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. [email protected] 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. [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 828-2587
	Annie Cheang Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Women’s health, insulin resistance. [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 828-0985
	Dave Dixon Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Lipid disorders, hypertension, metabolic syndrome/obesity, chronic heart failure. [email protected] or (804) 628-3784
	Krista Donohoe Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Pharmacy education, pharmacy teaching, geriatrics, primary care (hypertension, cholesterol). [email protected] or (804) 628-4551
	Rachel Flurie Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Internal medicine, chronic kidney disease, delirium. [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 828-3589
	Leigh Anne Hylton Gravatt Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Infectious disease, inpatient diabetes management, internal medicine. [email protected] or (804) 828-5610
	Glen Kellogg Professor and interim chairman, Department of Medicinal Chemistry Computer-aided drug-discovery design, computational chemistry. [email protected] 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). [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 828-3428

	Amy Pakyz Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Health care-associated infections, antibiotics. [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 628-5059
	Masahiro Sakagami Associate professor, Department of Pharmaceutics Pulmonary delivery, biopharmaceutics, pharmacology for drugs and experimental therapeutics. [email protected] or (804) 828-2014
	Evan Sisson Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Diabetes, dyslipidemia (cholesterol), hypertension, erectile dysfunction. [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 828-6355

	Benjamin Van Tassell Associate professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science Cardiology, hypertension, heart failure, inflammation. [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 828-6249
	Casey Washington Assistant professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science, Inova Campus Diabetes, anticoagulation, gastroenterology, internal medicine. [email protected] 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. [email protected] or (804) 628-3316
	Yan Zhang Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry Drug design and development, particularly anti-cancer, anti-HIV; drug addiction; neuroAIDs. [email protected] or (804) 828-0021