Message from the Chair
Medication use plays an increasingly important role in our world today. To ensure optimal patient
outcomes from medications, it is critical that highly skilled, caring pharmacists work with patients and
other health professionals, managing the associated resources and taking responsibility for achieving
those outcomes.
Our faculty members focus on the preparation of those highly skilled, caring pharmacists by ensuring
that our students possess the competencies necessary to:
- Provide pharmacist-delivered patient care in cooperation with patients, prescribers, and other
members of an interprofessional healthcare team based upon sound therapeutic principles and
evidence-based data, taking into account relevant legal, ethical, social, cultural, economic, and
professional issues; emerging technologies; and evolving biomedical, pharmaceutical, social/
behavioral/administrative, and clinical sciences that may impact therapeutic outcomes.
- Manage and use resources of the healthcare system, in cooperation with patients, prescribers, other
healthcare providers, and administrative and supportive personnel, to promote health; to provide,
assess, and coordinate safe, accurate, and time-sensitive medication distribution; and to improve
therapeutic outcomes of medication use.
- Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention in cooperation with patients,
communities, at-risk populations, and other members of an interprofessional team of healthcare
providers.
Our department values:
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Openness and honesty
- Caring and respect
- Teaching and learning
- Achievement and recognition
- Leadership and service
- Scholarship and research
Our students are focused, motivated self-learners who work together in a culture
of collaboration, shared values, and outcome assessment. They learn in a rigorous,
integrated curriculum through lecture, small group discussions, simulation, laboratory,
and interprofessional and practical experiences.
Bruce R. Canaday, PharmD
Professor and Chair, Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Administration