Dr. Church is currently an Assistant Professor in Regulatory and Quality Sciences at the University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy. He is primarily involved in undergraduate education as a lead instructor of the Pharmacology and Drug Development (PDD) major. Prof. Church's academic focus is on interdisciplinary applications of pharmaceutical regulation in relation to patterns of addiction to affect broad areas of learning and training. His areas of interest and expertise include biorepository regulation and ethics; drug addiction and regulation of controlled substances; regulatory practices for continuity and disaster planning; and policies and ethics of academic research.