Our purpose
Bridge foundational pharmacy education with focused exploration of dermatological science, cosmetics, skin health, evidence, and related professional pathways.
PhASEd
Pharmacists in Advanced Skin Health Education
Educational arm of
Society of Dermatology Pharmacists
Pharmacists in Advanced Skin Health Education
About PhASEd
PhASEd helps pharmacy learners see how their scientific and professional foundation can connect to skin health, dermatological therapeutics, cosmetic science, evidence, education, research, and the many careers surrounding the field.
Why PhASEd exists
Bridge foundational pharmacy education with focused exploration of dermatological science, cosmetics, skin health, evidence, and related professional pathways.
Pharmacy students and learners who want a clearer, more inclusive route into the science, practice, research, industry, and education surrounding skin health.
University chapters, member-led departments, seminars, TOP discussions, the PhASEd Learning Network, applied frameworks, outreach, and professional connections.
Part of a growing professional community
The Society of Dermatology Pharmacists advances the broader professional field. PhASEd creates an educational entry point where students can build knowledge, participate in chapters, contribute to programs, explore careers, and develop relationships with the people shaping dermatological pharmacy.
Visit the Society of Dermatology PharmacistsWhat guides the organization
Use responsible sourcing, critical appraisal, and transparent communication about what is known and uncertain.
Make specialized learning and professional pathways easier for students to find and understand.
Recognize different skin tones, hair and scalp practices, lived experiences, interests, and levels of prior knowledge.
Learn across pharmacy, dermatology, cosmetic science, research, industry, regulation, and community education.
Turn learning into discussions, frameworks, source banks, projects, outreach, and thoughtful professional work.
PhASEd supports education, career exploration, and professional development. Participation does not independently establish clinical competency, confer a specialty credential, replace accredited education, or expand an individual’s legal scope of practice.
Begin with the pharmacist
A pharmacist brings medication, formulation, evidence, safety, access, and patient-care knowledge into the dermatological context. The exact contribution changes by role: optimizing treatment, educating about a biologic, interpreting safety signals, planning a clinical trial, reviewing claims, collaborating on a topical formulation, improving access, or translating evidence for patients and professionals.
A focused area, not one universal credential: dermatological-science pharmacy describes a body of work or expertise. A PharmD alone does not authorize diagnosis or aesthetic procedures, and requirements vary by role and jurisdiction.
Map the field
Pharmacy sits at the intersection of medicines, formulation, evidence, safety, access, and patient care. Dermatological science applies those abilities to the skin, hair, scalp, nails, mucosa, and the products and therapies designed for them.
What is pharmacy?
Pharmacists are medication experts who help ensure that therapies are appropriate, effective, safe, understandable, accessible, and used correctly. Depending on the setting, they may provide direct care, manage medication systems, evaluate evidence, support drug development, monitor safety, teach, conduct research, shape policy, or communicate scientific information.
Add the dermatological lens
It includes the biology and disease of skin and its appendages, topical and systemic therapeutics, immune pathways, drug delivery, cosmetic and personal-care products, aesthetics, safety, outcomes, and the lived experience of people managing skin conditions.
Choose an area to see its focus and the knowledge that sits beneath it.
The work is defined by both science and setting
The same interest in dermatological science can lead to very different workdays. Select a setting to see representative pharmacist contributions and the abilities that matter there.
What “industry” can mean
“I want to work in industry” is a starting point, not a role. Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetic, device, agency, and service-provider organizations contain distinct functions that work across a product’s life cycle.
From foundation to focused capability
A PharmD creates a broad professional foundation. The pathway becomes specialized through deliberate experiences that connect that foundation to a scientific area and a work setting.
Build a personal exploration plan
There is no single required sequence. Choose options that produce knowledge, evidence of work, relationships, and exposure to the setting you are considering.
Your pathway summary
Organizations and communities
The educational and chapter arm of the Society of Dermatology Pharmacists
PhASEd is a student educational organization connecting pharmacy learners with dermatological science, skin-health education, professional development, and the people shaping the field.
What PhASEd does
Explore skin, hair, scalp, products, therapeutics, evidence, regulation, and patient education through a pharmacy lens.
Meet learners, pharmacists, scientists, clinicians, researchers, organizations, and professionals across the field.
Use discussions, frameworks, source banks, projects, and outreach to turn concepts into responsible educational work.
Learning is shared
The PhASEd bridge
Pharmacy learners encounter immunology, pharmacology, formulations, evidence appraisal, therapeutics, and patient care, but may not see how those subjects connect to dermatological science. PhASEd brings those connections into view.
Explain the scientific areas, career settings, functions, and language of the field.
Build focused learning in skin health, products, therapeutics, evidence, formulation, and professional practice.
Surface internships, rotations, fellowships, research, projects, jobs, and real examples of the work.
Build relationships and use frameworks, evidence reviews, case work, and projects to demonstrate learning.
People first
PhASEd values education that recognizes different skin tones, hair and scalp practices, access needs, lived experiences, professional interests, and levels of prior knowledge.
We want learners to feel welcomed into the conversation, supported as they grow, and prepared to communicate skin-health information with care.
The developing PhASEd ecosystem
The hub is growing into a connected home for practical tools, learning programs, career access, and community.
Structured tools such as EDOUARD, evidence libraries, source maps, product-assessment methods, and applied case exercises.
Open the separate EDOUARD frameworkOne PLN repository houses emerging TOP posts, PSS curriculum outlines, collaboration and event outlines, source materials, and the Resource & Textbook Library.
Internships, rotations, research, fellowships, jobs, company exposure, career-function education, and preparation resources.
Connections among pharmacy learners, pharmacists, cosmetic scientists, clinicians, researchers, biotech and pharmaceutical professionals, and organizations.
PhASEd supports learning, exploration, and professional development. It does not replace accredited education, licensure, employer training, certification, or jurisdiction-specific authorization.
PhASEd Educational Resources Hub
The Educational Resources Hub organizes PhASEd-created frameworks, evidence tools, conceptual learning, applied workshops, outreach materials, and career resources. It is the library layer of PhASEd: resources live here, while the PhASEd Hub explains the organization that creates and supports them.
Current PhASEd library
Each resource should identify its audience, learning purpose, evidence basis, status, and limitations. “Available” means there is a usable current version; it does not mean the resource is permanently finished.
A structured decision framework for assessing whether a cosmetic or OTC-labeled dermatologic product fits a client’s concern, desired outcome, evidence, formulation, risk limits, and expectations.
Open EDOUARDA searchable collection of cosmetic ingredients, OTC dermatologic actives, support ingredients, evidence-strength explanations, anchor articles, PubMed searches, and regulatory sources.
Pending releaseOne shared PLN area containing emerging TOP posts, PSS curriculum outlines, collaboration and event outlines, source banks, and the Resource & Textbook Library.
Reusable prompts for identifying what was tested, who was studied, the comparator, endpoints, clinical meaning, limitations, conflicts, claim fit, and responsible educational translation.
In developmentRequest an existing toolkit, custom educational outline, speaker, event, or collaboration. Approved outline archives are maintained inside PLN.
Direct routing to authoritative professional, educational, regulatory, dermatology, cosmetic-science, and industry resources used throughout the PhASEd pathway guide.
PhASEd educational materials should be dated, sourced, reviewed, assigned a status, and revised when evidence, regulation, product labeling, professional scope, or organizational decisions change. Resources support learning and application; they do not independently confer competency or replace primary sources.
PhASEd Learning Programs
The PhASEd Learning Network (PLN) is the shared repository maintained by the Department of Professional and Educational Programming. It contains emerging TOP posts, PSS curriculum outlines, collaboration and event outlines, and the books and sources students use to build them.
Repository map
Each collection now opens as its own page. They remain connected through PLN, the shared educational repository maintained by Professional and Educational Programming.
Program 01 · TOP
A current-topic stream for significant or emerging news, research, regulation, products, professional developments, and conversations within dermatological sciences.
Use TOP to quickly identify and share something timely that members should know, question, or discuss. It creates awareness and conversation without requiring a complete lecture or curriculum sequence.
A member posts a short, sourced update about a new FDA sunscreen action, explains why it matters to pharmacy students, and adds two questions for the next meeting.
The FDA added bemotrizinol to the OTC sunscreen monograph at concentrations up to 6%. The agency describes it as providing UVA and UVB protection and as generally recognized as safe and effective for adults and children 6 months of age and older. It is the first new active added to the monograph since the late 1990s.
The action expands the ingredients that may be used in compliant U.S. OTC sunscreen products and demonstrates the administrative-order pathway created under the CARES Act.
Adding an active ingredient to the monograph establishes permitted conditions for eligible products. It does not mean every future bemotrizinol sunscreen has identical effectiveness, feel, stability, or finished-product evidence.
Program 02 · PSS
PSS stores reviewed curriculum outlines showing sequence, learning direction, objectives, source foundations, and planned points of application. A chapter may organize its series using the curriculum model that best fits its learners and school.
Use PSS to map what students should learn across a semester and how concepts build, repeat, deepen, and move into application. Modules may include short instruction, an SDP guest speaker, a case study, a workshop, or a collaboration and outreach activity.
PhASEd at URI uses a concentric and spiralized structure: barrier foundations are revisited and expanded through scalp, hair, nail, systemic, formulation, regulatory, case, workshop, and seasonal application modules. Selected weeks may also produce material for education with another organization.
How to navigate PSS
Choose one pathway. Only the tools and information for that task will open below.
Select a pathway to begin.
Guided chapter planning
Tell us what your pharmacy curriculum already covers and what your chapter wants to explore. The planner will organize relevant approved outlines and identify foundational topics that may support your selections.
Approved public outlines
The program guide above explains the PSS model and URI's example curriculum structure. This menu is different: it contains individual topic outlines only after their content and publication audits are approved.
As additional outlines complete audit, they will be added to this menu without turning the page into a long curriculum list.
Open selected outlineChapter and contributor requests
Requests are routed through Contact Us so the correct PhASEd chapter or national team can review them.
Subject-specific requests take time. Topics without an approved outline require scoping, sourcing, development, and audit. Submission does not guarantee creation, approval, publication, or a particular completion date.
Collaboration & event archive
This collection keeps the reusable structure of PhASEd collaborations in one place. It is primarily an outline archive, not a broad collection of every file created by every chapter.
Use this collection to plan and preserve the structure of work created with another organization, professional, speaker, or community partner. Outlines make successful programs easier to review, adapt, and repeat.
A student organization requests a skin-barrier workshop. The outline records the audience, three objectives, 30-minute sequence, speaker role, source needs, handout plan, and approved adaptations.
Audience, purpose, learning objectives, proposed format, content sequence, source needs, partner roles, adaptation notes, and review history.
Founding outlines in developmentReusable outlines for prepared programs, events, handouts, campaigns, speaker sessions, and educational translation toolkits, organized by audience and intended use.
No public outlines yetLearning support · Source library
The supporting source collection appears last because students use it to research and build the TOP posts, PSS outlines, and collaboration or event outlines above.
Use the library to find credible background material, primary sources, textbooks, databases, and reference tools before developing or reviewing PhASEd educational work.
A student building a ceramide topic finds a cosmetic-science textbook, a barrier-function review, and an institutional database entry, then follows the listed access or borrowing instructions.
Each entry will show the title, author, edition, subject, owner or license, access method, location, availability, and any borrowing instructions.
Collection in developmentLinks and access notes for institutional databases, journals, public agencies, professional organizations, and legally available open educational resources.
Directory in developmentRepository standards
PLN may catalog physical books PhASEd owns, institutionally available materials, licensed resources, and lawful public sources. It will not publicly republish copyrighted textbooks or restricted database content without permission.
Published TOP posts, PSS outlines, and collaboration outlines require identified ownership, sources, review status, dates, and revision history.
Program & Collaboration Requests
This page is for requesting an existing toolkit, custom educational outline, speaker, event, or collaboration. Reviewed collaboration and event outlines are archived inside PhASEd Learning Programs so the resources and the programs that use them stay together.
Ready to connect?
Use the dedicated contact area to request a program kit, invite a speaker or panelist, propose a collaboration, or send PhASEd a general inquiry.
PhASEd chapter network
Select your school first. Your program request or general inquiry will be labeled for that chapter. If your school is not listed, choose the chapter-development route so the national team can help you get started.
Choose a route to see the appropriate contact options.
Reason for contacting
Choose the request pathway that best matches what you need.
Program request
Custom educational kits may require one to two weeks for scoping, sourcing, review, and adaptation. Select a preferred date that leaves enough preparation time. The Professional and Educational Programming Department will review the educational request, and PCO may follow up about scheduling, audience, location, and collaboration details.
General inquiry
Use this form for general questions, introductions, opportunities, organizational matters, or messages that do not require the program-request workflow.
Form information is processed through Netlify and routed to authorized PhASEd leadership for reviewing and responding to the request. Submit only the contact and organizational details needed for that purpose. Do not include patient information, passwords, financial information, or confidential records. A person who submitted a form may contact PhASEd to request correction or deletion of their submission.
Founders and organizational leadership
PhASEd combines organization-wide leadership roles with university-based E-Boards. The shared structure protects the organization’s purpose while giving each chapter a clear way to lead education, communication, outreach, and professional development.
Founding recognition
PhASEd was founded by Jean Edouard and Keira Aviles to strengthen pharmacy education, professional organization, and career visibility across dermatological science, cosmetics, and skin health.
Founder summary coming soon.
Founder summary coming soon.
Organizational structure
PhASEd’s departments organize how members contribute to educational programming, communication, outreach, professional identity, and organizational development.
Leads the E-Board, sets PhASEd’s overall vision, and guides the organization’s professional purpose, standards, partnerships, and long-term direction.
Maintains a coherent identity across education, engagement, leadership, partnerships, and public representation.
Guides leadership development, role clarity, professional standards, and sustainable chapter growth.
Supports the President, coordinates E-Board operations, helps directors and officers carry organizational priorities through completion, and prepares for presidential succession.
Keeps E-Board priorities aligned, supports meeting preparation, and maintains continuity across leadership work.
Works with department directors to identify needs, remove operational barriers, and move approved plans forward.
Maintains the official organizational record and supports consistent communication and administrative follow-through across the E-Board.
Maintains meeting minutes, board decisions, membership rosters, and official club files.
Coordinates notices and internal correspondence while tracking documentation and follow-up needed across departments.
Leads PhASEd’s educational department, coordinates its three learning systems, and organizes the members contributing within them.
Short reviewed posts about significant news, research, regulation, products, and professional developments within dermatological sciences.
The shared repository containing TOP posts, PSS curriculum outlines, collaboration and event outlines, source materials, and the Resource & Textbook Library.
The pre-scaffolded concentric and spiral curriculum structure, organized as reviewed outlines rather than a separate resource archive.
Leads the department divided into PMC and PCO: the systems responsible for media and organizational communication, website implementation, outreach, relationships, and external engagement.
Manages media, graphics, public information, branding, marketing, organizational communications, and implementation of PLN-approved resources on the website.
Coordinates community relationships, networking, outreach education, collaborative outreach, external engagement, and requests for ready-built, custom, or Society-network programming.
This office will be activated when PhASEd’s activities require dedicated financial administration and reporting.
Will prepare and monitor organizational budgets in coordination with approved programming and operational priorities.
Will maintain transaction records, reimbursements, balances, and required financial reports.
This seat will be defined as PhASEd’s growth reveals a distinct area requiring board-level leadership.
The role will address a durable organizational need that is not already owned by an existing officer or department director.
The seat will receive a clear title, responsibilities, and reporting relationship before it is filled.
Founding university chapter
2026–2027 Academic Year · Fall 2026–Spring 2027
The University of Rhode Island is the founding home of PhASEd. Its confirmed leadership team, faculty advisor, and currently planned seats are listed below.
Professional Identity & Development
Board operations, leadership continuity, and support for department directors
Records, correspondence, decisions, and administrative follow-through
Department director · Spring 2027 term with pre-application training during Fall 2026
PMC social-media coordination and content support
Professional and Educational Programming Department
Faculty guidance and organizational support
Activated when organizational budgeting requires it
Title and responsibilities to be defined
Founders, chapter officers, and faculty advisors are listed by confirmed role and academic term. Public profiles should describe organizational contributions without implying clinical competency, specialist status, licensure, or authorization beyond each person’s actual qualifications.
More university chapters coming soon
Verified public references
These sources establish the broad pharmacist role, PharmD science foundation, dermatologic treatment context, regulatory work, cosmetic-science landscape, and professional-development routes used throughout this guide.
Role descriptions are representative rather than exhaustive. A degree may provide relevant knowledge without being the only accepted qualification for a role. Job titles, scope, training, and eligibility vary across employers and jurisdictions, so current job descriptions, licensing boards, program requirements, and primary organizational sources should always be checked.
Your information
This notice explains how Pharmacists in Advanced Skin Health Education (PhASEd) handles information submitted through this website and the EDOUARD Product-Fit Framework.
Do not submit patient-specific health information, passwords, financial information, private academic records, or confidential organizational documents. PhASEd forms are for contact and program coordination, not patient care.
Information you provide. Depending on the form, this may include your name, email address, school or chapter, organization, audience, request type, preferred date, time or location, and the message or program details you choose to send.
Basic website and service information. Netlify hosts this site and processes its forms. Like most hosting providers, it may process technical information such as IP address, browser or device information, request data, and security logs to deliver and protect the service.
PhASEd uses submitted information to route and respond to inquiries, coordinate programs or collaborations, support membership and chapter development, maintain appropriate organizational records, protect the website, and meet applicable university, organizational, or legal responsibilities.
PhASEd does not sell form submissions, use them for targeted advertising, or use submitted content to train artificial-intelligence models.
Information may be viewed by authorized PhASEd leaders whose role relates to the request. Netlify processes and stores submissions as the website hosting and form service. Other service providers may receive only the information reasonably needed to support an approved request or organizational operation.
PhASEd does not publish a submission or the submitter's personal information without separate permission, except where disclosure is required by law or necessary to address security or misuse.
Submissions are kept only as long as reasonably necessary to respond, manage the relationship, maintain legitimate organizational records, or satisfy applicable obligations. Stored submissions should be reviewed periodically and removed when they are no longer needed.
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of information you submitted. PhASEd may need to verify the request and may retain a record where a valid organizational, university, security, or legal requirement applies.
PhASEd currently does not use advertising pixels, targeted advertising, or nonessential behavioral analytics on this site. For that reason, the site does not currently display a cookie-consent banner. The hosting platform may use essential security or routing technologies needed to operate and protect the site. If PhASEd adds nonessential tracking in the future, this notice and any required consent controls should be updated first.
PhASEd uses reasonable safeguards such as HTTPS, browser security headers, limited role-based access, and human review of submissions. No online system can guarantee absolute security, so users should submit only the information needed for the request.
This site is intended for pharmacy students, educators, professionals, organizations, and adult members of the public. It is not directed to children under 13, and PhASEd does not knowingly collect their personal information.
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Website conditions
These terms govern use of the PhASEd website, its educational resources, forms, and the EDOUARD Product-Fit Framework.
It does not provide medical diagnosis, individualized treatment, emergency care, legal advice, or regulatory advice, and it does not create a pharmacist-patient or other professional relationship.
By using this site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site or submit its forms. These terms do not override applicable law, university requirements, chapter agreements, Society of Dermatology Pharmacists policies, or professional standards.
Users are responsible for applying appropriate education, licensure, scope-of-practice rules, institutional policy, and independent professional judgment. Verify current official labels, primary sources, laws, and clinical guidance before relying on educational content.
EDOUARD is a conceptual product-fit assessment and learning tool. It assumes that self-care eligibility and prerequisite clinical considerations have already been assessed by an appropriately trained person. It is not a self-care eligibility test or an automated recommendation.
Ingredient-level evidence does not prove that a finished cosmetic product will perform the same way. Formulation, concentration, vehicle, packaging, use pattern, population, and finished-product testing all affect transferability. Evidence libraries may be incomplete, under review, or updated over time.
You may not use the site unlawfully; impersonate another person or organization; submit malicious, deceptive, or unauthorized requests; interfere with site security or availability; attempt unauthorized account access; or use automated activity that unreasonably burdens the service.
Do not submit patient information, confidential records, passwords, financial information, proprietary materials you lack permission to share, or content that violates another person's rights.
Unless otherwise identified, PhASEd's original writing, frameworks, graphics, branding, and site design are protected content. Personal, noncommercial educational reference with clear attribution is permitted. Commercial redistribution, alteration that implies endorsement, removal of attribution, or use of PhASEd or Society marks requires written permission. Third-party materials remain the property of their respective owners.
By submitting a form, you confirm that you have the right to provide its contents. Do not treat a website submission as a confidential or legally privileged channel. PhASEd may use the submitted details to evaluate, coordinate, document, and respond to the request; any broader publication or promotional use requires separate permission.
Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience and sourcing. PhASEd does not control their availability, content, security, or privacy practices. A link does not necessarily mean endorsement.
The site and its materials are provided on an "as available" basis and may be corrected, restricted, moved, or discontinued. To the extent allowed by law, PhASEd is not responsible for losses arising from unavailable services, external sites, unauthorized misuse, or decisions made without appropriate independent verification and professional judgment.
PhASEd is the student educational and chapter arm of the Society of Dermatology Pharmacists (SDP). PhASEd content is not automatically official SDP professional guidance, accredited continuing education, or a statement on behalf of SDP unless it is expressly identified and approved as such.
PhASEd may update these terms as its programs and website develop. Questions, permission requests, or concerns may be submitted through .