What is Pharmacoepidemiology?
Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the use and effects of drugs and other medical products in populations. It is the basic science underlying the public health practice of medical product safety surveillance. Pharmacoepidemiologists apply the research methods of epidemiology (e.g., randomized trials, cohort studies, case-control studies) to the study of pharmacology (e.g., determinants of beneficial and adverse drug effects, effects of genetic variation on drug effect, dose-response relationships, duration-response relationships, drug-drug interactions, effects of non-adherence). Pharmacoepidemiologists also evaluate programmatic efforts to improve medication use.
CPeRT Mission
The Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training (CPeRT) was founded in 2012 as a center within the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB). Its mission is to:
- Provide an intellectual home for pharmacoepidemiology at Penn
- Promote the conduct of applied and methodologic pharmacoepidemiology research
- Foster training of the next generation of pharmacoepidemiologists
- Expand number of Penn faculty members performing pharmacoepidemiology research
Training Programs
- Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) with Concentration in Pharmacoepidemiology
- PhD Degree Program in Epidemiology
- CHOP Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology Training Program (PPTP)
- FDA-Penn Certificate Program in Pharmacoepidemiology
Open Faculty Positions
View a listing of open faculty positions in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Leadership
- Director:
- Advisory Board:
Investigators
Standing Penn faculty engaged in pharmacoepidemiologic research- Peter C. Adamson, MD
- Richard Aplenc, MD, PhD
- Andrea Apter MD, MSc, MA
- Jeffrey S. Barrett, PhD
- Justin Bekelman, MD
- Warren Bilker, PhD
- Hillary Bogner, MD, MSCE
- Serena Cardillo, MD
- Andrew J. Cucchiara, PhD
- Adam C. Cuker, MD, MS
- Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, FRCS, MPH
- Jalpa Doshi, PhD
- Susan Ellenberg, PhD
- John T. Farrar, MD, PhD
- Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD
- Garret A. FitzGerald, MD
- Lee A. Fleisher, MD
- Kimberly A. Forde, MD, MHS
- Joel M. Gelfand MD MSCE
- Robert Gross, MD, MSCE
- James Guevara, MD, MPH
- Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD
- John Hogenesch, PhD
- John H. Holmes, PhD
- Marshall M. Joffe, MD, MPH, PhD
- John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, MHS, PhD
- Stephen E. Kimmel, MD, MSCE
- Ross Koppel, PhD
- Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE
- James D. Lewis, MD, MSCE
- Vincent Lo Re, MD, MSCE
- Elizabeth Lowenthal, MD
- David S. Mandell, ScD
- Jun J. Mao, MD, MSCE
- Steven C. Marcus, PhD
- David J. Margolis, MD, PhD
- Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD
- Nuala J. Meyer, MD
- Knashawn H. Morales, ScD
- Katherine L. Nathanson, MD
- David Oslin, MD
- K. Rajender (Raj) Reddy, MD
- Peter Reese, MD, MSCE
- Jason Roy, PhD
- Russell Shinohara, PhD
- Dylan Small, PhD
- Sindhu K. Srinivas, MD, MSCE
- Margaret Stineman, MD
- Brian L. Strom, MD, MPH
- Andrea B. Troxel, ScD
- Craig A. Umscheid, MD, MSCE
- Lyle H. Ungar, PhD
- Wei (Peter) Yang, PhD
- Yu-Xiao Yang, MD, MSCE
- Theoklis Zaoutis, MD, MSCE
Associate Investigators
Penn staff researchers engaged in pharmacoepidemiologic research- Dena M. Carbonari, MS
- Cristin Freeman, MPH, MBE
- Kevin Haynes, PharmD, MSCE
- Charles E. Leonard, PharmD, MSCE
- Melissa Nezamzadeh
- Hanieh Razzaghi, MPH
- Rita Schinnar, MPA
- Rebecca Speck, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Investigators
CCEB Adjunct Scholars engaged in pharmacoepidemiologic research
- Bing Cai, PhD
- Paul M. Coplan, ScD, MBA
- Michael Elliott, PhD
- James H. Flory, MD, MSCE
- Nkuchia Mikanatha, DrPH
- Daniel Mines, MD, MSCE
- Eileen E. Ming, MPH, ScD
- Swapnil Rajpathak, MD, MPH, DrPH
- Maribel Salas, MD, MSc, DSc
- Trung Nam Tran, MD, PhD
- Douglas J. Watson, PhD
Investigators-in-Training
Trainees in Penn research training programs (including postdoctoral fellowships), instructors, and research associates, engaged in pharmacoepidemiologic research- Marianne Augustine, MD
- Josh Baker, MD, MSCE
- Dana Byrne, MD
- Ami Desai, MD
- Jori Fleisher, MD
- Judd D. Flesch, MD
- Jason L. Freedman, MD
- David Goldberg, MD, MSCE
- Daniel Horton, MD
- Utkarsh Kohli, MBBS
- Grace E. Lee, MD
- Melissa Lerman, MD, PhD, MSCE
- Ann W. McMahon, MD, MS
- Jimish Mehta, PharmD
- Todd A. Miano, PharmD
- Tamara P. Miller, MD
- Ronac Mamtani, MD, MSCE
- Alexis Ogdie-Beatty, MD, MSCE
- Laurel Redding
- Alisa J. Stephens, PhD
- Junko Takeshita, MD, PhD
- Brian L. VanderBeek, MD, MPH
- Zahra Yekta, MD
- Howa Yeung
For infomation on joining CPeRT, please contact Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD, CPeRT Director (hennessy@upenn.edu; 215-898-9112).
