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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ADHD medications and risk of serious cardiovascular events in young and middle-aged adults (with Laurel A. Habel, William O. Cooper, Colin M. Sox, K. Arnold Chan, Bruce H. Fireman, Patrick G. Arbogast, T. Craig Cheetham, Virginia P. Quinn, Sascha Dublin, Denise M. Boudreau, Pamala A. Pawloski, Marsha A. Raebel, David H. Smith, Ninah Achacoso, Connie Uratsu, Alan S. Go, Steve Sidney, Mai N Nguyen-Huynh, Wayne A. Ray, and Joe V. Selby), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2011)
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Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program (with Robert L. Davis, T. Craig Cheetham, William O. Cooper, De-Kun Li, Thushi Amini, Sarah J. Beaton, Sascha Dublin, Tarek A. Hammad, Pamala A. Pawloski, Marsha A. Raebel, David H. Smith, Judy A. Staffa, Sengwee Toh, Inna Dashevsky, Katherine Haffenreffer, Kimberly Lane, Richard Platt, and Pamela E. Scott), Maternal and child health journal (2011)
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