For Immediate Release

Contact: John M. Martino
Phone Number:  (215) 895-1186
Date: 06/30/03

USP Professor Receives Lindback Teaching Grant 

The Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation recently presented a Minority Junior Faculty Award to Dr. Deepika Vadher, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP). The award will support her research in examining the relationship between health literacy and medication adherence in patients diagnosed as hypertensive and diabetic, two diseases that are costly to society and require a significant amount of patient self-management to be optimally controlled.

Dr. Vadher plans to determine whether improving medication adherence for these patients will lead to more disease-specific intervention. Her research meets the objectives of the Healthy People 2010 Program, a set of health objectives for the nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century.

Before coming to USP in 1999, Dr. Vadher was a clinical pharmacy specialist/educator at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. Her current practice and research interests include internal medicine and ambulatory care. In addition, she serves as a preceptor for USP pharmacy students during their internal medicine rotations.

She received a doctor of pharmacy and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from USP and is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist.

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is a private, coeducational institution founded in 1821 as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the first college of pharmacy in North America. USP specializes in educating students for rewarding careers through its undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs in the health and related sciences.

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