Xavier University
Xavier University of Louisiana is Catholic and historically Black institution whose ultimate purpose is the promotion of a more just and humane society. To this end, Xavier prepares its students to assume roles of leadership and service in society. This preparation takes place in a pluralistic teaching and learning environment that incorporates all relevant educational means, including research and community service.
Twenty-five percent of the nation's African American pharmacists are Xavier graduates, who practice throughout the United States in careers that range from working for billion-dollar corporations to serving in clinics and hospitals in inner-city, rural and underserved communities. Xavier prepares its pharmacy students to keep abreast of computer technologies, advances in drug therapy and ever-changing health care systems. The university instills in the mind of every student that the contemporary pharmacist is responsible for the provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving specific outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life, in lieu of the challenges of deadly infectious diseases such as HIV AIDS.
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Xavier’s accolades include:
- #1 in the nation in the number of Doctor of Pharmacy degrees awarded to African Americans
- #1 in the nation in placing African American students into medical schools
- #1 in the nation in the number of African American undergraduates receiving degrees in biology and the life sciences.
The Xavier College of Pharmacy, like the rest of the university shares the mission of preparing its students to assume roles of leadership and service in the society. This is particularly true in the areas of improving health outcomes for disadvantaged minority communities through its programs targeting health disparities in such areas as HIV/AIDS, diabetes and cancer that disproportionately affect our communities.
The great partnership with the National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center as a Regional Performance Site offers an excellent opportunity for Xavier faculty and its students along with our consultants and collaborating organizations to improve health outcomes through our capacity building activities and preceptorships targeting healthcare providers in minority communities locally and nationally.
NMAETC Co-PI, Dr. Justina Edmunds-Ogbuokiri
Dr. Justina Edmunds-Ogbuokiri is currently an associate professor of clinical pharmacy at Xavier College of Pharmacy and the consultant clinical pharmacist at the HIV Outpatient Clinic of the Medical Center of Louisiana here in New Orleans. She has taught at Xavier for the past 8 years and has been faculty member at the College of Medicine of the University of Nigeria, Enugu-Nigeria and Consultant Clinical Pharmacist/Pharmacologist to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital for a period of 16 years.
Available Preceptorships
Physician, Nursing and Pharmacy preceptorships are offered quarterly in collaboration with the Delta Region AIDS Education and Training Center. In addition, Dr. Ogbuokiri, Co-PI for the Regional Perfromance Site offers an on-going preceptorship in HIV/AIDS at the HOP clinic and teaches select topics in infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS and related drugs therapies.
Expertise available at the Xavier Local Performance Site of NMAETC
- Introduction, epidemiology, pathogenesis and basic principles of HIV pharmacotherapy
- HIV testing, natural history of HIV disease and baseline laboratory studies
- Understanding the reverse transcriptase inhibitors
- Understanding the protease inhibitors
- Opportunistic infections and other complications of advanced HIV disease
- Pharmacotherapeutic management of malnutrition and AIDS wasting
- Nutrition and food safety in HIV disease
- Application of basic pharmacokinetic principles in circumventing drug-drug interactions in AIDS/HIV pharmacotherapy
- Dosage adjustments of antiretroviral agents in renal and hepatic impairment
- Pediatric HIV infection and maternal-child transmission
- Central nervous system manifestations of HIV/AIDS disease
- Pharmaceutical care of HIV/AIDS infection: Adherence, clinical monitoring and outcomes management
- Management of the dually-infected patient: HIV and HCV Coinfection*
- Herbal remedies and neutraceuticals in HIV disease
- Cultural competence and cultural sensitivity in the management of HIV disease