Jayesh Parmar
Dr. Jayesh R. Parmar is Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at Larkin University College of Pharmacy (LUCOP) in Miami, Florida. He held an administrative role at LUCOP as a Vice-Chair of Dept. of Clinical and Administrative Sciences prior to accepting the Assistant Deans’ position at LUCOP. His first academic position was for six years at University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy where he was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacy Administration from University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Dr. Parmar’s research interest includes comparative effectiveness & outcomes research, pharmacoeconomics, public health, and academic research. He has served as a principal investigator for several federal funded grants.
Dr. Parmar has been active in many professional pharmacy organizations and has published his research in reputed journals and continues to serve as a reviewer for the journals.
Research Profile
My research interest is to excel in the areas of social and administrative sciences which includes: comparative effectiveness & outcomes research using secondary healthcare database, pharmacoeconomics, public health, and academic research. I have served as a principal investigator, awarded and funded, public health grants e.g. Underage Drinking/Binge Drinking, Opioid Misuse Prevention Program, Health Enterprise Competent Care Connections Program, and 1422 Chronic Diseases Prevention and Control Grant. I am a strong advocate of positive student outcomes and take pride of my collaborative research team which comprises of graduate-level students and faculty body, from both clinical and pharmaceutical science departments, which is evident from the published articles. I have served as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals in the field of pharmacy.
I have served as a member of professional organizations, including the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Also, serve as an honorary faculty member of the Gamma Omicron chapter of the Phi Delta Chi pharmacy fraternity.
Publications
Parmar, J., Forrest, B. and Freeman, R. Medical Marijuana Patient Counseling Points for Healthcare Professionals based on Trends in the Medical uses, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects of Cannabis-Based Pharmaceutical Drugs. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy-Elsevier. September 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.09.002
Parmar, J., Tejada, F., Purnell, M., Acedera, L., Ngonga, F., and Lang, L. Assessment of Communications-related Admissions Criteria in a Three Year Pharmacy Program. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2015;79(6) Article 86. doi: 10.5688/ajpe79686
Tejada, F.R., Parmar, J., Lang, L., Ghogomu, J. A comparison of pharmacy technician experience, degree and major as predictors of academic performance between two racial groups at a historically black university. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 2016, (8)1, 112-118.
Kharel, M., Parmar, J., Freeman, R., Kas, K., Yim, R., Traore, S., and ElFadaly, M. Lethal Drugs in Capital Punishment in USA: History, Present, and Future Perspectives. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy-Elsevier. Manuscript in press-November 2015. doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.11.009
Varadarajan R., Freeman, R., and Parmar, J. Aid-in-Dying Practices in Europe and the United States: Legal and Ethical Perspectives for Pharmacy Research. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy-Elsevier. November 2015. doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.11.008.
Tejada, F.R., Parmar, J., Purnell, M., and Lang, L. Admissions criteria as predictors of academic performance in a Three-year pharmacy program in an HBCU institution. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2016: 80(1):6
Ajavon, A., Killian D., Odom R., Figliozzi R., Chen F., Balish M., Parmar, J., Freeman, R., Snitzer J.,and Hsia, V. S. Influence of Thyroid Hormone Disruption on the Incidence of Shingles. Epidemiology and Infection, 143, pp 3557-3571. doi:10.1017/S0950268815000655.
Victor Hsia, S., Parmar, J., Freeman, R., and Balish, M. (2013) A retrospective cohort analysis of the relationship between thyroid hormone level and herpes simplex virus-1 activation. Health, 5, 1201-1205. doi: 10.4236/health.2013.58162.
Parmar, J. R. (2009). Impact of hurricane Katrina on epilepsy patients in the Louisiana Medicaid population. University of Louisiana at Monroe. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 174. Can be retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jayesh_Parmar3/publication/235972529_IMPACT_OF_HURRICANE_KATRINA_ON_EPILEPSY_PATIENTS_IN_THE_LOUISIANA_MEDICAID_POPULATION/links/0deec5150a28a953d4000000/IMPACT-OF-HURRICANE-KATRINA-ON-EPILEPSY-PATIENTS-IN-THE-LOUISIANA-MEDICAID-POPULATION.pdf
