SIUE School of Pharmacy is an academic unit of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville located in Edwardsville, Illinois, United States. Opened in 2005, it is one of six pharmacy schools in Illinois and the only one located outside the Chicago metropolitan area.OverviewEstablished in 2005, the SIUE School of Pharmacy is composed of the Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy Practice with a combined faculty of 42, most of whom hold doctoral degrees.Currently, the school offers only the professional practice Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree. This program is a four year course of study following a minimum prerequisite of two years of pre-pharmacy study. The program includes 3 years of study on the Edwardsville campus and one full year of "on-the-job" education at an area clinical site.Admitting about 80 students per year, the school has more than 300 students.The Express Scripts Drug Information & Wellness CenterThe Center is a unit of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and serves as a drug information and wellness center for Central and Southern Illinois. It is named in recognition of the Express Scripts Foundation's multi-year support of the School.International recognitionThe SIUE School of Pharmacy gained a degree of international recognition when, in 2009, it organized and hosted the Strategic Planning Summit for the Advancement of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacy with a Mayday Fund grant to "...educate and discuss the concepts of pain and palliative care and how those concepts pertains to today’s professional pharmacist." The recommendations of the Summit were accepted in July 2010 by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).
