Jordan Cohen, Ph. D.
Jordan L. Cohen assumed the position of Interim Vice President of Research at the University of Iowa after retiring as Dean of the University Of Iowa College Of Pharmacy in October 2007 after serving 8 and one-half years. He had previously served as Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky from January 1988 to March, 1999. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he received his B.S. in pharmacy in 1965 and Ph.D. in pharmaceutics in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served on the faculty at the University of Southern California for almost 18 years and in 1985-86, Dr. Cohen was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow, serving his Fellowship year as Assistant to the Chancellor at the University of California at Irvine. He also completed certificate programs in educational design and management while at USC.
Dr. Cohen’s NIH funded research has been in the areas of clinical pharmacology of anticancer and anti-AIDS agents, and disposition of drugs in the elderly. Currently, he has interests in leadership issues in the health professions and the effects of the changes in health care delivery on pharmaceutical education.
He was elected to the United States Pharmacopeial (USP) Board of Trustees In 1990, and served as Chair from 1995-2000. He also served as President of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, was the initial chair of the Executive Committee of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science of APhA and served as a member of the California Bioequivalence Advisory Panel, an advisory body regarding California Medicaid formulary decisions. He currently serves as the USP member of the AMA’s adopted drug names council and on the Steering Committee of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations’ Transforming Health Professional Education program in 2005. Dr. Cohen is an elected Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Pharmaceutical Association and has been active in both Kentucky and Iowa in the promotion of economic development with local and regional and state wide economic development agencies seeking linkages that allow successful commercialization of faculty discoveries and capabilities in the fields of drug discovery and development. He was recently selected to receive the 2008 Hugo Schaefer Award by the American Pharmacists Association based on his career-long contributions to Pharmacy, society and the association.