Pharma
Personalis Regis University School of Pharmacy Newsletter
Volume II, Issue 3
The end of our spring semester and the beginning of summer has been a time of great celebration, thoughtful reflection, and eager anticipation for the School of Pharmacy. We all celebrated the graduation of our inaugural class on May 5th. I had the distinct honor and pleasure to read the names of our fifty new Regis pharmacists as they marched across the stage to receive their Doctor of Pharmacy diplomas from President Fitzgibbons. In the audience, family and friends shared the moment with smiles, cheers and a few tears – recognizing the hard work, commitment and pioneering spirit these graduates had shown over the past four years. And as the faculty watched, you could see the pride and sense of accomplishment in their faces as their dedication to building an exemplary pharmacy program was evidenced by the quality of these new pharmacy graduates. We also are celebrating receiving full accreditation status from ACPE. A new school can receive a maximum of 2 years of this status which we received. The hard work of the faculty and accreditation steering committee, led by Dr. Allana Sucher, resulted in a very positive site visit in early April and now our long sought after goal of full accreditation. I give my highest praise and congratulations to our faculty, staff and community partners in successfully building a truly innovative, mission-driven and now, fully accredited school of pharmacy. With such successes to celebrate, it is only appropriate to reflect for a moment on what brought us to this point. A commitment by Regis University to support a high quality pharmacy program adding to the existing nationally ranked physical therapy and nursing programs in the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions. The innovative vision of our inaugural faculty to take a chance and teach our students in an integrated, team-based learning (TBL) model that is still unique in pharmacy academia. The overarching Jesuit mission of educating men and women in service of others – and the commitment to make this mission real in every aspect of the curriculum. All of these shaped the development of the school, its recent successes, and will continue to shape our future. That future is something we all are looking toward with great anticipation. With the development of new residency programs in partnership with our practice colleagues; with the formation of an operational structure within the School to maximize the benefits of our TBL expertise in our education, scholarship and outreach; with an expanded (both by discipline and by geography) Board of Advisors to help us envision how we need to grow – we will strive to provide the best pharmacy graduates for current and future practice and help shape pharmacy education well into the 21st century.
Rodney A. Carter, Pharm.D. Dean, Regis University School of Pharmacy
Executive Editor: Rodney A. Carter, Pharm.D. Dean, School of Pharmacy Regis University 303.625.1300
Editor: Miki Goldwire, PharmD, MSc, BS, BCPS Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice Regis University, School of Pharmacy mgoldwir@regis.edu