{"id":191095,"date":"2022-10-17T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=191095"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:27:00","slug":"pharmacy-student-karisse-lora-awarded-a-2022-walmart-health-equity-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2022\/10\/pharmacy-student-karisse-lora-awarded-a-2022-walmart-health-equity-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy Student Karisse Lora Awarded a 2022 Walmart Health Equity Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Pharmacy student Karisse Lora (Pharm.D., 2023) \u00a0has received one of ten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacp.org\/article\/ten-student-pharmacists-awarded-walmart-health-equity-scholarship\">2022 Walmart Health Equity Scholarships<\/a> which provide support for students\u2019 educational commitment to serving rural or underserved communities upon graduation. The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy AACP received nearly 700 applications for scholarships from students at both public and private organizations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191096\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-191096 size-medium img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lora-238x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Karisse Lora\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lora-238x300.jpeg 238w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lora-812x1024.jpeg 812w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lora-768x968.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lora-333x420.jpeg 333w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lora-528x665.jpeg 528w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lora.jpeg 1125w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 238px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 238\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karisse Lora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;As a future pharmacist, I look forward to serving as an advocate for my community and other underrepresented populations&#8221; Lora commented. &#8220;This scholarship will help me attain my goal of pursuing a post-graduate program that will further my personal development and professional growth. I am blessed to be a recipient of this award and am extremely thankful for this honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karisse\u2019s commitment to advancing health equity is indicative of her deep understanding that the patients we serve all have unique needs and that everyone should have a fair opportunity to reach their full health potential,&#8221; says Chinenye Anyanwu, Pharm.D., Lora&#8217;s faculty mentor. &#8220;Pharmacists play an important role in removing obstacles that prevent patients from achieving this potential and we look forward to the great work Karisse will do in her community&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Pharmacy student Karisse Lora has received the 2022 Walmart Health Equity Scholarship which provides support for students\u2019 educational commitment to serving rural or underserved communities upon graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":191401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2323],"class_list":["post-191095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pharm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 01:19:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191095"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191400,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191095\/revisions\/191400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/191401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191095"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=191095"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=191095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}