Dr. Jonathan H. Watanabe is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, an Associate Dean of Pharmacy Assessment and Quality and the Director of the Center for Data-Driven Drugs Research and Policy at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine. He is a board-certified geriatrics pharmacist, health economist, and outcomes researcher. He obtained his B.S. in Zoology from the University of Washington, his Pharm.D. from the University of Southern California, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington Comparative Health Outcomes Policy and Economics Institute. His research interests lie in health policy, underserved populations, health economics, outcomes research, medications, opioid-use disorder, geriatrics/older adult care, real-world data, long-term care, pharmacy, pharmacist-directed care, and affordability and access to care. He also serves as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Drug, Discovery, Development, and Translation and an appointed member of the Board of Directors of the California Geriatrics Society of the American Geriatrics Society.