Dr. Karen Farris Presents at MCubed Symposium; How Texting Can Help Improve Medication Use

Dr. Karen Farris, Charles R. Walgreen III Professor of Pharmacy Administration & Associate Chair for Professional and Graduate Education, presented her work on improving medication use via text message at the MCubed symposium in November 2013. This innovative project combines artificial intelligence programming with messages developed by expert health communicators in a text messaging system developed to improve medication use by individuals using hypertensive medications.

Watch the entire presentation.

The two-year seed-funding program, MCubed, is designed to empower interdisciplinary faculty members at the University of Michigan to pursue new initiatives that will have great impact on society.

Learn more about MCubed. 

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For more about Pharmacy’s involvement in MCubed, see below articles for projects, participants, and titles.

• Enabling Patient-Centered Care with Advanced Mobile Monitoring
  Patricia Abbott, Nursing; Jim Stevenson, Pharmacy; Robert Dick, Engineering
• Phase Stability and Kinetics of Cocrystalline Drug Delivery Systems
  Nair Rodriguez-Hornedo, Pharmacy; Greg Amidon, Pharmacy; Zhan Chen, Chemistry
• Novel Drug Delivery and Treatments for Glaucoma
  Sayoko Moroi, Medicine; Steve Schwendeman, Pharmacy; Mark Meyerhoff, Chemistry
• Therapeutic Application of Synthetic HDL for Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases
  James Moon, Pharmacy; Anna Schwendeman, Pharmacy; Mariana Kaplan, Medicine
• Discovery of Products for Probing Structure and Function of RNase P and Human Mitochondrial tRNA 
  Carol Fierke, Chemistry; David Sherman, Pharmacy; Hashim Al-Hashimi, Chemistry
• Drug Discovery to Block Protein-Protein Interaction
  Duxin Sun, Pharmacy; Shaomeng Wang, Medicine; Yali Dou, Medicine
• Molecular Engineering of Self-Organizing & Site-Directed Intracellular Crystals in Living Organisms
  Gus Rosania, Pharmacy; Ruma Banerjee, Medicine; Joel Swanson, Medicine
• Development of Fragment Screening Platform for Efficient Targeting of Challenging Proteins
  Tomasz Cierpicki, Medicine; Matt Soellner, Pharmacy; Jolanta Grembecka, Medicine
• ALDH Inhibitors as Cancer Differentiation Therapy 
  Ron Buckanovich, Medicine; Scott Larsen, Pharmacy; Euisik Yoon, Engineering
• Adaptive Health Communications over Mobile Devices 
  Satinder Baveja, Engineering; Karen Farris, Pharmacy; John Piette, Medicine
• Macrophage-targeted Immunomodulatory Therapies for Lung Diseases 
  Kathleen Stringer, Pharmacy; Ted Standiford, Medicine; Vicki Ellingrod, Pharmacy