Faculty and Staff Detail
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Duska Franic, Pharm.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor PCA Clinical Administrative Pharmacy |
| Contact Information | |
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| Phone: | (706)542-1132 |
| Email: | dfranic@rx.uga.edu |
| Fax: | (706)542-5228 |
| Office: | 254 |
| Address: |
R.C. Wilson Pharmacy Building 250 Green Street UGA College of Pharmacy Athens, GA 30602-2354 |
| Biosketch | |||
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| Ph.D. | Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 2000 |
| M.S. | Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 1997 |
| PharmD | Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science | Philadelphia, PA | 1995 |
| Graduate Diploma in Hospital Pharmacy | Victorian College of Pharmacy | Victoria, Australia | 1992 |
| B.Pharm | Victorian College of Pharmacy | Victoria, Australia | 1988 |
- Honors and Awards
- Pharmacia and Upjohn Graduate Fellowship Award, 2000.
Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1997.
Member of The Rho Chi National Pharmacy Honor Society 1995.
Centenary Award for the highest academic achievement for the Graduate Diploma in Hospital Pharmacy: Class of 1991-1992.
- Area of Expertise
- My research program focus lies in patient reported outcomes (PROs). My research interest initiated with patient outcomes in pharmaceutical care utilizing survey research design. This has expanded to include behavioral decision making in addition to health related quality of life. My research program has focused on methodological issues surrounding various methods of patient preference measurement including psychometric and non-psychometric, or welfare based approaches, including utility assessment and contingent valuation, with an emphasis on policy decision making.
- Representative Publications
- Franic DM, Tootle-Tucker L, Haddock SM. Pharmaceutical care: what's in a name? A qualitative analysis of patient perceptions of pharmacy practice. Journal of Pharmacy Technology 2008 (In press).
Franic DM, Bothe AK. Patient reported outcomes in stuttering treatment: conceptual framework. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2008;8(2):127-131.
Bothe AK, Franic DM, Ingham RJ, Davidow JH. Pharmacological Approaches to Stuttering Treatment: Reply to Meline and Harn (2008). American Journal of Speech-Language & Pathology,2008;17: 98-101.
Franic DM, Bothe A. Psychometric Evaluation of Condition-Specific Instruments Used To Assess Health-Related Quality of Life, Attitudes, and Related Constructs in Stuttering American Journal of Speech-Language and Pathology 2008;17: 60-80.
Franic DM, Haddock SM, Tootle-Tucker L, Wooten N. Pharmacy patronage: Identifying key factors in the decision making process using the determinant attribute approach. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 2008; 48(1): 71-85.
Franic DM, Jiang J. Inappropriate medication use results in poor quality of life in the elderly: a retrospective study, Pharmacotherapy 2006; 26(6):768 - 778.
Bothe AK, Davidow JH, Bramlett RE, Franic DM, Ingham RJ,. Stuttering Treatment Research, 1970 – 2005: II. Systematic Review Incorporating Trial Quality Assessment of Pharmacological Approaches. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2006; 15(4): 342 - 352.
Bramlett R, Bothe A, Franic DM. Using Preference-Based Measures to Assess Quality of Life in Stuttering. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2006(49): 381-394.
Franic DM, Grauer D, Law A. An Evaluation of Patients' Attitudes toward Pharmacy Selection: a Determinant Attribute Approach. Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management 2005; 17(1):35-50.
Franic DM, Aull L, Grauer D, Oyelowo OO. The association between adherence, asthma control, generic and disease specific quality of life instruments in asthma. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research 2005; 5(4):411-422.
Franic DM, Pathak DS, Gafni A. Relating quality adjusted life years to contingent valuation in oncology: acute versus chronic illnesses. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005;58(3):291-303.
Franic DM, Bramlett R, Bothe A. Psychometric evaluation of disease specific quality of life instruments in voice disorders. Journal of Voice 2005;19(2):300-315.
Franic DM. Promoting learning in a health care systems course by multiple testing methods including internet-based quizzes. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.2004;68(5): Article 119.
Deshpande A, Wade W, Johnson T, Franic DM. A survey of pharmacy student involvement in wellness programs. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.2004;68(5) Article 122.
Franic DM, Pathak D, Kwong J, Pierson J. Cost Utility Analysis. In:. Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes:. Grauer D, Lee T, Odom J, Osterhaus L, Sanchez L, Touchette D. eds. 2nd Ed. American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2003, pp146 – 181.
Franic DM. Cost Utility Analysis Case study. In: Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes: Case Studies. Grauer D, Lee T, Odom J, Osterhaus L, Sanchez L, Touchette D. eds. 2nd Ed. American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2003, pp16-20.
Franic DM, Pathak DS. Respondents' Attitude Toward Preference Measurement Tools: Graphic Positioning Scale Versus Traditional Scales. Value in Health 2003; 6(4): 483-493.
Franic DM, Pathak DS. Effect of including (versus excluding) fates worse than death in utility assessment. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2003; 19(2): 346 – 360.
Franic DM, Pathak DS, Gafni A. Are Health States “Timeless”: A Case Study Of An Acute Condition - Post Chemotherapy Nausea And Vomiting. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2003; 9(1): 69-82.
Franic DM, Pathak DS. Communicating the frequency of adverse drug reactions to female patients. Drug Information Journal 2000;34(1):1-22.
- Other
- Courses regularly taught. I instruct professional pharmacy students and graduate students in US Health Care Systems (PHRM 3750/6750). At the graduate level I also teach Health Outcomes (health related quality of life assessment and preference measurement approaches (PHRM 8690).