The Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy is pleased to announce that Joshua Niznik, Pharm.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor with the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine and the Center for Aging and Health at the UNC School of Medicine, now has a joint appointment with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Niznik is a geriatrics health services researcher with clinical training in the pharmaceutical sciences and expertise in pharmacoepidemiology. Niznik received his Pharm.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and worked as a pharmacist with UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital and as a researcher with the VA Pittsburgh Health System. He is a recipient of several notable research awards, including the American Geriatrics Society’s 2018 Scientist-in-Training and Best Paper in Health Services and Policy Research awards. Niznik’s research interests center on evaluating the quality of medications in older adults to improve the safety of medication use in this population. Most recently, his work has focused on evaluating the impact of deprescribing chronic medications that may no longer have value in nursing home residents with severe dementia.
Niznik will be a facilitator in the School’s Patient Care Experience II course and he plans to work with Pharm.D. students in the honors program as well as residents, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students.