SRC Dissertator Award

Award Winners
Award Guidelines

In addition to its primary research goal, the SRC also has an educational mission. The SRC engages graduate students as research assistants and facilitates submission of students’ research proposals. The SRC also supports young investigators through its dissertator grant award program, the recipients of which are listed below.

Dissertator Award Recipients

Since 1999, the SRC has provided over 30 graduate students from the Social Administrative Sciences Division with dissertator awards of up to $4,000. These funds have enabled students to expand the scope of their dissertation work, resulting in greater impact.

Year	Dissertator	Title of Project
2024	Helen Omuya	Developing a Deprescribing Evaluation and Quality Improvement Instrument: A Veteran Affairs Based Study
2024	Jenny Li	Conceptualizing the Community Pharmacist’s Role in Addressing the Youth Vaping Epidemic
2023	Jason Chladek	Access to Vivitrol for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals During Community Reentry: Advancing the Role of Community Pharmacists
2023	Maeleigh Tidd	Identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing, starting, and maintaining on PrEP in the state of Wisconsin
2022	Ashley Morris	Improving Pediatric Over-the-Counter Medication Safety with Parents
2021	Deepika Rao	Designing a Patient-Centered Opioid Misuse Screening and Brief Intervention for the Community Pharmacy
2021	Shweta Shah	Developing a Patient-Centered Intervention to Improve Pediatric Care in Homes: A Participatory Design Approach
2021	Taylor Watterson	Validating a Tool to Measure Pharmacist Fatigue: Implications for the Quadruple Aim
2019	Tanvee Thakur	Factors Affecting Pharmacists’ Opioid Risk and Safety Communication Risks
2019	Yen-Ming Huang	A Mixed Methods Investigation of the Barriers and Facilitators to Medication Adherence in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes across Different Health Literacy Levels
2018	Joanne Peters	How Pharmacists Counsel Secret Shoppers on Over-The-Counter (OTC) Drugs: Loperamide and Ibuprofen
2015	Ephrem Aboneh	Medication Management Constraints and Care Coordination in CMC (Children with Medical Complexity)
2015	Sonal Ghura	Evaluating the Perceived Value of the “AHRQ Pill Card” in Community Pharmacies – Patient, Pharmacist and Student Pharmacist Perspectives
2015	Karishma Desai	The VA MOPP Study: VA Mail-Order Prescriptions and HIV Patients’ Perspectives
2014	Grace Welham	Prescriber perceptions when managing pain
2013	Korey Kennelty	Medication Discrepancies When Patients are Discharged in the Community
2013	Mohamed Amin	Pharmacists’ Role in Ramadan
2011	Addi Farber	Systematic Assessment of True, Misleading and False Claims in Advertisements for Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs on Television
2010	Audrey Hung	Examining Pharmacist-Technician Teams Providing an Innovative Hypertension Care Program in Community Settings
2010	Bobby Sanchez	Factors influencing decisions to use medications perceived to attenuate the progression of Alzheimer’s disease: a study using the Health Belief Model
2008	Pallavi Patwardhan	Implementation and Evaluation of the AAR Model Program of Tobacco Cessation in Community Pharmacies Serving Low Income Clients
2006	Lisa Guirguis	A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Impact of Structured Patient Interactions on Student Pharmacists’ Beliefs About Counseling: Impact of the Diabetes Check Intervention
2004	Jessie Dzvimbo	The Effect of Insurance Coverage on Zimbabwean Physicians’ Treatment Decisions for HIV and AIDS Patients
2003	Salisa Chamnanmoh	Adoption of Immunization Delivery Services in Pharmacies
2003	Nisa Sangasubana	Consumers’ Risk Perceptions of Over-the-Counter Drug Products: Concept and Measure Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
2002	Mary Gurney	A Study of Community Pharmacy Practice Sites: Patient Care and Management Activities
2002	Timothy Lobner	Investigating Drug Coverage Among an Elderly Population
2001	Nate Rickles	A Randomized, Controlled Study Evaluating the Impact of an Antidepressant Monitoring Program on Consumer Outcomes
2001	Burin T. Sriwong	Consumers’ Perceptions of General Pharmacy Patronage and Pharmacist Consultation Service Activities Offered by Demonstration Pharmacies in Thailand
2001	Rick Cline	The Demand for a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Exploring Consumer Preferences in a Hypothetical Managed Competition Environment
2001	Piyarat Nimpitakpong	Effect of Pharmacist Intervention on Medication Adherence and Rehospitalization in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure in Thailand
2001	Carol Hermansen Kobulnicky	Patients Monitoring Chemotherapy Side Effects
1999	Julie Ganther Urmie	Prescription Drug Utilization: Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection, and the Role of Consumer Medical Preferences

The culmination of doctoral education is dissertation research, often requiring funding to ensure successful completion. Through the Sonderegger Research Center Dissertator Research Grants Program, funding is available for doctoral level research in the Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy.

Goals:

The Dissertator Research Grant Program is designed to:

Help promising dissertators pursue research in Health Services Research in Pharmacy that complements the mission of the SRC.
Supplement students’ other dissertation funding efforts.
Encourage students to further develop their grant proposal preparation skills.

Who may apply:

Students in the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy Graduate Program in Health Services Research in Pharmacy.

Prerequisites:

The student is a dissertator and the student’s dissertation research proposal has been approved by her/his dissertation committee.
The student has prepared an application for research funding.

Application Process:

Students will submit a funding request to the Director of the SRC. The request must include a copy of their external funding request and a detailed budget for the total proposal, along with a brief summary of the research activities to be supported by SRC and a budget for those activities. The application for external funding, accompanying each request, must be prepared following the format required by the external funding agency (e.g., AHCPR, Kaiser Foundation, or other private agency).

Review Process:

When the Director of the SRC receives a funding request, it will then be forwarded to the SRC Dissertator Award Funding Request Evaluator for consideration. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis by the SRC Dissertator Award Funding Request Evaluator. Students will be notified about funding decisions when the SRC Dissertator Award Funding Request Evaluator makes a determination.

Amount:

Students are encouraged to be judicious in their budget requests. The student’s time cannot be be included in the budget. A maximum of $4,000 will be awarded per dissertator.

Responsibility:

Students are expected to acknowledge the funding that they receive in subsequent publications and presentations relevant to the supported research. Following completion of the research, the student should provide a summary of financial accounting and a 100 word abstract to the SRC Research Services Manager. The abstract will be included on the SRC webpage.