PharmacoAnalytics - Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research, MS

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The School of Pharmacy offers graduate level training to highly motivated individuals. Our mission is to train the next generation of leaders and decision makers seeking to improve the health of the community through outstanding basic and clinical research. Major strengths include highly accomplished, well-funded research faculty, multidisciplinary training opportunities, and cutting-edge technologies.

This MS degree offers healthcare professionals an opportunity to bring data science to the real-world databases with emphasis on using pharmacoanalytic applications. Students will utilize data and technology to enhance pharmaceutical use, operations, and outcomes that drive better quality patient care while also providing pharmacists with the tools and knowledge necessary to analyze trends from large data sets and then interpret these trends in a way that allows them to improve their daily practice. Students will be competent with identifying big data sources, managing data, determining pharmacoepidemiologic observational study designs, data interpretation. Students will apply various data analytic techniques using statistical and analytic software to inform decision-making processes in the pharmacy practice that is driven by patient-centerd outcome assessments.

Knowledge of data manipulation in some platform (STATA, SAS, Python, R, Tableau); secondary data sources, methods and tools are preferred prior to enrollment.