Directory A to Z

karolina aberg

Karolina Aberg

Professor

Focus areas: Psychiatric and behavioral phenotypes, epigenomics, transcriptomics, single-nucleus sequencing, personalized treatment response

jordan albright

Jordan Albright

Development Coordinator

chandra ambrose

Chanda Ambrose

Senior Office Manager

rollin ballentine

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emily boyle

Emily L. Boyle

Research Lab Technician

mary kate brogan

Mary Kate Brogan

Director of Communications

gretchen brophy

Gretchen M. Brophy

Professor

Focus areas: Traumatic brain injury, brain injury biomarkers, neurocritical care pharmacotherapy, status epilepticus, hemostasis

john bucheit

John Bucheit

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Cardiometabolic health, practice advancement, interprofessional care

peter byron

lauren caldas

Lauren M. Caldas

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, compounding, community pharmacy, utilizing technology in the classroom

federica carnamucio

norman carroll

gioia casso

Gioia N. Casso

Fiscal Administrator

yana cen

Yana Cen

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Epigenetics, sirtuins, chemical biology

sarah clair

Sarah D. Clair

Education and Assessment Specialist

michael clarke

Michael Clarke

Assistant Dean, Inova Campus

wanda coffey

Wanda Coffey

Director of Experiential Education

luis correa

Luis A. Correa

Senior Director of Development

alexis crawford

Alexis N. Crawford

Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Critical care, scholarship of teaching and learning, pharmacist wellbeing

scott crenshaw

ericka crouse

Ericka L. Crouse

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Geriatrics, geriatric psychiatry, schizophrenia, mental illness, substance use disorders

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sandro da rocha

Sandro R. da Rocha

Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences

Focus areas: Nanomedicine, pharmaceutical engineering, noninvasive drug & gene delivery, biomaterials, cancer nanotechnology, aerosol formulation

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Caleb Dalton

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sterling Daniel

Sterling Daniel

Interim Chief Business Officer

katrina davis

Katrina S. Davis

Senior Contract and Grant Administrator

larvell davis

Larvell Davis

Director of Technology

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umesh desai

Umesh Desai

Chair of Medicinal Chemistry

Focus areas: Synthetic mimetics of glycosaminoglycans, allosteric modulators of coagulation factors, computational biology of glycosaminoglycans, medicinal chemistry of anti-cancer stem cell agents, biochemical mechanism of thrombopoiesis activation

joseph dipiro

dave dixon

Dave L. Dixon

Chair of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science

Focus areas: Preventive cardiology, pharmacy practice, health outcomes research

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Akua Donkor

Postdoctoral Fellow

krista donohoe

Krista L. Donohoe

Professor

Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, pharmacy education, geriatrics

malgorzata dukat

Malgorzata Dukat

Professor

Focus areas: Neuropsychiatric disorders (AD, depression, drugs of abuse, schizophrenia, pain) and their targets (LGIC receptors (nAChR, 5-HT3R); GPCRs (5-HT2, 5-HT2/mGlu2); transporters (SERT, DAT, NET, OCT1-3))

orlantae duncan

Orlantae "Tonto" Duncan

Administrative Office Specialist

sharon earley

Sharon O. Earley

Administrative Assistant, Center for Drug Discovery

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Keith C. Ellis

Interim Program Director, B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Focus areas: Early-stage drug hit & lead discovery, synthetic chemistry methodology development, discovery & development of oncology agents, natural products as chemical probes & drug leads, small molecule drug discovery & development

jen elswick

alisa escano

Alisa K. Escano

Clinical Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Cardiology, anticoagulation, diabetes

barbara exum

Barbara J. Exum

Director of the Center for Compounding Practice and Research

Focus areas: Compounding, pharmacy technician training programs

laura frankart

Laura Morgan Frankart

Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs

Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, pain management, substance use disorders

nicholas garcia

Nicholas Garcia

Associate Dean for Student Success

chris garland

sharon gatewood

Sharon Gatewood

Professor

Focus areas: Immunizations, community based care, travel health

phillip gerk

Phillip M. Gerk

Professor

Focus areas: Oral bioavailability enhancement, drug transport and metabolism, novel oral formulations, bioanalytical techniques (e.g. HPLC/MS), pharmacokinetic characterization

caitlin gibson

Caitlin M. Gibson

Interim Director of International Programs

Focus areas: Anticoagulation, cardiology, scholarship of teaching and learning, cultural competency

richard glennon

avian goldsmith

Avian Goldsmith

Director of Human Resources

jean-venable 'kelly' goode

Jean-Venable "Kelly" R. Goode

Professor

Focus areas: Practice-based research, immunizations, innovations in practice

leigh anne hylton-gravatt

Leigh Anne Hylton Gravatt

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, fellowship/residency prep, infectious diseases

youzhong guo

Youzhong Guo

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Membrane protein structural biology, structure-based drug design, cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, polymer chemistry

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matthew halquist

Matthew S. Halquist

Bioanalytical Laboratory Director

Focus areas: Toxicology, quantitative biopharmaceutical analysis, biorelevant in vitro release testing and devices, large molecule LC-MS/MS

abu hamza

Abu Hamza

Postdoctoral Fellow

mikayla harris

Mikayla Harris

Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow

adam hawkridge

Adam M. Hawkridge

Director, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Proteomics Shared Resource

Focus areas: Chemoproteomics methods for discovering investigational drug targets and complex carbohydrate-protein interactions, quantitative glycoproteomics workflow development (i.e., TMT-labeling, off-line UHPLC fractionation, MS/MS method, and data analysis) for comparative analysis of hematopoietic tissues and cells, gas-phase MS/MS sequencing strategy development for improving glycosaminoglycan structural analysis

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Chenfeng He

Postdoctoral Fellow

wil hernandez

Wil Hernandez

Student Services Coordinator

michael hindle

Michael Hindle

Peter R. Byron Distinguished Professor

Focus areas: Aerosol drug delivery to the lungs, dry powder surfactant delivery to neonates, inhalation formulation development

david holdford

David Holdford

Professor

Focus areas: Health Economics and Outcomes Research, entrepreneurship, scholarship of teaching and learning

sonja johnson-blaziak

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Austin Jones

Postdoctoral Fellow

rachel joshi

Rachel Joshi

Laboratory Manager

balaji kale

Balaji S. Kale

Postdoctoral Fellow

nasibeh karimi

Nasibeh Karimi

Research Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Study of extracellular vesicle cargo and its role in disease mechanisms, development of advanced methodologies for the isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles, utilization of extracellular vesicles as diagnostic tools for various diseases, application of extracellular vesicle properties for advanced and innovative treatment strategies

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jacob kaufman

Jacob Kaufman

Senior Information Technology Analyst

baljit kaur

Baljit Kaur

Postdoctoral Fellow

victoria keel

Tori Keel

Director for Student Success

laura keller

Laura Keller

Leadership Annual Giving Officer

glen kellogg

Glen E. Kellogg

Professor Emeritus

Focus areas: Computational medicinal chemistry, computer-aided drug discovery, structural biology

rachel khan

Rachel W. Khan

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Chronic kidney disease, electrolyte disorders, hypertension, scholarship of teaching, learning, and assessment

veronica kikuchi

Veronica Kikuchi

Clinical Placement Specialist

jeannie kilgore

kenneth kolb

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jessica langer

Jessica Langer

Clinical Placement Specialist

sharon lee

Sharon Lee

Administrative Coordinator

ennian li

Ennian Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

jiong li

Jiong Li

Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Cancer biology, cancer epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, drug discovery

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Owen Markow

Laboratory Technician

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Mia Martin

Fiscal Administrator

anne masich

Anne M. Masich

Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Infectious diseases, internal medicine, scholarship of teaching and learning

abigale matulewicz

Abigale T. Matulewicz

Associate Dean for Admissions and Strategic Engagement

Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, interprofessional education, recruitment and strategic enrollment

gary matzke

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Aaron E. May

Assistant Professor

joseph mcclay

Joseph McClay

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Pharmacogenomics, functional genomics, epigenomics, central nervous system drug response, central nervous system disorders

mary peace mcrae

Mary Peace McRae

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies

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Pamela Miles

Senior Fiscal Technician

mohammad momin

Mohammad Momin

Assistant Research Professor

Focus areas: Aerosol formulation development, dry powder surfactant delivery to neonates, characterization, drug-device combination, solid-state stability, inhalation research

sayaji more

Sayaji More

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Melissa Morgan

Senior Lab Technician

faik musayev

Faik Musayev

Research Associate Professor

Focus areas: X-ray Crystallography, structure-function studies of macromolecules, structure-based drug design, protein-ligand, protein-DNA interactions

pramit nadpara

Pramit Nadpara

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Health service use patterns, health outcomes assessment studies, oncology

balaji nagarajan

Balaji Nagarajan

Research Scientist

Focus areas: Computational structural biology, glycobiology, drug discovery, virtual screening, molecular dynamics simulation, docking, algorithm design, AI, and crystallography

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Logan Neel

Postdoctoral Fellow

anna nole

Anna Nole

Senior Instructional Technologist

kelechi ogbonna

Kelechi C. Ogbonna

Dean

Focus areas: Leadership, geriatrics, community engagement, culture change, anticoagulation

nicole omecene

piyusha pagare

Piyusha P. Pagare

Research Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Drug discovery and development, structure-based drug design, pharmacology, chemical biology, structure biology

lauren pamulapati

Lauren G. Pamulapati

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Diabetes, pharmacy practice advancement, post-graduate training for pharmacy students, scholarship of teaching and learning

rudra pangeni

Rudra Pangeni

Research Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Drug development, drug optimization, ocular diseases, lung diseases, peripheral pain conditions

jennifer paul

apryl peddi

Apryl N. Peddi

Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, ambulatory care pharmacy practice

emily peron

Emily P. Peron

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Geriatrics, gerontology, global health

miguel pontinha vasco

Vasco Miguel Pontinha

Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Quality improvement, pharmacoeconomics, health economics

kacie powers

Kacie Powers

Adjunct Faculty

Focus area: Geriatrics

elvin price

Elvin T. Price

Victor A. Yanchick Associate Professor

thomas reinders

danika robinson

DaNika Robinson

Special Assistant to the Dean

laquanda ruben

LaQuanda D. Ruben

Enrollment Services Specialist

martin safo

Martin Safo

Professor

Focus areas: Protein structure/function relationships, x-ray crystallography, hemoglobin allosteric effectors, sickle cell disease drug discovery, vitamin B6 metabolism and regulation

masahiro sakagami

Masahiro Sakagami

Graduate Program Director

teresa salgado

Teresa M. Salgado

Director, Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation

Focus areas: Pharmacists’ role improving medication use and health outcomes in primary care, pharmacists' scope of practice and prescribing authority in virginia, health care quality, treatment discontinuation decisions in patients with breast cancer experiencing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

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Nehru Viji Sankaranarayanan

Computational Research Scientist

nital sarkar

Nitai Sarkar

Postdoctoral Fellow

chiranjeev sharma

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evan sisson

Evan M. Sisson

Professor

Focus areas: Diabetes, weight management, interprofessional care

patricia slattum

jessica sorensen

Jessica Sorensen

Director of Development

douglas sweet

Douglas H. Sweet

Chair of Pharmaceutics

Focus areas: Drug transporters, drug disposition, barrier membrane function, triple negative breast cancer, mRNA therapeutic formulation and delivery

neha upadyay

Neha Upadhyay

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Focus area: Structure based drug design and development

edwin van den oord

Edwin J. C. G. Van den Oord

Director of Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine

benjamin van tassell

Benjamin Van Tassell

Professor

Focus areas: Cardiology, myocardial infarction, heart failure, inflammation, clinical trials

bharath villuri

madeleine wagner

Madeleine Wagner

Director of Recruitment and Strategic Engagement

yunyun wang

Yunyun Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

sydney weber

Sydney Weber

Program Support Assistant

josh west

Josh West

Senior Clinical Research Coordinator

sarah wheeler

Sarah E. Wheeler

Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Cardiometabolic disease, clinical pharmacy service development, patient-centered care, scholarship of teaching and learning

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dayanjan wijesinghe

michelle wise

Michelle Wise

Business Manager, Center for Drug Discovery

briana woodfolk

Briana Woodfolk

Senior Information Technology Specialist

janet wooten

Janet M. Wooten

Senior Executive Assistant to the Dean

lin xie

Lin Y. Xie

Advanced Laboratory Specialist

qingguo xu

Qingguo Xu

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Nanomedicine, drug delivery, biomaterials, ocular diseases, opioid use disorder, pulmonary drug delivery and aerosol

yiming xu

Yiming Xu

Research Assistant Professor

victor yanchick

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geri youngblood

Geri Youngblood

Graduate Program Coordinator

nancy yunker

Nancy Yunker

Professor Emeritus

erin zacholski

Erin Hickey Zacholski

Assistant Professor

Focus areas: Supportive care in hematology/oncology, gynecologic oncology, chemotherapy dose optimization, perception of pharmacy practice

shijun zhang

Shijun Zhang

Professor

Focus areas: Small molecule drug discovery, Alzheimer's diseases, chemical biology, Imaging probe development

yan zhang

Yan Zhang

Professor

Focus areas: Drug design, discovery, and development

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Long Zhao

Postdoctoral Fellow

kristin zimmerman

Kristin M. Zimmerman

Associate Professor

Focus areas: Geriatrics, deprescribing, medication appropriateness, cognitive disorders, workforce development