Rutgers Names Director of Institute for Well being, Well being Care Coverage and Growing older Analysis

Newswise — Tobias Gerhard, a professor of pharmacy and epidemiology, has been named director of Rutgers College’s Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH).

Gerhard has served as performing and interim director of IFH since December 2021 and was chosen for the place after an intensive nationwide search.

Gerhard is an internationally famend pharmacoepidemiologist whose profession focuses on two associated themes of analysis: the use and results of medication for psychological well being problems; and the use and results of medication within the aged. He has made in depth and impactful contributions to the real-world use, comparative effectiveness and security of psychotropic drugs. A fellow of the Worldwide Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, Gerhard serves because the group’s elected president.

Gerhard’s analysis has been acknowledged with a number of honors, together with a Younger Investigator Award from the Mind and Habits Analysis Basis. In 2022, he was elected to the American Epidemiological Society.

“The Institute for Well being, Well being Care Coverage and Growing older Analysis exemplifies interdisciplinary analysis at its finest,” stated Brian Strom, chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. “I’m delighted that we have been, due to this fact, capable of appeal to as candidates for the place, a number of very good leaders from across the nation. Dr. Gerhard stood out amongst them.”

Strom added: “I’m assured that underneath Dr. Gerhard’s management, the institute will proceed to be on the forefront of inhabitants and well being care analysis, increasing upon its impactful work in New Jersey and past, to assist us construct among the best educational well being facilities within the nation right here at Rutgers.”

Gerhard has revealed extensively on the use, security and outcomes of therapeutics, notably of psychotropic drugs in weak populations, with greater than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He serves on the editorial boards of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Security and Medical and Translational Science. His work has been funded by the Nationwide Institute on Growing older, the Nationwide Institute on Psychological Well being, the Affected person Centered Outcomes Analysis Institute, the Company for Healthcare Analysis and High quality and by a number of foundations.

Gerhard has served as a standing member of the Meals and Drug Administration’s drug security and danger administration advisory committee and as a committee member for the Nationwide Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medication.

“Whereas the institute has been shifting the needle on inhabitants and well being care analysis for many years, I sit up for Dr. Gerhard’s implementation of his imaginative and prescient for this distinctive Rutgers asset and utilizing his in depth experience in pharmacoepidemiology to assist us higher perceive well being outcomes and propel our establishment ahead,” stated Joseph Barone, dean of the Ernest Mario Faculty of Pharmacy at Rutgers.

Gerhard earned his pharmacy diploma from the College of Freiburg in Germany and his doctoral diploma in pharmacoepidemiology from the College of Florida. He joined Rutgers in 2007 as an assistant professor within the Division of Pharmacy Apply and Administration on the Ernest Mario Faculty of Pharmacy. In 2017, he grew to become the founding director of the Rutgers Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science (PETS). Since its formation, PETS has expanded to 10 multidisciplinary college with greater than $20 million in extramural funding. A nationwide seek for a brand new director for the middle will begin within the coming months.

“I’m humbled and deeply honored to imagine the management of the Institute for Well being,” Gerhard stated. “Its distinguished historical past, proficient college and workers, and dedication to considerate multidisciplinary trade, place IFH nicely to turn into a novel incubator for revolutionary collaborative work that creatively combines numerous disciplinary views, strategies, and theories to reply necessary questions for inhabitants well being and enhance the lives of the folks of New Jersey and the world.”