By: Jaclyn Vialet
August 21, 2012
College Commemoration Event to be Held on the Great
Lawn
The College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions has
officially changed its name to the College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences. This is the college’s second name change since it was
established in 1929.
In order to truly encompass the current and future educational
goals of the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, the
college submitted a request to the University Board of Trustees to
officially change its name. On May 15, 2012 an internal
notification was released to the University community announcing
that the request had been approved, and that the college would now
be known as the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
"We are delighted and grateful that the University’s Board of
Trustees approved of our request to change the name of the
college," said Robert A. Mangione, Ed.D., Interim
Provost for St. John’s University, and former Dean of the College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. “We believe that the change in the
school’s name from the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health
Professions to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences captures
many of the exciting new developments at the college and is a
better description of not only where the college is today, but also
helps identify where it will be heading in the future.”
With the Master of Public Health program currently wrapping
up its final approval stages, and the development of a new
baccalaureate degree in Biomedical Sciences, the new name serves as
an umbrella to the numerous areas in Health Sciences the college
can pursue, said Sawanee Khongsawatwaja, Associate Dean,
Administration and Fiscal Affairs for the College of Pharmacy and
Health Sciences.
Since the announcement of the name change came towards the close of
the Spring 2012 semester, the college plans to host an outdoor
luncheon, on September 6, 2012, on the Great Lawn for the students,
faculty, administrators, and staff of the college.
“It will be a great opportunity for the college community, to
gather together in a casual environment, and celebrate this
momentous occasion,” said Khongsawatwaja, “The college is about to
embark on its next milestone, and it’s truly something to be
excited about and apart of.”
The college has also experienced a change in its leadership. In
early July, the University announced that Robert A. Mangione,
Ed.D., agreed to serve as the Interim Provost for the University.
In his place, as the Dean for College of Pharmacy Health Sciences,
S. William Zito ’66P, Ph.D., was appointed to serve as the acting
dean for college.