for the team is preferred, but not required Next Step: 1. Register at: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/prepharmacysociety *You may also donate here, but no service hours will be awarded 2. Participate for a minimum of three hours *A sign-in sheet will be provided at the event Questions? Contact Nicole @ ntromm@umd.edu or Jenna @ jrocchi0@umd.edu

10. UMB Open House 4/4/09 • Depart UMCP from Regents Garage at 7:30am • Bring your UID or any form of picture ID • Sign – Up by April 1st: • Contact JUNG: junghee@umd.edu

11. Proton Pump Inhibitors • Reduce production of gastric acid • Used for acid reflux (GERD) and peptic ulcers • Block action of H+/K+ ATPase which is needed for gastric acid secretion

12. The -prazoles • omeprazole (Prilosec), lansoprazole (Prevacid), esomeprazole (Nexium), pantoprazole (Protonix), rabeprazole (Aciphex)

13. “Repositories for donated, unused drugs” http://www.shantimind.com/images/superstock_1042r-9074.medium.jpg Spreading the Health By: Salma Srour

14. Background information • Americans spend around $200 billion each year on prescription medications. • With prescription drugs being so costly, 37 states enacted legislation to allow patients and health care facilities to recycle good, unused pills. • These recycled pills are given through local pharmacies and are to be donated to patients lacking insurance and financial requirements to purchase these medications.

15. Background information • Guidelines for these medications • Donated medications must be in sealed, tamper-evident packaging • Must be within no more than six months of their expiration date • Pharmacies are not held liable if the medication’s next owner comes to an unexpected harm from the medication.

16. Pros • Affordable or free medications to the poor • Using medications for the good rather than throwing away unused medications or medications unable to be returned

17. Cons • Accepting donations of medications not knowing how the drug was stored (was it stored in the right place, right temperature?) • Despite the law, some are afraid of lawsuits if dangerous side effects happen as a result to donated drugs.

18. What would you do? • If you were put in a situation, where your state has passed a law allowing you (who owns a pharmacy) to recycle medications to give to people who could not afford it, what would you do?

19. What would you do? Would you use this program? Not use this program? Use this program with more limitations such as (accepting only from specific places or patients, accepting only a certain type of medications.)

20. Credits • The Scientific American magazine • Spreading the Health article (page. 18-20)

21. Pre-Pharmacy Society Proudly Presents… UMB Student Panel

22. Emails/Websites • Main Pre-Pharmacy Society Website: • http://studentorg.umd.edu/prepharm/ • Pre-Pharmacy Society Email • umdprepharm@gmail.com