The Health Outcomes and Pharmacy Practice Division represents the union of two former divisions – the Pharmacy Administration Division and the Pharmacy Practice Division.
Dr. Ken Lawson serves as head of the new division while Dr. James Karboski serves as assistant division head. Dr. Karen Rascati serves as graduate advisor for the division.
At the PharmD level, division faculty members are responsible for a variety of courses designed to prepare students to provide outstanding patient care. In addition, faculty members are involved in the pharmacotherapeutics sequence of courses and professional development convocation courses. Division faculty members also teach courses open to non-pharmacy students including Pharmacology for Nursing Students, Drugs in Our Society, and a variety of health-related topics open to entering freshmen known as Signature Courses.
Graduate-level courses taught by division faculty members help prepare graduate students to conduct research focused on improving the health of society. Topics related to utilization and cost of medication and other health care services, patient behaviors and outcomes, pharmacoeconomics, pharmaceutical marketing and management, pharmacoepidemiology, and practice-based research are covered.
Along with graduate coursework, division faculty members supervise research projects conducted by more than 30 post-graduates, including Master's and Ph.D. graduate students and health outcomes fellows. In addition, community and ambulatory care pharmacy practice residents are trained to deliver innovative clinical pharmacy services to patients and to become leaders in their respective fields.
The division fosters opportunities for collaboration among faculty within and outside of the division in both teaching and research activities, particularly those that are practice-related.
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Division Information
Mailing Address:
Pharmacy Practice
College of Pharmacy
The University of Texas
at Austin
1 University Station,
A1900
Austin, TX
78712-01200
USA
Email Address: pharmacy
@www.utexas.edu
Phone:
1-512-232-2622
Diane B. Ginsburg, assistant dean for student affairs, has been named president-elect of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
(ASHP).
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The center examines the impact of pharmaceutical services and products
on patients' quality of life and health care outcomes through cost-effectiveness,
cost-benefit, cost-utility and cost-minimization analyses and to disseminate
scholarly findings.