Shane P. Desselle, Ph.D., RPh, FAPhA

Associate Dean for Research and Professional Affairs, Professor, Touro University California College of Pharmacy

Shane P. Desselle, Ph.D., RPh, FAPhA, is Associate Dean for Research Professional Affairs, Chair of Pharmacy Practice and Social Pharmacy and Professor of Social and Behavioral Pharmacy at Touro University California College of Pharmacy. He received a B.S. in Pharmacy from University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) in 1990 and his Ph.D. from ULM in 1995. He has served on the faculty at Long Island University Brooklyn, as Director of Assessment at Duquesne University, Associate Dean and Chair at University of Oklahoma and Dean at California Northstate University.

He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy and Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy. He is co-editor of "Pharmacy Management, Essentials for All Practice Settings, 5th ed.," one of the most widely used pharmacy texts in the world, as well as newer texts, "Pharmacy Practice Skills: A Guide for Students and Instructors" and "Contemporary Pharmacy Practice Research Methods and Pharmacy Health Services." He won the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Sustained Contribution in Social Sciences Award in 2019 in recognition of his research, teaching and service in pharmacy education.

In 2020, he co-authored a paper on pharmacy technicians’ optimizing care model, earning the Wiederholt Award for best paper published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. He conducts research in advancement of pharmacist roles for patient safety, creation of standards for pharmacist care of patients using complementary medicines, professionalization of pharmacy technicians to advance the delegatory authority of pharmacists and evaluating the typologies and ramifications for organizational culture in academic pharmacy. He has over 120 full-text original research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He teaches courses in health systems, professional communication and pharmacy management.