Department of Allied and Population Health update
Research is one of the key pillars of the Department of Allied and Population Health. Our multidisciplinary department brings faculty from respiratory care, medical laboratory sciences, pharmacy and public health backgrounds to work together to improve care of patients. Faculty are either tenure-track researchers with upward of 25% or higher dedicated time for research or nontenure track practice/instructional faculty with an emphasis on instructional scholarship and clinical service. Our research, therefore, can be broadly classified into research and scholarship of teaching and learning.
Using pig cornea to help humans
Chandrasekher is performing research that could lead to development of cornea-equivalents for transplantation purposes. Corneal transplantation, which is referred to as ‘keratoplasty’ in ophthalmology clinics, is the most common treatment for irreparable corneal damage. In most cases, only the diseased or injured section of the cornea is replaced.
Reineke lab research aims to eradicate tuberculosis
The mention of tuberculosis (TB) conjures ideas of an old-world disease that is either a problem of the past or a problem for developing nations. but both images are misleading. While TB is a very old disease with the first recorded case occurring over 3,300 years ago (the end of the Bronze Age, when the first forms of paper were developed by Egyptians), it still kills 1.4 million people per year today.
Focused on solving drug-delivery challenges
The research in my lab is focused on solving drug-delivery challenges at the interface of material and biological sciences. To this end, our current research is focused on developing oral pediatric drug-delivery systems using natural food protein biopolymers and localized drug-delivery approaches for breast cancer.
Improving health through prevention, management of diabetes, heart disease, stroke
Hunt, an associate professor, directs the Master of Public Health program within the Department of Allied and Population Health, arriving at SDSU in September 2019.
Scholarship from a clinical researcher’s perspective
At the Center for Family Medicine, we had started a medication-for-opioid-use-disorder team clinic one-half day each month to serve patients driving up to six hours to get into our clinic as one of the only practices in South Dakota. Soon afterward, the state had received grant funds to expand medication-for-opioid-use-disorder training.
Pharmaceutical research at State: An overview from the department head
The department’s research efforts started with the hiring of Chandradhar Dwivedi in 1987 as the first research faculty member. His leadership from 1987 to 2013 was instrumental in establishing the research program in pharmaceutical sciences.