B. Joseph Guglielmo BS, PharmD

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, is a pharmacist, clinical scientist, teacher, and international expert in the evidence-based use of antimicrobials to treat infections. He has served as interim dean, then as dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, since 2012 and holds the Troy C. Daniels Distinguished Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

He is widely known as an advocate for therapeutics-related research, from basic science to health policy research. As chair of the School's Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Guglielmo oversaw a 40 percent increase in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy’s faculty research funding from 2006 to 2012, including grants from the National Institutes of Health.

During that period an increasing number of the department’s clinical faculty members received National Institutes of Health “K” awards, designed to develop clinical research scientists as independent investigators, as well as “R” awards that fund specific research projects.