Faculty conduct health services and other drug-related research, education, service, and community outreach to improve health among diverse populations.
Explore below to learn more about each faculty member's research interest(s).
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Robert Beardsley, RPh, PhD Professor Emeritus, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Social behavioral aspects of pharmacy, including medication safety, patient counseling, and care of the terminally ill |
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Wendy Camelo Castillo, MD, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology; development and implementation of methods for comparative effectiveness and patient centered outcomes research; health disparities |
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Peter Doshi, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Credible evidence synthesis; evidence-based medicine; reporting biases; drug safety; drug regulation; medical journalism; evidence, policy, and advocacy in public health |
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Susan DosReis, PhD Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology; pediatric mental health behavioral science |
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Joey Mattingly, PharmD, MBA, PhD Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Patient-centered outcomes research; comparative effectiveness research; drug pricing policy; and value assessment |
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C. Daniel Mullins, PhD Professor & Chair, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Pharmacoeconomics; comparative effectiveness research and health disparities |
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Ebere Onukwugha, MS, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Pharmacoeconomics, healthcare resource utilization, and health disparities. |
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Frank Palumbo, BSPharm, MS, PhD, JD Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Executive Director, Center on Drugs and Public Policy Research Interests: Legal and policy ramifications of health care |
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Eleanor Perfetto, PhD, MS Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Health policy issues, including issues related to comparative effectiveness research, health care quality performance measurement, patient-focused drug development, and reimbursement |
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Danya Qato, PhD, PharmD, MPH Assistant Professor & Director, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Graduate Program Research Interests: Improving regulatory and policy tools to reduce use of high risk medications in vulnerable populations; risk management and post-marketing surveillance; environmental and global health systems development; pharmacovigilance; and health disparities |
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Fadia Shaya, PhD, MPH Professor and Director, Center on Drugs and Public Policy Executive Director, Behavioral Health Resources Program Director of Informatics and Implementation Research, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Research Interests: Pharmacoeconomics; pharmacoepidemiology; health policy and regulatory science; comparative effectiveness of drugs and medical devices; disparities and social determinants of health; entrepreneurship |
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Julia Slejko, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Medication adherence and decision-analytic modeling for cost effectiveness and comparative effectiveness research |
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Bruce Stuart, PhD Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Health economics and Medicare policy |
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Ester Villalonga Olives, PhD, MsC Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Patient reported outcomes; social epidemiology; and health inequalities |
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Linda Wastila, BSPharm, MSPH, PhD Parke-Davis Chair in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Health services research in mental health and substance use disorders in geriatrics |
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Zafar Zafari, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Mathematical/statistical simulation modeling; cost-effectiveness analyses; statistical methods of prediction; Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis; optimal resource allocation based on personalized clinical data; and health policy |
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Julie Zito, BSPharm, PhD Professor Emerita of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Research Interests: Pediatric mental health; public health |