Graduate Faculty Directory
Pharmaceutical Business Graduate Faculty
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William Ashton
Founding Dean, Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Patricia Audet
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Healthcare and Business
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Healthcare and Business
Richard Bartels
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Jennifer Beer
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. Beer is an anthropologist and facilitator. Her consulting practice helps people to negotiate conflicts and to communicate across cultural boundaries. She has taught negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution in many settings. A professional mediator and facilitator for 25 years, she authored two books: Peacemaking in your Neighborhood and The Mediator's Handbook. As a cultural anthropologist, she focuses on the cultural and social influences on work relations and decision-making within organizations. Dr. Beer has held...
Joan Cavanagh
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Joan has over 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry, in Canada and the US, with Hoechst-Roussel, Roche and Bristol Myers Squibb, in Worldwide Strategic Planning, Marketing Research and International Marketing/Product Management. Since 2001, Joan has provided independent consulting and support services to large and small Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device companies in the areas of International Strategic Planning, Marketing, Marketing Research, Business Development, Portfolio Analysis, Forecasting, and Key Opinion Leader/Advocacy Programs. Joan has...
Carol Connell
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
William Cunningham
Assistant Dean of Students, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Instructor in Pharmaceutical Marketing
Cindy Delano
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Jeffrey J. DiFrancesco
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Professionally, Jeffrey is a director at a major pharmaceutical company where he is responsible for transformational and strategic initiatives in research and development. Academically, he teaches graduate courses in corporate finance, capital investments, and corporate governance as well as performs primary research and publishes on the matter of clinical development performance. Jeffrey's prior professional experiences include positions as executive officer and board member at several multinational public and private companies. Outside of Jeffery's professional and...
Joseph P. Fuhr
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. Fuhr’s primary research areas are antitrust, health economics, pharmacoeconomics, telecommunications, and sports economics. He has published over forty journal articles. In the field of telecommunications, he has written on investment and innovation, rural telephony, terminal equipment and universal service. In health care, he has written on hospital mergers, exclusive arrangements, health insurance, bundling and doctor’s fees. In pharmacoeconomics, he has written on cost benefit analysis and predictive modeling. In sports economics, Dr. Fuhr has...
John Gilly
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Mr. Gilly is responsible for the day-to-day functional operations of Premier Research Group. Prior to joining Premier in October 2002, Dr. Gilly was Vice President, Manufacturing Division for BioReliance Corporation where he was responsible for the management of the contract manufacturing business. Prior to joining BioReliance in January 1999, he held the position of Vice President, Biopharmaceutical Operations for ImClone Systems Incorporated responsible for development, manufacturing, quality operations and regulatory affairs at the Somerville, NJ...
Harold Glass
Research Professor of Health Policy
Fancine K. Lanar
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Ms. Lanar specializes in management development and team-building worldwide. Many of her clients are in health and science fields, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, U.N. Food Program, and Merck Pharmaceuticals. She worked on a 5 year project to provide leadership development and team building training for reproductive health doctors in Vietnam. Fancine lived in Germany and conducted leadership and communication courses...
Michael Latta
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Michael Latta is currently a Professor of Marketing and Management in the Wall College of Business Administration at Coastal Carolina University and in the USP On-line MBA Program. He has served as a Professor of Pharmaceutical Marketing in the MBA and undergraduate programs at Saint Joseph’s University, as Adjunct Professor at The American Graduate School of International Management – Thunderbird, and has taught Forecasting in the Mendoza School of Business at University of Notre Dame....
Larry Levin
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Anh-Dai Lu
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Anh-Dai Lu is a regular management consultant to businesses, federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Her work involves helping clients implement business vision, build competitive advantage, and increase competencies. Her past engagements include The Blue Cross Blue Shield's Federal Employees Program, Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses, Investigation & Analysis Directorate, Computer Sciences Corporation's Federal Consulting Center of Excellence, The Global Command and Control System, Dateline-Health Africa, and Gwalior Children’s Hospital. Anh-Dai currently...
Greg Lucado
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Mr. Lucado holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and graduate degrees in Management from the University of Missouri and an MBA in Finance from the Fox School of Business at Temple University. He has been a soldier, and recently retired from an interesting career in the commercial construction management business that culminated in partial ownership of a local Philadelphia Construction Firm. Greg currently teaches Finance, Economics, Operations Management, Policy and...
Thomas Lytle
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Thomas Lytle is an experienced pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive with over 35 years of industry experience. During his career, he has held positions of increasing responsibility in pharmaceutical sales, marketing, marketing management, new product commercialization, and executive management with market leading companies, including Pfizer, Lederle, Cytogen and Amgen. He has worked in multiple therapeutic categories and has focused on building brands and developing talent to create high performing teams. He was recently appointed to the...
Neil Mackillop
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
After Board Certification in Family Practice in the UK, Neil worked in the UK, Australia and Canada before joining the pharmaceutical industry. During 20 years in Drug Development he has worked in Europe and USA across a number of different therapeutic areas. He has led projects and cross-functional teams thru the full spectrum of activities from First in Man thru Registration until Loss of Exclusivity. He holds an MBA and is an elected Fellow of...
Keith Marmer
Assistant Dean of Operations for Mayes College
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Keith Marmer currently serves as Assistant Dean of Operations for Mayes College and as Assistant Professor in the Healthcare Business Department at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Dr. Marmer lectures on entrepreneurship and leadership. Prior to joining USP, Dr. Marmer was founder and CEO of PhysioMetrics, a national healthcare technology and services firm that specializes in functional evaluations. Under his leadership, PhysioMetrics successfully raised multiple rounds of venture funding, was awarded Outstanding Company at...
Kevin Mayo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Kevin Mayo is Vice President for Bridgehead USA, Inc. Kevin has an extensive international appreciation for new product development and commercialization, Health Economics & Health Outcomes Research, Health Technology Assessment and for developing Market Access & Pricing Strategies gained during his 12 years working within the pharmaceutical industry in leadership roles including: Director, Medical Research & Strategies and Head, Health Outcomes Research (Daiichi Sankyo Inc.) where Kevin established the Health Outcomes Research function Head, Global...
William F. McGhan
Director, Pharmacy Administration Graduate Program
Professor of Pharmacy Administration
Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. William McGhan he has been instrumental in advancing research and graduate training in health policy and pharmaceutical economics. He has authored several books and book chapters as well as over 200 journal articles. He is a past President of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science and has served on the board of directors of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He is an elected Fellow...
Robert Mueller
Interim Director of the MBA Program
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Business
Melanie Oates
Director of Undergraduate Business Programs
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management
Dr. Oates has 15 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry in a variety of positions including Sales Representative, Sales Trainer, Senior Marketing Analyst, Marketing Manager, and Vice President of Marketing and Regulatory Affairs. Her industry activity included pharmaceutical product licensing and acquisition including due diligence analysis, preparation of business plans, long range forecasting, working with venture capitalists and negotiating with investment bankers. Dr. Oates is a Registered Nurse and worked with psychiatric patients and...
Laurence Poli
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
William J. Reilly
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Bill Reilly has 20 + years experience in formulation research, research management, industrial pharmacy education, project management and consulting. He is the recipient of 4 US/international patents for new excipients or drug delivery. For the last 5 years, Mr. Reilly has consulted in the pharmaceutical industry, both domestically and internationally, on topics of cGMP’s, formulation development, scale-up and technology transfer and the regulatory aspects impacting these areas. Bill is a Past Chairman of the Philadelphia...
Brian Seal
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Phine Simms
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Phine Simms is President, CEO & Vision Champion of VeriquestHealth, a healthcare consultancy focused on identifying, addressing, and eliminating health and health care disparities within multicultural populations using GIS mapping and innovative solutions. She bring more than seventeen years of experience in strategic marketing, project management, market research, pharmaceutical sales, and business management to her work, having gained both client and consulting experience during her career at some of the leading pharma companies and with...
Nick Spring
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Richard Stefanacci
Founding Executive Director, Health Policy Institute
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Micheal Wolfe
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Michael Wolfe has over thirty years of experience in public accounting, management consulting and private industry. He is a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with Fesnak and Associates, LLP in Blue Bell, PA. He is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA). He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The...
