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Campbell to Launch Bicycle Tour for Diabetes
Research
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Pharmacy students present a check
to the American Diabetes Associa-
tion. Row 1: Dr. Ronald Maddox,
dean of the School of Pharmacy,
Chuck Fogle, team captain, and Kelly
Evans, of the American Diabetes
Association. Row 2: Jennifer Crist
and Randall Sweeney. Row 3: Traci
Phelps, Sarah Potter, and Katherine
Tsafatinos. Row 4: Andrea Locklear,
Laura Bowers, Mindy Wassum,
Thomas Creech, and Carly Cox.
Row 5, from left, Brian Strittmatter,
Richard Alonso, and Patrick Connelly.
Row 6, from left, Russell Nanney,
Adam Peele, and Adam Schaub. |
On Saturday, May 1,
several hundred bicyclists will embark from Campbell University for
a 150-mile cross-country tour to Battleship Memorial Park in
Wilmington, NC. Titled “Tour de Cure,” the race is one of 72 tours
sponsored by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to raise money
and awareness for diabetes education and research.
“Each participant must have
raised a minimum of $150 for the American Diabetes Association’s
research and education efforts,” said Dr. Thomas Holmes, associate dean
for Student Affairs in the Campbell University School of Pharmacy. “The
Campbell team met its first goal of $4,000, presenting a check to Kelly
Evans of the Raleigh District ADA office. Since that time, the 30 riders
have raised their goal to over $5,000.”
Holmes added that he is
proud Campbell was selected to be the starting point of the event,
especially in light of the ongoing research on diabetes the School of
Pharmacy is conducting here on campus.
Dr. Antoine Al-Achi,
associate professor of Pharmaceutical Science, and Dr. Robert Greenwood,
associate professor and director of the Pharmaceutical Science graduate
programs, have collaborated on a project to develop a nutritional
supplement and an oral dosage form (delivery system) of insulin that
would be an alternative to insulin injections. Insulin, like other
proteins, is degraded by digestive enzymes into amino acids. The goal is
to discover a way to protect insulin from this process.
A special pilot program is
also being conducted by the School of Pharmacy, which is designed to
save university health care costs by monitoring a group of diabetes
patients employed at Campbell. The pharmacist-managed program includes
educational components, counseling, and monitoring of blood glucose
levels and medications.
“Hopefully we’ll
demonstrate in the next few months that these patients are saving money
for our health plan at Campbell by improving their diabetes control,”
said Dr. Larry Swanson, chairman of Pharmacy Practice.
Donations for each rider in
the Tour de Cure Race may be made online at
www.diabetes.org/tour (click
on the “Eastern NC Tour”).
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