Director, Student Services
PharmD Advisor

Research Specialist Senior

Administrative Support Assistant II

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Abhijit Date, Ph.D., M.Pharm.Sc. is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics track and the Director of the Drug Preformulation, Repurposing and Delivery (D-PReD) research laboratory at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, R. K. Coit College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona.

Clinical Professor

Lisa E. Davis, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BCOP, professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science—specializes in adult medical oncology. Davis’ work includes Early Phase Clinical Trials at the University of Arizona Cancer Center where she is also a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program.

Dr. Davis is board-certified in pharmacotherapy and oncology pharmacotherapy. Her research interests include drug development, drug resistance, pharmacokinetics, and other factors that influence drug disposition and response.

Principal Accountant

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

Coordinator, Admissions and Scholarships

Akiko Ota received her Bachelor of Human Science in Social Psychology from Toyo Eiwa Women’s University in Kanagawa in Japan in 1999, and her Master of Public and Nonprofit Administration from the University of Arizona in 2013.

Director of Development

Postdoctoral Research Associate I

Program Coordinator, Experiential Education

Amanda Diaz graduated with a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia in 2009, and a MA in Religion from Liberty University in 2013. She began working at the University of Arizona in 2014 in the College of Nursing, and in 2016 became a Program Coordinator at the College of Pharmacy. 

 

Alumni Council Member

Assistant Professor, Translational Pharmacogenomics

Hongxu Ding is the new assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science. He finished his undergrad at Tsinghua University in 2013, where he was initially trained as a physicist later and switched to the field of life sciences. He finished his PhD at Columbia University under the instruction of Dr. Andrea Califano in 2018, where he worked on single-cell systems biology. After that, he joined UCSC Genomics Institute as a postdoctoral scholar. Under the supervision of Dr. Joshua Stuart and Dr.

Postdoctoral Research Associate I

Department Head, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology
Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor
Cancer Biology Program Member, University of Arizona Cancer Center
Member, Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center
R. Ken and Donna Coit Professorship in Drug Discovery

Xinxin Ding, PhD, department head, Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy—studies enzyme function, regulation and genetics as applied to translational research for drug safety and efficacy and genetic and environmental risks for chemical toxicity.

Community Outreach Coordinator

Clinical Toxicologist, Director of Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center

The Director of the poison center, overseeing operations and personnel, is Dr. Steven Dudley. Dr. Dudley is a board-certified clinical toxicologist who graduated with a PharmD from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy in 2015, and completed a toxicology fellowship with the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center in 2017. His fellowship focused on the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with pharmacological toxicity, overdose, and venom poisoning. Previously, Steven spent nine years working in retail pharmacy.

Research Technician

Nurse II, Poison Control

Poison Control Specialist

Associate Clinical Professor

Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP associate clinical professor, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice and Science and clinical assistant professor, emergency medicine, the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA’S COLLEGE OF MEDICINE—specializes in emergency medicine pharmacotherapy. He maintains a clinical practice in the emergency department of BANNER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER TUCSON.

Systems Administrator

BS, University of Arizona, May 2007

Postdoctoral Research Associate I

Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science

Brian L. Erstad, PharmD, MCCM, FCCP, FASHP, is in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the College of Pharmacy. He focuses on critical care medicine, including patient safety and outcomes, and conducts much of his research at the Banner-University Medical Center, Tucson. He served on the FDA, Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee member from 2011-2015 and will serve as President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy from 2019-2020.

Grant and Contract Administrator II

Research/ Laboratory Aide

Research Specialist

Computational Biologist

Director, Undergraduate Student Services

As the Director of Undergraduate Student Services in the College of Pharmacy, Rebecca oversees advising, curriculum management, and special programming for undergraduate programs.  She also serves as the primary advisor for special populations within the college, including PharmD Early Assurance.

Coordinator, Administrative Services

Chief Executive Officer, Banner Pharmacy Services
National Advisory Board Member

Russ Funk was appointed CEO of Banner Pharmacy Services in July 2018 following a broad range of leadership experiences within the healthcare market to include activities throughout the continuum of care focused on innovative strategies and developing new products/solutions that enhance quality of life for both the patients and caregivers. A Healthcare Leader and Strategist who can lead sales, operations and business development activities. Accomplished at increasing revenue growth, operational efficiency and market share.

Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Assistant Research Scientist, UA Cancer Center

The Futscher lab’s primary research focus is cancer epigenetics. We use comprehensive genomic approaches to investigate the epigenomic dysfunction that drives human cancer. The use of genome-wide approaches guarantees the capture of all of the information regarding epigenetic change in human cancer.

Associate Department Head, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Associate Professor

James Galligan, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology—studies the link between cellular metabolism, environmental genetics and disease etiology. Keenly interested in post-translational modifications, his research focuses on reactive metabolites deleterious cell health. Current work centers on histone modifications derived from cell metabolism in diabetes and cancer.