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Yi-Ru (Leo) Chen, PharmD, MS
PhD Student
He/him/his
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), and pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, cardiovascular disease, oncology, and rare diseases
Awards: UMB ISPOR Student Chapter Secretary, (2025–2026)
Email: ychen3@umaryland.edu
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Mu-Chun (Daniel) Chiu, PharmD
PhD Candidate
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology and chronic disease outcomes using real-world data, focusing on cardiometabolic health, cancer survivorship, and symptom cluster characterization.
Awards: Graduate Travel Grant from the Graduate Student Association, University of Maryland, Baltimore (2025)
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Yu-Hua Fu, PharmD, MS
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Health economics, pharmacoepidemiology, value assessment, geriatric population, cancer
Awards: Lamy Predoctoral Fellowship in Aging Research (2023-2025); Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Travel Grant Award (2023)
Email: yu-hua.fu@umaryland.edu
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Xujun Gu
PhD Candidate
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Health economics, artificial intelligence, cost-effectiveness analysis
Awards: Donald O. Fedder Memorial Fellowship (2025)
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Candace Hall, MA
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR)
Research Interests: Patient-centered outcomes, comparative effectiveness research, health disparities, value-based care, patient engagement methods
Email: candace.hall@umaryland.edu
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Chia-Yun Hsu, MS
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Health economics, mixed methods, health equity
Email: chia-yun.hsu@umaryland.edu
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Lynn (Pei-Lin) Huang, MHS
PhD Candidate
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Real-world evidence to support value-based care and reduce health disparities, particularly among individuals with cancer
Awards: Donald O. Fedder Memorial Fellowship (2025)
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Hyung-Seok Kim, MHS
PhD Student
Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Economic evaluation, patient centric outcomes, Alzheimer's disease
Email: hkim4@umaryland.edu
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Chengfei Li, MPH
PhD Student
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Causal inference, cost-effectiveness analysis, decision-analytic modeling, health technology assessment (HTA)
Email: chengfeili@umaryland.edu
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Yujia Li, MS
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, health care utilization, comparative effectiveness
Email: yujiali@umaryland.edu
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Kaicheng Mo
PhD Student
He/Him
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology and health policy
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, medication safety, comparative effectiveness research, and the evaluation of clinical evidence to inform health care decisions and health policy.
Email: LucusMo@outlook.com
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Taraneh Mousavi, PharmD
PhD Candidate
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics, pharmaceutical policy
Research Interests: Health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), health technology assessment, market access, drug pricing and reimbursement, comparative effectiveness and safety research, real-world evidence
Awards: AstraZeneca/UMB Global Health Economics and Payer Evidence Predoctoral Fellowship (2026–2028)
Email: tmousavi@umaryland.edu
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Nneka Okeke, MHS
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmaceutical policy, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmaceutical policy, health equity and quality, maternal and child health
Email: nokeke@umaryland.edu
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Uzma Pathan, MPharm
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Disease Areas: metabolic, neurological, mental health, and substance use disorders. Methods: pharmacoeconomic analyses, systems modeling, and machine learning
Awards: UMB ISPOR Student Chapter President (2022)
Email: uzma.pathan@umaryland.edu
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Allen Peng, MS, MPH
PhD Student
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics, comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR)
Research Interests: Economic evaluation, pharmacoepidemiology, real-world data/evidence
Email: ypeng@umaryland.edu
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L. Yesenia Rodríguez Tanta, PharmD, MSc
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmaceutical policy, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, drug safety and public health, pharmacovigilance, medical devices surveillance, evidence-based medicine, health technology assessment, causal inference, GRADE methods for guideline development, and clinical trials
Awards: ISPE Latin American Regional Interest Group Chair (2022-2023)
Email: lyrodrguez@umaryland.edu
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Justice Sheehama, MPH
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Health economics and outcomes research, health care utilization, drug safety, cancer, cardiometabolic diseases, real-world evidence synthesis, comparative effectiveness research
Awards: Fulbright Scholarship (2021)
Email: justice.sheehama@umaryland.edu
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Sanaya Shenoy, MSPH
PhD Student
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Treatment patterns and drug utilization, comparative effectiveness research, pharmaceutical value assessment, chronic conditions
Email: sshenoy@umaryland.edu
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Hoang Tien Tran, PharmD, MPH
PhD Candidate
He/him/his
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Comparative effectiveness research, causal inference, cardiometabolic pharmacotherapy, cancer epidemiology, epidemiology of aging
Awards: Chair of ISPE Student Council (2026-2027); Doctoral Dissertation Workshop Travel Award (SER 2026); Greg Alexander Outstanding Student Paper Award (APHA Maternal and Child Health 2025); ASCO Editorial Fellow (2025); Donald O. Fedder Memorial Fellowship (2025); PNC
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Phuong Tran, MPH
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Mental health, child health
Email: phuong.tran@umaryland.edu
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Elaine (Hsiao-Tung) Tsai, PharmD, MS
PhD Student
Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Health economics and outcomes research, pharmacoepidemiology, real-world evidence
Awards: ISPOR Real-World Evidence Summit Top 5% Finalist Research Abstract (2025)
Email: htsai@umaryland.edu
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Abby Xu, MS
PhD Student
She/her/hers
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Drug utilization trends, RWE, causal inference methodology
Awards: Urban Epidemiology Research Fellowship (Drexel University and Philadelphia Department of Public Health)
Email: can.xu@umaryland.edu
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Fengdi Zhang, MPH
PhD Student
Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, HEOR, simulation modeling, causal inference, machine learning, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, psychotropic medication, vaccine safety.
Awards: 2026 UMSOP Research Day Best Poster Awards
Email: fengdi.zhang@umaryland.edu
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