UHH College of Pharmacy Accreditation and Education Conference, 2/5 – 2/6, 2010

UH Hilo College of Pharmacy
February 5–6, 2010
Waikoloa Beach Marriott

Schedule At-A-Glance

Friday, February 5, 2010

4:00pm – 6:30pm       Registration/Check-in (Paniolo Ocean Terrace)

6:30pm – 7:30pm       Dinner (Paniolo Ocean Terrace)

7:30pm                        Introductions of Advisory Council & Faculty

Saturday, February 6

7:00am – 8:00am       Breakfast (Hawaii Calls Restaurant & Lounge)

8:00am – 8:30am       Dean Pezzuto’s Opening Remarks (Naupaka Ballrooms)

8:30am – 10:00am     ACPE Self-Study Report Review and Approval, Ed Fisher, PhD (Naupaka Ballrooms)

Mission Planning and Evaluation
Organization and Administration
Curriculum

10:00am – 10:15am   Break & refreshments (Naupaka Lanai)

Students
Faculty and Staff
Facilities and Resources
Report Adoption

11:45am – 12:00pm   Break/hotel check out

12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch and Education Presentation (Naupaka Ballrooms)

Natural Medicines in Contemporary Practice, Forrest Batz, PharmD

1:30pm – 3:00pm       Open forum, Ron Taniguchi, PharmD (Naupaka Ballrooms)

3:00pm – 3:15pm       Dean Pezzuto’s closing remarks (Naupaka Ballrooms)

3:15pm – 4:00pm       Refreshments and departures (Naupaka Lanai)

Introducing the UHH Conference Center:

The College of Pharmacy (CoP) is working in collaboration with the University of Hawaii at Hilo Conference Center. Judith Fox-Goldstein, Director and the Conference Center Staff will coordinate the conference arrangements and travel for those coming from the neighbor islands.

Accommodations:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Hotel. The CoP will cover one (1) night of your accommodations on February 5th, but you are most welcome to extend your reservations.  The Conference Center has arranged a special discounted rate of $139 ++ (3 days pre & post). To reserve your hotel room, PLEASE CLICK HERE and do the following:

• Enter your reservation dates in the right-hand column of the web-page
• Click on “Special Rates & Awards,” and enter the group code “COPCOPA,” to receive the discounted rate of $139++ per night.  The UH Hilo College of Pharmacy will be covering the night of 2/5.

Meals:

The conference will commence with dinner on February 5th at 6:30 in the evening. Other meals provided by the CoP for conference participants will be breakfast, refreshments and lunch on February 6th, concluding with an afternoon refreshment break.

Guest Meal Option
The dinner reception on the night of February 5, 2010 is open to spouses and guests. Guest meals can be purchased for $75.00. Please contact the Conference Center for payment (Visa or Mastercard accepted). The following payment options are available:

• Call our office at 808-974-7555, please ask for Jules to give payment info over the phone
• CLICK HERE to download a payment form, fill out, and fax to 808-974-7684, or email to uhhconferencecenter@gmail.com.

Interisland and on-island transportation:

In an effort to reduce the stress of traveling to the Big Island, the UHH Hilo Conference Center will be assisting you with your airline reservations and your transportation to/from the hotel once you have arrived in Waikoloa. The CoP will cover one (1) interisland roundtrip coach airfare for conference participants.

Please let us know your travel time preferences. You should plan on arriving at the Kona International Airport no later than 5:00pm to accommodate the conference schedule.  The meeting will conclude by 4:00pm (at the latest) on February 6th. The UHH Conference Center will be booking your reservations and will discuss your individual travel plans with you following your R.S.V.P.

Early Arrival

If you are arriving early on the morning of February 5th, arrangements have been made to store your luggage and there will also be a hospitality room set up for your convenience.

RSVP:

Please RSVP by January 8, 2010 to:

• Jules Ung: uhhconferencecenter@gmail.com
• Mary Ann Tsuchiyama: marytsuc@hawaii.edu
• Phone: 808 974-7555

Mahalo and we’ll see you soon!

2nd Workshop on Dark Energy Biosphere Institute

October 19-21, 2009
Site: Kona Coast, Hawaii
Local Host: University of Hawaii (UH)
Theme: a) CORK Observatories b) Hydrogeology
Meeting steering committee:

• Jim Cowen (Chair), University of Hawaii
• Brian Glazer, University of Hawaii
• Andy Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Jan Amend, Washington University in St. Louis

Click here for more conference information: http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/meetings/2009.html

Scientific Conference

The theme of the conference is Subseafloor Observatories and Exploration of the Deep Biosphere. The conference will comprise a series of keynote speakers covering aspects of CORK subseafloor observatory history and design, technical specifications and options for future modifications, drilling and other operational considerations, monitoring and contamination concerns, key results from earlier subseafloor experiments using observatories, and future directions for subseafloor biosphere science involving observatories (for description of CORKs and details of how they have been used see (Jannasch et al. 2003). In addition to oral presentations, all participants will be asked to present during a series of poster sessions (to be scheduled throughout the day in association with coffee and meal breaks) highlighting work completed or in progress involving subseafloor observatories and/or the deep biosphere, or conceptual proposals describing how to move the science forward through novel application of observatory technology for passive (monitoring) or active experiments. Our intent is to mix lecture and poster/discussion formats so as to encourage engagement and development of collaborative opportunities between individuals and groups that have not previously worked together or have had difficulty understanding each other’s science.

Educational Workshop

The training workshop at this meeting will focus on crossing over between microbiological sampling and monitoring and marine hydrogeology, with the primary goal of on developing a basic level of understanding among two disparate groups: those involved in development and use of CORK systems for marine hydrogeological studies, and microbiologists working in the deep biosphere or in other settings. It is important to note that this is a technologically challenging area of research and one that is extremely new to science and in particular microbiology. In order to succeed, this workshop will need to move beyond the standard introductory lectures that attempt to survey an entire discipline in 45 minutes. Instead, the workshop will comprise a series of linked discussion and practical calculations, introducing basic concepts in biogeochemistry, fluid flow, and solute fate and transport. It is not possible to provide a comprehensive curriculum in any of these topics given the short time available. Instead, workshop leaders will develop a series of presentations and exercises that provide a mechanism for non-specialists to gain a basic grasp of one or more key concepts (e.g., carbon fixation and accumulation of biomass, driving forces for fluid flow in the crust and associated budgets for nutrients, exchange between more and less biologically-important microenvironments during fluid transport).