Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Houston

PHOP welcomes The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Assistant Professor Paul Zivich, Ph.D., for his presentation, "G-methods for Repeated Measures and Time-Varying Confounding," at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 21, in Health 2, Room 3082, and via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/phop-seminar-042126

PHOP Seminar | Tuesday, March 10

How do medications used for glucose control influence brain health? Join us as we explore emerging real-world evidence connecting GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors to neurological outcomes.

Featured Speaker: Huilin Tang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania

Presentation:
"From Glucose Control to Brain Health: Real-World Evidence on GLP-1RAs and SGLT2is"

Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Room 3082 or join via Zoom
Zoom: tinyurl.com/phop-seminar-sp26

Join the conversation and learn how these therapies may shape future approaches to patient care.

Join us for a PHOP seminar on Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. in Room 3082 or via Zoom at tinyurl.com/phop-seminar-sp26

"Towards Personalized Machine Learning for Healthcare: Risk Prediction, Patient Similarity, and Health Trajectory Mining" will be presented by Ph.D. student Deyi Li from the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the UF College of Medicine.

Join us for a PHOP seminar on Tuesday, Jan. 27, from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. in Room 3082. The seminar can also be attended via Zoom at tinyurl.com/phop-seminar-012726

Ning Lyu, Ph.D. ('23), will bring her expertise and insight during her presentation, "From FDA Approval to Real-World Safety: Regulatory Science and Pharmacoepidemiologic Evidence on Biologic Use in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease."

Ph.D. student and 2025 American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) Foundation PainConnect Travel Award recipient Paroma Arefin shares her experiences from the 2025 AAPM annual meeting and its impact on her current research on the PainConnect blog at https://painconnect.org/2025/11/17/exploring-innovation-insight-and-impact/

Congratulations to PHOP Ph.D. student Samuel Ofili on being recognized with a Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Pharmacy and Pharmacology ICPP 2025: XIX Oct. 23-24 in Houston.
Ofili was honored for his presentation, "Examining the Association Between Quality of Life and Healthcare Expenditure Among Older Adults with Arthritis in the United States," which was coauthored by fellow UHCOP student Paroma Arefin, University of Nigeria Nsukka Pharm.D. student Somtochukwu M.R. Nwajiobi, and UHCOP Professor Sujit Sansgiry, Ph.D.

Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 11.a.m. as Assistant Professor Tiansheng Wang, Pharm.D., Ph.D., presents, "Methodological Considerations for Applying High-Dimensional Iterative Causal Forest to Subgroup Identification in Real-World Data." Thank you to ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research for sponsoring this seminar.

Location: Health 2, Room 3082 and via Zoom at tinyurl.com/phop-seminar-100725