Mission

The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences strives to serve the needs of the citizens and communities of the state of California, the nation, and the global community at large. As part of a research-intensive university, the School has a three-part mission of education, research and service. The School:

  1. Provides a premier professional education program leading to the Pharm.D. degree and postgraduate programs including residencies and fellowships.
  2. Provides graduate education programs in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences leading to the Ph.D. degree.
  3. Prepares students to be leaders and lifelong learners in the profession of pharmacy through assessment, evaluation, and provision of the necessary resources and foundation; prepares them to effectively contribute, improve the quality of, and practice in a wide variety of currently existing and potential future roles in hospitals, medical centers, community pharmacies, academia, government, and the pharmaceutical industry; and prepares them to practice professionalism, ethical behavior, leadership, and academic scholarship.
  4. Fosters and develops basic and applied innovative research in the basic, clinical, computational, and translational sciences that results in the discovery of new knowledge and new approaches to improving health care quality and outcomes, and, in collaboration with other stakeholders, the development and application of new educational methods and practice models.
  5. Promotes and supports the needs, continuing development, and maturation of faculty, staff, preceptors, alumni and other pharmacists by embracing the UCSD Principles of Community, embracing diversity, providing mentors and advisors, and offering continuing professional development opportunities.
  6. Promotes interdisciplinary education and cooperation among and between pharmacy, medicine, and other health care professionals to provide patient care services as a team.
  7. Fosters collaboration and good morale among and between the administration, faculty, staff, alumni, fellow students, UCSD Schools of Medicine and Engineering, the Supercomputer Center, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the UCSD general campus and area research institutes, such as The Scripps Research Institute and Salk Institute, to enhance and expand education and research opportunities.
  8. Serves as the regional center for dissemination of drug, toxicology and pharmacogenomic information to health professionals and the public.