DPOP Primary Faculty
Susan Blalock, MPH, PhD
- Adjunct Professor
- Professor
Health outcomes assessment, the psychosocial aspects of chronic illness, and patient decision-making and compliance with therapeutic regimens.
Delesha Carpenter, PhD, MSPH
- Research Assistant Professor
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
Patient-provider communication, medication adherence, chronic disease self-management, mHealth and eHealth.
Lynn Dressler, DrPH
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Director for Policy and Ethics, Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy
Addressing policy, social and ethical issues to integrate pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine into clinical practice, with an emphasis on cancer pharmacogenomics. Communication, dissemination, education and race disparities in pharmacogenomics research. Adherence to oral chemotherapy with food effects. Return of research results in genomic research and testing.
Gang Fang, PharmD, MS, PhD
- Assistant Professor
Estimating comparative treatment effectiveness and safety in CVD, assessing treatment variation in large populations, assessing quality of care services and treatment disparities in the elderly and minorities, and developing innovative analytical methods using observational data from large healthcare utilization databases.
Joel Farley, PhD
- Assistant Professor
Evaluation of public policies used to manage prescription medications, particularly the effect of Medicaid prescription cost-containment policies on vulnerable populations.
Christine Oramasionwu, PharmD, PhD
- Assistant Professor
HIV/AIDS and health disparities and health outcomes research by optimizing medication use for minority, underserved, and international populations.
Jaya Rao, MD, MHS
- Associate Professor
Complementary and alternative medicine, patient-provider communication, role of diagnostic testing in medical management, chronic disease management.
Mary Roth McClurg, PharmD, MHS
- Associate Professor
- Director, Office of Strategic Planning and Assessment
Evaluating and improving the quality of medication use in older adults; designing and testing inter-professional, collaborative models of care for improving medication use and reducing health services utilization.
Betsy Sleath, PhD
- George H. Cocolas Distinguished Professor
- Chair, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
Provider-patient communication about medications, patient adherence, and outcomes research.
