Faculty experts in the VCU School of Pharmacy



	Don Brophy Nancy and Ron McFarlane Professor of Pharmacy; chairman, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Hemophilia, chronic kidney disease, coagulation disorders. dbrophy@vcu.edu or (804) 827-1455
	Gretchen Brophy Professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science, School of Pharmacy, and Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine. Neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury, stroke, status epilepticus, brain-injury biomarkers and hemostasis. gbrophy@vcu.edu or (804) 828-1201
	Norman V. Carroll Professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Community pharmacy management, managed care, pricing and reimbursement, pharmacoeconomics, pharmaceutical-industry marketing. nvcarroll@vcu.edu or (804) 828-2587
	Annie Cheang Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Women’s health, insulin resistance. kicheang@vcu.edu or (804) 828-2257
	Sandro R.P. da Rocha Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering, School of Engineering Nanomedicine, pulmonary drug delivery/formulation, drug delivery: small molecules and biologics, polymeric nanomaterials, dendrimers, drug transport across epithelial barriers, lung cancer. srdarocha@vcu.edu or (804) 828-0985
	Dave Dixon Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Lipid disorders, hypertension, metabolic syndrome/obesity, chronic heart failure. dldixon@vcu.edu or (804) 628-3784
	Krista Donohoe Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Pharmacy education, pharmacy teaching, geriatrics, primary care (hypertension, cholesterol). kldonohoe@vcu.edu or (804) 628-4551
	Rachel Flurie Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Internal medicine, chronic kidney disease, delirium. rwflurie@vcu.edu or (804) 828-3009
	Sharon Gatewood Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Community pharmacy practice, immunizations, travel health, over-the-counter medications, colds and allergies. ssgatewood@vcu.edu or (804) 828-3589
	Leigh Anne Hylton Gravatt Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Infectious disease, inpatient diabetes management, internal medicine. lahyltongrav@vcu.edu or (804) 828-5610
	Glen Kellogg Professor and interim chairman, Department of Medicinal Chemistry Computer-aided drug-discovery design, computational chemistry. glen.kellogg@vcu.edu or (804) 828-6452
	Cynthia Kirkwood Executive associate dean for academic affairs; professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Drug use for psychiatric disorders (i.e., depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders). ckkirkwood@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8318

	Joseph L. McClay Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Pharmacogenetics and genomics, human genetics, personalized medicine, central nervous system disorders. jlmcclay@vcu.edu or (804) 828-3428

	Amy Pakyz Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Health care-associated infections, antibiotics. apakyz@vcu.edu or (804) 828-6027

	Emily Peron Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Geriatrics, adverse drug reactions, Parkinson’s Disease, urinary incontinence, polypharmacy, safe and effective medication use in older adults, elder abuse. epperon@vcu.edu or (804) 628-5059
	Masahiro Sakagami Associate professor, Department of Pharmaceutics Pulmonary delivery, biopharmaceutics, pharmacology for drugs and experimental therapeutics. msakagam@vcu.edu or (804) 828-2014
	Evan Sisson Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Diabetes, dyslipidemia (cholesterol), hypertension, erectile dysfunction. emsisson@vcu.edu or (804) 828-8076
	Patricia Slattum Professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science; director, Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Geriatrics, Alzheimer’s, alcohol and medication misuse among older adults. pwslattu@vcu.edu or (804) 828-6355

	Benjamin Van Tassell Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Cardiology, hypertension, heart failure, inflammation. bvantassell@vcu.edu or (804) 828-4583
	Jürgen Venitz Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics Quantitative methods and risk-benefit assessment in drug development; pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics; physiologically based PK modeling (PBPK) and in-vitro-in-vivo extrapolation (IVIVE); preclinical and phase I/II development. jvenitz@vcu.edu or (804) 828-6249
	Casey Washington Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science, Inova Campus Diabetes, anticoagulation, gastroenterology, internal medicine. cswashington@vcu.edu or (703) 776-7973
	Dayanjan S. Wijesinghe Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science; deputy director, VCU Lipidomics/Metabolomics Core Facility Pharmacometabolomics and companion diagnostics, clinical lipidomics, nanoliposomal drug delivery, photonics-based point of care diagnostics and pathophysiologies of tissue repair and regeneration. wijesigheds@vcu.edu or (804) 628-3316
	Yan Zhang Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry Drug design and development, particularly anti-cancer, anti-HIV; drug addiction; neuroAIDs. yzhang@vcu.edu or (804) 828-0021