The Strategic Plan, which is a collaborative effort of our faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community partners, charts the growth of our educational, clinical, research, and outreach programs.
GOAL: Provide high quality, innovative education in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences
Strengthen inter-professional education collaborations and student experiences with other health professional schools
Incorporate state of the art pedagogies to enhance the student learning experience
Promote and deploy best practices in assessment
Develop online and blended courses for enrolled pharmacy students and specialized online CE and certificate programs for current practitioners
GOAL: Expand and enhance experiential education
Develop new partnerships with experiential education sites capable of offering APPE and IPPE
Recruit clinical preceptors to meet current and future experiential education needs
Build inter-institutional collaborations that enhance scholarship and clinical practice opportunities for faculty
GOAL: Attract the best and brightest students to all of the school’s programs
Ensure SPPS admissions remain competitive, flexible, accessible and diverse
Ensure UB/SPPS Early Assurance Program remains a compelling recruitment mechanism
GOAL: Support and promote faculty excellence in the scholarship of teaching and learning
Develop and maintain a school web page highlighting SoTL
Convene an interest group to identify needs and means for pursuing SoTL excellence
Promote high quality SoTL research endeavors
Promote dissemination of SoTL endeavors through
Peer reviewed presentations at regional/national conferences
Peer reviewed publications in top tier journals
Nominate faculty for external awards in SoTL
CLINICAL PRACTICE
GOAL: Develop and implement innovative clinical practice models with healthcare partners
Create a committee with the directive of overseeing clinical practice initiatives (‘Clinical Practice Committee’)
Construct a shared vision between the school and key affiliate sites that fosters innovative clinical practice models
Establish and expand faculty-driven medication therapy management programs
Establish and expand pharmacist-provided immunization programs
Establish clinical practice models that focus on transitions of care in partnership with affiliate sites
GOAL: Increase the pharmacist’s scope of practice
Develop a pharmacy services corporation, enabling UB SPPS faculty to provide clinical services and translate best practices to the community
Partner with statewide organizations to promote and sustain legislation that increases the scope of pharmacy practice
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
GOAL: Grow excellence in priority areas and therapeutic foci
Priority Area 1: Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics/pharmacometrics /systems pharmacology
Priority Area 2: Pharmacogenetics/genomics/drug metabolism/drug transport
Priority Area 3: Drug Delivery
Priority Area 4: Health outcomes research
Priority Area 5: Protein therapeutics
Priority Area 6: Clinical and translational pharmacology
GOAL: Elevate SPPS standing as a leader in research productivity both internally and externally
Objective/Priority Area 1: Target high ranking in attainable metrics
Increase grant submissions with focus to federal proposals
Increase submission of large grants via workgroups and focus groups
Increase grant success rate
Targeted mentoring program for unfunded faculty
Incentivize activities that promote SPPS standing
GOAL: Increase SPPS standing in the development of PharmD students as research scholars
Objective/Priority Area 1: Develop Research Scholar Program
Increase enrollment in PharmD/MS program
Increase emphasis on publications from PharmD students
Pair PharmD students with PhD students and faculty to write review papers
GOAL: Increase SPPS productivity in translational research
Establish internal translational research program
Develop systematic strategy to pursue translational research
Identify clinician partners for collaboration in small scale clinical investigations
SERVICE AND OUTREACH
GOAL: Establish continued and sustainable health-related outreach activities that promote education and scholarship in our community, nationally and globally
Create a dedicated school-wide outreach team
Increase student involvement and awareness of healthcare issues in underserved populations
Establish a sustainable program in one globally underserved area
Establish a sustainable program in one underserved, community-based site
Create a sustainable and viable funding source to support service initiatives
GOAL: Provide the opportunity for participation and promote leadership in government, scientific and professional organizations
Provide the opportunity for leadership training internally and externally
Enhance involvement of faculty and students in professional and research organizations
Establish a funding model for ongoing support for faculty and students to attend and present at professional and research conferences
