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Mayes College Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy

The Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders

USP’s Mayes College prepares undergraduate and graduate students to make an impact on the critical healthcare needs of society, and to compete in the evolving healthcare arena ... where business, policy, and public needs intersect.

Degree and Certificate Programs:

USP's Mayes College offers:

  • Immersion in the region’s life sciences economy, and the system of healthcare, regulatory, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries.
  • Education by esteemed faculty, including healthcare economists, epidemiologists, and entrepreneurs.
  • Alumni networks with more than 90 percent of alumni working in pharmacy, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries, and holding positions in the healthcare professions or health-related business areas.
  • Experience of the many USP affiliated leaders who make drug discovery and healthcare innovation happen.
  • Opportunity to develop your own network of professionals who impact healthcare.
To speak to someone about your career in healthcare business, legislation, regulation, and policy, please call 215.596.8739.

Kate MayesAbout Kate Mayes P’76, PharmD’78

Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy is named for USP alumna and entrepreneur Dr. Kate Mayes who earned her BS in Pharmacy in 1976 and her PharmD in 1978. Mayes, who parlayed her USP education into a successful business career, epitomizes the caliber of graduate that the new college aims to produce. Mayes founded and was president of Applied Clinical Communications, Inc., of Parsippany, N.J., from 1991 to 2000. The company operated as a pharmaceutical consultant specializing in medical education. She has served on USP’s Board of Trustees since July 2004.

 

Mayes College Dedication

“Besides addressing policies of healthcare for our future, our graduates will be the leaders of tomorrow’s companies that produce pharmaceutical and biotech products as well as the healthcare provider and service companies,” Dr. Kathleen Mayes said at Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy dedication on May 8, 2008. “The Mayes College will also produce the leaders of tomorrow’s managers, innovators, entrepreneurs, regulators, and economists, and the academicians as well as the communicators to address tomorrow’s healthcare policy and business needs.”