Harsha Venna, Director of Pharmacy Academic Services, enhances our student support services and provides an invaluable resource for our students and academic services. She advises students on academic, career, and personal issues, responds to student questions and concerns on registration, progression, probation, dismissal, scholarships and other similar issues, monitors student academic progress and manages departmental forms, guides, handbooks and other information and policy materials.

She comes to TCOP from the Touro College Graduate School of Education, where she has served as Executive Assistant to the Dean since 2015, and as International Graduate Admissions Coordinator since 2017. She brings a wide range of academic and administrative experience to her new position, including work on strategic planning, budget, human resources, enrollment, learning outcomes, faculty evaluations, communications and publications, and student advisement.  She earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Siddhartha Law College, Andhra Pradesh, India, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Human Resources Management from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property from Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY.