Dr. Hajjar serves as the program director for the Jefferson College of Pharmacy Population Health Pharmacy program. She also provides clinical services to the Jefferson Family and Community Medicine Senior Center Practice and the Kimmel Cancer Center Senior Adult Oncology and Outpatient Supportive Care clinics. Dr. Hajjar has published a variety of peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters on polypharmacy in elderly patients and geriatric pharmacotherapy issues. She is a past recipient of the Jefferson College of Pharmacy AACP Teacher of the Year Award, Dean’s Faculty Achievement Award, and the Thomas Jefferson University Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award.
Dr. Hajjar earned her PharmD at Duquesne University and then completed a pharmacy practice residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. She went on to complete a geriatric pharmacy specialty residency at the Minneapolis Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, followed by a geriatric pharmacotherapy-epidemiology fellowship at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.
