Initiatives are directed at advancing the effectiveness of teaching and learning in pharmacy education. Research is exploring innovative instructional strategies, professional identity formation, interprofessional education, creating evidence-based practices to enhance student engagement, learning outcomes, inclusive pedagogy and the use of standardized patients and virtual reality to enhance clinical training.
Through scholarly inquiry and curriculum development, our educators contribute to shaping the future of pharmacy education and fostering meaningful learning experiences for students.
Primary Researchers
Fraidy Maltz, PharmD, BCACP
Areas of interest include scholarship of teaching and learning and standardized patient.
Amanda Phoenix, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES
Areas of interest include interprofessional education, motivational interviewing, outpatient diabetes management, collaborative drug therapy management, and tobacco cessation.
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
Bupendra Shah, PhD, MS
Areas of interest include the design and execution of research studies in the areas of student pharmacist teaching & learning and training needs. Dr. Shah is a social, behavioral, and administrative science pharmacy researcher with a focus on using sociological research methods (surveys, focus groups, interviews, etc.) that are applied to pharmacy education, regulatory science, and health services research. The goal of Dr. Shah’s research is to identify and meet the training and learning needs of healthcare providers such that they can engage in meaningful communication with their patients and provide tailored patient-centered care that can lead to improved patient outcomes. Over the past decade, he has initiated and collaborated with colleagues to design and conduct research studies in the areas of patient and pharmacist perspectives on the pharmacist role, patient-pharmacist communication, and pharmacist services.
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.
Talia Wall, PharmD, BCPS
Areas of interest include academia and pharmacotherapy.
