Chief Pharmacy Officer and Professor​/Associate Dean for Professional Practice (Full Professor

The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS) and UC San Diego Health are committed to academic excellence and success of our faculty, staff, and students. We are seeking a Chief Pharmacy Officer/ Professor and Associate Dean for Professional Practice (CPO-AD) who will serve as the senior pharmacy executive for UC San Diego Health and a key academic leader within SSPPS.

This individual will provide oversight and strategic support for the full scope of pharmacy clinical services at UC San Diego Health. The position reports jointly to the senior leadership of the health system and the Dean of the School of Pharmacy.

UC San Diego Health is the region’s only academic health system and a nationally recognized leader in clinical care, biomedical research, and health professions education. The system includes three (3) major health campuses including UC San Diego Health La Jolla, Hillcrest Medical Center, and East Campus Medical Center which total 1,100 licensed beds and over 42,000 annual admissions. The outpatient facilities including Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, Moores Cancer Center, Koman and McGrath Outpatient Pavilions and an extensive network of ambulatory clinics and specialty centers across Southern California are home to 1.5+ million outpatient visits and surgeries.

UC San Diego Health is consistently ranked No. 1 in the San Diego region and No. 22 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and has achieved national recognition across multiple medical specialties, reflecting outstanding outcomes in patient safety, quality of care, and clinical innovation. The health system has also been recognized repeatedly by Vizient for excellence in quality and accountability among U.S. academic medical centers.

The UC San Diego Health Department of Pharmacy employs 500 licensed pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across 18 licensed pharmacy sites throughout the San Diego region. These sites span four categories: four inpatient hospital pharmacies at major UC San Diego Health facilities (including Hillcrest, Jacobs, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Institute, and East Campus), five infusion centers, seven retail and discharge pharmacies, and two Investigational Drug Service pharmacies supporting clinical research at Moores Cancer Center and the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute.

UC San Diego Health Department of Pharmacy was the first organization nationwide to be recognized (2022), and renewed (2025), as a Certified Center of Excellence (COE) in Medication-Use Safety and Pharmacy Practice by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). Pharmacists and pharmacy staff play an essential role in interdisciplinary patient care, medication safety, clinical research, and advanced pharmacy training programs.

UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is a leading research-intensive pharmacy school dedicated to improving human health through innovative education, interdisciplinary research, and patient-centered pharmacy practice. The school offers PharmD, PhD, MS, and postdoctoral training programs and collaborates extensively with the university’s health sciences programs and clinical partners.

The school is ranked among the top pharmacy schools in the United States, including No. 6 in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings for pharmacy programs. Faculty at the School of Pharmacy are internationally recognized for advancing pharmacotherapy, drug discovery, pharmacogenomics, health outcomes research, and clinical pharmacy practice.

This individual will provide strategic vision and leadership for all pharmacy services, medication management systems, and clinical training across the academic health enterprise that support UC San Diego as a national leader in clinical pharmacy practice. This critical leadership role is directly responsible for all aspects of the strategic, operational and clinical practice of the pharmacies across UC San Diego Health.

The CPO is a key member of the UC San Diego Health leadership team and is…