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Bill Kennedy answers questions from several South Carolina College of Pharmacy student pharmacists.
business and I’m determined to help the next generation of pharmacists develop the skills they’ll need to excel in both areas, as well.”
means preparing students to have the ability to adapt, anticipate and succeed in an ever-changing environment.”
The Kennedy Pharmacy Innovation Center will emphasize entrepreneurship through a direct link to the top-ranked Darla Moore School of Business that will enable student pharmacists to develop entrepreneurial and business skills essential for the changing healthcare environment.
Specific details of the center will be worked out by an oversight committee, but plans call for an endowed chair, fellowships for faculty, a lecture series, student scholarships, specialized training and additional entrepreneurial courses and certification for students.
The center will be housed in the Coker Life Sciences and The Kennedy Center will combine principles of pharmacy, Discovery I buildings on the USC campus. The location at business and management to provide resources for students, Discovery I, in USC’s Innovista research campus, is a natural faculty and researchers throughout the univerfit for the Kennedy Center, Pastides said. sity. It will emphasize innovation in pharmacy The goal is to “The Kennedy Center reflects what Innovista is practice and education, creating an interdisall about,” President Pastides said. “It will be a ciplinary environment that prepares student guide future place for creativity and research and discovery, pharmacists to become leaders in the profession. pharmacists and tap into the entrepreneurial and intellectual “The goal is to guide future pharmacists toward resources of the Moore School and the scientists toward new new approaches and new ways of thinking,” associated with the Centers of Economic Excelsaid Dr. Joseph T. DiPiro, executive dean of the lence.” approaches South Carolina College of Pharmacy. “We’re and new ways The center’s programs will be open to all SCCP preparing them to not only meet the challenges students, including those based at the Medical of a dramatically changing healthcare landof thinking. University of South Carolina and at Greenville scape, but to conquer those challenges through Hospital System University Medical Center via innovation and creating new levels of success in —Dr. Joseph T. DiPiro the college’s distance education program. science and in business.”
“Today’s pharmacist must be an astute business entrepreneur as well as a trusted healthcare provider,” DiPiro said. “Rapid and fundamental changes to the healthcare system will emphasize this need. Teaching innovation in pharmacy practice
A third of the gift will come to the university in cash over 10 years to fund the operation of the center. The remaining twothirds will come as a bequest to endow the center.
ACADEMIC PHARMACY NOW Oct/Nov/Dec 2010
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