PhD Students

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Jenny Contreras, MPH

PhD Student
She/her/hers

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Development of clinical outcome assessments (COA), cancer, health disparities, mixed-methods
Email: jcontreras@umaryland.edu
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Ryan Costantino, PharmD, MS

PhD Student
He/him/his

Concentration: Pharmaceutical policy
Research Interests: Military medicine, medication use policy
Email: rcostantino@umaryland.edu

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Bernard Bright Davies-Teye, MD, MPH, MGCP

PhD Student
He/him/his

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Pharmacoeconomics, healthcare resource utilization, health disparities, and patient-centered outcomes research
Awards: Rho Chi Society, Academic Honor Society (2022)
Email: bdavies-teye@umaryland.edu
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Bansri Desai, PharmD

PhD Student
She/her/hers

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmaceutical policy
Research Interests: Value assessment, health technology assessment, health care decision-making
Awards: Harris Zuckerman Scholarship Award
Dissertation: Evidence Quality in Economic Evaluations
Email: bdesai@umaryland.edu
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Eposi Elonge, MS

PhD Student
She/her/hers

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmaceutical policy
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, hematological malignancies, comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research
Email: eelonge@umaryland.edu
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Blessing Enobun, MD, MPH

PhD Student

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmaceutical policy
Research Interests: patient-centered outcomes, HIV/AIDS, chronic diseases, pharmacoepidemiology
Email: blessing.enobun@umaryland.edu
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Candace Hall, MA

PhD Student
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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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Kyungwan Hong, PharmD, MS

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmaceutical policy
Research Interests: Clinical trial transparency, adverse event data collection and reporting, evidence-based medicine, labeling
Awards: (2022) 9th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication Scholarship, (2022) The Harris Zuckerman Scholarship, (2020) University of Maryland Center for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (M-CERSI) Scholar award, (2019) 35th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE) Scholarship, (2018) Rho Chi National Pharmacy Honor Society, (2018) President, International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) UMB Student Chapter, (2017) Secretary, International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) UMB Student Chapter
Dissertation: Under-ascertainment and underreporting of adverse events in clinical trials
Email: hong.kyungwan@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 Student
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Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research, (CER/PCOR), pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Health economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, pharmacoepidemiology
Email: phuang1@umaryland.edu
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Onyeka Illoh, OD, MPH

PhD Student

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Patient-reported outcomes and generating real-world evidence
Awards: Rho Chi Society
Email: oilloh@umaryland.edu

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Tsung-Ying Lee, MClinPharm

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, health econometrics, prediction modeling, real-world evidence generation
Email: tsung-ying.lee@umaryland.edu
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Rosie Love, MPH

PhD Student
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Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR)
Research Interests: Patient engagement methods, health literacy, patient-centered outcomes research, patient experience data collection, patient-reported outcome measure development, stated preference measure development, qualitative research methods, content validity
Dissertation
: Is there a relationship between health literacy and patient preferences? A pilot study among women breast cancer patients
Awards: Donald O. Fedder Memorial Fellowship, Merck Investigator Initiated Studies Program
Email: Troseganser@umaryland.edu
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Kayleigh Majercak, MS

PhD Student
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Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR)
Research Interests: Patient-reported outcome measures, mixed methods research, patient engagement
Dissertation: Mitigating Evidence Gaps: A Survey Template to Inform Patient-Centered Value Assessment 
Awards: Abstract awarded a silver ribbon, AMCP Nexus 2022; Dr. Arthur Schwartz Memorial Scholarship Award 2022; National Health Council Pre-doctoral Fellowship; Rho Chi Honor Society;  ISPOR “Student Chapter Leader Distinguished Services” awardee 2021; UMB ISPOR student chapter president 2020-2021; ISPOR Student Network, Chair of Education Committee 2020-2021; President’s Student Leadership Institute certificant, University of Maryland, Baltimore 2019; PHSR GSA representative 2019
Email: kmajercak@umaryland.edu
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Jeong-eun Park, MPH

PhD Student
She/her/hers

Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Simulation modeling, decision analytic modeling, cost-effective analysis, systematic review and meta analysis
Email: jpark1@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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Salome Ricci, PharmD, MS

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Pharmacoeconomics, value assessment, decision making, health technology assessment, cost-effectiveness, health equity
Email: salome.ricci@umaryland.edu
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John Rizk, RPh, MSc

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, disparities, health services research, pharmacotherapy, COVID-19
Email: john.rizk@umaryland.edu

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Jannat Saini, PharmD, MPH

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Mental health, addiction medicine, causal inference methodology, digital RWE, populations: pregnant and non-pregnant persons
Awards: APHA Regional Student Liaison of the year award, Student Assembly (2021), APHA Policy Action Institute Scholarship Recipient (2021), Harris Zuckerman Scholarship Recipient (2021), Rho Chi Society (2021), Phi Kappa Phi Society (2021); APHA Regional Student Liaison, Student Assembly (2019-2022), Maryland Public Health Association, membership committee Chair, Board member at large (2019-present), International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, Student Chapter UMB President (2020), Secretary (2019), Co-editor, National Student Council Newsletter (2021)
Email: jannatsaini@umaryland.edu
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Dominique Seo, MPH

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Inclusion of health equity in pharmacoeconomic research 
Email: dseo@umaryland.edu
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Chintal Shah, MS

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: COPD, health economics, outcomes research, pharmacoepidemiology, machine learning, quality of life
Awards: Takeda Value Evidence Generation Predoctoral Fellowship (2022-2022); ISPOR Student Leader Distinguished Service Award (2021-2022); Donald O. Fedder Memorial Fellowship (2022); UMB Graduate Student Association Professional Development Award (2021); ISPOR Student Leader Distinguished Service Award (2020-2021); Rho Chi Society
Email: chintalshah@umaryland.edu
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Sarah Tanveer, MA

PhD Student
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Concentration: Pharmaceutical policy, pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Pharmacovigilance, safety (adverse events/harms) of clinical interventions, causal inference, pharmaceutical policy, evidence synthesis methods
Awards: FDA ORISE Fellowship Award, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Travel Grant Award, Outstanding Graduate Student Representative Award, Cochrane 30 under 30, University of Maryland, Baltimore Student Affairs Advisory Board member
Email: stanveer@umaryland.edu
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MS Students

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Yueh-Yi Chiang

MS Student
She/her/hers

Concentration: Pharmacoepidemiology
Research Interests: Mental health
Email: yueh-yichiang@umaryland.edu
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Godwin Okoye

MS Student
He/him/his

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Patient-centered outcomes research, health care resource utilization, and costs in cancer care
Email: gokoye@umaryland.edu

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Divya Patil

MS Student
She/her/hers

Concentration: Comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research (CER/PCOR), pharmacoeconomics
Research Interests: Mental health disorders, economic modelling, PCOR
Email: divyamanojpatil@umaryland.edu