First dean candidate for the School of Pharmacy to present Feb. 17
LAWRENCE — Theresa Shireman will be the first candidate for the dean of the School of Pharmacy position to visit the University of Kansas Lawrence campus and give a public presentation.
Shireman’s presentation detailing her vision for the school will take place 4-5 p.m. Feb. 17 in Room 1020 of the School of Pharmacy building. The event will also be livestreamed, and the passcode is 932064.
Shireman is Brown University’s director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and a professor in the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice.
The remaining candidates will be announced approximately two business days before their respective campus visits. The presentations, which have been moved due to scheduling conflicts and inclement weather, will also take place 4-5 p.m. in Room 1020 of the School of Pharmacy building. They are set for the following dates:
- Candidate 2: Feb. 20
- Candidate 3: Feb. 24
- Candidate 4: Feb. 27.
Members of the KU community are encouraged to attend each presentation and provide feedback to the search committee. Presentation recordings and the online feedback form will remain available on the search page through March 4.
Additional search information, including Shireman’s CV, is also available on the search page.
As a health services researcher, Shireman specializes in pharmaceutical policy, pharmacoepidemiology and health economic evaluations. Her work has contributed to understanding of how medications are used and to what effect in people who are on chronic dialysis, development of a novel methodology to tracking medication exposure over time, development of a bleeding risk prediction model for warfarin in older adult patients with atrial fibrillation and health economic evaluations of expensive therapeutic agents.
Shireman previously served as a faculty member of KU’s School of Pharmacy and KU Medical Center’s School of Medicine for 15 years before joining Brown University. She has been a longtime member of the American Geriatrics Society as well as the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology.
In addition, Shireman has managed a number of contracts with state Medicaid agencies evaluating pharmaceutical use in children with disabilities and other vulnerable populations, examining the quality of diabetes care for people with disabilities and creating a claims-based algorithm to distinguish between subgroups of individuals with disabilities.
Shireman earned a doctorate in pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s degree in pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy at Drake University.
The School of Pharmacy dean search committee includes representatives from faculty, staff, students and alumni and is being led by Michelle Carney, dean of the School of Social Welfare, and Candan Tamerler, associate vice chancellor for research and professor of mechanical engineering.