ALUMNI - Key Persons


Al-Hilal, Taslim


Andy Lee

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Contracts Officer IV

Benson Sederholm

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Bill Carney

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Coordinator III

Brenda Lawlor

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Carol Lim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Executive Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Education
  • Executive Associate Dean, Research Associate Dean, Pharmacy Practice
Developing and sustaining excellent pharmacy services that then provide the platform for outstanding student experiences. Providing strong preceptor development programs to support student and resident experiential rotations, didactic teaching, career development, and research projects.

Colin Romaglia

Job Titles:
  • Marketing / Communications Manager

Craig Henchey

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Instructor

Daniel M. Witt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Assistant Dean, Clinical Affairs / Assistant Dean of Student Affairs / Lead the College of Pharmacy 's Efforts to Recruit and Support Students During Their Studies at the College
  • Department Chair & Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs

Daniela (Dani) Sherman

Job Titles:
  • Executive Secretary

Don Blumenthal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Emily Williams

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Program Coordinator / Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Eve Van Wagoner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Galloway, Darrell


Ghandehari, Hamid


Ghatak, Debika


Gisel Gomez

Job Titles:
  • Web and Information Systems Manager

Goel, Shreya


Grainger, David


Grunberger, Jason


Hallie McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator
  • Graduate Student Coordinator

Hamid Ghandehari

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair
  • Department Chair, Molecular Pharmaceutics. George S. and Dolores DorĂ© Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Heather Nyman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Assistant Dean, Academic Culture and Community
  • Assistant Dean, Academic Culture and Community / Assistant Dean, Finance & Administration
Heather Nyman, PharmD, BCPS is an Associate Professor (Clinical) and Assistant Dean, Academic Culture and Community for the College of Pharmacy. She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Brigham Young University and a PharmD degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Nyman's primary teaching interest in both the didactic and experiential curriculum is in supporting learners in their development of clinical decision-making skills. COURSES TAUGHT Lecturer/Module Leader, PHARM 6252- Integrate Pharmacotherapeutics I, University of Utah (measures of kidney function, acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, end stage kidney disease, inpatient glucose management, thyroid disorders) Coursemaster, PHARM 7341- Advanced Therapeutics, University of Utah Lecturer, PHARM 5140- Foundations of Patient Centered Care, University of Utah (patient assessment, SOAP notes, patient presentations) Lecturer, PHARM 5143- Foundations of Professional Practice, University of Utah (bias in healthcare)

Herron, James


James (Jim) Ruble

Job Titles:
  • Executive Dean, Professional
James (Jim) Ruble, PharmD, JD is the Executive Dean, Professional Education and an Associate Professor (Clinical) at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. He is also a faculty relations specialist in the Office of Academic Affairs for the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences at the University of Utah. Jim has adjunct faculty appointments in the School of Medicine-Center for Healthcare Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, in the College of Law, and in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutics at the University of Utah. His teaching, scholarship and clinical activities focus on pharmacy and healthcare law, ethical dilemmas in health care, FDA law and regulation, health care policy, pharmacy compounding, community pharmacy practice, communication and conflict. Jim is a member of the Utah Bar, and the US Patent and Trademark Office Bar. Jim is trained in conflict resolution and is an experienced mediator. He received academic degrees in science (BS Biology), pharmacy (BS Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy) and law (Juris Doctor) from the University of Utah. Jim has graduate certification in communication and conflict resolution. Jim is a respected educator and has received many teaching awards, including the College of Pharmacy Teacher of the Year (multiple), Hinckley Institute Outstanding Professor Award, and the Daniels Fund-David Eccles School of Business Award for Excellence in Ethics Education. He served the University of Utah Hospital Ethics Committee for 10 years, and provided clinical ethics consultation. Jim served as a University of Utah Ombudsman. Jim chairs the Controlled Substances Advisory Committee to the Utah State Legislature for the Utah Department of Health. Jim is on the Board of Directors for Wasatch Homeless Health Care ('4th Street Clinic') in Utah. Jim is president-elect of the American Society for Pharmacy Law (ASPL). Jim feels privileged to be an educator, clinician, and scholar. He strives to be a good humanitarian, living by and promoting the Aristotelian principle of Eudaimonia ('human flourishing').

James Herron

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Executive Associate Dean, Professional Education / Executive Associate Dean, Research

James Ruble

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Assistant Dean of Student Affairs / Assistant Dean, Academic Culture and Community
  • Executive Dean, Professional Education

Jeffrey D. Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Board President, Class of 2001
  • President and CEO, Cooperative Benefits Group. College of Pharmacy, Alumni Board President

Jennifer Aoyagi Bangerter

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Assistant Dean, Finance and Administration

Jennifer Blake

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Jing Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Accountant
  • Senior Accountant

Julie Callahan

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Coordinator

Kamryn Shepherd

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Coordinator III ( Pre - Pharmacy Academic Advisor )

Karen M. Gunning

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Associate Dean of Community Engagement, University of Utah College
  • Associate Dean, Community Engagement
  • Associate Dean, Community Engagement / Associate Dean, Faculty

Karen Wilcox

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair
  • Department Chair, Pharmacology and Toxicology. Richard L. Stimson Presidential Endowed Chair in the College
  • Professor and Chair

Katie Blakesley

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Kavish Choudhary

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Pharmacy Practice

Kelsey Tomes

Job Titles:
  • Experiential Education Specialist

Kerri Miller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Kerry McPhail

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair, Medicinal Chemistry
  • Medicinal Chemistry Department Chair

Kevin Walkenhurst

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Kondo, Makoto


Kopecek, Jindrich


Krista Loertscher

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant / Dean 's Assistant

Kristen Keefe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Associate Dean, Faculty
  • Associate Dean, Faculty / Associate Dean, College Affairs

Krystal Bishir

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, Experiential Education

Krystal Moorman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Assistant Dean of Experiential Education
  • Assistant Dean, Experiential Education Assistant Dean, Clinical Affairs
Responsible for development, administration, and management of the College of Pharmacy's Clinical Services Mission.

Kyle M. Turner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Assistant Dean of Student Affairs

L. S. Skaggs Jr

Job Titles:
  • Presidential Endowed Professor Dean, College

Laura Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Advancement Director
  • Director of Advancement, University of Utah College

Lee, Youngjae


Li, Jiahui


Li, Shannuo


Lim, Carol


Linda DeLaMare Sandberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Lisa Chandler

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing Accountant

Lu, Phong


Major, Molly


Maliheh Free

Job Titles:
  • Clinic Student Advisor

Maria Wright


Mark Munger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Associate Dean, College Affairs / Assistant Dean, Experiential Education

Marsh, Morgan


Mauger, John


McCarthy, Hallie


Metzler, Nico


Misti Christensen

Job Titles:
  • Employment & Research Manager

Nick Cox

Job Titles:
  • Pharmacist

Okano, Teruo


Oti Langi

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Owen, Shawn


Randall T. Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Dean, College of Pharmacy / Executive Associate Dean, Professional Education
Randall T. Peterson, PhD is a chemical biologist whose research utilizes high-throughput screening technologies to discover new drug candidates for cardiovascular and nervous system disorders. Unlike conventional drug discovery programs that utilize simplified, in vitro assays, the Peterson lab screens using living zebrafish, ensuring that the drug candidates discovered are active in vivo. Several of the compounds discovered by the Peterson laboratory have become widely used research tools or preclinical drug candidates. Dr. Peterson received his PhD from Harvard University where he studied as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Stuart Schreiber. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Mark Fishman at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Peterson spent 14 years as a faculty member at Harvard University where he was the Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Chair in Basic Science at Harvard Medical School, Scientific Director of the MGH Cardiovascular Research Center, and Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute. In 2017 he moved to the University of Utah as L.S. Skaggs Presidential Endowed Professor and Dean of the College of Pharmacy.

Richard Cox

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Richard Ensign

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Ruby Steele

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Samantha Midgely

Job Titles:
  • IT Specialist ( CPCSS )

Shawna Webster

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Student Services / Deputy Title IX Coordinator

Steele, Ruby


Stephanie Adams-Barrus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Stevie Carter

Job Titles:
  • Experiential Education Specialist

Teresa Moss

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Contracts Officer IV

Terri Elder-Hale

Job Titles:
  • Medicinal Chem Admin Manager / Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Tyler Clark

Job Titles:
  • Experiential Education Program Manager

Weston Tolman

Job Titles:
  • IT Project Manager

Zhou, Jing