The Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems (PCHS) advances the practice of pharmaceutical care and its role in the healthcare system for the benefit of patients & society through education, research, & service.
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Social & Administrative Pharmacy Graduate Program
Study the social, psychosocial, political, legal, historic, and economic factors that impinge upon the use, non-use and abuse of drugs.
PCHS Department News
Dr. Ann Philbrick of the Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems was elected to the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Board of Regents.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (5/5/25) — Dr. Sarah Westberg, associate dean for professional affairs and professor, has accepted a new position as dean of the Anderson Family College of Health Sciences at Bethel University and will be resigning from her position at the College of Pharmacy this June.
Dr. Joel Farley, professor and interim head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, and the Peters Endowed Chair in Pharmacy Practice Innovation, has been named a 2026 Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Fellow.
After 44 years, three months, and seven days of working at Children’s Minnesota Hospital in St. Paul, alumna Lucy Johnson is trying to adjust to retirement.
Dr. Joel Farley, professor and interim head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, and the Peters Endowed Chair in Pharmacy Practice Innovation, is the recipient of the American Pharmacists Association’s (APhA) 2026 Research Achievement in Pharmaceutical Sciences Award.
Her term of service will be February 2026 through August 2027.
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Jean Moon on left and Dr. Jody Lounsbery on right Broadway Family Medicine Named Clinical Training Site of Excellence
Dr. Philbrick leads the College of Pharmacy in COVID-19 education programs
Research Spotlight
Byran attended the meeting in Prague this year and represented the Wagner Lab.
Prof. Ambrose was invited to speak at the event, hosted at the University of Bonn (Germany), due to her expertise with the chemical exploration and analysis of Baltic amber.