College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions Research
The College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions is committed to improving health through innovative and translational research and scholarship. The college currently houses two research centers and three departments with faculty engaged in a variety of innovative research topics.
Spotlight on the most recent publications from faculty in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions.
- Pharmacist-driven mobile health clinics: a qualitative analysis of logistics for program development, implementation and operation
- Use of artificial intelligence processing tools to evaluate qualitative data: Student researchers compared to faculty researchers
- To Stay or To Go? Debate Regarding U.S. News and World Report Pharmacy Program Rankings
- Communication about Perinatal Mental Health Disorders in the Rural United States
- Studies of resilience and family resilience within families experiencing homelessness/housing instability: A systematic review
- Synthesis of Immunomodulatory Biomimetic Lipid Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles and Application of Zebrafish Larvae in Immunomodulation Screening
- Impact of a Targeted Recruitment Approach for a Medication Adherence Packaging Program
- Integrating a Naloxone-Focused Population Health Management Experience into an Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience
- Development of a Rubric to Assess Pharmacy Regulatory Models
- COEPA Ready: Innovative Pedagogy for Integrating Social Determinants of Health in Pharm.D. Curricula
The pharmaceutical sciences faculty, in addition to teaching, are actively involved in research. The department has fully equipped research laboratories that are located in the research wing of the Avera Health and Science Center. The research facilities are utilized by faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and undergraduate researchers. The department hosts two endowed faculty positions, the Markl Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research and the Haarberg Chair in Cancer Research, as well as the Haarberg 3D Center.
Research topics for faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences currently include:
- Cancer
- Neuropharmacology
- Cancer pharmacology
- Cardiovascular medications
- Ocular diseases
- Genomics
- Drug and vaccine delivery
- Bioengineering
Faculty in the Department of Allied and Population Health engage in a range of research focused on improving population health outcomes in South Dakota and beyond. The department hosts the Community Practice Innovation Center, a multimillion-dollar center focused on developing innovative solutions to meet community’s population health needs, and the South Dakota Perinatal Quality Collaborative, the first Perinatal Quality Collaborative focused on addressing maternal and child health needs in South Dakota.
Research topics for faculty in the Department of Allied and Population Health currently include:
- Substance use disorder treatment, prevention and recovery
- Project and grant management
- Implementation science
- Photovoice
- Men’s mental health
- Maternal and child health
- Perinatal mental health
- Respiratory care workforce development
- Health outcomes
- Heart disease and medication therapy management
Faculty in the Department of Pharmacy Practice are engaged in research and scholarly projects with the goal of improving pharmacy practice. Our faculty’s research is designed to improve outcomes related to education, practice and workplace, with the goal of improving the lives of pharmacists, pharmacy staff and patients.
Research topics for faculty in the Department of Pharmacy Practice currently include:
- Pharmacogenomics outcomes
- Development of innovative pharmacy practice models
- Health disparities
- Community pharmacy
- Heart disease and medication therapy management
- Quality improvement
- Pharmacy billing
- Pharmacy education
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
The research occurs in three parts involving implementation science, retrospective clinical outcomes studies, and prospective Randomized Clinical Trials. Prospective research is funded through the National Human Genome Research Institute.
The START-SD team at SDSU begins work to address substance use disorder, support prisoner reentry.
The laboratory of Josh Reineke, Ph.D., is developing a novel drug delivery system for tuberculosis treatment.
The laboratory of Wenfeng An, Ph.D., the Markl Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research, focuses on genomics and specifically "jumping genes".
Gudiseva Chandrasekher, Ph.D., is performing research that could lead to development of cornea-equivalents for transplantation purposes.
