Professor Awarded More Than $1M to Study Pharmacists’ Effect on Transplant Patients
Marie Chisolm-Burns
Marie Chisholm-Burns has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of pharmacists' involvement in renal transplant patients' drug therapy.
Marie Chisholm-Burns, head of the department of pharmacy practice and science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health of more than $1 million to study the effects of pharmacists' involvement in renal transplant patients' drug therapy.
The NIH Research Project Grant, known as an R01, will allow Chisholm-Burns and her team to see if pharmacists working more directly with transplant patients will help the patients stay on medication regimens designed to decrease their rejection of transplanted kidneys.
"We will be looking at patients' adherence to medications and their therapeutic response to medications," said Chisholm-Burns, who is principal investigator on the project. "We'll study quality of life and economic outcomes, also."
Chisholm-Burns is working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians on this project.
The team will conduct a longitudinal, controlled study of more than 100 patients in Georgia and Arizona over the course of two years.
Chisholm-Burns is the founder and executive director of the Medication Access Program in Georgia, a program that provides services to increase access to medications for solid-organ transplant recipients. Chisholm-Burns is an expert in transplant medicine.
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