Students enrolled in the DPOP PhD program have a variety of previous training experiences and backgrounds. Although a pharmacy or other health care degree is preferable, such a degree is not required for admission to the program. Current PhD students include:
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Anne Beaubrun
beaubrun@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2009
Anne is interested in pharmacoeconomics, cost-effectiveness research and health outcomes of chronic diseases like kidney disease and hypertension. She is also interested of racial disparities in chronic disease care.
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Jonas Daugherty
jbdaughe@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2008
Jonas is interested in Medicare Part D and hopes to evaluate the medication switching behavior of patients in the donut hole while taking brand name products.
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Rishi Desai
rjdesai@unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2009
Rishi's research interest is pharmacoepidemiology of the drugs used to treat chronic conditions such as cardiovascular diseases and arthritis. He has a keen interest in comparative effectiveness of drugs in clinical practice.
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Christopher Gillette
cgillett@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2008
Chris is interested in researching Physician prescribing behaviors; cost effectiveness versus patient perceived effectiveness and resulting medication-taking behaviors; obesity and comorbidity risks communication between patient-provider; pharmacist obesity education; pharmacist-patient communication in the community pharmacy.
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Aaron Katz
ajkatz@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2008
Aaron is interested in researching Health literacy, patient-provider communication, medication adherence, health policy, and pharmaceutical outcomes with a particular interest in the areas of oncology and infectious diseases.
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Julie Lauffenburger
jlauffen@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2010
Julie's research interests include database evaluations, pharmacoepidemiology and health services research with a particular focus in geriatrics. She is also interested in pharmaceutical policy and inter-professional education.
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Andrew Roberts
awroberts@unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2011
Drew is interested in studying the impact of new health care delivery and payment models on the safety, effectiveness, and accessibility of medications.
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Catherine Slota
slota@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2011
Catherine’s research interest include patient-provider communication, medication adherence and direct-to-consumer advertising with a particular focus in the geriatric population.
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James Stedman Stevens
stedmans@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2009
Stedman's research interests include pharmacogenomics, individualized patient therapy and the behavioral aspects of adherence.
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Melea Ward
mward1@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2010
Melea's research interests include observational studies, health policy, MTM and adherence.
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Bioozhi (David) Wei
dw99@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2008
David is interested in pharmacoeconomics, particularly in cost-effectiveness analysis.
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Amica Simmons Yon, PharmD
asimmons@email.unc.edu
Year Admitted: 2006
Amica is interested in understanding the influence of spirituality/religiosity on patient adherence to medication regimens.
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