Pharmacy students earn national honor

JOHNSON CITY (June 14, 2018) – East Tennessee State University’s Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy continues to earn national recognition for its student groups.

Recently, Gatton’s chapter of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association and the Student Society of Health-System Pharmacy, led by Dr. Kelly Covert, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, sought to raise awareness about organ donation through the 2017-18 American Society of Transplantation’s Organ Donation Challenge.

The students’ initiative earned “Best New Project” at the 2018 American Transplant Congress in Seattle.

Earlier this year, for the third year in a row, the American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) named Gatton as having the best overall Generation Rx committee in the country.