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Members of the newly named faculty at the School of Pharmacy at Belmont University

For a Doctor of Pharmacy program offered by a new College/School of Pharmacy, ACPE accreditation involves three steps:

• Pre-candidate status, which denotes a developmental program expected to mature with stated plans and within a defined time period. This is awarded to a new program that has not yet enrolled students in the professional program and authorizes the college/school to admit its first class.
• Candidate status is awarded to a Doctor of Pharmacy program that has enrolled students but has not yet had a graduating class.
• Full accreditation is awarded to a program that has met all ACPE standards for accreditation and has graduated its first class.

In addition to the plans for accredited schools of pharmacy at Belmont University and Lipscomb University in Nashville, student pharmacists will have opportunity to train at several additional Tennessee sites.

Union University in Jackson is in process with the ACPE for program approval of its pre-candidate status.

East Tennessee State University College of Pharmacy is preparing for the next step to candidate status. The college received pre-candidate status in January 2007 and will be visited by an ACPE site team in the spring of this year with consideration by the ACPE Board for candidate status in June 2008.

The College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee, considered to be one of the top ten colleges in the country, traces its origins to the Knoxville campus beginning in 1898. It relocated to Memphis in 1909. The Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences leading to the MS and PhD degrees was introduced in 1963, and construction of a new facility was begun in 2007. In 2006 the college’s programs were expanded in Knoxville. Using both campuses, the college has grown to be one of the most respected pharmacy schools in the world.



Caption: Members of the newly named faculty at the School of Pharmacy at Belmont University: Back Row: Sal Giorgianni, PharmD, Elinor Chumney, PhD, Andrew Webster, PhD; Middle row: Eric Hobson, PhD, Cathy H. Turner, PharmD, Marketa Marvanova, PharmD, PhD, Melinda S. Mitchell, Asst. to the Dean, Philip E. Johnston, Professor and Dean; Front Row: Steven P. Stodghill, PhD, Elinor Chumney, PhD, Ginger Hooper, Office Assistant.



March 2008

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