WSU Health Sciences Spokane

The Department of Veterans Affairs will establish occupancy in the Spokane Teaching Health Center in Fall 2020 with an outpatient primary clinic and two patient aligned care teams.

Calls to U.S. poison centers about phenibut, an anti‑anxiety drug sold on the internet, rose dramatically over the past decade, according to new research by nursing Associate Professor and Associate Dean Janessa Graves.

Mark Leid, the new dean at the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has a connection to WSU that stretches back 42 years.

This year, the coats and stethoscopes were mailed to students in preparation for the celebration. The event will be livestreamed on the college’s YouTube channel at 6 p.m.

College of Nursing faculty Roschelle (Shelly) Fritz, Renee Hoeksel and Kawkab Shishani are among 230 people worldwide being inducted as fellows of the American Academy of Nursing this fall.

The study is recruiting participants ages 18-26 in the Pacific Northwest, and is based on a phone app developed by the EPA that tracks air quality, active fires and direction of smoke plumes.

Arliegh Cayanan, a fourth-year College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences student, will serve as the next student regent on the WSU Board of Regents.

Sorosh Kherghehpoush has a passion to help people experiencing homelessness. Working with WSU and community partners, he goes to many locations to give personal hygiene packages and do routine health checks.

The COVID Urban Rural Explorer is one of the first tools that enables users to identify rural counties across the country with both limited hospital capacity and where COVID‑19 cases are rapidly growing.

A third of this year’s class of new members in the Washington State Academy of Sciences are from Washington State University. This honor recognizes the new members for their outstanding records of scientific and technical achievement.