The mission of the Pharmacy Practice Division (PPD) is to educate students, health practitioners and the public in ways that optimize health outcomes from drug and related treatments, to participate in research and practice that lead to safe and effective drug use, and to develop innovations in the practice of pharmacy that help maximize patient benefit from medications.
Our faculty is diverse and each member possesses different interests within the field of Pharmacy Practice. Areas of clinical practice and research include: medication utilization, sleep disorders, osteoporosis, hematology/oncology, cardiac rehabilitation, family medicine, asthma, lung transplantation, epilepsy, heart failure, diabetes, long term care, pulmonary/critical care, and metabolic/nutrition support.
NEWS & EVENTS
October 2009: Eva Vivian, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, is co-investigator of a P-50 grant from the National Cancer Institute that will advance treatments for smokers with diabetes. more...
October 2009: Robert Breslow, associate professor (CHS) in the Pharmacy Practice Division, and Michelle Chui, assistant professor in the Social and Administrative Sciences Division, received the School of Pharmacy 2009 Teaching Innovation Award for their innovative revamping of the Medication Safety Course. more...
October 2009: Jeremy Johnson, assistant scientist in the Pharmacy Practice Division, received funding from the National Cancer Institute to study xanothes in the mangosteen fruit and the anti-cancer properties on prostate cancer chemoprevention. more...