PED Talk

Itching and Twitching

The presentation above is a presentation that I made for my Intro to Pharmacy class. The idea behind the project was to give a presentation that’s similar to a TED talk but centers around an area of pharmacy. The project itself was very open ended and that was my biggest issue at first because I didn’t really have an idea of what I wanted to present on so I had to go digging to find a topic. I eventually narrowed it down to something within psychiatric pharmacy because that’s the field of pharmacy I’m most interested in at the moment and I was able to find some interesting articles on Drug Induced Movement Disorders, which is what my presentation was about.

It was an interesting topic to present on because not a lot of kids in my class aren’t interested in psychiatric pharmacy and when they they think about it, they mainly only focus on depression or anxiety disorders whereas Drug Induced Movement Disorders are long-term side effects from taking antipsychotics which are mainly prescribed to those diagnosed with schizophrenia or biopolar disorder. I also had a interesting time researching it because it made me think about how the pharmacists of the future could combat the side effect, which is especially tricky because the side effect itself is caused by medication and doesn’t go away once you stop taking the medication.

Chili Cook Off

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The picture above was taken at a Chili Cook Off that the College of Pharmacy put on in order to raise money for the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio. I volunteered at the event in order to meet more people within the field of pharmacy and get involved with the College of Pharmacy. The Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio is a pharmacy that offers medication, health screening, medication counseling, and much more for families that are uninsured or low income that often times cannot afford the heavy bills that come with going to a physician or other medical professional.

This experience was fun because it not only allowed to try amazing chili but also gave me the opportunity to help a great causes that shows people that pharmacy is more than just dispensers of drugs. Brutus even made an appearance to show his support for the great work that the Charitable Pharmacy does. It was cool to see the community come together to raise money for a cause that allowed everyone to have an opportunity to receive a level of health care that they need and are entitled to.

Immortality

Immortality 

For my Philosophy class on the meaning of life and death, we were assigned a project to demonstrate the topics that we’d learned in the first half of the semester. My group and I were rather fascinated by the topic of immortality and set out to discover what people outside of the class thought of the prospect of immortality. The link to a YouTube video above was one of the two projects that my group and I did to gauge how people felt about immortality. Our main focus was on college students so we had several members of our group bring in some friends and started off by asking them how they felt about the prospect of immortality. After their response, we read them a quote by a philosopher we studied in class named Kagan, that believed that immortality would be somewhat of a nightmare because life would never end and life would inevitably get boring. From there, we re-asked the participants how they felt about immortality after hearing Kagan’s thoughts and to our surprise they all were steadfast in their response and didn’t view immortality any differently than before.

I really enjoyed this project because it allowed me to demonstrate the things I had learned in class in a creative way. However, I wish we could’ve asked some questions regarding extended existence, which is similar to immortality but extended existence is merely living for another few hundred years rather than forever. I would’ve liked to see how people’s views would change if given the opportunity to live a few hundred years longer than usual as opposed to living forever and understand why people might find an extended existence more appealing than immortality. Along with this video we had created a survey that we all sent to friends to see how people would view immortality and using those statistics we tried to find a correlation between things like gender or religion and see if that played a hand in the outcome.