Pharmacy students present at pharmacoeconomics conference, win best poster award
By Purva Parab (VCU-ISPOR Chapter President 2017-2018)
Hrishikesh Kale, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the VCU School of Pharmacy, received the Best Student Poster Research Presentation Award at the recent conference of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.
The top 10 percent of posters out of 1,600 submitted were considered for the award this year; three including Kale received the award. Kale won for his poster, “Economic Burden of Renal Cell Carcinoma among Older Adults in the Targeted Therapy Era.” His adviser is Dr. Norman Carroll.
Other VCU School of Pharmacy students presenting posters at the conference include second-year master’s student Purva Parab (“Patterns of Use and Quality of Life Associated with the Utilization of Antidepressants amongst Cancer Patients with Depression”), whose adviser is Dr. Pramit Nadpara; and Yiran Zhang (“Transplanting Kidneys from HCV Positive Donors Into HCV Negative Recipients in the Era of Direct Acting Antiviral Therapy: A Cost Effectiveness Analysis”), a second-year VCU-Indivior fellow currently working with Carroll.
Graduate students from the Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science (Division of Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes) and the members of the VCU chapter of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research represent the VCU School of Pharmacy every year and exhibit their research at the ISPOR international annual conference. (Read about some previous years’ conferences here and here.)
This year’s annual meeting was held in Baltimore. More than 4,000 people from more than 40 countries attended the conference, whose theme was “Real-World Evidence, Digital Health, and the New Landscape for Health Decision Making.”
The VCU-ISPOR team included Kale, Parab, Zhang and Ph.D. student Elena Fernandez.
VCU-ISPOR students chapter also hosted a VCU alumni dinner at the conference. Parab, the president of VCU-ISPOR chapter, received funding for the alumni dinner from the VCU development office.
“We would like to thank [former School of Pharmacy development director] Ellen Carfagno for arranging the funds for the dinner,” Parab said. “It was great!”
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