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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Good afternoon, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Welcome back and congratulations on completing your first week. I'm reaching out from our Pharmacy Innovation Lab. For those new faces in Pharmacy (and as a refresher), our Innovation
Lab looks at what is new and useful in pharmacy education and practice. After a fun summer, we're excited for a fall filled with projects, events, and fun. These opportunities are available to any interested student from any stage from "I have an idea" stage
to "I need help making this work". We’ve worked with students with ideas to improve a course, introduce a new technology in practice, or just to talk about what’s new and interesting. You can join out Innovation Course, make a Special Topics, join our project,
get mentoring for “pitch competitions”, or join any meetings during the semester. Here are a few things that we are interested this month/fall:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Projects: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Games in Education - How do you teach about OTCs in a video game? Can we make a better quizlet for Health Science? How do you teach Drug Development in a gamified course? If you have answers (or more questions) let
us know to join these projects. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Design in Patient Experiences - We're trying to learn what are patient perceptions of pharmacy and what barriers do they face. No experience necessary, just a willingness to learn from end-users of healthcare and
to come up with ideas second to that. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What is Blockchain? - Not many people in pharmacy know, so let's tell them. Finding out who is using blockchain, why it matters, and what we can do to anticipate it's future in pharmacy. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">September Events of Interest:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pitt Health Sciences MedEd - Friday September 9th 12pm-6pm, Scaife Hall (<a href="http://www.oacd.health.pitt.edu/node/870"><span style="color:#1155CC">Link</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CMU Project Olympus Entrepreneurship BootCamp - September 9th 1:30pm - 5:00pm (CMU, more info <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/swartz-center-for-entrepreneurship/events/connects/entrepreneurship-bootcamp.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">Link</span></a>) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pitt's Entrepreneurial Cafe - September 22, 2017 5:30-7:30 p.m., Mervis Hall (<a href="http://www.business.pitt.edu/katz/entrepreneurial-cafe"><span style="color:#1155CC">Link</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thrival Innovation Festival - September 27th - 28th, Around Pittsburgh Discount Available, email for info (<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thrival-innovation-intelligence-humans-x-tech-tickets-35738712451"><span style="color:#1155CC">Link</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Future events this Fall include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ongoing Meetups / Innovation Sessions <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pitt Games4Health, Oct 27th, Oct 28th - <a href="https://pittgames4health.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Link</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PittPharmacy's Innovation Conference, November 7th - 8th <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Whatever idea you come up with<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">If you're interested in other emails this semester, do reply to this email to sign up for the mailing list or reach me at (<a href="mailto:PharmacyInnovationLab@gmail.com">PharmacyInnovationLab@gmail.com</a>).
Looking forward to hearing from you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ravi Patel, PharmD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">School of Pharmacy<br>
University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="http://www.pillab.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">www.Pillab.co</span></a> | <a href="https://links9.mixmaxusercontent.com/X6CjzKwB5zir2ddbd/l/aKPD83AqryHSjw1bh" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Twitter</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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