Pharmacy-epidemiology Faculty
Meet the faculty teaching in the certificate program Heading link
Dr. Ronald Hershow is director and associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UIC School of Public Health. Dr. Hershow is an infectious disease epidemiologist specializing in HIV infection, nosocomial infections, viral hepatitis and bioterrorism.
Saria Adwalla, PhD is a clinical assistant professor of biostatistics in the Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health. He joined UIC the fall of 2012 shortly after completing his doctoral training in statistics at the University of Rochester, NY. Saria’s background includes training and research in the biological sciences, computer science, and bioinformatics. His main research focuses under the rubric of distributional theory, the study of statistical distributions and their properties.
Todd Lee, PharmD, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy; and director of the UIC Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research. His research focus is both the safety and costs associated with medication use, and the intersection of phamacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics.
Caryn Peterson, PhD is a research assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UIC School of Public Health and Education Coordinator of the UIC Cancer Education and Career Development Program. Caryn’s epidemiologic research is related to racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in cancer outcomes.
Dima Qato, PharmD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy at the UIC College of Pharmacy. Her primary research interests relate to access and use of medications in vulnerable populations, and in understanding the impact of pharmaceutical policy on patient outcomes.