Pharmacy’s Hernandez wins emerging leader award

Inmaculada Hernandez, of the Pitt School of Pharmacy, was been awarded the 2019 Seema S. Sonnad Emerging Leader in Managed Care Research Award by the American Journal of Managed Care during the Patient-Centered Oncology Care meeting on Nov. 8 in Philadelphia.

In 2016, Hernandez joined the Pitt faculty as an assistant professor of pharmacy and therapeutics and as associate director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing. She also serves as associate editor for the journal BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. Hernandez’s research program is focused on the intersection of pharmaceutical health services and outcomes research, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmaco-economics and pharmaceutical policy.