Raymond L. Woosley, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics in the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also the founding President of the Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (AZCERT), a Tucson-based non-profit organization initially funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to work with the UA COM-P and Banner Health to improve the safe use of medications through application of clinical decision support systems.
Dr. Woosley received his medical degree from the University of Miami, FL, his doctorate in pharmacology from the University of Louisville, KY, and his bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University. After an internship and residency in internal medicine, he completed a fellowship in clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University before joining the faculty. He served as Founding Director of the Vanderbilt Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Associate Director of the NIH-funded Vanderbilt General Clinical Research Center.
In 1988, Dr. Woosley was appointed Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He also served as Associate Dean for Clinical Research and Director of the Institute for Cardiovascular Sciences. In 2001, Dr. Woosley joined the faculty at The University of Arizona as Vice President of the Arizona Health Sciences Center and the Dean of the College of Medicine. In 2005, he founded Critical Path Institute (C-Path), an independent, non-profit organization created jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the University of Arizona. C-Path implements the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative by creating consortia of scientists from FDA, industry and academia that improve the testing and accelerate the development of new drugs and diagnostics. In 2012, he left C-Path to launch the non-profit AZCERT.
Dr. Woosley’s research has been reported in more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and serves as the basis for eleven patents. For his contributions to medicine, Dr. Woosley has received numerous awards and honors from academic institutions, the Food and Drug Administration and professional societies.