QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS/SOLUTIONS
Albert Hoffman - answers-Swiss scientist who synthesized LSD - opened area of
psychopharmacology
Anna Louise James - answers-first African American female RPh in CT (1908),
graduated from Brooklyn college of pharmacy
John Pemberton - answers-RPh invented Coca Cola
Louis Lemberger - answers-RPh helped with discovery of Prozac
Wilbur Scolville - answers-pharmacist who created Scolville scale that measures
pepper hotness (Capsaicin)
George Archambault - answers-father of consultant pharmacy, responsible for
writing regulations governing pharmacy's role in Medicare and Medicaid
Benjamin Franklin - answers-helped get the Philadelphia Hospital (apothecary) by
raising more than 200 pounds through private donations
,Clark Stanley's Snake Oil - answers-Chinese water snake was rich in omega-3
acids to help reduce inflammation, but America didn't have water snakes, the
snake oil was mostly made of mineral oil, red pepper and camphor
Primary Prevention - answers-education, prevention, immunizations
Secondary Prevention - answers-identifies risk through screenings
Tertiary Prevention - answers-symptomatic, disease is being treated (this is the
level traditional pharmacy has practiced at)
Medical Errors - answers-A broad term used to refer to any errors at any point in
patient care that cause or have the potential to cause patient harm, #3 cause of
death
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - answers-An electronic record of health-related
information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized
interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by
authorized clinicians and staff across more than one healthcare organization
Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner - answers-a German pharmacist and a pioneer
of alkaloid chemistry, discovered morphine in 1804
,Hubert Humphrey - answers-first bill as a senator was for elderly later
reemerged as Medicare
Alexander Fleming - answers-a careless lab tech who returned from a 2 week
vacation discovered culture prevented the growth of staphylococci
William Procter Jr. - answers-Father of American Pharmacy, established the
American Pharmacists Association and his work on the United States
Pharmacopeia, author/editor of the first pharmacy textbook published in America
Charles Rice - answers-creator of the modern scientific pharmacopeia and the
father of National Formulary in US
Charles M Rice - answers-research in hepatitis C, strain of yellow fever he used
was eventually used for yellow fever vaccine
Daniel B. Smith - answers-founder of the first American Pharmacy college - PCP
Valerius Cordus, potentially credited with finding a way to synthesize Ether which
was used for anesthesia
Harvey Allan Whitney - answers-first chairman of the American Society of Health-
System Pharmacists (ASHP)
, Benjamin Greene - answers-Florida RPh who later founded Coppertone after a
failed red petrolatum sunscreen
Medwatch - answers-where RPh can report adverse reactions and issues with
meds
Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report - answers-issued To Err is Human: Building a
Safer Health System, showed that 44,000-98,000 people each year die from
medical errors, outlined ways to reduce errors and urged Congress to create a
national patient safety center
Galen's Premise of Humoralism - answers-19th century America believed in this
2nd century physician regarding health
Humoralism - answers-the body is an "interconnected whole" with a natural
balance
Past (Pharmacy Role) - answers-disease/symptom focus
Present (Pharmacy Role) - answers-patient centered care