April 13, 2022
UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy master’s student Gregory Norsten, Pharm.D., is one of eight national recipients of this year’s American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Pharmacy Resident Research Grants.
The grant will support his work, “Leveraging patient volume and drug shortage modeling to develop a proactive and innovative pharmacy supply chain management strategy.”
“I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be one of the ASHP Pharmacy Resident Research Grant recipients and to represent UNC,” Norsten said. “I am thankful for my team’s support and dedication to making this a successful project.”
Norsten said the grant will provide his team with the necessary resources to contribute to pharmacy literature and advance supply chain strategies for hospitals and health systems.
“Pharmacy supply chain management is a critical part of the pharmacy enterprise, but as seen by the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems primarily operate in a reactionary fashion,” Norsten said. “Through our work, we hope to transform the reactive processes in place into proactive ones through the use of predictive analytics.”
Norsten said previous work has been performed at UNC to develop a drug shortage model based on historical data. Through his team’s research, he hopes to demonstrate the effectiveness of this model in real-time and then create a digital dashboard that can be utilized with UNC’s pharmacy supply chain management strategy. Ultimately, he hopes to decrease risk to patient care, decrease waste, and improve inventory management efficiency.
“We hope to set a new precedence for drug shortage management through this and future research that can one day be expanded and shared with other pharmacy departments throughout the nation,” he said.
Norsten, a current UNC Health/PGY-2 Health-System Pharmacy and Leadership resident, plans to graduate from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s master’s program in May. He received his Pharm.D. from The University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2020.
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