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The Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences (PPPS) is one of five academic departments within the College of Pharmacy and is geographically located on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus. PPPS is an interdisciplinary department with faculty engaged in scholarship, practice and teaching across disciplines encompassing clinical, basic, and social sciences.
Our vision is to lead, serve, and partner with diverse communities to create tailored solutions for a healthy Greater Minnesota and beyond.
Our mission We educate pharmacists to promote the health of diverse populations in Minnesota’s rural communities through advancing interdisciplinary Pharmacy Practice, education, and Pharmaceutical Sciences research.
News
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With opioid overdose deaths increasing at alarming speed, naloxone, an overdose antidote, provides some hope amidst a grave, serious public health crisis. From 2014 to 2015 alone, opioid-related overdose deaths increased 11 percent in Minnesota.
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Award recognizes her outstanding commitment to raising awareness of the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
![Mike Swanoski](/sites/pharmacy.umn.edu/files/2022-10/swanoski_mike-maroon.png)
Michael Swanoski, PharmD, is the new Senior Associate Dean for the Duluth campus.
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Randy Seifert, PharmD, professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, has been named the Peters Endowed Chair in Pharmacy
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Randall Seifert, PharmD, senior associate dean and professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, has been selected as the 2016 Lawrence C. and Delores M. Weaver Medal recipient.
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According to Aristotle, “The soul never thinks without a picture.” So perhaps the image-based research Dr. Derek Jennings does could be defined as a way to ‘discover what the soul is thinking’…