June 14, 2006
Richard Hansen, PhD, was named a Clinical Research Scholar under the UNC Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program.
This award is part of the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Initiative and will provide salary and research funding over five years to support Hansen’s work in the multidisciplinary management of depression in primary care. Hansen’s project “The Quality of Antidepressant Use in Primary Care” focuses on understanding and improving adherence to antidepressants in non-psychiatric settings.
The UNC MCRCDP is designed to re-engineer the clinical research enterprise by training new clinical research leaders, which is a key component of the NIH Roadmap. Eugene Orringer, MD, professor in the School of Medicine, and Morris Weinberger, PhD, professor in the School of Public Health, are co-principal investigators on the institutional award.
Hansen, assistant professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, was selected for the award from a highly competitive pool of internal and external UNC applicants. His mentoring team includes Michael Murray, PharmD, MPH, Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished Professor and chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the School of Pharmacy; and Bradley Gaynes, MD, MPH, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine.
Hansen is the first MCRCDP Clinical Research Scholar named in the School of Pharmacy, and his award is the third NIH Career Development Award received by a junior faculty member in the School of Pharmacy.
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