Clinical Professor
Unit: Pharmacy Practice
2151 Highland Avenue South, Suite 230
Birmingham, AL 35205
Email: jas0003@auburn.edu
Phone: 334-844-8952
Jessica Starr, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the Harrison College of Pharmacy. Originally from Pensacola, Florida, Dr. Starr completed her pre-pharmacy coursework at the University of California, Santa Barbra and graduated with her Doctor of Pharmacy from the Harrison College of Pharmacy. After graduation, she moved to Charleston, South Carolina where she completed an ASHP-accredited pharmacy practice residency and a specialty residency in adult internal medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Starr is extensively involved in curricular design for the practice ready curriculum. She has developed and currently executes the evidenced-based medicine course work which is integrated throughout the first three professional years. Her primary area of expertise is cardiovascular pharmacotherapy where she has both mapped and extensively taught these disease states during the P1, P2, and P3 years. She offers an elective in cardiology for both P2 and P3 student pharmacists. She also offers both an IPPE and APPE clinical rotation in Internal Medicine at her practice site, Princeton Baptist Medical Center.
Dr. Starr has received numerous awards while at the Harrison College of Pharmacy. In 2023, she was awarded the Pinnacle Award which recognizes a faculty member who exemplifies the College’s core values of “Inspiration, Innovation, and Transformation.” She was also awarded the Lucinda Maine Fellow in Teaching award which recognizes a faculty member who has excelled in the effort to create a powerful and inspiring learning environment, and the college’s inaugural Excellence in Outreach award for her work at Princeton Baptist Medical Center. She has been recognized as a Preceptor of Excellence four times and has received the Rho Chi Distinguished Alumni Award.
Dr. Starr is extensively involved in both the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) where she has served on a variety of committees and held numerous leadership roles. She is the current Chair of ASHP’s Educational Steering Committee for the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists, and she is a past chair of ACCP’s Adult Medicine PRN.
Dr. Starr practices as a clinical pharmacy specialist at Princeton Baptist Medical Center where she collaborates with an interdisciplinary medical team to provide direct patient care to the patients admitted to an internal medicine rounding team.
Dr. Starr founded and directed a PGY1 pharmacy residency program from 2008-17 where she served as the program director for 21 residents. She continues to be heavily involved in this program where she serves as a preceptor for both clinical rotations and residency projects. In 2020, Dr. Starr founded a PGY2 residency in internal medicine and currently serves as the director of this program.
Dr. Starr also holds a faculty appointment with the Department of Medical Education where she serves as a non-physician attending for an Evidenced Based Medicine Rotation offered to second- and third-year internal medicine medical residents. She is also extensively involved in medical resident education throughout this three-year residency program.