News Release

Dr. Rajul Patel Discusses the Medicare Part D Changes

(January 12, 2008) -

Dr. Rajul Patel, a professor of pharmacy for the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has been leading the Universities efforts to help retired citizens understand the new changes in the Medicare Laws. Recently, the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences held a community workshop in Fresno to help Hmong residents understand the confusing changes. Earlier last year, a similar workshop was held for all residents of the Stockton area.

Today, a podcast was recorded where he discussed the changes, why its so confusing and what needs to be done to fix the recent changes. Click to listen to it online or right-click and choose "Save File As" to save it to your computer to be loaded in a portable MP3 player or listened to at a later date.

The podcast is about 10 minutes long and is part of a series of podcasts featuring short discussions with faculty and employees of University of the Pacific.  A full collection of the Podcasts can be found by visiting http://itunes.pacific.edu . Itunes must be installed on a computer.