Cardiovascular Health

Dr. Johnson’s research is focused on understanding genetic and other sources of variability in drug response, building evidence to support translation of research to clinical practice, implementing genomic medicine in practice and documenting clinical outcomes associated with use of genomic medicine in practice. Her discovery research focuses primarily on cardiovascular drugs used in the treatment of hypertension and heart failure and used to prevent blood clots. Her pharmacogenetics implementation work is across a range of therapeutic areas and explores clinical trial approaches for documenting its impact on clinical outcomes. She’s also deeply committed to training the next generation of clinical and translational scientists.

Dr. Nguyen is a board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist practicing in outpatient general internal medicine under collaborative practice agreements. She is passionate about educating the future generations of pharmacists in both didactic and experiential settings and introducing the pharmacy profession to underrepresented students. Her scholarship interests include pharmacy practice advancement and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Dr. Pickworth is a clinical pharmacist at the Ross Heart Hospital on The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center campus with over 35 years of experience. Besides an active clinical practice in heart failure, her research endeavors focus in the areas of general cardiology or heart failure. She is passionate about educating the next generation of pharmacists and highly engaged in training pharmacy residents. As an active member of many professional societies, she has served at the Chair of the American Society of Health-system Pharmacists (ASHP) Commission on Credentialing and is the current Chair of the Pharmacy Committee for the Heart Failure Society of America.