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<div class="">The <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Student Industry Organization (SIO) and Student College of Clinical Pharmacy (SCCP)</span> New Drug Series continues! This
series is designed to introduce new and exciting medications that we might not otherwise be able to learn about in class.</div>
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<div class="">The Journal Club component of the New Drug Series is designed to give you an opportunity to develop the literature evaluation skills that are central to clinical practice. Whether you are interested in clinical pharmacy or industry, you must be
able to analyze clinical trails and literature effectively, and you must be familiar with new drug therapies. This month, we will learn about Orencia (apatacept), which is a TNF-alpha inhibitor used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.</div>
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<div class=""><b class=""><u class="">SCCP Journal Club - Tuesday, November 7th @NOON in Salk 355</u></b></div>
<div class="">Hannah Akerberg, one of our SCCP Mentored Research Fellows, will lead a journal club discussion on abatacept; this will be good preparation for the upcoming New Drug Series Lecture. To get the most out of this journal club, come ready to discuss
the trial below:</div>
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<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Genovese MC, Becker J, Schiff M, et. al. Abatacept for rheumatoid arthritis refractory to tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibition. <i class="">N Engl J Med</i>. 2005; 353(11): 1114-23.</span></div>
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<div class=""><b class=""><u class="">SIO New Drug Series Lecture - Thursday, November 16th @NOON in Salk 402</u></b></div>
<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We will welcome Nicole Butteri from Bristol-Myers Squibb. She has been working with abatacept for several years as a Medical Science </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Liaison,
and she will be able to offer insight into how the drug is used in therapy.</font></div>
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<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">If you have any questions regarding the New Drug Series or Journal Club, please reach out to any leaders within SIO or SCCP. We
look forward to seeing you there!</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Mikhaila Rice</b></div>
<div class="">University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy </div>
<div class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" class="">Student Pharmacist | Class of 2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" class="">SCCP Secretary</font></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">440-313-2562 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">| </span><a href="mailto:mikhailarice@pitt.edu" class="">mikhailarice@pitt.edu</a></div>
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