{"id":12352,"date":"2019-11-29T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2020-02-14T05:11:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:11:58","slug":"dkicp-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/dkicp-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"UH Hilo pharmacy school celebrates opening of new facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12352\" class=\"elementor elementor-12352\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-18edc90d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"18edc90d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/29\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>November 29, 2019<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bbeafed elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2bbeafed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" 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class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21ac300d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"21ac300d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Submitted by Maggie Morris, University of Hawai`i at Hilo<\/em><br \/><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pictured: The new UH College of Pharmacy building. Tracey Niimi photo.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p><p>When student pharmacists at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP) enter the new building for classes Jan. 14, 2020, they will be standing on the shoulders of 744 Pharm.D. graduates who came before them. Many of those graduates, who are gainfully employed in Hawaii and beyond today, were instrumental in helping the legislature envision a future when this building would help the economy and the growth of Hawaii Island as well as fulfill the mission of the college which is to improve the health of Hawaii and the Pacific Basin through education, research and service.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DKICP is planning a Grand Opening on site at the <\/span>University of Hawai`i at Hilo<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the corner of South A\u02bboh\u014dk\u016b Street and Nowelo Street Dec. 4 at 10 a.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The College admitted students in 2007, initially sharing classrooms and laboratories with other departments at UH Hilo. Since 2009, College of Pharmacy faculty members have been teaching future pharmacists in a group of four temporary modular buildings mainly to serve the purpose of teaching.\u00a0 At times over the 13-year history, faculty and staff were located to as many as four other locations around Hilo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hawaii state legislature approved $5.5 million for planning and design of the College in 2009, and WCIT Architecture in Honolulu was chosen to help the College put their dreams to life. But by 2013, the legislature had twice denied funding for plans to construct the building. After scaled-back building plans and budget requests, they approved a revised funding in the spring of 2014, and the College held a groundbreaking ceremony that December.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bids for the construction contract came back higher than funding allowed, so WCIT created another redesign in the fall of 2015. The construction project was awarded to Hilo\u2019s Isemoto Contracting Co. in April 2016, with construction beginning that fall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Located in the same block as the modular classrooms, which will be upgraded to more research lab and office space, the new building is just uphill from \u2018Imiloa Astronomy Center. Everything about the design corresponds with other buildings on UH Hilo campus, including Ka Haka Ula &#8211; College of Hawaiian Language, also designed by WCIT.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first level consists of lecture rooms, breakout rooms, a student community center and restrooms. The second level includes an administration suite, student and academic affairs, faculty offices, high fidelity mannequin simulation and pharmacy practice labs, a medication therapy management suite, mock pharmacy, resource center, seminar and consult rooms, and restrooms.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis new building is due to the hard work and diligence of innumerable individuals. But most especially I thank the students for representing the college as earnest and dedicated student pharmacists,\u201d said Dean Carolyn Ma. \u201cIt will provide the most modern teaching facilities that allow for communications via distance, as well as the latest simulation technologies in order to provide the most modern methods of education with other health professionals.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That technology is important because even though the main campus is based in Hilo, Ma said the College of Pharmacy has faculty on Kauai and Oahu who practice in clinical settings, and about 75 percent of students rotate to these islands as well as to the South Pacific area of American Samoa, Guam, and Saipan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Hilo and Hawaii Island remain the utmost importance to the future of the College, Dean Ma pointed out. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From community services and health fairs around the island, part of the College\u2019s mission is to educate our community about living healthy lives, especially in the rural areas. Annual events since the college\u2019s inception, such as the annual DKICP health fair, Merrie Monarch, Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi Ladies Night and the ALOHA Care Project, are health and educational collaborations that solidify our ties to the community who support our college in numerous ways. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The building emphasizes the value of being part of the local community or ohana and remains one of the main reasons that attracts students to this particular pharmacy school, she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith this structure, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we continue to live up to the legacy of our founder, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, when he envisioned our College to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be the center of excellence for Hawaii Island.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f1192e4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f1192e4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b685ec0\" data-id=\"b685ec0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c3e5dfd elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2c3e5dfd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/news-all\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">&lt;&lt;   &nbsp;Return To News<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 29, 2019 &#8212; One of the many UHP collaborators is the University of Hawai`i at Hilo Daniel K. 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