Research is exploring how communication and patient engagement can optimize treatment effectiveness and drive equitable health outcomes especially for aging and underserved populations.
Primary Researchers
Kumar Mukherjee, Ph.D., MS, B.Pharm
His research focuses on leveraging national level secondary databases such as medical claims, national surveys, and electronic health records, to explore health outcomes and epidemiological research in different disease states including cancer.
Batoul Senhaji-Tomza, PharmD, MPH
Area of interest includes medication and patient safety programs; translating evidence into practice; measuring and improving patient safety culture in the hospital setting; optimization of health literacy tools to improve patient-provider communication; curriculum design
Elizabeth J. Unni, PhD, MBA
Elizabeth's research interest is in health services and include medication non-adherence, patient’s beliefs in their medicines and illnesses, health literacy, and self-efficacy. Her interest lies in developing theoretical models that explain medication non-adherence based on the various psychosocial variables that define medication adherence. She has also developed a self-reported scale to measure medication adherence, the Medication Adherence Reasons Scale (MAR-Scale). As an academician, she also has interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Elizabeth believes in collaborative research and has conducted research with academicians from several Universities and researchers from pharmaceutical industry and consulting.
Albert Wertheimer, PhD, MBA
Areas of interest include pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research, counterfeit drugs, and off-label drug use.
