Council of Deans Business Meeting, February 13, 2012, San Diego, CA

Call to Order

Chair R. Lee Evans called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m. PST.

Report of the Chair – R. Lee Evans

Chair Evans welcomed Council members. The COD Connection publication has continued this year with issues published in October and December. Additional issues are planned after the interim meeting and immediately prior to the annual meeting. The COD is continuing its focus on strategies to assist academic administrators with personal development.

Transitions in leadership at member institutions were acknowledged:

• • David Allen, dean, University of Mississippi

• • Joseph Barone, acting dean, Rutgers University

• • Jerry Bauman, returned to the deanship after serving as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost, University of Illinois at Chicago

• • Rodney Carter, dean, Regis University

• • Marie Chisholm-Burns, dean, University of Tennessee

• • Shane Desselle, dean, California Northstate University

• • William Fant, dean, University of Cincinnati

• • Vernon Grund, interim dean, University of Montana

• • Richard Kasmer, interim dean, Northeast Ohio Medical University

• • Shirlette Milton, interim dean, Texas Southern University

• • Dennis Thompson, dean, Southwestern Oklahoma State

• • Lynda Welledge, dean, University of New Mexico

Please send any additional changes in dean, associate dean, and assistant dean positions to Lucinda Maine at lmaine{at}aap.org so that AACP records may be updated accordingly.

M. Lynn Crismon (University of Texas at Austin) was recognized as the newly elected COD chair-elect. Dr. Crismon will serve as COD chair in 2013-14.

Attendees were reminded of upcoming deadlines for 2012 annual meeting abstracts and other event registrations.

It was determined that a quorum was present based on members who signed in at the beginning of the session.

Report of the Secretary – Susan Meyer

The minutes of the Council of Deans business meeting at the July 2011 AACP Annual Meeting have been published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, volume 75, issue 10, article S25. The report was moved and accepted.

Report of the Immediate Past Chair on Board of Directors Activities – J. Chris Bradberry

COD Immediate Past Chair, J. Chris Bradberry provided the following summary of the February 2012 meeting of the AACP Board of Directors.

• • The Board of Directors met immediately prior to the start of the interim meeting. Ms. Gerry Romano was welcomed as the Association’s new director of communications and marketing.

• • The financial update from the staff member Dan Cassidy and Treasurer Keith Herist indicated that Association finances are in good health. Assets are up and continue to grow. While PharmCAS designations are down, the number of applications remains steady. A new contract with the PharmCAS vendor, Liaison International, is based on revenue sharing rather than a fixed cost model. The new contract structure makes the Association less financially vulnerable to fluctuations in designations.

• • The data collection for the membership needs analysis is entering its final stages with a Web based survey of members and nonmembers. An initial report of findings will be presented at the AACP Leadership Retreat in March.

• • The Board committed AACP to serve as the lead organization for the creation of a pharmacy Institute of Medicine fellowship. A fellow will be selected for a 2-year program, working with fellows from medicine and nursing, with significant engagement in studies and other work of the IOM. A total endowment of $750,000 is needed. AACP has collaborators that have raised all but approximately $200,000. There will be efforts over the next several years to raise the additional funds from donations to support the creation of this valuable opportunity for academic pharmacy.

• • The Board approved a new framework for the AACP policy agenda around teaching, service, and research. The Board also approved AACP’s continued involvement in advocacy for pharmacist provider status for Medicare and other services.

• • The Board approved the revision of the CAPE Educational Outcomes and the appointment of a CAPE Advisory Panel.

• • AJPE Editor Joseph DiPiro provided an update of the past 10 years, which included an increase in the impact factor of the Journal and several new initiatives, such as Web site redesign, an increase in international audiences, and themed issues.

• • The Board received staff updates on several of the Association’s strategic initiatives including the Assessment and Accreditation Management System (AAMS), faculty recruitment and retention, the Global Alliance for Pharmacy Education (Web site launch), and interprofessional education (planning for the May 2012 IPEC Institute).

• • The first year of the AACP New Investigator Award resulted in the submission of 130 eligible applications, 18 of which were selected for awards.

• • AACP submitted two nominees to ASHP for one available position on the ASHP Commission on Credentialing.

• • AACP Chief Science Officer, Vince Lau, presented a summary of the Association’s science outreach initiatives.

The report was moved and accepted.

Committee and Task Force Updates

Task forces and committees are actively addressing their charges:

• • The Nominations Committee, chaired by J. Chris Bradberry, will be seeking nominations for three Council of Deans positions: chair-elect, secretary, and at-large representative to the Council of Deans Administrative Board. Slates are due in May.

• • The Resolutions Committee is chaired by Natalie Eddington. No resolutions have been received to date.

• • The Task Force on Leadership Changes to Enhance Professionalism, chaired by Wendy Duncan, is a joint task force with the Council of Faculties and has been charged to identify institutional and leadership changes necessary within colleges and schools of pharmacy to enhance the cognitive moral development of student pharmacists and faculty. Recommendations will be presented at the annual meeting in July.

• • The Task Force on Adopting and Sustaining Student Centered Learning, chaired by Gary Stoehr, will recommend approaches that colleges and schools of pharmacy might use to assist faculty in adopting and sustaining student-centered learning approaches in their curriculums. The task force is focusing on evidence-based approaches and will present a resource list and a prioritized list of recommended initiatives at the annual meeting in July.

• • The Task Force on Pharmacy Academy’s Role in Educating Support Personnel for Emerging Practice, chaired by Roger Davis, will recommend roles for colleges and schools of pharmacy in educating professional personnel who might better support emerging practices. The task force is considering the impact health care reform may have on pharmacy services, identifying other professions that have used supportive personnel to advance practice of profession, and considering regulation issues.

• • The Task Force on Health Care Reform’s Impact on Pharmacy Education, chaired by M. Lynn Crismon, has been charged to examine the impact of health care reform on pharmacy education and the potential changes that might be needed in the preparation of future graduates. The task force met twice in fall 2011 and convened a panel of practice innovators to develop consensus around four key questions:

  • ○ What are the patient care services that will likely be provided by pharmacists under a transformed healthcare model?

  • ○ What is pharmacist-provided, direct patient care?

  • ○ Of these direct patient care services, which would you expect that any new PharmD graduate (without residency training) should be capable of providing?

  • ○ What are the behavioral competencies necessary in new PharmD graduates to provide those patient care services?

• • Recommendations for consideration by the Council of Deans and Board of Directors will be presented at the annual meeting in July.

Legislative Update and Advocacy – Will Lang

AACP Vice President of Policy and Advocacy Will Lang provided a report on the Association’s advocacy and information-sharing efforts with federal public health agencies.

• • He described how member responses to his requests for information influence and strengthen AACP's message (for example, how pharmacists and pharmacy educators are involved in patient-center outcomes research, how salary caps by NIH could negatively impact biomedical research in the US).

• • He remarked that the response to the CMS health innovation challenge from pharmacy education was good.

• • Consideration of the Higher Education Act for reauthorization next year opens up discussion on several items critical to the Association and its members, including accreditation, program quality measures, and student financial aid.

2012 AACP Institute – Robert “Buzz” Kerr

AACP Vice President of Academic Affairs provided an update on plans for the inaugural Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Institute to be held May 21-23, 2012.

Research and Graduate Education Update – Vincent Lau

AACP Vice President of Research and Graduate Education Vincent Lau provided a summary of science outreach activities.

• • The Association’s New Investigator Award program was expanded from 15 to 18 awards. The selection committee used a study section approach to review the 130 applications to select the 18 awardees.

• • A Special Advisory Committee on Research and Graduate Education has been convened to consider strategies for the Association to strengthen key relationships with scientific organizations, funding agencies, and lead scientists in and out of pharmacy education. Topics discussed by the committee include establishment of an Academic Research Fellows program to develop pharmacist-scientists; strategies to enhance funding opportunities in the pharmaceutical sciences, and a potential centralized admissions system for graduate degree program applicants.

• • More direct lines of communication have been established between the Association and assistant and associate deans for research and/or directors of research and graduate programs at each institution. Dr. Lau has conducted eight outreach visits to member colleges and schools and a Web portal for listing graduate programs at colleges and schools of pharmacy in the US and Canada.

• • Collection of faculty research grant data is underway with the goal of developing a comprehensive, on-line database.

Old Business. No old business was addressed.

New Business. No new business was addressed.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 p.m. PST

Respectfully submitted,

Susan M. Meyer (Pittsburgh), COD Secretary