Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Director, Medicinal Chemistry, BIO5 Drug Discovery

Christopher Hulme completed his D.Phil at Oxford University. Subsequently, he spent 15 years in big pharma, holding positions as head of High-throughput Medicinal Chemistry and Global Head of Platform Library Sciences, spanning RPR, Amgen & Eli Lilly. As such, he established targeted and diversity-oriented screening collections, engaging in over 60 hit-lead and multiple lead optimization campaigns. He joined the University of Arizona in 2007 and has garnered in excess of $20 million during this tenure from public and private sources.

Adjunct Research Professor, Professor Emeritus, Medicinal Chemistry, CSO, Reglagene LLC

Laurence Hurley, PhD, professor emeritus, College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery and Development, specializes in the design and development of antitumor agents. He started three biotech companies and presently serves as CEO of Reglagene, LLC, which develops small-molecule medicines to fight disease. Hurley has published extensively in the area of chemical biology, most recently about targeting transcriptional control through quadruplexes.

Assistant Professor of Practice

Dr. Ieng is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and a pharmacy director at Banner Health. Dr. Ieng graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy and earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Memphis. Dr. Ieng is also a preceptor for both the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and Midwestern University College of Pharmacy. He is a recipient of the 2020 Rookie Preceptor of the Year at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy.




 

Museum Director

Operations Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Coordinator, Information Technology

Bruce Johnson maintains the college's database operations in support of the administration's accounting, fund-raising, and other activities. He also provides database support for other parts of the college as needs evolve. He generally gets drafted to help out on everything else associated with computers in the college. There is a lot of computing power here in the college, and it is IT's job is to put that power into the hands of the people who can use it, in such a way that they CAN use it.





 

Office Specialist

John A. and Frances P. Ware Endowed Department Head
Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science
​​​​​​​Track Director, PharmD/PhD Dual Degree Program
Director of Scientific Programs, AllofUs Research Program, University of Arizona - Banner Health

Dr. Karnes' primary area of research interest is cardiovascular pharmacogenomics, specifically investigating the utility of genetic polymorphisms to predict toxicities of cardiovascular drugs. He employs a translational approach to investigate pharmacogenomic associations using observational studies, functional genomics techniques, and eventually prospective clinical trials. His ultimate career goal is to facilitate personalized cardiovascular medicine and genotype-guided prescribing to avoid serious cardiovascular drug toxicities.

Poison Control Specialist

Clinical Professor Emeritus
Director, International Programs

Dr. Michael Katz is a Professor in the College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, Director of Residency Programs and Director of International Programs. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Kentucky and completed his residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in 1979.  He is the Residency Program Director for the PGY2 Internal Medicine program at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy/Banner – University Medical Center Tucson. 
 

Associate Clinical Professor
Assistant Department Head, Pharmacy Practice & Science
Director, Health Disparities Professional Certificate/RHPP

Dr. Kennedy is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and clinical pharmacist at El Rio health center. Before joining the staff at UA, Dr. Kennedy worked as a clinical pharmacist at a health center for the homeless. While there, she provided medication therapy management services, precepted students, and conducted research as part of an interprofessional healthcare team.   Dr.

Accountant, Principal

Fiscal Officer for the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy:

Instructor

Research Professor
Director of Health Outcomes & PharmacoEconomic Research (HOPE) Center

Bonnie received her PhD in Biometrics (statistical study of biological phenomena) from The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (now part of the University of Colorado, Denver) in 1999 and was a postdoctoral fellow with the CDC at the National Center for Health Statistics, where she worked on methods of analysis for the aging and chronic diseases. Her scientific expertise is in immunobiology, oncology, and aging.

Clinical Instructor

Erwin Lam currently serves as a clinical instructor for the Department of Pharmacy Practice and as an Internal Medicine Specialist at St Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. At his practice site he is responsible for coordinating the Orientation and Pharmacy Practice rotations for the PGY1 residents. His current focus is on improving collaboration on the healthcare team and reducing readmission rates.

Pharmacy Practice Residency PGY1, Phoenix VA Health Care System 2014-2015

Internal MedicineContinuity of CareSafe Medical Practices

Associate Dean, Student Services
Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice & Science
Clinical Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine, College of Medicine - Tucson
Research Associate and Faculty, Arizona Center on Aging

Jeannie Lee is associate dean for Student Services and associate professor in the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. She is also Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, General Internal Medicine & Palliative Medicine at the UA College of Medicine, and research associate and faculty in the Arizona Center on Aging. Lee has board certifications in pharmacotherapy and geriatric pharmacy and is a Fellow of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).

Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
R. Ken and Donna Coit Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Bernardo Lemos earned a PhD in 2007 from Harvard University studying evolutionary and population genomics of the Y-chromosome and the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) arrays. He then led the laboratory of environmental epigenetics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and now serves as Professor and Coit Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegeneration at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona. His lab currently collaborates in projects examining human populations in China, Bangladesh, and the USA, as well as experimental studies in cell systems and model organisms.

Assistant Research Professor

 

 

Administrative Assistant
Experiential Education, Phoenix Campus

Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
R. Ken and Donna Coit Endowed Chair in Drug Discovery
Track Director, Drug Discovery & Development

Hongmin Li, PhD, joined the College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona Tucson in 2020 from the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. During the last 20 years, my laboratory focuses on both basic and translational sciences. In basic science part, we investigate the structures, functions and mechanisms of essential macromolecules involved in various cellular actions and disease processes.

Assistant Research Professor

Dr. Jingjing Liang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science.  She received her Ph.D. in pathology and genetic epidemiology from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Liang is also a faculty member in the Genetics and Statistics & Data Science programs within the Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of Arizona.

John A. and Frances P. Ware Endowed Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics Track
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Member, Clinical and Translational Oncology Program, UArizona Comprehensive Cancer Center (UACCC)
Member, Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center

Jianqin Lu, BPharm, PhD, researches the fundamental and applied aspects of nanotherapeutics for improved cancer and other diseases intervention. My lab strives to develop safe, efficacious, and translational nanomedicines at the interface of synthetic chemistry, drug discovery/delivery, nanotechnology, and tumor immunology. First, we are interested in unraveling the underlying mechanisms and principles on how the structural alterations of a sterol-modified phospholipid bilayer will impact the therapeutic delivery of small molecule drugs and genes (siRNA, mRNA, CRISPR).

Professor Emeritus

Daniel C. Malone, PhD, FAMCP, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona’s R. Ken Koit College Pharmacy and is Professor of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah’s Skaggs College of Pharmacy. His research over the past 20 years has focused on reducing the incidence of drug-drug interactions and improving clinical decision support for drug safety concerns.  He also has experience in randomized controlled trials, economic modeling, and outcomes research using observational data. Dr. Malone has over 200 peer-reviewed research publications.

Librarian, Arizona Health Sciences Library
Clinical Instructor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science

Jennifer R. Martin is a Librarian in the Arizona Health Sciences Library and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science in the College of Pharmacy. She joined the library faculty in 2007 and gained her dual appointment in the College of Pharmacy in 2011. As an embedded librarian in the College of Pharmacy, her primary role is to support the research and scholarship of faculty, students and staff through consultation, collaboration, and library instruction.

Assistant Research Professor

Student Services Coordinator
PharmD Advisor - Phoenix

Associate Clinical Professor
Residency Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor, Medicine

Kathryn Matthias, PharmD, BCIDP serves as associate clinical professor for the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science. Matthias also practices as a Infectious Diseases / HIV Pharmacist at the Peterson HIV Clinic. She completed a specialized residency in critical care as well as a pharmacy practice residency at University Medical Center through the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. She received a Bachelor of Arts in biology-chemistry at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and a Doctor of Pharmacy from the UA in 2005.

Administrative Support Assistant

Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Michael Mayersohn was born and raised in New York City. He obtained a BS in Pharmacy from Columbia University and a PhD in Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics from the State University of NY at Buffalo (with Dr. Milo Gibaldi). He is Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, where he has spent most of his academic career.

Academic Advising Professional II

Lecturer

Aaron Middleton, PharmD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science. His professional interests include healthcare systems improvement, medication safety, pharmaceutical compounding, and global education.

Program Manager, Community Engagement