This fall, an additional 40 students will work toward their doctorates in pharmacy at The Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, taking classes through a secure Web site.
“Montgomery County serves as an excellent foundation for our faculty and students, given the wealth of hospitals, community pharmacies, federal agencies and research companies in the area,” pharmacist Heather Brennan Congdon, assistant dean for Shady Grove, said in a statement.
Rockville students will gain clinical experience in community, hospital and other health care and research centers in Montgomery County and throughout the region.
Opening the school and guiding the expansion of the Baltimore City campus are foremost on the mind of Dean Natalie D. Eddington.
“It’s really exciting for me coming in as a new dean to open the inaugural year of the new pharmacy facility,” she said.
“As of today, we’re still the only pharmacy school in the state. We’re focused on developing the mission of our school.”
Students at both campuses will receive the same instruction from the same faculty members and graduate with the same degree.
Lectures at the school in Baltimore City will be digitally recorded, and faculty members at each campus will lead small-group discussions, provide laboratory instruction and mentor in state-of-the-art facilities.
Dr. Henri Manasse, executive vice president of the American Society of Health Systems Pharmacy in Bethesda, said he is delighted.
“Local access to its programs, faculty and students will be a boon to the many organizations like mine that rely on first-tier academic institutions not only for their graduates, but also for partnerships in the research and business arenas,” he said in a statement.
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