Dean Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, FCCP FASHP, FAST and Dr. Christina Spivey, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science recently received a $2.7 million grant from the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust for a program that increases medication access to solid-organ transplant patients and studies the effects of increasing medication access to these patients.
Since its October 1999 inception through June 2018, Medication Access Program staff have enrolled more than 945 transplant patients and successfully procured approximately $75.6 million in medications for enrolled recipients.
Per Dr. Spivey, “The Medication Access Program is a lifeline for solid-organ transplant recipients who would otherwise not be able to afford the vital medications needed to maintain their transplant.” Dean Chisolm-Burns is very excited about the impact this funding has on medication access.