Skip to main content
ASCPT 2023 Annual Meeting Main banner
Back

Julie A. Johnson, PharmD

Distinguished Professor
University of Florida

Julie Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Florida. She served as UF Dean of the College of Pharmacy, from 2013 to 2022. She received her B.S. in Pharmacy from the Ohio State University and her Pharm.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiovascular pharmacology/ pharmacokinetics at Ohio State.
Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on cardiovascular pharmacogenomics and implementation of precision medicine approaches into clinical practice. She is an internationally recognized leader in clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenomics and genomic medicine, with over 330 peer reviewed publications and over $50M in research funding as principal investigator. In 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 she was named a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, indicating she was in the top 1% most highly cited scientists globally in the previous decade.
Under her leadership as dean, the UF College of Pharmacy implemented a new PharmD curriculum, its faculty grew by 90%, the US News and World Report ranking rose from #14 to #5, research funding grew 3.8-fold and research funding rankings rose from the high teens to #3, and it has the highest percentage of under-represented minority students among professional degree programs at UF and the top 40 colleges of pharmacy.
Dr. Johnson has had numerous service roles, including with the NIH, FDA, CDC, American Heart Association, American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT), for which she served as President in 2016-17.
Dr. Johnson has received numerous awards. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and has been the recipient of the Leon I Goldberg Young Investigator Award and Rawls Palmer Progress in Medicine Award from the ASCPT, along with awards from numerous other organizations.

Presentation(s):