Roshanak Rahimian is Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA. She earned her Master of Science from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada, in 1995. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1998. She then completed a three-year Post-doctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institute of Health Research before joining University of the Pacific in 2001. Her research focuses on estrogen-mediated signaling events associated with vascular tone and changes that occur in prediabetic and diabetic states. She has been member of the American Physiological Society (APS, Cardiovascular section), American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS), and the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD).