Completed Dissertation Projects
2023
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.
