Sujith Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Biography
Sujith Ramachandran, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration and an Assistant Director for the Center for Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. His research is aimed toward building a high-quality, equitable healthcare system that improves patient outcomes and provides value. He has focused on examining the patterns and safety of medication use including opioid use in older adults and stimulant use among young adults. His expertise lies in methodological approaches for the design and execution of research focused on health equity, real-world evidence, and pharmacoepidemiology.
He has contributed significantly toward the field of healthcare quality, ranging from the development of measures to improve quality of ADHD diagnoses to testing and validation of quality measures in chronic conditions. Dr. Ramachandran has worked closely with Mississippi’s Division of Medicaid on monitoring of Medicaid quality and reform of care delivery. He has collaborated with the Pharmacy Quality Alliance to co-chair national multidisciplinary workgroups for the development and evaluation of pharmacy-focused quality measures. He was awarded a new investigator award from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy in 2020 and from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in 2019. He has won numerous other recognitions such as the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s Best Social & Administrative Sciences Research Paper Award in 2019 and again in 2021. Dr. Ramachandran has been a part of investigative teams that received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Mississippi State Department of Health, Mississippi Division of Medicaid, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other non-profit organizations.
Dr. Ramachandran completed his Bachelors in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He went on to complete an MS and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences with an emphasis in Pharmacy Administration from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy in Oxford, Mississippi.