Pharmacy SuRGE

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Pharmacy SuRGE (Scholarship, Research and Graduate Education)

Pharmacy SuRGE is an AACP initiative to bring together leaders from pharmacy schools to advance research, research training and graduate education.  SuRGE meetings provide an opportunity to discuss and develop strategies for supporting research, identify opportunities for collaboration, and share experience in navigating the changing research regulation and funding landscape. SuRGE is envisioned as a starting point for activities that can be continued through AACP affiliate groups such as the Graduate Education Special Interest Group (SIG.) 

Quarterly SuRGE meetings are held from 1–2:30 p.m. ET on the third Tuesday of March, June, September and December. Please contact Dorothy Farrell for more information.

The next Pharmacy SuRGE meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. 

Agenda

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Please note: All times listed below are in Eastern Time.

Institutional Training Programs for Graduate Education in Pharmacy 

1:00 p.m.–1:20 p.m.   

Welcome and Discussion of the SuRGE Community Statement and Goals 

David Feola, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Professor and Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Review of the draft Community Statement and proposed goals for 2026-2027, including comments from the Community Statement padlet

1:20 p.m.–2:15 p.m. 

Institutional training programs at colleges and schools of pharmacy

Kimberly Nixon, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, James T. Doluisio Centennial Fellow, University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy 

How can pharmacy schools expand institutional training programs for graduate education and stimulate collaborations to support more programs? 

2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m.         

Call for topics and speakers for March 2026 SuRGE meeting

Angela Birnbaum, PhD, FAES, MLS(ASCP), Professor, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (ECP), University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy

The March 2026 SuRGE meeting will focus on creating and sustaining research partnerships with industry
 

SuRGE Goals and Objectives

A Pharmacy SuRGE Community Taskforce has been established for 2025-2026 by Graduate Education SIG Chair Om Perumal. The taskforce will develop a community statement and articulate the goals and objectives for the SuRGE initiative and community. 

The goals and objectives of the initial SuRGE meetings have been to 

  1. Devise a strategy for AACP to expand its support of college of pharmacy research and graduate programs.
  2. Engage individuals with research and graduate education leadership responsibilities  across the academy to expand this community within AACP.  
  3. Initiate the drafting of a Community Statement and a Pharmacy Research Statement.
     
About Academic Pharmacy

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) is the national association for pharmacy education in the United States, and our 143 institutional members are the colleges and schools of pharmacy accredited by or with candidate status from the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE.) Our mission is to lead and partner with our members in advancing pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service to improve societal health. 

There are more than 6200 full and part-time faculty members in pharmacy schools in the United States, teaching in both professional and graduate programs. Enrollment in these programs includes more than 44,000 PharmD students, just over 3500 Ph.D. students, and nearly 1900 students enrolled in M.S. programs. 

In 2022-23, programs in pharmacy schools conferred

  • 12,639 Pharm.D. degrees
  • 1,888 M.S. degrees
  • 657 Ph.D. degrees

The most common Ph.D. degrees conferred by discipline were 

  • 223, Pharmaceutics
  • 143, Medicinal Chemistry
  • 129, Pharmacology
  • 76, Social and Administrative Sciences
  • 30, Pharmacy Practice

Other disciplines in which Ph.D. degrees were conferred include biological & medical informatics; biomolecular sciences; chemistry; drug discovery; immunology; industrial physical pharmacy; pharmacogenomics; pharmacotherapy; pharmacometrics and systems pharmacology; and translational science.

According to data collected through the AACP Funded Research Grant Data collection, in federal fiscal year 2023, 1772 investigators at pharmacy schools were principal or co-investigators on research grants or contracts originating outside their home school or college. These extramural grants totaled over $740 million dollars in NIH awards, $110 in other federal awards and $190 million in funding from non-federal sources. 

Data on student enrollments and degrees conferred taken from AACP Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness “First Professional and Graduate Enrollment Trends Interactive Dashboard” and “Fall 2023 Degrees Conferred - Profile of Pharmacy Students
 

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Dr. Marlon "Doc" Fuller is a distinguished philanthropist, inventor, author, entrepreneur, pharmacist, keynote, and investor, who also balances life as a devoted father of four. With his wife, Christina, he co-founded CoolKids.org, a nonprofit that provides financial literacy education to children aged 8 to 16, impacting over 30,000 lives.

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  1. Abbi Kidd, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  2. Allison Chan, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  3. Allison Notestine, The University of Toledo
  4. Allison Welsh, North Dakota State University
  5. Allyson Nelson, University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis
  6. Amir Giurgius, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  7. Andrew Mullins, Virginia Commonwealth University
  8. Anisha Jackson, Samford University
  9. Anna Ingamells, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  10. Anna Robichaud, High Point University
  11. Ashley Joseph, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
  12. Baleigh Goddard, University of Charleston
  13. Brittany Bullock, The University of Iowa
  14. Bruno Onwukwe, The University of Texas at Austin
  15. Caleb Nelson-lange, University of Minnesota
  16. Caroline Eason, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  17. Casey Hourigan, Feik School of Pharmacy
  18. Christopher Le, University of Illinois Chicago
  19. Corey McLemore, Union University
  20. Delancy Anderson, The University of Mississippi
  21. Desiree Molina, Idaho State University
  22. Elizabeth Jenkins, The University of Mississippi
  23. Erin Lomenick Pearson, The University of Mississippi
  24. Gretchen Erdmann, Butler University
  25. Gwyneth Thomas, Shenandoah University
  26. Haley McKeefer, University of North Texas Health Science Center
  27. Haley Weaver Owens, Harding University
  28. Hannah Nebel, The University of Iowa
  29. Janki Patel, The University of Iowa
  30. John White, The University of Mississippi
  31. Jonathan Marquess, University of Georgia
  32. Jonathan Reynolds, University of Georgia
  33. Jordyn Koontz, Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  34. Kayla Huber, Washington State University
  35. Kirsten Adkins, Palm Beach Atlantic University
  36. Leda Moreno, Nova Southeastern University
  37. Leilanie Crespo Hernandez, University of Florida
  38. Libby Baines, Samford University
  39. Mai Tram Nguyen, University of Colorado
  40. Mariam Mekhael, Chapman University
  41. Marissa Narvaez, University of the Incarnate Word
  42. Monica Samaan, Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  43. Morgan Oettinger, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  44. Natalie Novak, Mercer University College of Pharmacy
  45. Nicholas Hammond, Idaho State University
  46. Rachel Thurman Hopper, Ohio State University
  47. Samantha Paddock, D'Youville College
  48. Samuel Smith, Mercer University
  49. Shannon Habba, Wayne State University
  50. Theresa Ho, University of Illinois Chicago
  51. Thomas Barish, University of Pittsburgh
  52. Thomas Taylor, University of South Carolina
  53. Tin Tran, The University of Iowa
  54. Trisha Otwell, University of Houston College of Pharmacy
  55. Victoria Stone, Touro College of Pharmacy - New York

 

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