PharmD/PhD and proud papa with interests in pharmacy practice, health policy, quality measurement, and big data analytics.

Joined July 2011
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18 Feb 2024
Segregation at Southern schools of pharmacy is more recent than most people think. In my last and most meaningful paper from my time at the UNC, my co-authors and I interviewed the first African American students to attend the UNC School of Pharmacy: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iZOA…
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18 Feb 2024
This shareable link should work: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iZOA…

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18 Feb 2024
Their powerful stories of desegregation help the profession understand its past and resonate with students' experiences today. Big thanks to Christian Brown for leading the interviews, Greg Bond for guiding the history, and Carla White for adding current DE&I context.
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Listen as @BenUrick, PharmD, PhD, Principal Health Outcomes Researcher @Prime_PBM discusses modern methods of defining medication adherence compared to existing literature definitions in this clip from S4 EP19 of the #PQSQualityCornerShow. zurl.co/yS8t
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31 Oct 2023
Great opportunity to chat with @PharmacyQuality about #MedicationAdherence research!
The #PQSQualityCornerShow welcomes back @BenUrick, PharmD, PhD, Principal Health Outcomes Researcher @Prime_PBM & Adjunct Asst. Prof. of Clinical Education @UNCPharmacy in a Brand New 🎤 Ep 19 to discuss current trends in #medicationadherence. Listen at zurl.co/96WJ
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Ben Urick, Principle Health Outcomes Researcher & Kyle Verley, Director of Network Management present their session Medically Integrated Dispensing Services: Creating Value for Payers and Providers at AMCP Nexus 2023. #AMCPNexus Access the live blog here: bit.ly/3Q7WIdk
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16 Oct 2023
Burgers for the other 99% of us!
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I wish as academics we could focus on producing evidence and not waste time reformatting. I am glad this has now been quantified. But I would like to think these may reflect a lower bound on the true cost as there is an extensive margin as well. I have a whole trail of perfectly fine and IMO important papers that I just cant bother to reformat to submit. It should not be that way. Its all just data, code and well, a bit of thinking. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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If you don't use citation software but need to resubmit to a journal with another format, you have to convert all references by hand, right?? Nope. ChatGPT just perfectly converted my AMA reference list to APA in 30 seconds. The robot overlords have given me my life back. 🤯🤯🤯
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And nine, nine indictments were gifted to the race of men, who above all else desire power. But they were, all of them, deceived, for another indictment was made.
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24 Aug 2023
Help me, #TwitteRx. If you get a script for a 453g tub of a topical steroid cream with a sig of “Apply Twice a Day for 7 Days”, what days supply would you put on the script?
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18 Aug 2023
I’m not sure the Florida version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears would end well for Goldilocks #BreakingAndEntering #StandYourGround
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18 Aug 2023
“‘Someone’s been sitting in my chair”, says Papa Bear, as he loads a round into the chamber…
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18 Aug 2023
For that matter, I don’t think Tumble Bumble would end well, either
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🥼 Seeking New Opportunities as a Pharmacist 💊 I am proud to announce that I have recently completed a challenging and rewarding PGY1 residency last June and I am now on the lookout for new opportunities as a pharmacist! 🔎
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11 Jul 2023
Great write up on a study I helped lead at @Prime_PBM. Using our real-world claims data and a matched cohort design, we found that members initiating GLP1a for weight loss in 2021 had poor persistence (<30%) and increased total healthcare spending by 59%.
Exclusive: Most patients using weight-loss drugs like Wegovy stop within a year, data show reut.rs/3JQiOP3
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6 Jul 2023
Sometimes I wonder if journal editors have read their instructions for authors… Submitting a manuscript tonight with a mandatory cover that’s not mentioned once in the instructions. I’ve written lots of cover letters, but to have no mention of a required item frustrates me
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6 Jul 2023
Particularly frustrating given that the journal I’m submitting to is a pharmacy that recently partnered with Elsevier…
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19 Jun 2023
Would it even be relicensure if I didn't need to complete all my CE in a week and a half?
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19 Jun 2023
To be clear, I've gone to plenty of conferences in the last 2 years, I just (apparently) never submitted CE information...
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