June Faculty and Staff Features

Andrew J. Taylor, M.D., VCU School of Medicine
Taylor, professor of radiology in the VCU Department of Radiology, was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR). Recognition as a fellow of the American College of Radiology is one of the highest honors the ACR can bestow on a radiologist, radiation oncologist or medical physicist. ACR Fellows demonstrate a history of service to the College, organized radiology, teaching, or research. Approximately 10 percent of ACR members achieve this distinction. The induction took place in a formal convocation ceremony during the 88th ACR Annual Meeting and chapter leadership conference that was recently held in Washington, D.C. Taylor received his medical degree from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Jean-Venable "Kelly" R. Goode, Pharm.D., and Sallie D. Mayer, Pharm.D., School of Pharmacy
Goode, professor of pharmacy, and Mayer, assistant professor of pharmacy in the Department of Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science, have been awarded two of 25 health care grants issued nationwide by the American Pharmacists Association Foundation.

Goode will serve as Community Champion for The Daily Planet project, a federally qualified Health Care for the Homeless clinic, which will offer a two-tiered program that includes comprehensive interdisciplinary diabetes outreach to provide diabetes risk and prevention education, screening and diabetes management. Founded in 1969 to provide homeless teens with shelter, meals, health clinics and counseling, the Daily Planet offers primary medical, behavioral health, vision and dental care to the homeless, uninsured and underinsured regardless of their ability to pay.

Mayer has been named community champion for the CrossOver Health Care Ministry project, which also will partner with Richmond’s Fan Free Clinic and the Goochland Free Clinic.  Crossover’s health care services for the uninsured include family medicine, primary care, obstetrics and pediatrics, podiatry, dental and vision, mental health, HIV diagnosis and treatment and critical medications. Patients who are under the care of one of Crossover’s three free clinics will work with a core diabetes care team consisting of a physician and a pharmacist. The care team will help patients focus on areas such as nutrition, ophthalmology, podiatry and counseling.

The APhA Foundation’s Project IMPACT which stands for IMProving America’s Communities Together, is a three-year initiative designed to help fully integrate pharmacists into health care so as to address challenges faced by patients with diabetes. The program is made possible by a grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation’s $100 million initiative—Together on Diabetes: Communities Uniting to Meet America’s Diabetes Challenge. This project was created to target adult populations disproportionately affected by Type 2 diabetes.