PharmacoEconomic, Pharmacoepidemiology, and Pharmaceutical Policy and Outcomes Research Graduate Program (PEPPOR)

 

CORE FACULTY

 

Matthew E. Borrego, PhD, RPh

Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice - Pharmacy Administration
Concentration Chair, PharmacoEconomics, Pharmacoepidemiology, and Pharmaceutical Policy and Outcomes Research (PEPPOR) Graduate Program
 

 

College of Pharmacy - MSC09 5360 - 1 University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001  - Office: B-87B Nursing/Pharmacy Building
Telephone: 505.272.5945 - Fax: 505.272.6749
E-mail: mborrego@salud.unm.edu

Education

  • BS in Pharmacy, U. of New Mexico College of Pharmacy (1989)

  • MS in Hospital Pharmacy Administration, U. of New Mexico College of Pharmacy (1995)

  • PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Social and Administrative Sciences/Pharmacoeconomics) and minor in Educational Psychology, The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy (1998)

Research Interests  Dr. Borrego’s current research interests center around two major areas, pharmacy education and health outcomes research. Ongoing studies include the measurement of teaching, pharmacy education and interdisciplinary education related outcomes. Studies in the health outcomes area include applied pharmacoeconomic evaluations, health related quality of life studies and general health outcomes studies. Dr. Borrego also has a growing interest and is conducting preliminary studies in issues related to cultural competence in providing health care services, health and pharmaceutical policy and the health status and access to care of minority (especially Hispanic) populations

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Ludmila Bakhireva, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico. She obtained her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California, San Diego, Master’s of Public Health from Boston University, and received her medical training in Russia.

Dr. Bakhireva’s primary research interests are in the area of pharmacoepidemiology, perinatal and reproductive epidemiology, and drug safety in pregnancy. She is a member of the Teratology Society and extensively studied the effect of asthma and asthma therapy during pregnancy on adverse perinatal outcomes. Dr. Bakhireva is a co-investigator on a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders funded by the NIAAA and conducted in six countries around the world. Dr. Bakhireva also has a research interest in cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis and is a recipient of a New Investigator Award from the North American Menopause Association.

Contact info:

Telephone: 505.272.2545

Fax: 505.272.6749

Email: lbakhireva@salud.unm.edu

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Nasreen Khan, PhD, B. Pharmacy is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacy at the College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in 2006 in Pharmacy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also works as a consultant on projects at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy in New Mexico. Her primary interests are in the health economics and health policy. Currently, she is working on evaluating the impact of drug coverage in elderly population. She teaches and directs research projects in the undergraduate and graduate programs in Pharmacy Practice.

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Dennis W Raisch, PhD, RPh
Research Associate Professor
University of New Mexico, College of Pharmacy, Associate Center Director, Scientific Affairs, Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy, Albuquerque, NM.

Dr. Raisch received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. His work experience includes practicing as a pharmacist, teaching university courses, guiding graduate and fellowship students, performing health services research, and directing pharmaceutical support for large, multi-center clinical trials. He sits on numerous clinical trial executive committees. His current research endeavors include performing pharmacoeconomic analyses of health care therapies using the VA databases and assessing rare, serious adverse drug reactions in collaboration with the Research on Adverse Drug Reactions and Reports (RADAR) project, a National Cancer Institute-funded study.

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Mike R. Sather, PhD, FASHP
Dr. Mike Sather has been the Director of the VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center since 1976 and he is a Professor of Pharmacy at the Health Sciences Center College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico. Dr. Sather received his B.S. degree in Pharmacy in 1968 and M.S. degree in Hospital Pharmacy and Pharmacology in 1970 from the College of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. After completing a Pharmacy Internship and Hospital Pharmacy Residency at the VA Medical Center, Fargo, North Dakota from 1968 to 1970, he was an Instructor and Director of the State Poison and Drug Information Center at the College of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University from 1970 to 1973. From 1974 to 1976 he was Supervisor of the Section of Clinical Pharmacy and a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist on the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at the VA Medical Center, Tampa, Florida. In addition, Dr. Sather was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in Gainesville, Florida from 1975 to 1976. He became a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 1993. Dr. Sather received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences with emphasis on the ethics of clinical trials from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2001. Dr. Sather has led the Pharmacy Coordinating Center to one Pinon and four Roadrunner Quality Recognitions and the ZIA Award from Quality New Mexico, three VA Secretary’s Robert W. Carey Organizational Excellence Awards for the category of Veterans Health Administration, the VA Secretary’s Robert W. Carey Trophy Award for Organizational Excellence, and a International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001/2000 certification from the National Standards Authority of Ireland. Moreover, he has developed multiple clinical trial collaborations with several Institutes of the National Institutes of Health, University based medical groups and industry throughout the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe. As a result of Dr. Sather’s direction, the Pharmacy Coordinating Center has become an internationally recognized high performance center that coordinates the pharmaceutical and regulatory aspects of clinical research with a focus on multi-center clinical trials.

 

The University of New Mexico’s Doctor of Pharmacy program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, 20 North Clark Street, Suite 2500, Chicago, IL 60602-5109, TEL (312) 664-3575 , FAX (312) 664-4652, URL http://www.acpe-accredit.org/

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