S N P H A NEW YEAR, NEW UPDATE!

WORLD MENTAL JDRF ONE WALK DIABETES MYTHS VOTERS

HEALTH DAY VS FACTS REGISTRATION
On World Mental Health Day JDFR is a a huge advocate of A few of our members Our legislative chair held a
we wanted to spread the type 1 diabetes research and wanted to bust some myths voters registration table to
word to our entire school advocacy and a few of our and reveal some facts about inform and encourage the
during our free time. members raised awareness diabetes! students of RFUMS to get
through their annual walk! involved.

WORLD PNEUMONIA DAY

"Pretty please prevent pneumonia to protect
precious lives!" The members of SNPhA
always try to promote better health for our
community one condition at the time. One
way we do this is through small gestures to
encourage people to spread the word! 

MUNDELEIN COMMUNITY
HEALTH FAIR
A few of our members joined together
with the Mundelein community to help out
at their annual free health fair. We
provided countless numbers of influenza
vaccinations to dozens of families and
answered any questions they had on the
flu.
STRENGTH IN
PURPOSE!
Everyone has a reason or a passion
for pharmacy and as members of
SNPhA, we want to utilize those
motivations to help educate our
community. We are a growing
organization and there may be
strength in numbers, but what
makes us unique is our strength in
purpose for pharmacy!

WHAT WE DID IN 2018?

The 2018 school year has come and gone, but it was
not without hard work and new experiences. As the
What we've previous E-board passed down their knowledge and
advice, the new E-board was ready to make SNPhA
accomplished their own with a variety of projects, activities, and
community outreach events.

in 2018! The fall quarter was filled with activities, but one of our
biggest priorities was to encourage the incoming class
of new pharmacy students and upperclassmen to join
our community and underserved population focused
organization.

WE LOVE OUR
HEALTH FAIRS!
Diabetes chair, Yelena Sahakian
and immunization chair, Brisilda
Bylykbashi collaborated with the
National Kidney Foundation at the
John A. Walsh Public School in
Chicago. The fair offered glucose
testings, urinalysis, A1C, BMI, and
blood glucose testing. The National
Kidney Foundation offers these
fairs all around Chicago and we
were happy to help volunteer our
time.
PRECEPTOR OF THE
YEAR!
One of the most pertinent parts of
pharmacy school is our IPPE
rotations. Our legislative chair,
Oriana Napoleon, nominated her
preceptor, John Kirklys, as
preceptor of the year and he was
given the honor! We definitely
appreciate all of our amazing
preceptors.

The end of With our small but growing SNPhA family, we have
been excited to encourage our members to join in
with our seven E-Board chairs to as they plan out
the year is community events to educate on the specific health
need or disparity.

here! The variety of pictures throughout this newsletter is

just a quick snippet of a few things our organization
has been able to do. 

HOLIDAY HOT
COCOA JARS
FUNDRAISER
Our biggest fundraiser of 2018 was
SNPhA's Holiday Hot Cocoa Jars!
With such a big success, multiple
members and non-members
helped to hand make over 200 hot
cocoa jars! The money raised will
go to fund future SNPhA related
activities and fundraisers and a
portion of our profits will be
donated to a charity! Big thank you
to all the people who helped make
this fundraiser possible and for our
treasurer, Patrick Kuchta, for such a
great idea!
4TH ANNUAL
PHARMATHON
Our president, Shayda Ashraf,
treasurer, Patrick Kuchta, and P1
student  liaison, Javier Navarrete
participated on the College of
Pharmacy 4th Annual Pharmathon
against other pharmacy teams to
show off their pharmacy
knowledge. Great job SNPhA!

HIV PREVENTION AND

TREATMENT TALK!
SNPhA collaborated with the
Wisconsin Student Pharmacists
We represented SNPhA at health fairs around the
Association (WSPA) to invite a
speaker to educate our program community, volunteering events, educational tabling
about a specific health disparity. One
sessions at our school, and national health walks.
of our very own faculty members,
Dr. Jessica Cottreau, accepted the We also held events for professional school
opportunity to talk about HIV
speakers, participated at school held competitions,
prevention and treatment. She gave
a very intriguing and well informed constantly posted on multiple social media
presentation!
platforms, and fundraised to keep our organization
going for the rest of 2019!
GO RED FOR WOMEN
February 2019 was "Go Red for
Women" a national day created and
honored by the American Hear
Association. This day is designed to
increase women's heart health by
raising awareness for change to
improve the lives for women world
wide! SNPhA members and non-
members proudly wore all different
shades of red for such a powerful
day of awareness.

WHAT WE'VE STARTED IN 2019 AND OUR

Starting 2019 PLANS GOING FURTHER.

off with a Going forward with 2019, we have already had a few
events! We also had some free time to take a break
bang! from exams and put on our dancing shoes for the
Dance for Diabetes foundation held by our school.
We have many plans going forward and we are
excited to show you all what RFUMS SNPhA has to
offer!!

2019 EVENTS AND

FUTURE EVENTS!!

SNPhA is looking forward to our new

shirt designs! We created two new
prints with one representing our
years theme of Strength in Purpose.
In February, a select group of
SNPhA members will be attending
the Regional conference in
Sandusky, Ohio and we can not wait
to hear back from them about all of
the things they have experienced
and learned. Much more will be
happening in 2019 and it will be a
rush of fun experiences!!
  S N P H A
NEW YEAR, NEW UPDATE!

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Created by Nancy Nguyen, Class of 2020