VCU SOP represents at 21st Annual ISPOR International Meeting

June 30, 2016 by Cynthia McMullen

The VCU crew, students from left: Anal Shah, Della Varghese, Anisha Patel, Batul Electricwala, Julie Patterson and Hrishikesh Patel. Faculty, from left: David Holdford and Norman Carroll. — The VCU crew! Students, from left: Anal Shah, Della Varghese, Anisha Patel, Batul Electricwala, Julie Patterson and Hrishikesh Patel. Faculty, from left: David Holdford and Norman Carroll.

Members of the VCU School of Pharmacy chapter of ISPOR – the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research – always return from conferences with awards and a (collective) smile. The 21^st Annual International Meeting in Washington was no different.

Organizers note that nearly 3,800 people from 83 countries attended the 2016 meeting. This year’s theme was “Value, Affordability and Patient-Centeredness: Can We Have It All?”

Julie Patterson (second from left) receives her fellowship award.

Thanks to Hrishikesh Kale for providing details on student recognition, presentations and other activities:

Julie Patterson received a $25,000 PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) Foundation predoctoral fellowship award in the category of health outcomes for her dissertation proposal, “Patient Preferences During Community Pharmacy Selection: A Discrete Choice Experiment and Cluster Analysis for Community Pharmacy Market Segmentation.” Her adviser is David Holdford.
Posters were presented by Anal Shah (“National Trends in Direct Healthcare Expenditures Among Individuals With Migraine in the U.S: 2004-2013”); Anisha Patel and her adviser Norman Carroll (“Pediatric Opioid Exposures and Poisonings: Prevalence and Characteristics”); Della Varghese and Carroll, her adviser (“Comparison of Resource Utilization and Associated Costs Between Users and Non-users of Atypical Antipsychotics to Treat Off-label Mental Health Conditions”); Hrishikesh Kale and Carroll, his adviser (“Treatment Patterns of Depression Among Non-Institutionalized U.S. Cancer Survivors”); and Yoshita Paliwal and her advisor Patricia Slattum (“Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in U.S Older Adults: Prevalence and Healthcare Expenditures 2012-2013”).
Student Research Competition: Hrishikesh Kale, Batul Electricwala, Anisha Patel and Julie Patterson.

The VCU-ISPOR team — Kale, Patel, Patterson and Batul Electricwala — ranked third in the 2016 Student Research Competition, a knockout tournament that included teams from 20 other universities. “On the road to third place,” reported Kale, “our team beat University of Mississippi, University of Cincinnati and University of Arizona.” The University of Houston won, and University of Illinois at Chicago placed second. VCU placed first in 2011 and has reached the final four in each of the last three competitions.
School of Pharmacy students, faculty and alumni were invited to continue the tradition of attending dinner together. “We would like to thank the School of Pharmacy Development Office – specifically, Ellen Carfagno – for providing funding for the alumni dinner,” said Kale.

The annual alumni dinner. — Attendees of the annual VCU-ISPOR international meeting alumni dinner.

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