Pharmacy (PHM)

The PharmD curriculum integrates the latest technologies throughout the professional coursework. Students enjoy state-of-the-art facilities, laboratories, "smart" classrooms, and centers for research. Thanks to a 10-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio, students work side-by-side with faculty. It's all part of an environment based on community and teamwork to create an atmosphere of active collaboration, professional development, and mentorship.

The coursework is integrated with progressive patient-centered practice experiences. It is capped by a 9-month experiential program. This program in pharmacy leads to licensure in any state provided that the graduate passes board exams and obtains licensure.

Kapoor Hall, home of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, opened in 2012, and includes many green-design features, such as maximizing natural daylight, while offering warm and inviting social and study spaces. Kapoor Hall integrates the latest technologies into its classrooms and provides ample teaching, educational and research laboratory space for undergraduate, graduate and professional education and research.

Additional details about the learning spaces in Kapoor Hall:

• simulated hospital pharmacy complete with a drug information center, and an IV preparation area
• professional practice lab and a sterile preparation laboratory
• community pharmacy area
• patient assessment rooms for clinical counseling and assessment
• video monitoring facility for immediate feedback and review
• pharmacogenetics laboratory
• general research laboratories

Our faculty are recognized as academic leaders due to their many distinguished professor appointments, professional teaching awards, as well as recognition by our students. Our faculty are leaders in their fields of science and clinical health and we are proud to have in our ranks members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Science Foundation awardees, ISI Most Highly Cited List members, and many Distinguished Investigator awardees.

Faculty in the Department of Pharmacy Practice conduct research as part of the school's Pharmacotherapy Research Center. Some of the areas of study include the following patient care environments, many funded through federal grants and contracts:

• adult medicine
• pediatrics
• geriatrics
• nephrology
• transplantation
• infectious diseases
• HIV
• oncology
• neurology
• psychiatry

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