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FAMU-Crestview Pharmacy School To Admit First Class

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Florida A&M University is set to admit its first class of students at its Pharmacy school extension program in Crestview. Pharmacy Dean Michael Thompson says the start of the school is the first of many health-related programs it plans to bring to bring to the rural panhandle city.

“Right now we have a diabetes management clinic here in town. We have in Miami, clinics where we serve HIV care and we do that here in Tallahassee too, as well as Cardiovascular care in Miami and Jacksonville. So those same kind of things that we have through our faculty and community are the same kind of things we will involve Crestview in.”

Crestview will also soon be the site of a new pharmaceutical manufacturing company, Pharmacy Southwhich is partnering with the city and the school. FAMU is opening its Pharmacy School on time and despite Gov. Rick Scott’s decision toveto operational fundsfor it.

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Lynn Hatter is a Florida A&M University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Lynn has served as reporter/producer for WFSU since 2007 with education and health care issues as her key coverage areas.  She is an award-winning member of the Capital Press Corps and has participated in the NPR Kaiser Health News Reporting Partnership and NPR Education Initiative. 

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