 The Center is a unit of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and serves as a drug information and wellness center for Central and Southern Illinois.It is named in recognition of the Express Scripts Foundation's multi-year support of the School.The SIUE School of Pharmacy gained a degree of international recognition when, in 2009, it organized and hosted the Strategic Planning Summit for the Advancement of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacy with a Mayday Fund grant to "...educate and discuss the concepts of pain and palliative care and how those concepts pertains to today’s professional pharmacist."