Adoption of Innovation and Organizational Change in Pharmacy
Organizational theories are used to guide an examination of organizational and environmental factors that influence the sustainability, adoption, and abandonment of innovative patient care services.
Salisa C. Westrick, Ph.D.

Automation and Robotics
Automation and Robotics Computer-controlled mechanical devices that dispense and compound medications are used as tools to free pharmacists for patient care while preventing errors and improving productivity. The role of the pharmacist is to understand their use, limitations and control. Learn the development and evaluation of such systems from prototype through clinical trial.
Kenneth N. Barker B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Bill G. Felkey B.S., M.S., and Betsy A. Flynn, Ph.D., R. Ph.

Facilities Design
This unique program draws upon architecture, industrial design, and systems engineering to explore how good design can significantly increase work efficiency, reduce dispensing errors, increase the effectiveness of patient counseling, improve personnel comfort and retention, and present an image that supports professional goals.
Kenneth N. Barker B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Betsy A. Flynn, Ph.D., R. Ph.

Intervention and Outcomes Assessment
Intervention/outcomes assessment of physician behaviors (prescribing, monitoring, and counseling)
Jan Kavookjian, MBA, Ph.D.

Health Outcomes Research
Health outcomes research in quality of life and adherence in chronic illness, particularly diabetes, obesity, and depression.
Jan Kavookjian, MBA, Ph.D.

Healthcare Informatics
Information is the common denominator underlying all healthcare disciplines and specialties. With over 6000 articles being published in the biomedical literature every week, the use of prescription strength information at the point of care is mission critical in healthcare. Evidence-based, high quality information, delivered to the right person, at the right time, in the right format will make every practitioner more efficient and effective.
Bill G. Felkey B.S., M.S.

Motivational Interviewing
Bruce A. Berger B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Jan Kavookjian, MBA, Ph.D., and William A. Villaume, Ph.D.

New Roles for Pharmacists
The traditional roles of the pharmacist are reexamined and new roles such as drug therapy management are studied. Reengineering the role of the pharmacist is a systematic process for redesigning work methods to allow redeployment of the pharmacist’s time through automation, delegation to auxiliary workers, and the elimination of wasted effort.
All PCS Faculty

Patient Education
Patients can become co-producers in their own health with proper education. People fail in their treatment regimens because they don't know what to do, how to do it, or are not motivated to adhere to regimens. A combination of social behavior and technology assisted interventions can significantly improve patient outcomes.
Bruce A. Berger B.S., M.S., Ph.D., and Bill G. Felkey B.S., M.S.

Pharmacy Administration
All PCS Faculty

Pharmacists' Roles in Public Health
Salisa C. Westrick, Ph.D.

Socio-Behavioral Pharmacy
The application of social and behavioral science theory to understand and assess the impact of pharmacist and patient behaviors on treatment adherence and outcomes.
Bruce A. Berger B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Jan Kavookjian, MBA, Ph.D., and William A. Villaume, Ph.D.

Telepharmacy
The Internet had helped bring "death to distance." Bringing care to patients instead of moving patients to care is the foundation of telepharmacy. A combination of automation and telecommunication technology opens many opportunities for the profession including remote dispensing and consultation, central fulfillment, and just-in-time professional and patient education.
Bill G. Felkey B.S., M.S.