Completed Dissertation Projects
2023
Austin Arnold— Who, What, and How Much: Understanding the Profiles, Preferences, and Valuations of Individuals Likely to Participate in Food as Medicine Programs
Siddhi Korgaonkar— Understanding Financial Toxicity Among Adult Cancer Survivors in the US
Irene Nsiah— Evaluation of Quality Ratings in Healthcare: Is There Evidence of Disparities in Their Applications?
Jennifer Toth— Medication Use and Adherence in Rheumatoid Arthritis
2022
David Allen III— An Exploration of Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Training: Currently Available Information, Perspectives, and Beliefs
Tyler Dunn– Going Green- The Relationship Between Medical Marijuana Policy Implementation and Opioid Prescribing Patterns
Swarnali Goswami — Willingness to Use HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) and Preferences Among Men Who Have Sex with Men
Yiran Rong — Immune-Related Adverse Events of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Incidence, Risk Factors, Clinical Outcomes, and Economic Burden in Older Adults with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Wesley Sparkmon — The Role of Values in Communicating Pharmacy Technician Role Expansion
2021
Sushmitha Inguva — Sleep and Health-related Quality of Life among Persons with Parkinson’s Disease and Their Caregivers
Monika Salkar — Coping with Pain and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adults with Sickle Cell disease
Yiqiao Zhang — Quality and Cost Associated with Cancer Care
2020
Kaustuv Bhattacharya — Multiple Myeloma – Treatments, Economic Burden, and End of Life Care
Chukwuebuka Dibie — Patient Treatment Priorities and Patient-Centered Care in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Manasi Suryavanshi — Treatment Patterns, Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin Use in Medicare Population
2019
Ashley Crumby — Valuation of Mentorship in Pharmacy Education and the Impact of Perceived Personal Relevance
Nilesh Gangan — Testing a Modified Model of Stress Process for Understanding Quality of Life among Informal Caregivers and Assessing their Formal Service Use
Tristen Jackson — Pharmacy Value-Based Incentive Programs: An Evaluation of Health Plan Strategies, Pharmacist Attitudes, and Financial Impact on Retail Stores
Nicholas Keeling — A Sustainable Future in the Implementation of Clinical Pharmacogenomics
Sasikiran Nunna — End of Life Costs in Medicare Beneficiaries with Parkinson’s Disease
2018
David Wamble — The Role of Brand Name Fluency: A Pharmaceutical Marketing Perspective
2017
Sujith Ramachandran— Identification of Stimulant Misuse and Malingering of ADHD
2016
Ruchitbhai Shah — Measuring and Understanding Health Related QOL among Patients with Hemophilia
2015
Amod Athavale — Development of the Medication Non-Adherence Scale and the Medication Non-Persistence Scale
Manasi Datar — Predictors of Use of Hydroxyurea and Its Impact on Clinical and Economic Outcomes among Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Krutika Jariwala-Parikh — Quality of Life and Healthcare Utilization and Costs Among Adults with Autism
Namita Joshi — Health Utility Assessment Among Caregivers of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
Zainab Shahpurwala — Youth with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: An Examination of Adolescents’ Illness Perceptions and Associated Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life
Clive Mendonca — Impact of Refill Synchronization Medication Adherence for Chronic Diseases
2014
Rohan Mahabaleshwarkar — Management of Breast Cancer in the Medicaid Population
Philip Schwab — Customer Tolerance in Community Pharmacy
2013
Ram Sankar Basak — Concurrent Adherence to Multiple Chronic Disease Medications: Examining the Behavior and Issues Concerning its Measurement
Tasneem Lokhandwala — Impact of Time – Varying and Time-Invariant Measures of Adherence to Secondary Prevention Therapies Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Application of Marginal Structural Models (MSMs)
2012
Marie Barnard — The Potential for Screening for Interpersonal Violence in Community Pharmacies: An Exploratory Study
Kyle Null — Development and Comparative Predictive Validity of an Outpatient Medication Exposure Measure for Risk Adjustment Using Retrospective Claims Data
Doug Paul — Effects of Off-Label Prescribing on Patient Decision Making
Vennela Thumula — An Evaluation of Medicaid Programs Using Medication Use-Related Quality Measures
2011
Leigh Ann Bynum — The Relationship Between Psychological Contract Breach, Professional Identity, and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Among Pharmacy Faculty: An Equity Sensitivity Perspective
2010
Suvapun Bunniran — Patient Service Experiences in Community Pharmacy: an examination of health criticality in service failures and service recovery incidents and its influence on trust, satisfaction, repurchase intentions, and word-of-mouth
2008
Erin R. Holmes — The Role of Emotional Dissonance as an Affective State on the Emotional Labor Process of Retail Chain Pharmacists
Sean R. King — The Influence of Symbols on the Recall of Pharmacy-Generated Medication Information in a Low Health Literate Population
2007
William B. Lobb — Patients’ Decision Making in a Multi-Tier Co-Payment Environment
Amit S. Patel — Antecedents of Consumers’ Intentions Regarding the Purchase of Prescription Drugs via the Internet: An Examination of Two Different “Unlawful” Consumer Behaviors
Mansi A. Shah-Patel — Corporate Advertising in the Pharmaceutical Industry
2006
Alan R. Spies — Psychological Contract Violations in Pharmacy Students and Their Effect on Outcomes
2003
Joe Keith Bonnarens — Measuring the Presence of the Service Profit Chain and its Impact in Independent Community Pharmacy
James Blake Thompson — A Conjoint Analysis of Selection Criteria Used in the Screening Phase of Pharmaceutical Sales Selection
2002
Saurabh S. Sewak — Building Effective Pharmaceutical Product Websites: Assessing Media and Interactivity Effects in Pharmaceutical Promotion
Brian C. Reisetter — Relationship Between Psychosocial Physician Differences and Physician Price Awareness
1999
Alicia Corinne Sanders Bouldin — Information Search and Preference in the Decision to Use Herbal Supplements
Donna Sue West — A Conceptualization of the Trust Formation Process and Investigation of the Trustworthiness of Community Pharmacists Using a Practical Reasoning Framework
1998
John Paul Bentley — An Examination of Consumer Judgments of the Level of Inherent Burden Associated with the Medication Consumption Experience and Generated by Features of Drug Therapy
Steven A. Blackwell — An Empirical Examination of Customer Loyalty
1997
Sai (Shaun) Prasanth Poovala — Segmentation of Managed Health Care Plans Based on Initial Pos-Introduction Longitudinal Utilization Levels of New Medications: An Exploratory Investigation
1995
Eugene Micheal Kolassa Jr. — Hospital Pharmacy Directors and Competing Optima: An Evaluation of the Importance of Cost-Effectiveness Versus Acquisition Price
Judy K. Freeman — Optimizing the Provision of Student Health Services in Southeastern Universities: A Maximum Difference Conjoint Analytic Approach Using Best-Worst Scaling
David John McCaffrey III — Initial Noncompliance: The Definition and Description of the Unclaimed Prescription Phenomenon in Community Pharmacy. A National Unclaimed Prescription Audit Pilot
Lisa Ruby Basara — The Impact of Direct -to- Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medications on New Prescription Volume and Consumer Information Search Behavior
1993
Mary R. Monk-Tutor — Factors Influencing the Diffusion of a Health Care Innovation: Adoption of Home Infusion Therapy Services by Community Pharmacists
1991
James Martin Jernigan — An Examination of Factors Associated with Antihypertensive Prescribing Patterns and the Adoption of New Antihypertensives by a Sample of Physicians
Tracy S. Portner — Factors Influencing College Students’ Selection of a Source of Information About OTC Medications
Masako Nagasawa Murphy — Promotion Strategies and the Boston Consulting Group Product Portfolio in the Ethical Pharmaceutical Industry
Margaret Marx Aiken — Individual Determinants of Prescription Drug Use Among Noninstitutionalized Elderly: A Path Analytic Study of the 1980 National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure Survey
1990
Kattie B. Payne — The Development and Evaluation of an Adverse Drug Event Risk Profile for Hospitalized Patients Taking Cardiovascular Drugs
Linda S. White — Functional Analysis of Birth Certificate Data Collection Procedures in Mississippi Hospitals
For dissertation titles prior to 1990, please see Department History page.
