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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">New & Noteworthy April 28, 2021
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">It was just about one year ago that I announced that Susan Meyer, PhD, would be stepping away from her position as Associate Dean for Education in the School of Pharmacy. Today, I am announcing her decision
to retire from the University of Pittsburgh and the School of Pharmacy effective July 1, 2021.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Susan has had an enormous impact on our educational programs and during the last few years on Pitt’s undergraduate program in her role as Director of the Pitt Interprofessional Center for Health Careers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">When we think of Susan, we think of education—and for good reason. She is one of a small cadre of pharmacy educators with formal training as a practitioner (BS in pharmacy) and in higher education (MS and
PhD programs focused on curriculum design and assessment in higher education). </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Prior to joining the faculty at Pitt, she was faculty at Rutgers University then vice president at AACP. When Dr. Meyer left AACP, she arrived at PittPharmacy armed with tremendous experience, deep curricular
and design knowledge, and an expansive professional network. During her time here, she has continued to influence the advancement of pharmacy education at the PittPharmacy, Pitt, national, and international levels. We all know that she has:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Been a mentor for many faculty members and students and has facilitated their success. She models for others a commitment to the profession of pharmacy; to quality, evidence-based
education and assessment; and to continual personal professional growth. </span>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Had a critical role is guiding individuals and teams to excellence in assessment and education and in positioning individuals and teams for nomination to awards in education. She
has helped to shape the culture of excellence, innovation and leadership in education and the scholarship of education of which we are so proud. Her encouragement resulted in many innovation grants through the Office of the Provost. Her letters of nomination
resulted in national awards to recognize Teaching Innovations and Excellence in Assessment.
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Positioned pharmacy and specifically PittPharmacy as a leader in advancing concepts of interprofessional practice and education. Locally, she has been the Co-Director of the Pitt-UPMC
Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education and the Pitt Interprofessional Center for Health Careers.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In addition, she has represented the pharmacy profession on the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR)-convened
Healthy People Task Force; participated in planning activities for the Collaborating Across Borders I, II, and III conferences; served as the United States co-chair for the international meeting of Collaborating Across Borders IV held in Vancouver, and then
was responsible for bringing Collaborating Across Borders VII to Pittsburgh.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Susan chaired the PittPharmacy Self-Study Steering Committees for the past two ACPE accreditation cycles in 2009 and 2016, which were so successful.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Susan’s commitment to professional organizations and to committees and taskforces here at Pitt and PittPharmacy has been extensive. For the sake of brevity, I will not review them. However, I do want to acknowledge
her work prior to joining us here at Pitt Pharmacy.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">While she was a faculty member at Rutgers, Pitt Pharmacy (PDK as Chair of the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics) attempted to recruit Dr. Meyer—and failed. She instead took a position at the American
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), a position she held until joining us here at PittPharmacy in 2006 as associate dean for education. There, she had a striking impact. While at AACP, Dr. Susan Meyer:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Designed and, in part, delivered AACP Institute programs that guided AACP member institutions, faculty members, and administrators through the transition to the PharmD as the sole
professional degree in pharmacy. </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Was the architect of the annual AACP Teachers Seminars, each year focused on contemporary topics in pharmacy education and designed so that participants could return to their home
institutions armed with new skills and ideas to advance their scholarly teaching.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Led the profession-wide Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE) and the Advisory Committees that authored the CAPE Educational Outcomes in 1994 and 1998. She was
also responsible for the significant revision of the CAPE Outcomes in 2004. The CAPE outcomes more clearly described to external audiences the targeted outcome of the professional degree program in pharmacy. These competencies were subsequently incorporated
into ACPE Standards 2007. The PittPharmacy PharmD Program outcomes are directly linked to those CAPE Outcomes.
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Represented pharmacy on the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force and was a co-author of the Clinical Prevention and Population Framework. The latter was one of the first resources
produced to advance interprofessional education, specifically in the context of population health.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Susan will now have more time to spend with her husband Bill, her daughter Emily and husband Jerry, and especially, her year-old grandson, Wyatt.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Join me in congratulating our colleague and friend, Susan Meyer, on her latest professional move.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Patricia D. Kroboth, Dean</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr. Gordon J. Vanscoy Distinguished Service Professor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">School of Pharmacy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Pittsburgh </span>
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