Composition
- Voting Members:
- Six faculty: One from each of the colleges focused on medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine, and two faculty involved in teaching not residing in the four colleges already represented.
- Two students enrolled in professional health science programs, serving one-year renewable terms.
- Ex-officio Non-voting Members:
- One dean from a health sciences college, elected by the Council of Deans.
- Registrar, or designee, serving as secretary.
- Director of Admissions, or designee.
- Provost and Executive Vice President, or designee.
- Executive Vice President for Statewide Campuses, or designee.
Function
- On a continuous basis, reviews and appraises educational policies and programs of Washington State University relating to the professional health sciences. The professional health sciences are comprised of those degrees, programs, plans, and courses which are not considered undergraduate or graduate and lead to the degrees of Medicine (MD), Pharmacy (PHARMD), and Veterinary Medicine (DVM), or professional certificates offered through the professional health science academic units.
- Curricula in the professional health sciences are recorded on the student’s academic record under one of the separate professional health sciences transcripts titled Medicine, Pharmacy, or Veterinary Medicine.
- Coordinates with the Graduate Studies Committee or the Academic Affairs Committee when reviewing curriculum for dual/combined degree programs (e.g., PharmD/PhD combined degree program).
- Makes recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning academic policies and procedures for health sciences professional degree programs.
Workload
- The Professional Health Sciences Committee meets on an ad hoc basis, typically two or three times a year.
Workload Committee Chair
- Reviews requests, seeks advice from Senate leadership/staff when necessary, manage meetings and email votes.
- Total: 1 hour/month = 0.25 hours/week
Workload Committee Member
- Review materials, attend meetings, vote
- Total: 30 minutes/month = 8 minutes/week
Additional notes
- The chair is elected by the Committee.
- Whenever possible, at least one non-ex officio member of the Professional Health Sciences Committee shall serve on the Catalog Subcommittee.
- Permanent Subcommittee: Catalog Subcommittee.
- Has representation on the Steering Committee.
- Responsible to: Faculty Senate.
- Reports to: Faculty Senate and the president, through the provost and executive vice president.
| Name | Rank | College | Location | Term Start | Term End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Committee Chair: Andrew Storfer | |||||
| 2027 Rotation | |||||
| Kimberly McBride | Associate Professor | CVM | Pullman | 2026 | 2027 |
| 2028 Rotation | |||||
| Annie Du | Professor | CoPPS | Spokane | 2025 | 2028 |
| Andrei Smertenko | Professor | CAHRNS | Pullman | 2025 | 2028 |
| Andrew Storfer | Professor | CAS | Pullman | 2025 | 2028 |
| 2029 Rotation | |||||
| Lonika Sood | Associate Professor | ESFCOM | Spokane | 2026 | 2029 |
| Robert Catena | Associate Professor | CESHS | Pullman | 2026 | 2029 |
| Student Representatives | |||||
| Carrie Pattison | Professional Health Sciences Student | Professional Health Sciences | Vancouver | Professional Health Sciences Student Representative | Professional Health Sciences Student Representative |
| Shannon Reynolds | Professional Health Sciences Student | Professional Health Sciences | Spokane | Professional Health Sciences Student Representative | Professional Health Sciences Student Representative |
| Ex-Officio Non-Voting Members | |||||
| TBD | Representative, Council of Deans | ||||
| Heather Morgan | Representative, Registrar's Office | ||||
| Andrew Brewick | Director, Admissions | ||||
| Jeff Haney | Designee, Provost's Office (Senior Vice Provost for Health Sciences) | ||||
| Christine Portfors | Designee, Executive Vice President for Statewide Campuses | ||||