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Minutes

5/1/02

The faculty meeting was called to order at 3:40 PM by Dean Arthur Nelson

Presently we have 64 eligible voting members (two-thirds of the faculty constitutes 42 votes). There are 51 in attendance today. The following faculty members present were:

Abbruscato, Thomas Ph.D.
Ahsan, Fakhrul, Ph.D.
Akins, Ronda, Pharm. D.
Allen, David, Ph.D.
Anderson, Allan, Pharm. D.
Anderson, Glenn, Pharm. D.
Anderson, Stephaine, Pharm. D.
Bickel, Ulrich M.D.
Bond, C.A., Pharm. D.
Bowie, Venita, Pharm. D.
Bouma, Carolyn, Ph.D.
Condren, Michelle, Pharm. D.
Epps, Joel, M.B.A.
Fernandez, Carolos, Pharm. D.
Haase, Krystal, Pharm. D.
Haase, Mark, Pharm. D.
Habeger, Butch, R.Ph., M.B.A.
Khan, Mansoor A., R.Ph., Ph. D.
Klein, Jochen, Ph.D.
Lenz, Ranee, Pharm. D.
Lindsey, Suzanne, Ph. D.
Luedtke, Sherry, Pharm. D.
MacLaughlin, Eric, Pharm. D.
McCall, Kenneth Pharm. D.
Mehvar, Reza, Ph. D.
Nelson, Jr. Arthur A., R.Ph., Ph.D.
Nelson, Sherida, R.Ph.

Patry, Roaldn, D.P.H.
Raehl, Cynthia, Pharm. D.
Smith, Quentin, Ph.D.
Snella, Kathleen, Pharm. D.
Stoll, Jim, Ph. D.
Supernaw, Robert, Pharm. D.
Thekkumkara, Thomas, J. Ph. D.
Weidanz, Jon, Ph. D., M.P.H.
Cox, Craig, Pharm. D.
Gaylor, Allyson, Pharm. D.
Irons, Brian, Pharm. D.
Jackson, Kenneth, Pharm. D.
Seifert, Charles, Pharm. D.
Sleeper, Rebecca. Pharm. D.
St. Onge, Erin, Pharm. D.
Tsikouris, Jim, Pharm. D.
Blancahrd, Pharm. D.
Brouse, Sara, Pharm. D.
Greene, Shane, Pharm. D.
Griener, Jim, Pharm. D.
Jolly, Jamie, Pharm. D.
Levi, Valerie, Pharm. D.
Treadway, Angela, Pharm. D.
Collins, Gary, Pharm. D.
Villarreal, Maumi, M.S. R.Ph.


  1. Announcements


    1. Thomas Thekkumkara as been names as Associate Dean of Research
    2. Elmo Cavin is the Interim President of the Health Sciences Center.
    3. Committee Assignments:
      1. Faculty Affairs, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. David Allen in the tenure track slot and in the second position that is either tenured or nontenured Dr. Thomas Abbruscato, in the Pharmacy Practice tenured slot is Dr. Roland Patry and in the nontenured slot if Dr. Jamie Jolly.
    4. It appears and we are about 99% sure that the 2003 Pharmacy School Graduation will be on the 18th of May in Lubbock, TX. Consolidated graduation among all four schools. The Board of Regents have called for this change because of the Memorial weekend date in 2003. This will be reassessed for the 2004 graduation.
    5. While attending the recent TSHP Conference Dean Nelson was "nailed" on the Fact that the School of Pharmacy is just not performing adequately in the area of Professional Affairs. We do not communicate effectively with our alumni or with the Pharmacists in the state, we don't have appropriate career planning activities for our students where they understand career choices and career opportunities for them and what is required of them. We have not had a finalist in any of the clinical skills or any of the communications skills competition regionally since we won everything the first two years. We have very minimal participation. Many of the School of Pharmacy organizations are not functioning optimally as compared to many other schools. We have been dealing very inadequately with the professional aspects of our students curricular programs. What Dr. Nelson is asking of the Associate Regional Deans as well as the faculty is to be thinking about from your perspective what areas in this broad area called Professional affairs that you don't thing we are doing a good enough job.

  2. Approval of previous minutes - Deferred until Dr. Glenn Anderson's arrival

  3. Old business - none

  4. Reports from standing committees


    1. Student Affairs - David Allen

      Dr. Allen reported on the update in regards to admissions. We had a total of 344 applications this is up from 306 last year a little over 12 % increase. The GP average of all applications was about 3.2. We interviewed about 175 students this was about 25 less students than were interviewed last year. Dr. Nelson thanked the committee and staff for their work on the interviews.

    2. Student Assessment of Learning - Dr. Mark Haase

      P1 class all met minimum competency and all passed the overall, in the combined 2,3 and 4 combined there were 21 students that did not meet minimum competency fist exam, the majority of those were in the P3 class, all passed the second exam. If your advises have not contacted you about their scores you may contact them but remember it is not your job to do that. It is the responsibility of the student.

    3. Curricular Affairs - Dr. Suzanne Lindsey

      The committee has progressed nicely on the Pharmacotherapy Sequence Update. Dr. Lindsey thanked persons for their participation on the survey. The committee is considering a policy on the removal of elective courses from the catalog not taught in a certain number of years. The next issue or two issues that the committee talked about that would require a revision of the By Laws. These issues will be passed on to the next chair for the committee members to consider.

      1. The number of representatives from each department was not enough so the committee would like to put in the By Laws that there would be at least three members from each department on the committee. The committee feels this is an important committee and should be represented by as many people as possible.
      2. When you look at some of the committees and their duties there is some overlap with what were Ad Hoc Committees that have now become standing committees.

      The committee had two new electives that were proposed and voted to bring before the faculty for approval. The first course is advanced pediatrics. The motion is from the committee so it does not need a second. Passes unanimously. The second course is advanced pain management. Second course passes unanimously.

    4. Faculty Affairs Committee - Dr. Khan

      Welcomed new members to the committee.

      In the August meeting faculty will vote on By Law Changes from this committee

    5. Faculty Development - Dr. Weiss

      No Report

  5. Report from the departments


    1. Pharmacy Practice - Dr. Raehl

      Recognition goes to Dr. Atkins and Dr. Krystal Haase for their good job in saving the school from a major fire a couple of weeks ago. There are no smoke alarms in the labs so the fire would not have been detected until the heat sensors were activated.

      New faculty coming on board - Dr. Anthony Busti, Dr. Ronald Paul, Dr. Shaw Dallas, Dr. Seabourn Dallas/Denton, Dr. Jeanie Jaramillo Amarillo, Dr. Brad Stanford, Lubbock.

      Dr. Raehl thanked Allan Anderson for his services.

      Dr. Krystal Haase gave an update on the 2002-03 resident recruitment. Presently

      We have recruited 23 residents.

    2. Pharmaceutical Sciences - Dr. Quentin Smith

      Dr. Smith welcomed new faculty Dr. Jochen Klein, Dr. Neels Van der Schyf.

      One new graduate student will be coming on board.

      Dr. Smith congratulated Dr. David Allen on his promotion.

  6. Associate Deans' Reports


    1. Patient Care Services - Dr. Roland Patry

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