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UW Pharmacy Student to Work With HIV/AIDS Patients in South Africa
Feb. 11, 2009 -- University of Wyoming pharmacy student Shanna O'Connor of Atlanta, Ga., received a $2,500 scholarship from Child Family Health International (CFHI) to work with HIV/Aids patients this spring in Cape Town, South Africa.
She is the first pharmacy student selected to participate in the CFHI program. O'Connor established a special preceptor site and the rotation will be specifically shaped to her interests.
"When I was researching possible study sites, I chose two options in South Africa that offered experience with HIV-positive patients," she says. "The program in Cape Town was my first choice because it gives students balanced exposure to patients with a variety of disease states."
She hopes to get a job working in a clinic or doctor's office with a specialty in either HIV or diabetes.
"As a pharmacist, I could play an integral role in the day-to-day management of HIV patients, as they are typically on many different medications," O'Connor says. "Because Wyoming does not have a large HIV-positive population, I decided to pursue more experience with this disease during my month off."
Her experiences at UW's School of Pharmacy prepared her well for the South Africa assignment, she says.
"I feel confident in my knowledge of the medications I will encounter and especially in my ability to talk with patients regardless of their background," says O'Connor. She cites her adviser, Associate Professor Glaucia Teixeira, for supporting her efforts to get UW credit for the work in South Africa. She also praises the encouragement and assistance of Maria Bennett, student advising coordinator, and assistant professor Michelle Hilaire, who helped her develop a syllabus for the Wyoming course.
"I have received nothing but positive feedback and encouragement from everyone in the College of Health Sciences and I am excited to bring the knowledge I've gained here to a new situation and learn even more," O'Connor says.
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University of Wyoming pharmacy student Shanna O'Connor will work with HIV/Aids patients this spring in Cape Town, South Africa.
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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I'm trying to print the new registration form for YM and haven't been able to. Am I just a computer illiterate ( highly probable!) or is there a problem.
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I used to be an academic (philosophy, world faiths and theology) thus studied (personal experience) Christianity (RC, anglican and other western derivatives), Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy (was an Orthodox monk and bishop), buddhism (different schools), vedanta, Judaism (from the very orthodox to the very Liberal).
For public worship I prefer Quaker British-type silent (or unprogrammed worship), but in private use apart from silent sitting, Reconstructionist Siddur/prayer service books - 5 times daily.
I know xtian monastic Liturgy of the Hours RC, Anglican and Orthodox in a few languages well - and have a number of monastic in their homes and communities associated with me. I also still have a few Orthodox parishes and a hispanic seminary by correspondance under me. And two Yahoo lists (one for interfaith, the other about 415 members, interdenominational, to provide info on monasticism, contemplative and meditative practices, traditional and newer communities , assist people with vocations: creating or finding communities). I live as a solitary or hermit and have a number of hermits - different traditions, associated with me.
I suppose I'm interfaith (with the USA Quaker Universalists), accept people from any or no faith; but to me "God" is beyond human concepts and images - why Quaker Silent Worship and Quaker 'spirit' expresses what I found I am at heart. I'm in my sixties.
Hope I did not sound to egocentric in providing the above.
Thanks for the contact, as never see anyone Quaker here in SA, being so far away from the few existing groups.
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