College of Pharmacy Events

Join the DEAI Committee’s first book club! Our focus is to read to become more knowledgeable, empathetic, and open-minded leaders and health care providers! Anyone can join the meeting regardless of whether they’ve read none, half, or all of the book. Our book selection for this month is 'Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine' by Damon Tweedy, MD. We are excited to hear your thoughts and look forward to seeing you at our next meeting! The meeting link will be sent by email.

Alexandra Podosek, PharmD, PGY2 Pain Management/Palliative Care Pharmacy Resident, South Texas Veteran’s Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas

Join us for Introduction to Art Journaling! All you’ll need is a pen or pencil and some paper to start. We’ll look at some examples of Art Journals and talk a bit about the different ways to keep an art journal. Then we’ll also do some easy drawing exercises. Both, looking and drawing an object, and drawing from imagination. Our activities are FREE and open to all Pharmacy students, faculty, staff, and their immediate families. (We ask that all kids have an adult present during the Zoom session - these will be fun activities to do together!). The meeting link will be sent by email.

Melanie Mahoney, PharmD, MPH, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident, University Health System, San Antonio, Texas

Join the DEAI Committee’s first book club! Our focus is to read to become more knowledgeable, empathetic, and open-minded leaders and health care providers! For the month of April, we will be reading Uniquely Human by Barry M. Prizant, Ph.D, a book about autism. Anyone can join the meeting regardless of whether they’ve read none, half, or all of the book. We are excited to hear your thoughts and look forward to seeing you at our next meeting! The meeting link will be sent by email.

Nohely Castro, PharmD, PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Resident University Health System, San Antonio, Texas

Trigger-warning: You are invited to attend a lunchtime movie short viewing of the short film 'Two Distant Strangers' followed by a discussion surrounding breaking down the recurrent trauma of police violence on Black bodies. Please attend only if you have a desire to genuinely connect, engage, and plan to be fully present to hear and share lived truths to advance healing. The Zoom link will be sent via email.

Join us for Introduction to Art Journaling! All you’ll need is a pen or pencil and some paper to start. We’ll look at some examples of Art Journals and talk a bit about the different ways to keep an art journal. Then we’ll also do some easy drawing exercises. Both, looking and drawing an object, and drawing from imagination. Our activities are FREE and open to all Pharmacy students, faculty, staff, and their immediate families. (We ask that all kids have an adult present during the Zoom session - these will be fun activities to do together!). The meeting link will be sent by email.

Please join us for a virtual town hall to be in community and collectively grieve and process the effects of Anti-Asian racism in the time of COVID-19. This event will focus on process and healing for AAPI/Asian students in health care and mental health professions. Calls to action will be heard, and resources will be provided. Registration is required: tinyurl.com/AAPIHealersAtUT.

Need a mid-semester recharge? Need to get active? The GSC, FLI, LILI, and ADPAC have you covered! We are collaborating on BIWOC Retreat, a day where we center wellness. Join us for a morning of yoga, meditation, storytelling, learning traditional dances, and an invigorating keynote by Dr. Skyller Walkes. This will also be a time for women to talk amongst themselves and form connections with one another! Let’s get personal. We hope to see you there! Click the event title to view the flyer and registration link.