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
April 2008: Orly Vardeny, assistant professor (CHS) and lead investigator in the research study on influenza vaccine responses in heart failure patients, presented research findings at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago in March. more...
April 2008: The research work of Ron Sorkness, professor in the Pharmacy Practice Division, and colleagues from the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) has identified key physiological differences between severe and non-severe forms of the disease. more...