S. Suresh Madhavan, MBA, PhD, is a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy and Professor of Community Medicine at West Virginia University (WVU). Dr. Madhavan’s primary areas of research interests include health services research and health policy, with particular emphasis on improving access to and quality of preventive and pharmaceutical care services, and the cost-effective use of drugs in healthcare systems. Dr. Madhavan’s research has focused on cost-effectiveness and budgetary impact of preventive drug therapies in public programs like Medicaid and the state government employees’ insurance program. Dr. Madhavan has also been involved in developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative roles for pharmacists in the health care system. Of particular note is the CDC funded study with the American Pharmacists Association regarding the pharmacist’s role in immunizations and a study of the pharmacist’s role as an academic detailer, which received the Council of State Governments’ national Award for Innovation.

Dr. Madhavan has been involved in numerous grants and contracts exceeding $6 million from federal and state agencies, and private corporations. He has published in a variety of journals including Social Science and Medicine, Public Health, Journal of Health and Social Policy, Journal of Community Health, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, and Marketing Health Services. Dr. Madhavan has made over 110 presentations at various national conferences and as an invited speaker. He has been a mentor and PhD committee chair to eleven PhD graduates trained in health outcomes research who have found employment in academia, the pharmaceutical industry, and clinical research organizations. Dr. Madhavan and his graduate students have been the recipients of three best student paper awards at the annual meetings of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).

Dr. Madhavan has been a grant reviewer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and has been active in several national organizations in and outside of pharmacy. He has served or is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, Journal of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, and Journal of Pharmacy Teaching.Dr. Madhavan has served on several immunization advisory boards; two gubernatorial task forces on prescription drug benefits, and also provide pharmaceutical policy support to West Virginia agencies and provider groups. Dr. Madhavan is a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association - Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Sciences, and was selected to the 2005-06 American Association Colleges of Pharmacy Leadership Fellows Program. He is the Chair-elect of the Economic, Social, and Administrative Sciences section of the American Pharmacists Association.

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