Archived Mission: July 30, 2003

The School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco is dedicated to maximizing human health and well-being. As a public graduate-level institution, the School educates pharmacy professionals and scientists, advances scientific discovery, cares for patients, serves the public, and advocates on the public's behalf. The School is committed to promoting within its ranks collaboration, diversity of thought, and mutual respect. The School takes seriously its specific responsibilities to:

• Educate PharmD professional students as compassionate, innovative, flexible leaders in the pharmaceutical care of individual patients and the community as a whole, clinicians who think independently while working collaboratively and who demonstrate a commitment to the lifelong learning required to remain experts in the safe and optimally effective use of drug products in patients
• Educate PhD graduate students to understand and apply concepts, work collaboratively, and think beyond the scope of their specific disciplines in order to become accomplished scientists who are experts and leaders in drug discovery and development
• Recruit and develop effective, dedicated, scholarly teachers who inspire their students to pursue lifelong learning in the health sciences and work in the service of human health
• Conduct exceptional basic science, translational science, clinical science, health policy, and health services research, which leads to important scientific understandings, innovative drug products, effective clinical practices, and public policies that illuminate knowledge about drug action and advance human health