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.

Reza 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.

Danielle Backus, PharmD, RPh, CGP is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacy, whose interest areas include: tobacco cessation, antimicrobial stewardship in long-term care, chronic disease management in the elderly, increasing the quality of life for older adults

John Begert's areas of interest include chronic disease states, community outreach, underserved populations, ambulatory and community pharmacy services, and preceptor development. 

Bridget Bradley's interest areas include psychopharmacology, geriatric psychopharmacology, hospice and palliative care, implementation of pharmacist-run medication management in an outpatient psychiatric population, underserved patient populations, and pharmacy student and resident education and precepting.

My research interests are centered on how the human pathogen Leishmania donovani interacts with its host environment to acquire essential nutrients for its growth and viability. 

Sarah Deines is the clinical pharmacy services manager and PGY1 Community Residency Program Director at Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Hillsboro, Oregon.

The Assistant Dean for Pharmacy Practice (ADPP) supervises and provides guidance and mentorship to Pharmacy Practice faculty members in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and professional and clinical services.  The ADPP supervises the Experiential Education program and is actively engaged in the pharmacy community, developing meaningful relationships which further the mission of the School of Pharmacy.

Ian C. Doyle specializes in renal transplant pharmacotherapy. He is the Assistant Dean for Pharmacy Practice and an Associate Professor for Pacific's PharmD program.

Dr. Espiritu received his PhD in Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii. He taught recitation and laboratory courses in biochemistry at the University of Hawaii for four years. The focus of his dissertation work was the study of unique structural properties of venomous peptides which contain analgesic activity. In July 2017 he began his postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of Drs. John Harrelson and Fawzy Elbarbry. 

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

Tim Frost graduated from the University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2017 with his PharmD. While completing graduate school he was president of the University of Toledo APhA-ASP chapter and had a strong pharmacy advocacy presence on the state level through the Ohio Pharmacist Association and national level through the American Pharmacist Association (APhA). During an APPE rotation with the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy, he discovered his passion for public policy and regulatory affairs. Tim is the first Pacific University and Oregon Board of Pharmacy Regulatory and Academia Fellow.

Since graduating from pharmacy school, Ryan Gibbard has worked in a variety of acute care settings including critical care, hematology/oncology, adult internal medicine, and pharmacy informatics.

The Administrative Assistant manages School of Pharmacy sponsored events and general communications with program, and provides varying administrative support to students, faculty (including adjuncts), and administration including office operations and admissions.

The Coordinator for Program Operations (CPO) reports to the Executive Assistant to the Dean and will assist in the operations of the various offices within the Pacific University School of Pharmacy.

Kristine B. Marcus is interested in drug information/drug policy, women's health, general medicine and general surgery, infectious diseases, pharmacy law and ethics, and more.

Michael Millard's interest areas include patient safety, pharmacy care for the indigent, pharmacy law and ethics, pharmacy workforce analysis and public policy.

The Assistant to the ADPP and Faculty provides administrative support to the School of Pharmacy’s Assistant Dean for Pharmacy Practice and pharmacy faculty.

Deepa Avasarala Rao is pursuing research of biocompatible and biodegradable polymers as drug delivery systems for cancer therapies.

The Research Lab Manager provides research support and lab management for the students, faculty, and administrators including equipment maintenance, research technique training, collaborative operations, safety adherence, policy and procedure management, and equipment inventory.

Henry Saedi-Kwon is an alumnus of the Pacific University School of Pharmacy and is excited to return to serve as the Academic and Ambulatory Care Fellow. Henry will work with the clinical pharmacy team at Mountain View Medical Center and with various professors at school. Henry is passionate about improving patient care and health outcomes through empowering patients and developing meaningful patient-physician relationships. 

Danielle Small is the current Academic and Ambulatory Care Fellow. She is a recent alumnus of Pacific University School of Pharmacy. She excited for the opportunity to grow as an educator and clinical pharmacist. She will divide her time between teaching and working at Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center.

Joe serves as a postdoctoral fellow in the Rao lab at the Pacific University, School of Pharmacy in Hillsboro, OR. Joe recently managed operations at SUSS Technology, a privately held Las Vegas, NV firm with goals of manufacturing and marketing botanical dietary supplement products. During his time in industry, Joe has developed expertise in bringing novel botanical formulations to market, most notably developing and implementing Quality Systems for compliance with federal and state laws. Joe is passionate about teaching and learning in Pharmacy, and most recently taught pharmaceutics as an Adjunct Professor at Pacific University, School of Pharmacy in Hillsboro, OR and at Keck Graduate Institute, School of Pharmacy in Claremont, CA.

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.

The Coordinator for Academics & Assessment 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.

Since her first year in pharmacy school at UC San Diego, Sharon Wu knew that she wanted to teach. She served as a teaching assistant for the UCSD Human Anatomy Lab in her second year, and for Pharmacy Law & Ethics in her third year. During her PGY-1 pharmacy residency at UW Medicine, she assisted with the University of Washington School of Pharmacy’s Applied Therapeutics skills laboratory, and precepted APPE students on rotations. Now, she is pursuing her PGY-2 pharmacy residency in Ambulatory Care & Academia here at Pacific University.