Ivo Abraham is a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, with joint appointments in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (College of Medicine – Tucson) and the Department of Clinical Translational Sciences (School of Health Professions).

Dr. Aguilar is a graduate of University of Illinois-Chicago College of Pharmacy, and has more than 20 years of clinical pharmacy experience. Beginning her career in a large teaching hospital, Dr. Aguilar practiced both inpatient and outpatient pharmacy while providing training and mentoring to pharmacy students as a preceptor. Dr. Aguilar then joined Abbott Laboratories where she created a Global Medical Information Center for the International Division.

Dr. Alvarez facilitates learning on leader development topics and is engaged in the Leader Development Institute for the California Pharmacists Association and the Pharmacy Leadership and Education Institute. She also has teaching interests in pain management and palliative care. She belongs to the American Pharmacists Association, served as its 162nd president and was named a fellow for the organization. She has served as president for the Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Society.

Ashley Campbell, PharmD, BCPS is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and a clinical pharmacist in internal medicine and geriatrics at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson. where she coordinates the PGY2 Internal Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program.

Janet H. Cooley, PharmD, BCACP, associate professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, serves as director, experiential education and associate director, interprofessional education. Cooley serves as a preceptor for pharmacy student rotations and a mentor for resident scholars.  Her articles, lectures, and presentations have addressed quality improvement education, interprofessional collaboration and education, curriculum development and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Bernadette Cornelison, PharmD, MS, BCPS, assistant professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, co-coordinates the self-care therapeutics course for first-year student pharmacists. She is the ambulatory care clinical pharmacist at the Alvernon Family Medicine Clinic where she serves as a preceptor for PGY2 Ambulatory Care residents and APPE students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy, JD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Pharmacy, Practice and Science, serves as director of the PharmD Forward program. Co-director of the Regulatory Science Program a collaboration between the University of Arizona Health Sciences and the James E. Rogers College of Law, and she serves as director of the Health Disparities Initiative and Community Outreach.

Dr. Henry is an instructor in the Pharmacy Practice and Science Department as well as a Pharmacy Manager for CVS Health.

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.




 

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.

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. 
 

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.

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.

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.

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Dr. 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. Dr. Lee has board certifications in pharmacotherapy and geriatric pharmacy and is a Fellow of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Nix is a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science. He received his BS Pharmacy in 1982 and PharmD in 1984 from the University of Georgia. From 1984-1986, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in infectious disease pharmacotherapy and pharmacokinetics at the State University of New York at Buffalo.  From 1986 to 1996, he served as program director, antimicrobial research, assistant director, and associate director of the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory, Millard Fillmore Hospital. Dr.

Jenene Spencer is an instructor in the Pharmacy Practice and Science department as well as the IPPE (Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences) coordinator in the Experiential Education department. She prepares first-year students for IPPEs, precepts first-year students during the SOAR (Student and Older Adult Relationship) program at long-term/assisted-living care facilities, trains students for health screening outreach events and coordinates/manages rotation assignments for first-, second- and third-year students.

Dr. Thoi is an instructor in the Pharmacy Practice and Science department as well as the regional coordinator in the Experiential Education department. She co-coordinates the Perspectives in Aging course and serves as the preceptor for students during the S.O.A.R. (Student and Older Adult Relationship) program at long-term/assisted-living care facilities.

Theodore Tong, PharmD, is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacology, and Toxicology with the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona (UA), Tucson Arizona. He is the inaugural holder of the R. Ken Coit Endowed Chair in the College. He also holds an appointment as Professor, with the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr.

Alejandro Vazquez, PharmD, is an Assistant Professor in the Pharmacy Practice and Science Department. He completed a residency in Ambulatory Care and academia with The University of Florida College of Pharmacy and Gulf Coast Area Health Education Centers. He also received a teaching certificate from the same program. Previously, he practiced chronic disease management in patients at the Banner University Medical Center Internal Medicine Clinic.

Dr. Wheeler has over 25 years of experience in research in designing algorithms, statistical models, and software for problems motivated by biological data. Projects in his research group range from statistical modeling of biological sequence families, to text indexing and bounded search algorithms, to low-level software optimization, to Deep Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing and related Machine Learning methods, to development of databases and accompanying web services.

Beth Zerr, PharmD, BCACP, is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy. At the Coit College of Pharmacy, she co-coordinates Self Care, Pharmacotherapeutics, and Pharmacotherapeutics courses. She practices as an ambulatory care provider with BANNER HEALTH, PHOENIX, as part of the Centralized Services team. Her practices focuses on managing patients with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular risk factors.