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Macarius Donneyong, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor
Pharmacy Practice and Science
Outcomes and Translational Sciences
Email
donneyong.1@osu.edu
Phone
(614) 292-0075
Office

404 Riffe

Macarius Donneyong

Professional Interests

Dr. Donneyong's passion is to improve health equity with respect to the effectiveness, safety and adherence to prescribed medications through research. His research interests include drug-drug interactions - adverse drug events precipitated by exposure to poly-pharmacy among older adults, especially racial/ethnic minorities; and medication adherence - the role of social determinants of health and patient-provider relationships in racial/ethnic disparities in medication adherence.

Biography

Dr. Macarius Donneyong is an associate professor with joint faculty appointments in the Division of Outcomes and Translational Sciences, College of Pharmacy (70%) and the Division of Health Services Management and Policy, College of Public Health. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), Discovery Themes.

His career is characterized by a sustained record of multidisciplinary scholarship in the field of pharmacoepidemiology. His research has focused on generating real-world evidence on the effectiveness, safety and acceptability (adherence) of prescribed medication use among patient populations that are under-represented in clinical trials of medications, especially among racial/ethnic minorities and older patient populations.

Dr. Donneyong's commitment to this field of research has resulted in the recognition of his research as exemplified by the extramural (NIH R01 and foundations) and intramural research awards that he has received to improve patient outcomes. His research has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals including, the British Medical Journal, Jama Internal Medicine, Circulation-Hear Failure, etc. He has also given multiple talks as an invited speaker at some of the top universities in the US.

His selfless services to professional scientific societies have been rewarded with leadership opportunities. For example, he is currently a board member of the American College of Epidemiology and also previously served as the chair of various committees in the society as well as the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE). Beyond services in professional societies, he is extremely active in shaping the field of pharmacoepidemiology through his services as an associate editor and as a reviewer of extramural research grants and manuscripts. He remains dedicated to teaching and training the next generation of researchers through both formal and informal pedagogical and mentorship activities.

Education

  • 2013 - PhD, Epidemiology (minor Biostatistics), University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
  • 2009 - MPH, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
  • 2005 - BS, Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Honors

  • 2022: AIM-AHEAD (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity) Leadership Fellowship
  • 2020: ICPE (International Conference of Pharmacoepidemiology) All Access Spotlight Poster Winner in the category of Adherence for poster entitled, “The Role of The Patient-provider Relationship In Racial/ethnic Disparities In Nonadherence To Antihypertens
  • 2016: First place (Connected Health Track), Grand HACK in Medicine, MIT Hacking Medicine
  • 2015: Conference travel award, the American College of Epidemiology, Atlanta, GA
  • 2013: The Graduate Dean’s citation award. University of Louisville 2009
  • 2013: Outstanding dissertation (award nomination). School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies, University of Louisville
  • 2012: Dissertation completion award. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky

Publications