Table 1.
Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy Health Outcomes and Research Program Team Members and Collaborators
| Role and Responsibilities | |
|---|---|
| Team member | |
| Program director | Develop and execute annual strategic priorities |
| Develop and maintain relationships with external stakeholders and other health-system specialty pharmacies | |
| Provide support for creation, coordination, and execution of outcomes research studies | |
| Assist in budgetary management | |
| Collaborate internally to enhance outcomes data capture and capabilities | |
| Provide oversight of student research program | |
| Research pharmacist | Design and execute outcomes research studies |
| Coordinate efforts with pharmacist and physician champions | |
| Develop, support and execute collaboration opportunities with internal and external stakeholders | |
| Project manager | Assist with planning, development, and execution of all projects to meet established goals, objectives, and timelines |
| Provide professional and/or technical leadership in the execution of day-to-day project activities | |
| Communicate within and across areas to maximize information sharing around progress, needs, interdependencies, and/or accomplishments | |
| Facilitate identification of gaps in service levels and/or processes to identify potential areas for improvement | |
| Assist with student research program coordination and orientation | |
| Support collaboration with sponsors for outcomes research | |
| Collaborators | |
| Biostatistician | Review research project design and methods |
| Analyze research data | |
| Assist with writing and reviewing grants | |
| Consult with manufacturers on potential studies | |
| Provide continuing education for pharmacists | |
| Participate on Outcomes Committee | |
| Health information technology personnel | Extract data from medical and pharmacy databases |
| Design data collection instruments | |
| Develop methods for prospective data collection | |
| Providers and clinic staff | Contribute guidance per clinical expertise |
| Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Transla- tional Research | Consult on study design and implementation |
| Assist with institutional review board applications | |
| Review study protocols and manuscripts |