Dean Karimi's interest areas include assessment and educational research and outcomes; pharmacy practice, proteases biochemistry, and the role of antibiotics on bacterial protein synthetic machinery.

The Dean is the chief administrative and academic officer of the School of Pharmacy and provides leadership to support conducive teaching, learning, and research endeavors at the School and assists faculty, staff, and students in achieving their professional and academic goals.

Dr. Backus maintains a small practice with Providence ElderPlace, a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. She spends most of her time on pharmacotherapy for older adults who live independently in or near Hillsboro, often meeting with patients in their homes to assist them with managing their pharmacotherapy regimen.

Dr. Bzowyckyj's research and clinical interest areas include diabetes, cardiovascular risk reduction, motivational interviewing, integrating clinical pharmacists within primary care practices, leadership development, the economics of healthcare, and working with underserved patient populations.

The Coordinator for Experiential Education reports to the Assistant Dean for Experiential Education. Responsibilities include operations scheduling, management of the experiential database (E*Value), and the creation and release of student schedules for Advanced and Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE & IPPE).

My basic science specialty is in the study of action of the drugs in neuropsychiatric disorders and chronic pain. My current scholarship focus is in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), which focuses on identifying the best teaching methods to help students learn and succeed.

My professional interest areas include preceptor development, emotional intelligence, resilience, motivation, and obesity. I practiced at Albertsons Pharmacy until 2015 as a Pharmacy Manager, Market Recruiter and Summer Intern Coordinator. As the Assistant Dean for Experiential Education (ADEE) I am responsible for the oversight of experiential education at the School, including site placements, preceptor development, and management of student issues and preceptor concerns.

My professional interests include nephrology, immunology, and kidney transplantation. I maintained a collaborative practice at Legacy Good Samaritan Transplant Service in Portland until 2015, at which time I began serving as Assistant Dean for Pharmacy Practice. Research, which had included optimizing drug dosing of immunosuppressants and the medication adherence of transplant patients, has now transitioned to legal and regulatory affairs issues affecting pharmacy.

My research interest is in the discovery and development of novel inhibitors of targets related to pain and addiction. Particularly I have focused on studying small venom-derived peptides, known as conotoxins, which have a level of selectivity for a variety of ion channels. Many of these ion channels appear to play a role in pain pathways, making them attractive targets for the relief of severe or intractable pain. My goal is to harness the properties of these peptides to one day produce analgesics for severe forms of pain that are non-addictive.

Melanie P. Foeppel is director of post-graduate training in the School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Fry practices pharmacy as an ambulatory care pharmacist with Mountain View Medical Center, which is a small family medicine clinic in Forest Grove and Hillsboro, OR. She sees patients in clinic for many chronic disease states including blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol.

My overall focus is to contribute to scientific discovery and the effective use of medicines through collaborative science, teaching, mentoring, and active membership in the research community. We strive to discover mechanistic details that contribute to variability in drug response to identify new therapeutic targets for drug discovery, and to utilize current medications more effectively. Major areas of active research include drug metabolism, nicotine addiction, drug-drug/drug-herb interactions, bioanalytical methods (LC-MS/MS), inhibitor design, mechanistic enzymology, pharmacogenomics, in vitro-in vivo extrapolation, structure-toxicity relationships, and the modulation of letrozole metabolism (letrozole is a breast cancer drug).

My interests include chronic disease state management, helping underserved populations and improving health literacy in the community. I also enjoy teaching and precepting pharmacy students.

Nathan Hoover, PharmD is a Clinical pharmacist with emphasis in ambulatory care at Santiam Hospital and Aumsville Medical Clinic.

As a PGY2 pharmacy resident, Dr. Laursen shares his time between teaching at Pacific University School of Pharmacy and working with patients at Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in the nearby Cornelius Clinic. While in clinic, he works alongside other healthcare professionals to help manage patients with chronic disease states (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular risk reduction, asthma, COPD for example).

I currently practice in ambulatory care at Mountain View Medical Center in Forest Grove, OR. My particular area of interests are in motivational patient-care joint decision making, care of older adults, and interprofessional healthcare.

The Assistant Dean of Academics and Assessment (ADAA) is the academic administrator who oversees curricular and programmatic assessment initiatives within the School, while providing leadership and support in instructional design, teaching development, assessment of student learning, accreditation, interprofessional education, and mentorship to assist faculty, post-graduate learners, staff, and pharmacy students in fulfilling the School’s mission.

The Director of Curricular Operations assists faculty and staff in providing training and assistance in curricular technologies and supports the office of Assistant Dean for Academics and Assessment to maintain effective curricular and assessment endeavors. The director is responsible for facilitating training for students in ExamSoft.

Professor Millard's practice and research interests include:

• Multi-system pharmacy management and leadership practice at Providence Health and Services
• Analysis and dissemination of current pharmacy laws and regulation thru professional organizations and liaison with legislature and Oregon Board of Pharmacy
• Principles of pharmacy practice management and leadership

Supporting the Office of the Assistant Dean for Pharmacy Practice (ADPP), providing administrative and instructional support to faculty, and managing clinical and faculty services contracts.

Research interests focus on utilizing natural products as complementary or alternative therapeutic strategies for diseases like cancer, obesity and inflammation. The utility of many natural products is limited due to their solubility and low residence time in the body. Our lab helps design, characterize and assess natural product delivery systems to address these issues. The delivery systems will be assessed through UV-Vis, fluorescence, HPLC and other analytical techniques. Successful products will be assessed in relevant cell culture and animal models

Dana Roman's areas of interest include anticoagulation reversal, toxicokinetics rattlesnake envenomation, and hazmat disaster preparedness.

My clinical practice setting is at Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, a primary care clinic in Cornelius, OR. I have prescriptive authority through collaborative practice agreements to see patients and manage their medication therapy for chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, asthma, tobacco cessation, and latent tuberculosis infection. Additionally, I coordinate pharmacy involvement in seasonal and migrant farmworker mobile outreach events in the summer. I often have students and residents/fellows on rotation or working with me in clinic. My research is focused on clinical practice management and residency training.

The Admissions & Experiential Strategist works with both the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Experiential Education. Primary responsibilities include overseeing the onboarding of new students to the program, overseeing student compliance with immunization, screening and certification requirements, expanding and coordinating outreach to local high schools, and collection and analysis of data related to student internships.

Dr. Stanislaw is recent alumna of Pacific University is excited to be part of the pharmacy practice faculty. She will also be working with Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Clinic as an ambulatory care clinical pharmacist. She is passionate about improving health literacy, drug information, and teaching.

Dr. Suzuki is an ambulatory care pharmacist. Her practice site is Kaiser Permanente Clinical Pharmacy Services in Portland.

Interest areas include hepatology, gastrointestinal disorders, metabolic disorders, pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics, and active learning techniques.

The Research Assistant supports the daily operations of the pharmaceutical science laboratory by training students and other researchers, performing research techniques, and general laboratory maintenance.

Jon received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the Portland State University in 2010. Since then, he has worked at different research labs and gained a series of valuable skills in biochemistry, microscopy, immunology, tissue/cell culture, and laboratory animal models.

Dr. White serves as the Student Program Coordinator and Coordinator of Ambulatory Pharmacy Services for Asante. In these roles, she oversees all pharmacy student rotations for the health system and works with pharmacists in primary care clinics who function as providers and conduct patient visits for complex medication management. Her main clinical interest is cardiology, and she teaches classes for outpatients in the cardiopulmonary rehab program.

Dr. Wu is an ambulatory care pharmacist with clinical interests in primary care, as well as liver and kidney transplantation. Her research focuses on clinical outcomes in primary care, particularly in diabetes management. Other interests include studying the impact of teaching styles on student learning.