Dean's Welcome
Our Vision
To be the preeminent college of pharmacy in education, research and service.
Our Mission
To promote the health and well-being of our citizens
- by providing the nation's highest quality education, research and service
- by inspiring responsible, compassionate leadership in the profession
Welcome to the College of Pharmacy at The University of Arizona. I hope you will explore several sections of our Web site and learn much more about our extraordinary programs and outstanding people. I open this message by stating our vision and mission, because that is the foundation of everything we do.
You visit us during a period of change, growth and opportunity. At the college, we are, in addition to our usual activities, settling in to a new building, Roy P. Drachman Hall, that expanded our Tucson facilities, and laying the groundwork for a future Phoenix-based specialized PharmD/MS program in the emerging field of pharmacogenomics.
And never has there been a more exciting time to be learning and advancing the pharmaceutical sciences and the professional practice of pharmacy. Health care, including how drugs are developed and used, is about to be transformed by the advances being made daily through genomics research. Personalized pharmaceutical therapies will be a reality while the pharmacists graduating this decade are in the prime of their careers.
Sea change is also coming in other aspects of health care. As the new Medicare drug benefit, which requires medication therapy management services to patients with certain chronic conditions, is implemented, the community pharmacist's role in direct patient care is expanding. And there will be more patients than ever to care for as the Baby Boom generation leaves middle age and begins to require ever increasing levels of health services.
This evolution brings both greater responsibility and increased opportunity for us as scientists and practitioners to attend to the critical questions of ensuring safe use of medications. The pharmacist and the pharmaceutical scientist are key players in making sure that new and existing drug therapies are safe when they come to market, are prescribed appropriately, are used safely and are accessible to those who need them. We will be in the forefront in developing a full understanding of drug safety and quality issues and implementing approaches to reducing medication errors that cost our nation dearly in both dollars and lives.
Our college boasts faculty expertise in these important disciplines and is positioned well as a national and international leader influencing research, policy and pharmacy education. I am very proud to welcome you to The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy.
J. Lyle Bootman, PhD, ScD
Dean and Professor
Dr. Bootman was appointed acting dean in 1987 and became dean in 1990. He is an alumnus of The University of Arizona. For more information about Dr. Bootman and all the past deans of the college, visit our Hall of Deans.