Senior Vice President for Health Sciences

J. Lyle Bootman, PhD, ScD, dean of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, was appointed UA senior vice president for health sciences, effective Sept. 5, 2011.

Dr. Bootman, dean of the College of Pharmacy since 1987, is a professor of pharmacy, medicine and public health. He is the founding and executive director of the UA Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic (HOPE) Research, a founding director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute (HTI), former president of the American Pharmacists Association, president emeritus of the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Society and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, where he served on the Board of Health Care Services for seven years.

He is an alumnus of the UA College of Pharmacy and received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, where he was given the “Outstanding Achievement Award,” the university’s highest alumni honor. He completed a clinical pharmacy residency at the National Institutes of Health and received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Dr. Bootman has authored more than 285 research articles, books and monographs and has been an invited speaker at more than 600 professional health-care meetings and symposia. He has received numerous outstanding scientific achievement awards, and he is world-renowned for his research regarding the outcomes of drug-related morbidity and mortality.

He serves as an adviser to leading pharmaceutical companies, universities and health-care organizations throughout the world. Currently, he serves on several prestigious boards, including HTI, The Critical Path Institute, Research Corporation Technologies, CMR Institute, First Databank and Madeira Therapeutics.

Dr. Bootman has received numerous honors and awards, including the Joseph P. Remington Honor Medal in 2008, the highest honor given by the profession of pharmacy to recognize distinguished service and lifetime contributions.