{"id":66664,"date":"2008-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professor-named-advanced-preceptor-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professor-named-advanced-preceptor-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/06\/uri-professor-named-advanced-preceptor-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 professor named Advanced Preceptor of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON \u2013June 10, 2008 \u2013The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Pharmacy has honored faculty member Kelly Matson with the Advanced Pharmacy Practice \u201cPreceptor of the Year\u201d award. <\/p>\n


\nPreceptors oversee pharmacy students\u2019 clinical experiences and serve as educators educators and mentors. During the 2006-2007 academic year Matson mentored 11 students at Hasbro\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital in the area of pediatric pharmacotherapy.<\/p>\n


\nMatson, a resident of Providence, is a clinical assistant professor in the department of pharmacy practice. She is a University of Florida graduate and received her doctor of pharmacy degree from Purdue University in 2001. Matson then joined The Children\u2019s Hospital in Denver, Colo. as a pediatric specialty resident pharmacist.<\/p>\n


\nAfter coming to 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2002, Matson began her preceptor work almost immediately. \u201cThe preceptor program within the College of Pharmacy gives students an opportunity over the academic year to learn one-on-one from a preceptor in a pharmacy practice setting,\u201d Matson said.<\/p>\n


\nAdmired by her students, Matson reacted to the honor saying, \u201cThe award is given based on students\u2019 assessment, thus their comments on learning and overall education during their time on rotation with me gives me the most joy.\u201d

\nIn addition to teaching in the pharmacy college, Matson serves as faculty advisor to the local chapter of Lambda Kappa Sigma, the professional pharmacy fraternity. She was the faculty advisor for the pharmacy class of 2008.<\/p>\n


\nLocally, Matson has volunteered her knowledge and skills at grade schools, such as the \u201cPoison Prevention Program\u201d at South Road and Peace Dale Elementary Schools, which began in 2004.<\/p>\n


\nShe has also written numerous articles for pharmacy journals and has done educational presentations on topics such as infectious diseases, prescription drug abuse, and HIV. Most recently, Matson presented at the 23rd Annual Seminar by the Sea Northeast Regional Conference in 2008, where she spoke about the treatment of eating disorders and childhood obesity.<\/p>\n


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\nA TOP MENTOR: Kelly Matson, center, a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy at the 溏心vlog免费B站, displays a plaque after being named \u201cPreceptor of the Year.\u201d Joining her are Kathleen Fisher, director of experiential learning at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Pharmacy and Ronald P. Jordan, dean of the College of Pharmacy. 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications and Marketing photo by Dave Lavallee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON \u2013June 10, 2008 \u2013The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Pharmacy has honored faculty member Kelly Matson with the Advanced Pharmacy Practice \u201cPreceptor of the Year\u201d award. Preceptors oversee pharmacy students\u2019 clinical experiences and serve as educators educators and mentors. During the 2006-2007 academic year Matson mentored 11 students at Hasbro\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}