Susan E. Andrade, Sc.D. is a Senior Research Associate at the Meyers Primary Care
Institute and a Research Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Andrade’s research interests include
pharmacoepidemiology and health services research. A main focus of her research has been
in the area of medication adherence and use of prescription drugs in special populations
including pregnant women, children, and the elderly. As site investigator in the HMO
Research Network and lead investigator for the HMO Research Network Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Epidemiology contract site, Dr. Andrade is involved in a number of
multi-site studies evaluating prescription drug use among pregnant women and associated
birth outcomes. Other research activities include studies evaluating adherence to
medications used in the treatment of diabetes, hyperlipidemia, seizure disorders, and
other chronic diseases. She has extensive expertise in the use of large automated health
care databases for pharmacoepidemiologic research and in the study of adverse drug
effects, drug adherence issues, and health services research.
Articles
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Prevalence, Trends, and Patterns of Use of Antidiabetic Medications Among Pregnant Women, 2001-2007 (with Jean M. Lawrence, Lyndsay A. Avalos, Sarah J. Beaton, Vicki Y. Chiu, Robert L. Davis, Sascha Dublin, Pamala A. Pawloski, Marsha A. Raebel, David H. Smith, Sengwee Toh, Jean Q. Wang, Sigal Kaplan, Thushi Amini, Christian Hampp, Tarek A. Hammad, Pamela E. Scott, and T. Craig Cheetham), Obstetrics and gynecology (2013)
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Trends in the use of antiepileptic drugs among pregnant women in the US, 2001-2007: a medication exposure in pregnancy risk evaluation program study (with William V. Bobo, Robert L. Davis, Sengwee Toh, De-Kun Li, T. Craig Cheetham, Pamala A. Pawloski, Sascha Dublin, Simone Pinheiro, Tarek A. Hammad, Pamela E. Scott, Richard A. Epstein Jr., Patrick G. Arbogast, James A. Morrow, Judith A. Dudley, Jean M. Lawrence, Lyndsay A. Avalos, and William O. Cooper), Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology (2012)
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Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program: The Prevalence of Asthma Medication Use During Pregnancy (with Craig Hansen, Peter Joski, Heather Freiman, Sengwee Toh, Sascha Dublin, Craig Cheetham, William Cooper, Pamala Pawloski, De-Kun Li, Sarah J. Beaton, Sigal Kaplan, Pamela E. Scott, Tarek Hammad, and Robert Davis), Maternal and child health journal (2012)
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