Our scientific interests are diverse and span key and innovative areas in contemporary outcomes research:

• Communication and Decision Making
• Comparative Effectiveness
• Health Disparities
• Medication Utilization
• MTM and Pharmacy Practice Models
• Patient Centered Outcomes
• Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis
• Pharmacogenomics

See the division faculty page for more information on our faculty and their research

Current Funding

Patient Perspective on Barriers and Facilitators to Anticoagulation Control: A Pilot to Improve
Christine Oramasionwu (PI) in collaboration with MAHEC and Mission Health, University Research Council
5/2013-4/2015 - $5,000

Evaluating Racial Differences in Survival and Use of Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Metastatic Prostate Cancer Using The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Cancer Registry and Medicare Claims Database
Ewan Cobran (Co-PI), Robert Overman (Co-PI), NC TraCS
3/2013-6/2014 - $2,000

Understanding how RA patients process conflicting information about MDARDs
Delesha Carpenter (PI), Arthritis Foundation
7/2013-6/2015 - $99,653

An EHR-based Strategy to Promote Safe and Appropriate Medication Use
Stacy Bailey(Site PI), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1U19 HS021093-01)
9/2011-9/2016 - $32,000

Advancing the Universal Medication Schedule
Stacy Bailey (Site PI), California Health Care Foundation
5/2012-11/2013 - $16,000

Promoting Safe Use of Pediatric Liquid Medication: A Health Literacy Approach
Stacy Bailey (Site PI), National Institutes of Health (R01HD786401A1)
7/2012-6/2016 - $16,000

Communicating Risk Associated with Prescription Medication
Susan Blalock (PI), American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation
7/2010-6/2013 - $367,301

Translational Research to Identify Factors Related to Older Adult Use of Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Program
Susan Blalock (PI), UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
6/2011-7/2013 - $200,000

Communication About Glaucoma and Patients' Outcomes
Betsy Sleath (PI), Susan Blalock (Co-Investigator), National Eye Institute
12/2008-4/2014 - $1,792,087

Expansion of research capability to study comparative effectiveness in complex patients
Joel Farley (Co-Investigator), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
9/2010-9/2012 - $198,682

Continuity in Medication Management
Joel Farley (Co-Investigator), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
12/2010-11/2012 - $168,474

Programmatic Description of the UNC Charity Care Pharmacy Assistance Program
Joel Farley (PI), NC TraCS
06/2012-05/2013 - $35,891

UNC Clinical Translation Science Award-K12 Scholars Program (KL2)
Delesha Carpenter (Scholar)
5/2008-4/2013 - $2,090,864

Testing the Feasibility of Using ENLace to Enroll Latino Children with Asthma into a RCT Using MEDUCATION to Improve Asthma Medication Device Technique
Delesha Carpenter, Betsy Sleath NC TraCS
6/2012-5/2013 - $48,223

Assessing Racial/Ethnic Differences in Barriers to Hepatitis C Therapy in a Cohort of HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients
Christine Oramasionwu (PI), UNC CFAR Developmental Core
7/2012-6/2013 - $6,285

Patient adoption of an Internet based diabetes medication tool to improve adherence
Betsy Sleath (PI), Delesha Carpenter (CO-PI), Stefanie Ferreri (CO-I), Skip Cummings (CO-I), Susan Blalock (CO-I), Charles Lee (CO-I), Darren DeWalt (CO-I), UNC Center for Diabetes Translational Research to Reduce Health Disparities
9/2012-8/2013 - $39,819

Methods to Increase Validity of Comparative Effectiveness Research in the Elderly
Til Stürmer (PI), Gang Fang (Co-I), PCORI Pilot Projects
9/2012-9/2014 - $673, 395

Developing and Evaluating Methods for Record Linkage and Reducing Bias in Patient Registries
Gang Fang (Project PI), Alan Brookhart and Til Sturmer (Program Director), AHRQ DEcIDE-2 Contract
9/2012-7/2014 - $1,112,042