William Kirsner

William Kirsner, Pharm.D., is the Clinical Program Manager for Specialty Pharmacy Services at the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. In this role, he oversees clinical operations, medication management, and interdisciplinary coordination to advance specialty pharmacy care for veterans. He previously served as a Home-Based Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist and as Anticoagulation Program Manager, a role he continues to oversee, guiding periprocedural anticoagulation practices and medication safety initiatives across the facility.

Dr. Kirsner completed both his PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency and PGY-2 Residency in Health System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership at the Miami VA. He earned his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Colorado, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from the University of Miami. He is ASHP-certified in Compounded Sterile Preparations and Pharmacy Informatics.

His professional experience spans clinical, operational, and administrative pharmacy practice, including roles as an acting inpatient and outpatient pharmacy supervisor, budget and procurement management, and pharmacy informatics. Dr. Kirsner has led numerous quality improvement projects and medication use evaluations, several presented at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and regional residency conferences.

Committed to public health and education, he has spent over a decade leading community outreach to underserved populations, precepting APPE students, and serving as an active member of ASHP. His work reflects a focus on medication safety, technological equity, and improving care for the veteran population.

Dr. Kirsner is Chairman, Tenured Professor and the endowed Harvey Blank Chair in the Dr. Phillip Frost Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery and Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is Chief of Dermatology at the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics and Jackson Memorial Hospital and directs the University of Miami Hospital Wound Center. Dr. Kirsner received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University, his medical degree from the University of Miami and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Miami, after he completed his clinical training. His clinical training included internal medicine, a clinical and research fellowship in wound healing and dermatology at the University of Miami. His research interests include Wound Healing and Skin Cancer Epidemiology. Dr. Kirsner serves as one of 3 academic editors for the journal Wound Repair and Regeneration and on the editorial boards for several other journals in dermatology and wound healing. Dr. Kirsner serves in national leadership positions in both Wound Healing and Dermatology, including serving as past Vice President of the American Academy of Dermatology and is currently President of the Wound Healing. In addition to career development awards, foundation, industry sponsored funding and CDC funding, he currently leads or is part of several NIH funded grants. Independent of books, book chapters and abstracts, he has published over 650 articles.