Christopher Blanchette |  Jose Josue Hernandez
Masayo Sato, MS  |  Hui-Wen Yang |  Julie Caler, Resident

Jose Hosue Hernandez

Jose Josue Hernandez, RPh, MPH is a doctoral candidate in the Pharmaceutical Health Services Research program at the University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy, as well as an MS candidate at the Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine program in the School of Medicine. He received an MPH in Epidemiology at the University of Puerto Rico, School of Public Health. In addition, he obtained his pharmacy degree from the University of Puerto Rico, School of Pharmacy.

 Jose’s research interests are in factors associated with suboptimal prescribing among elderly patients, as well as variations in medication use and prescribing among elderly patients with cognitive impairment.  He is currently working on several projects related to measures of suboptimal prescribing among elderly patients; including his dissertation project “Quality of Prescribing Among Long Term Care Residents” under the direction of Dr. Ilene Zuckerman, and a study in collaboration with Chulalongkorn University faculty, in Bangkok, Thailand, “Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Suboptimal Prescribing among Elderly Outpatients Visiting the Chulalongkorn University Hospital Outpatient Clinics”. Jose provides lectures in the University of Maryland’s PharmD curriculum. In addition, he works part-time as a community pharmacist.

 Upon completion of his dissertation, Jose is planning a career in academia and to continue his research in the areas related to the pharmacoepidemiology of aging.