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Professor
VA
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Dr. Suda is currently Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Associate Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing, Director of the Transition to Independence Program, and a Research Health Scientist and Associate Director of Clinical Therapeutics with the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. Dr. Suda is a national expert in outpatient prescribing patterns and antibiotic stewardship. Dr. Suda received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Drake University and a Master’s in epidemiology at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Suda’s post-doctoral training includes a residency at Baptist Memorial Health Care, a pharmacokinetics fellowship at the Clinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory and an infectious diseases and outcomes research fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
As a clinical pharmacist with additional training in health outcomes and epidemiology, Dr. Suda’s research interests include antimicrobial and opioid pharmacoepidemiology and effectiveness of implementation strategies to improve prescribing. Dr. Suda has received funding from federal and non-federal sources and currently manages a research portfolio of over $15 million with R01, U-level and VA Merit awards as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, and the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Suda’s research has informed national policy on outpatient antibiotic stewardship, provision of VA data to state prescription drug monitoring programs, and the importance of dental prescribing in identifying solutions to the opioid epidemic and mounting bacterial resistance. Dr. Suda has served on committees and expert panels focused on antibiotic stewardship and evidenced-based dentistry for the American Dental Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FDI World Dental Congress, Food and Drug Administration, The Joint Commission, Veterans Health Administration, Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Dr. Suda has written more than 180 peer reviewed research articles in the professional literature and a dozen book chapters. Dr. Suda has received awards for teaching and research, including the CDC Shepard Science Award and the SHEA Antimicrobial Stewardship Scholar Award.
