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We broke ground for the new School of Pharmacy! PHARMACY Now we need your help to make this vision a reality! Your commitment to help fund the construction of the new building, future home of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, will help assure the school’s key role as the focal point for pharmacy education, professional practice and scientific discovery programs. Naming opportunities are available. PERSPECTIVES Please join us! University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy | summer 2008 Checks may be made payable to the University of Colorado Foundation and noted for the School of Pharmacy Building Fund. Name_________________________________________________________________________________________ Mailing address__________________________________________________________________________________ E-mail_________________________________________________ Phone___________________________________ Mail your check with this form to: Sheldon Steinhauser Director of Development University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy C238-L15 P.O. Box 6511 Aurora, CO 80045 If you wish to use a credit card or if you’d like to make a multi-year pledge, please call Sheldon Steinhauser at 303-724-2632 (phone); 303-596-9062 (cell); or e-mail at [email protected]. Thank you for your commitment to the School of Pharmacy! University of Colorado Denver Nonprofit Organization School of Pharmacy U.S. Postage Mail Stop C-238-L15 PAID P.O. Box 6511 Denver, CO Aurora, CO 80045 Permit No. 2378 Address service requested The new home of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences CONTENTS GROUNDBREAKING OPPORTUNITIES MILESTONE SOFTWARE ALUMNA 1 6 8 12 15 Groundbreaking held Community health First commencement Software takes phar- Alumna recognized for new building fairs offer students held on Anschutz macists to next level for pioneering service learning opportunities Medical Campus in diabetes research in the Navy School of Pharmacy breaks ground on 165,000 sq. ft. building New building will help prepare pharmacists for a changing society As drug therapies become more com- the school to expand its pharmaceutical plex, as our understanding of disease biotechnology program and create a pathology grows and as health care drug-development center to focus on evolves, the University of Colorado new medications. Both programs are Denver School of Pharmacy is prepar- already under way but there is cur- ing future pharmacists for a profession rently no room to expand. that is changing dramatically. These realities point to the increasing demand When the new facility is completed, for pharmacists who are highly skilled the school will be renamed the Skaggs and well prepared to manage complex School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical drug-therapy regimens and to provide Sciences in recognition of the Skaggs direct patient care for a wide variety of family and The ALSAM Foundation for medical conditions. To meet the increas- their long-standing support of the school. ing health care needs of a changing and In late 2006, the Foundation committed rapidly aging society, the School of $10 million for the construction of the Pharmacy is constructing a new $59.5 new building – the largest gift in the million, 165,000 square-foot building. school’s history. This was followed by a grant of $1 million in 2008. The new building will be a sustainably- built, collaborative center of learning, Sam Skaggs and the Skaggs family are Breaking ground on a new school preparing students for their roles nationally recognized as pioneers in the From left: Lou Diamond, past dean of the School of Pharmacy; Ralph Altiere, dean of the as pharmacists and pharmaceutical retail drug and grocery business and as school; M. Roy Wilson, University of Colorado Denver chancellor; Claudia Skaggs Luttrell, scientists. The site of the new building generous philanthropists. The ALSAM Foundation; Bruce Benson, University of Colorado president; and Ed Tauer, is located to the west of the campus “As the school looks forward to many mayor of Aurora, Colorado library across a beautiful and inviting great accomplishments in the future, quadrangle that will serve as the north accomplishments that to a large extent entrance to the academic campus. will be facilitated by this new building, It is projected to be ready for occu- we will stay true to our mission and pancy in late 2010 and will allow the focused on who we are and what we school to increase faculty size by 50 will bring to health care in the 21st percent and class size by 25 percent, century—discovering new knowledge, to 160 students a year. The contractor breaking new ground in clinical care is Mortenson Construction Company and preparing students for lives of pur- and the architects are Root Rosenman pose and service who will make a differ- Architects in association with HOK. ence for all of us,” said Dean Altiere. “The prospect of a new building to house For information on how you can help the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and with the completion of the building that Pharmaceutical Sciences begins an excit- will house the new Skaggs School of ing new era for pharmacy education, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, research and patient care in Colorado,” please contact: said School of Pharmacy Dean Ralph Sheldon Steinhauser, Director of Altiere. “With a state-of-the-art facility Development to take us into the future, we can build University of Colorado Denver upon our tradition of excellence and Faculty lend a hand in the groundbreaking School of Pharmacy strengthen our position as one of the Dennis Petersen, vice chairman, pharmaceutical sciences; David Ross, chair, 303-724-2632 – office phone nation’s top pharmacy schools.” pharmaceutical sciences; Raj Agarwal, professor, pharmaceutical sciences; Cathy Jarvis, 303-596-9062 – cell phone assistant dean, Office of Student Services; Jacci Bainbridge, associate professor, clinical Three floors of the four-story building [email protected] pharmacy; and Doug Fish, interim chair, clinical pharmacy. will be dedicated to research, allowing Holden Lecture School of Pharmacy Dean Ralph Altiere and Peggy and Jack Holden present a gift of art to Jann Skelton, RPh, MBA, the featured speaker at the annual Holden Lectureship held April 18. Skelton’s talk was titled “Thinking Outside the Vial.” Skelton is president of Silver Pennies Consulting Inc. The Holdens have been long-standing supporters of the School of Pharmacy. After graduating in 1946, Peggy practiced both hospital and community pharmacy. Jack Holden, a 1948 graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, received the first Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the spring 2008 graduation ceremony. He is the retired publisher of the Loveland Reporter-Herald and has served on the journalism school’s advisory board for nine years. Message from the dean the largest PharmD class in the school’s and preparing students for their roles activities that their class helped to make history. as pharmacists and pharmaceutical such an integral part of their education scientists. The building is projected to at the school. Their goal is to have 100 A groundbreaking ceremony was held be ready for occupancy in late 2010, percent participation by the class and to June 10 for a building that will be the prior to the school’s 100th anniversary start a tradition of giving back to support future home of the school. The new in 2011. In late 2006, The ALSAM the school that they feel gave them great building will be our fifth home since our Foundation committed $10 million for opportunities for learning and experi- founding at the University of Colorado construction of the new building—the ential training. To recognize the legacy Boulder where we spent our first 81 largest gift in the school’s history. This that the 2008 class is leaving for future years. The school then moved to the was followed by a grant of $1 million pharmacy students, a plaque honoring Ninth Avenue campus in 1992, and now in 2008. The ALSAM Foundation is them as the founding class of the new we are located in temporary quarters named after Aline and Sam Skaggs who University of Colorado Denver School at AMC until our new building is com- have been longtime benefactors of the of Pharmacy Alumni Association was pleted. We look forward to a long and school. Mr. Skaggs and the Skaggs fam- presented to them at the annual awards prosperous era at AMC when we open ily are nationally recognized as pioneers banquet. the new building under the school’s in the retail drug and grocery business new name—The Skaggs School of and as generous philanthropists. To receive additional information or Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences to share your ideas about the alumni in recognition of the Skaggs family and Soon we will be launching the school’s association, send us an e-mail at These past few months have marked an The ALSAM Foundation for their gen- first official alumni association. More [email protected]. exciting time in the 97-year history of erosity and support of the school. The information will be forthcoming. The the School of Pharmacy. In May, the site of the new building is just west of class of 2008 made the decision to give Best wishes for an enjoyable summer. first pharmacy class to graduate on the the campus library, across to what will something back to the School of Phar- Sincerely, new Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC) be a beautiful and inviting quadrangle macy that would have a lasting impact. received their diplomas in a ceremony formed between the two buildings that Their gift to the school will establish a held on the front lawn of the campus. will serve as the north entrance to the fund to purchase medical equipment for The school awarded 174 PharmD academic campus. future pharmacy students to use at com- degrees this year to graduates of both munity health clinics and fairs.