Meet Our Dean
Jan Hirsch, BS Pharm, PhD
Founding Dean, UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Bio
Dr. Jan Hirsch is Founding Dean of the University of California Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences where she is also Professor of Clinical Pharmacy. She is a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Pharmacy, and Distinguished Fellow of the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute, and joined UC Irvine in January of 2019.
Previously she was Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Chair of the Division of Clinical Pharmacy at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the University of California, San Diego. She was also Executive Director of Partners in Medication Therapy (PMT), an outreach program of the school providing medication therapy management services in the community. She received her B.S. in Pharmacy and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmacy Administration from the University of South Carolina, College of Pharmacy.
Prior to returning to academia, she spent 14 years in the pharmaceutical and managed care industries where she was responsible for establishing and managing outcomes research departments for two pharmaceutical companies (Glaxo Group Research in Greenford (UK) and Allergan (US)) and a pharmacy benefit management company (Prescription Solutions (US)). Dr. Hirsch’s research interests are focused in the areas of pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research. Specifically, 1) Assessing the full value (economic, clinical and humanistic) of pharmacy services and pharmaceuticals in clinical trials or observational studies across therapeutic areas and 2) Developing and integrating patient reported outcomes (PRO’s) (e.g. burden elements, Quality of Life, satisfaction) into pharmaceutical and medical care practices to improve patient management.
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