J. Warren Salmon, Ph.D. is Professor and former Head of the Department of Pharmacy Administration in the College of Pharmacy; Professor of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health; Professor of Public Policy Analysis in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs; and Adjunct Professor of Medical Education in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He began the UIC Managed Care Pharmacy Residency, the third such preparatory program in the nation, and coordinated the Novartis Pharmacoeconomics Fellowship Program at UIC. Earlier when first at UIC, he was Professor and Coordinator of the Health Policy and Planning Specialization in the School of Urban Planning and Policy.

Previously holding faculty appointments in Community Medicine and Environmental Health at Hahnemann Medical University and in the College of Allied Health Sciences at Jefferson Medical College, both in Philadelphia, he served also as an Adjunct Professor in the Union Institute Graduate School in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1989, he received a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Fellowship as Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany.

Dr. Salmon's graduate work was completed at Cornell University's Samuel Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Medical Care Organization and Administration and a Masters degree from the Sloan Program in Health Services Administration. His undergraduate degree is from Drexel University's College of Business and Administration in Philadelphia, where he also pursued graduate work at the Center for Urban Research and Environmental Studies. He holds certificates from the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences and the Harvard University School of Public Health.