Faculty

 

	Almut Winterstein, RPh, Ph.D., FISPE Professor and Chair Office: HPNP Room 3336 Phone: 352-273-6258 Email: almut@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Winterstein’s research program focuses on the evaluation and prediction of drug safety and effectiveness in real-world populations and on devising ways to improve medication use. Clinical areas of interest include pediatrics and pregnancy, psychopharmacology and treatment and prevention of infectious disease.
	Joshua Brown, Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.S. Assistant Professor and Associate Graduate Program Director Office: HPNP 3320 Phone: 352-294-8593 Email: joshua.brown@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Brown’s research is in the field of comparative effectiveness and safety research focusing on anticoagulants, hematology and cardiology, and in health care policy evaluation
	Vakaramoko Diaby, Ph.D., M.Sc. Assistant Professor Office: HPNP Room 3317 Phone: 352-273-9397 Email: v.diaby@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Diaby’s research interests are in the field of economic evaluation, decision analytic modeling, health technology assessment, or HTA, and priority setting using multi-criteria decision analysis, or MCDA.
	Randy Hatton, Pharm.D, BPharm, FCCP, BCPS Clinical Professor Office: HPNP Room 2331 Phone: 352-294-5785 Email:rhatton@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Hatton’s research interests include evidence-based practice, patient safety and over-the-counter products.
	Robert P. Navarro, Pharm.D. Clinical Professor Office: HPNP 2338 Phone: 352-273-5526 Email: rnavarro@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Navarro’s research interests include real-world drug value assessments, performance-based risk-sharing arrangements with pharmaceutical manufacturers and value-based drug formulary management in various patient populations, as well as benefits and risks of public pharmaceutical policy on patient drug access, affordability and outcomes experiences.
	Haesuk Park, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Office: HPNP Room 3325 Phone: 352-273-6261 Email:hpark@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Park’s research program focuses on the evaluation of economic and health outcomes of medications and pharmaceutical care services as well as policy associated with the use of pharmaceuticals.
	Richard Segal, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Professor, and Graduate Program Director Office: HPNP Room 4332C Phone: 352-273-6265 Email: segal@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Segal’s research focuses on improving the quality and safety of the medication use process, with a particular emphasis on improving prescribing practices and in creating collaborative practice models to improve medication use by patients
	Yu-Jung “Jenny” Wei, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Office: HPNP 3321 Phone: 352-294-5340 Email: jenny.wei@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Wei’s research programs focus on questions surrounding the effectiveness, safety and quality of medication use in elderly patients with chronic conditions, especially those in nursing home settings.
	Hong Xiao, Ph.D. Professor Office: HPNP 3338 Phone: 352-273-6711 Email: hxiao18@cop.ufl.edu	Dr. Xiao’s research interests include access to and utilization of pharmaceutical and/or health services and related clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes with a focus on disparities in cancer outcomes.

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