The University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Texas at Austin are honoring six pre-pharmacy students today (June 3) during the 13th annual White Coat Ceremony taking place on the UTEP campus. The students are part of the UTEP-UT Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program, a six-year curriculum that leads to a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the UT Austin College of Pharmacy in cooperation with UTEP’s College of Health Sciences. The program was created in 1999 to help alleviate the pharmacist shortage and increase the number of Latinos in the profession.  

UTEP Cooperative Pharmacy Program  

Left to right:  Dr. Jose O. Rivera, Stacey Evans, Melissa Carrillo, Michael Payan, Pedro Sanchez, Juan Villanueva and Dominique Werg