Vicki L. Ellingrod is associate dean for research and graduate education at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, as well as the John Gideon Searle Professor of Clinical and Translational Psychiatry in the Clinical Pharmacy Department. Dr. Ellingrod is also associate director for the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR). Dr. Ellingrod earned her BS and PharmD from the University of Minnesota. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychopharmacology/pharmacogenetics at the University of Iowa before joining the U-M faculty in 2006. Her research primarily focuses on the pharmacogenomics of mental health treatments. She is a founding member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists and a full member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.