PittPharmacy faculty member Samuel M. Poloyac, PharmD, PhD was recently selected for the 2014 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. This award underscores the high institutional priority that the University assigns to instructional responsibilities. This award recognizes Poloyac’s impact on the teaching mission of the School of Pharmacy as well as the other health sciences schools. As chair of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute Education Core Curriculum Committee, Poloyac developed the interdisciplinary course Translational Research in the Health Sciences; which has made major contributions to the curriculum. Beyond that important contribution, this course has been instrumental in introducing students to the objectives, concepts, models and processes of clinical and translational science.
Samuel M. Poloyac, PharmD, PhD is an associate professor in the pharmaceutical sciences department at the School of Pharmacy.
