Professional Opportunities

The graduate program in Pharmacy Administration affords excellent career opportunities in a variety of settings and has maintained an exceptional track record in placing graduates. Graduates of the program have obtained positions in academia, the pharmaceutical industry, managed care organizations, professional associations, consulting and marketing research firms, government agencies, hospitals, and health care journal publication agencies.

In academia, the program has produced several chairs of pharmacy administration departments and deans of pharmacy schools nationwide. In the pharmaceutical industry, many alumni have quickly risen to senior management positions in marketing, health/pharmaceutical economics and pharmacy affairs. Other graduates of the program have secured key positions in the federal and state governments and professional associations in pharmacy.

Below are examples of positions of recent graduates:

Graduate Placement Data

 

 

 

Grad Year	Degree	Graduate Name		Employment after Graduation
2007	Ph.D.	William Lobb		Medical Marketing Economics, Oxford, MS
2007	Ph.D.	Amit Patel		Medical Marketing Economics, Oxford, MS
2007	Ph.D.	Manasi Amit Shah Patel		Medical Marketing Economics, Oxford, MS
2008	Ph.D.	Erin Holmes		University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2008	Ph.D.	Sean King		Union University, Jackson, TN
2009	M.S.	Philip Schwab		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2010	M.S.	Amod Athavale		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2010	M.S.	Ram Sankar Basak		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2010	M.S.	Krutika Jariwala		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2010	M.S.	Clive Mendonca		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2010	M.S.	Kyle Null		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2010	M.S.	Vennela Thumula		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2010	M.S.	Leonardo Torres		Walmart, Northern MS
2010	Ph.D.	Suvapun Bunniran		Trinity Partners, Waltham, MA
2011	M.S.	Sai Dharmarajan		Acumen, Burlingame, CA
2011	M.S.	Namita Joshi		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2011	M.S.	Tasneem Lokhandwala		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2011	M.S.	Hafiz Oko-Osi		United Biosource Corporation
2011	M.S.	Tushar Padwal		Medical Marketing Economics, Oxford, MS
2011	M.S.	Zainab Shahpurwala		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2011	M.S.	Sumit Verma		Acumen, Burlingame, CA
2011	Ph.D.	Leigh Ann Bynum		Belmont University, Nashville, TN
2012	Ph.D.	Marie Barnard		University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2012	Ph.D.	Kyle Null		University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2012	Ph.D.	Doug Paul		Medical Marketing Economics, Oxford, MS
2012	Ph.D.	Vennela Thumula		Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) Cambridge, MA
2013	M.S.	Ruchitbhai Shah		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2013	Ph.D.	Ram Sankar Basak		University of North Carolina, NC
2013	Ph.D.	Tasneem Lokhandwala		Xcenda, Palm Harbor, FL
2014	M.S.	James Parrett		Walgreens, MS
2014	Ph.D.	Rohan Mahabaleshwarkar		Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, NC
2014	Ph.D.	Philip Schwab		Humana, Louisville, KY
2015	M.S.	Tristen Jackson		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2015	M.S.	Sujith Ramachandran		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2015	M.S.	Divya Verma		IMS Health, Plymouth Meeting, PA
2015	Ph.D.	Amod Athavale		Trinity Partners, Waltham, MA
2015	Ph.D.	Manasi Datar		IMS Health, Bentonville, AR
2015	Ph.D.	Krutika Jariwala		BCBS, Michigan
2015	Ph.D.	Namita Joshi		Pharmerit International, Bethesda, MD
2015	Ph.D.	Clive Mendonca		Trinity Partners, Waltham, MA
2015	Ph.D.	Zainab Shahpurwala		Trinity Partners, Waltham, MA
2016	M.S.	Kaustuv Bhattacharya		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2016	M.S.	Nicholas Keeling		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2016	M.S.	Sasikiran Nunna		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2016	Ph.D.	Ruchitbhai Shah		Pharmerit International, Bethesda, MD
2017	M.S.	Ashley Crumby		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2017	M.S.	Noori Wahidullah		Sanofi Genzyme, Cambridge, MA
2017	Ph.D.	Sujith Ramachandran		University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2018	M.S.	Chukwuebuka Dibie		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2018	M.S.	Yiqiao Zhang		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2018	Ph.D.	David Wamble		RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC
2019	M.S.	David Allen III		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2019	M.S.	Siddhi Korgaonkar		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2019	Ph.D.	Ashley Crumby		University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2019	Ph.D.	Nilesh Gangan		HealthCore, Inc., Wilmington, DE
2019	Ph.D.	Tristen Jackson		Medical Marketing Economics, Oxford, MS
2019	Ph.D.	Nicholas Keeling		EY-Parthenon, Boston, MA
2019	Ph.D.	Sasikiran Nunna		IQVIA – Collegeville, PA
2020	M.S.	Ian Freeman		Walgreens, Chicago, IL
2020	M.S.	Sonam Nair		Boston Strategic Partners, Boston, MA
2020	Ph.D.	Kaustuv Bhattacharya		University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2020	Ph.D.	Chukwuebuka Dibie		Seagen, Seattle, WA
2020	Ph.D.	Manasi Suryavanshi		Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
2021	M.S.	Irene Nsiah		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2021	M.S.	Queenie Paltanwale		MuSigma Inc., Northbrook, IL
2021	M.S.	Wesley Sparkmon		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2021	Ph.D.	Sushmita Inguva		Pharmerit OPEN Health, Bethesda, MD
2021	Ph.D.	Monika Salkar		Trinity Life Sciences, Waltham, MA
2021	Ph.D.	Yiqiao Zhang		ZS Associates, Princeton, NJ
2022	M.S.	Emily Gravlee		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2022	M.S.	Saumil Jadhav		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2022	M.S.	Shishir Maharjan		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2022	Ph.D.	David Allen III		University of Montana Skaggs, Missoula, MT
2022	Ph.D.	Tyler Dunn		Novo Nordisk, Princeton, NJ
2022	Ph.D.	Swarnali Goswami		Complete Health Economics and Outcomes Research Solutions (CHEORS), North Wales, PA
2022	Ph.D.	Yiran Rong		Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
2022	Ph.D.	Wesley Sparkmon		Creighton University, Omaha, NE
2023	M.S.	Omokhodion Eriakha		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2023	M.S.	Saara Nasruddin		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2023	M.S.	Prachi Prajapati		Stayed at UM to pursue Ph.D.
2023	Ph.D.	Austin Arnold		Trinity Partners, Waltham, MA
2023	Ph.D.	Siddhi Korgaonkar		RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC
2023	Ph.D.	Jennifer Toth		Verana Health, San Francisco, CA

Internships

Summer 2024

 

 

 

 

Summer 2023

• Shishir Maharjan served as an RWVE Neuroscience Intern at Janssen: Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson in Titusville, New Jersey for a duration of 3 months. Throughout his internship, he actively contributed to various RWVE projects, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and external vendors. His responsibilities encompassed tasks such as exploring databases, conducting competitive analysis, performing studies on healthcare utilization and cost, as well as conducting systematic literature reviews. In the course of these projects, he effectively applied his academic expertise and drew upon his research experience to generate substantial evidence supporting the value proposition of pharmaceutical products within the industry. 

• Saara Nasruddin worked as a Summer Senior Consultant for 9 weeks at Trinity Life Sciences, a life sciences consulting firm in Waltham, MA. She worked with the Primary Marketing Research team in generating both Qualitative and Quantitative insights for clients. Her internship involved developing tangible solutions for clients’ business and research questions through communicating with teams across function areas and time zones and applying research methodology learned in the PHAD PhD program. Through her internship, she gained a better understanding of how to apply critical thinking skills to answer questions in life sciences consulting. 

• Saumil Jadhav worked as a Summer Senior Consultant at Trinity Life Sciences, a consultancy firm. As part of the internship program, he collaborated with multiple internal teams (e.g. evidence strategy team, RWE team) in generating both Qualitative and Quantitative insights for clients. The major clients he worked with include Novo Nordisk, PharmaEssentia, and Crinetics Pharmaceuticals. With the knowledge and skillset learned in the PHAD Ph.D. program, he was able to successfully develop protocols and survey instruments, apply research methodologies, carry out data analysis, and communicate and collaborate with fellow consultants across different time zones. Over the course of the internship, he gained an understanding of the intricacies of a healthcare consultancy firm and developed ways to answer client’s requests (research questions) using critical thinking and different research methods. 

Summer 2022

• Austin Arnold is working at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Boston as an intern within the Value and Evidence Generation department. As part of the internship, he will be coordinating across multiple internal (e.g., HEOR, clinical research) and field-focused (e.g., AML, MSL) teams to develop strategies for evidence generation and dissemination to support Takeda products and business operations. Through his internship, he will gain a better understanding of how evidence is identified, developed, and utilized to support the value propositions of products in the industry. 

 

Summer 2021

• Tyler Dunn is working at Novo Nordisk in Princeton, New Jersey, (virtually) within the Research Partnerships department. As a part of his internship, his research projects focus on managing and collaborating with external partners to generate real-world evidence surrounding new diabetes medications. Through this internship, he has gained valuable knowledge in the pharmaceutical industry on patient populations and pharmaceutical products.
• Swarnali Goswami is interning virtually with the Health Economics & Outcomes Research Department of Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., specifically with the Outcomes Research and Data Science Team. During her internship, she will be gaining an understanding of medical affairs strategy, value-based contracts, and insights related to payer partnerships. She will be involved in exploratory real-world data analysis and will be working with cross-functional teams to help with business risk assessment and decision-making.
• Irene Nsiah is interning at AbbVie (virtually) in the Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) team. Irene hopes to apply her theoretical knowledge of patient-reported outcomes in the real-world setting, and also gain a better understanding of how the pharmaceutical industry operates. 
• Yiran Rong is working at AbbVie, Lake County, IL (virtually) serving as a HEOR intern. Over the course of the summer, she is working directly with scientists in Health Economics and Outcomes Research in support of Women’s Health and other Specialty products in AbbVie’s portfolio. This internship will help her gain a better understanding of how to apply HEOR methods to the strategic needs of cross-functional teams and customers as well as gain insights into the complexities of the frug development process.
• Jennifer Toth is working at Takeda virtually with the Outcomes Research and Data Science team. This experience will give her a better understanding of writing research protocols and examining healthcare utilization patterns to help predict disease diagnosis. 

Summer 2020

• Austin Arnold is working at Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, CA as a Global Health and Reimbursement Intern. During the internship, he will be working with real world evidence on projects to support Edwards surgical heart valve products. This internship will help him develop a better understanding of the medical device industry and gain experience with health economics and outcomes research in an industry setting.
• Swarnali Goswami is working at Merck in Kenilworth, NJ as part of their Value Evidence Sub-Teams (VEST). During this internship, she will work on projects on Real World Evidence, Patient Reported Outcomes and Londitudinal Data Analysis. Through this internship she will gain a better understanding of how health economics and outcomes studies contribute to the product life cycle.
• Yiran Rong is working within the Real-World Evidence team at Xcenda LLC. in Palm Harbor, FL. As a part of this internship, she is excited to be working on a project which tests the impact of an intervention on a chronic condition by linking retrospective and prospective datasets. This intern is helping her gain experience in analyzing healthcare resource utilization and cost across various databases.
• Monika Salkar is working at AbbVie, Chicago, IL as a summer HEOR intern. This internship will help her further develop her skills in the field of health economics and outcomes research and concurrently help her gain experience in working in the pharmaceutical industry. Her projects specifically focus on real-world evidence and patient-reported outcomes. The projects assigned to Monika are related to her research interests and dissertation research, so it will enable her to learn about the pharmaceutical business implications in light of her dissertation research.
• Yiqiao Zhang is working at EMD Serono in Boston, MA within the Global Evidence & Value Development. Her research in this internship focuses on real-world evidence studies on cervical cancer. Through this internship, she has gained insights into the pharmaceutical industry and gained more experience in the HEOR.

Summer 2019

• Austin Arnold is working at Medical Marketing Economics in Oxford, Mississippi, gaining experience in conducting market research for companies expecting to launch new products. During his time at MME, he has gained valuable knowledge in the pharmaceutical industry on assessing market value and pricing for new products.
• Tyler Dunn is working at Express Scripts in St. Louis, Missouri, within the Health Services Research Department. As a part of his internship, his research projects have focused on the impact of prescription opioid use on health service utilization and health care costs in inflammatory condition patients. Through this internship, he has gained real world experience in the functions of a large pharmacy benefit manager.
• Siddhi Korgaonkar is working on different rare diseases at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston for its Global Real World Evidence Center of Excellence. As a part of this internship, her research projects focus on characterization of the patient population and studying the natural history of rare diseases. This internship is helping her understand how pharmaceutical companies design their strategy for treatments in the rare disease area differently from more prevalent diseases.

Summer 2018

• Ian Freeman is working at Amgen in Thousand Oaks, California, gaining experience in health economics and outcomes research.
• Monika Salkar is working at Glaxo Smith Kline in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, in the Value Evidence Outcomes (VEO) department. She will have projects that involve developing retrospective study designs and analyzing the company database.
• Chuk Dibie is working at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Deerfield, Illinois, as he engages in relevant industry projects to gain hands-on skills. As he learns more about the ever-changing pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, Chuk looks to develop a professional network of mentors that encourage growth and continual development in the HEOR sphere.
• Kaustuv Bhattacharya, is working at Pharmerit International in Bethesda, Maryland, as this internship will help further develop his skills in the field of health economics and outcomes research, specifically real-world evidence and patient-reported outcomes. The projects assigned to Kaustuv are closely related to his dissertation research, so it will help familiarize him with some methodologies he plans to explore.
• Siddhi Korgaonkar, is working at Alkermes Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts, serving as an HEOR summer intern. This will provide her with exposure to working in the pharmaceutical industry. Siddhi will gain hands-on experience, practical learning and networking with professionals that will broaden her career prospects and help her grow as a researcher.
• Sushmitha Inguva, is working at AbbVie in North Chicago, Illinois, as she is excited to strengthen her knowledge in patient-reported outcomes (PRO) and their application to the Parkinson’s disease area.

Summer 2016

• Nilesh Gangan, M.S. graduate student, is working June-August 2016 at AbbVie in Mettawa, IL.
• Manasi Suryavanshi, M.S. graduate student, is working June-August 2016 as a Science Intern at Abbvie in Chicago, IL.
• Kaustuv Bhattacharya, B.S. graduate student, is working June-August 2016 at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Plainsboro, NJ.
• Sasi Nunna, graduate student, is working June-December 2016 at AbbVie in Chicago, IL.

Summers, 2014-2015

• Nilesh Gangan, M.S. graduate student, is working June-August, 2015 at EPI-Q in Oak Brook IL
• Sasikiran Nunna, M.S. graduate student is working as an Intern at Applied Data Analytics, June-August, 2015, Xcenda Tampa, FL
• Ruchitbhai Shah, M.S. graduate student is working at Pharmerit North America LLC, June-August, 2015, Bethesda, MD
• Manasi Suryavanshi, M.S. graduate student is working as a Science Intern at Abbvie, June-August, 2015, Chicago, IL

Summers, 2012-2013

• Tristen Jackson, M.S. graduate student, is working May-August, 2013, in Senator Cochran’s office in Washington, D.C.
• Sujith Ramachandran, M.S. graduate student, is working June-August, 2013 at Bavarian Nordic in Mountainview, CA
• Ruchitbhai Shah, M.S. graduate student, is working May-August, 2013, at Biogen IDEC in Boston, MA

Summers, 2011-2012

• Namita Joshi, M.S. graduate student, is working as a Health Economics Intern at Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Global Market Access, Biogen Idec, in the Massachusetts-Weston Facility.
• Zainab Shahpurwala, M.S. graduate student, is working as a Graduate Intern at Amgen in the Global Health Economics Department in Thousand Oaks, California.

Summers, 2010-2011

• Amod S. Athavale, Ph.D. graduate student, completed a summer internship at BioVid Corporation in Princeton, NJ. He worked there as a Project Associate.
• Clive Mendonca, a Ph.D. graduate student, completed a summer internship in the marketing and commercialization department at ToleRx Inc. in Cambridge, Mass.
• Krutika Jariwala and Leigh Ann Bynum, Ph.D. graduate students, completed part-time summer internships at CE Outcomes in Birmingham, AL.
• Namita Joshi and Zainab Shahpurwala, M.S. graduate students, completed summer internships at Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development in Boston, MA.
• Tasneem Lokhandwala, Ph.D. graduate student, completed a summer internship in the Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) department at XcendaAmerisourceBergen Consulting Services in Palm Harbor, FL.
• Tushar Padwal, M.S. graduate student, completed a summer internship in the Qualitative Services and Statistics Division at BioVid Corporation in princeton, N.J.