Initiatives are directed at advancing the effectiveness of teaching and learning in pharmacy education. Research is exploring innovative instructional strategies, professional identity formation, interprofessional education, creating evidence-based practices to enhance student engagement, learning outcomes, inclusive pedagogy and the use of standardized patients and virtual reality to enhance clinical training.
Through scholarly inquiry and curriculum development, our educators contribute to shaping the future of pharmacy education and fostering meaningful learning experiences for students.
Primary Researchers

Mariana Babayeva, PhD, MD
Area of interest includes the gender differences in renal excretion of organic cations and protein binding drug-drug interaction.

David Braverman, PharmD, RPh, BCSCP
Areas of interest include stability studies, disinfectant effectiveness testing and sterile compounding teaching methods a pedagogy.

Zvi Loewy, PhD
Areas of interest include clinical research focused on assessing the impact of pharmacogenomic testing on prescribing medications, and applied research that include stability studies and sterile compounding formulation, pharmacotherapy for COPD exacerbation evaluating novel chemical and biological antimicrobials and identifying and characterizing novel natural products with anti-biofilm activities.

Sidhartha D. Ray, PhD, FACN
Areas of interest include (i) Side effects of drugs, Drug-Drug & drug-phytochemical interactions. (ii) Antitoxic and Anticancer properties of phytochemicals in in vivo models; (iii) Role microRNA in drug-induced toxic reactions in in vivo models.