Salisa C. Westrick, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Care Systems. She received her B.S. in pharmacy from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (1997), M.S. in Industrial Technology from Illinois State University (2000), and Ph.D. in Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004). She joined the faculty at Auburn University School of Pharmacy in December 2004. Dr. Westrick’s primary research interests are in three areas: (a) effect of organizational and social factors on innovation adoption, sustainability, and abandonment of pharmacy-based patient-care services, (b) pharmacists’ roles in public health, and (c) survey research. In 2004, she was awarded a dissertation grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and from Sonderegger Research Center to investigate how perceptions of immunization delivery services and social factors influence the adoption of outsourced and in-house immunization services. Active Research Projects: Sustainability and Abandonment of Immunization Delivery Services Sponsoring Agency: American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Role: Principal Investigator Period: January – December 2006 Pro-active Pharmacy-based Vaccination Study: A Multi-State Intervention Sponsoring Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Role: Subcontract-Principal Investigator Period: September 2005 – July 2007 Form and Effects of Pharmacy-Based Immunization Laws Sponsoring Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Role: Co-Investigator Period: September 2003 – August 2006 Courses Taught: PYPC 7900: Special Problems in Pharmacy Care Systems. Organizational Theories as applied to Pharmacy and Health Care Organizations PYPC 5240: Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care Systems PYPC 5140: Pharmacy Management