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New Project to Evaluate
Drug TherapyA teacher and researcher with a unique combination of credentials in pharmacy and health policy will lead a project in the evaluation of drug therapy. Colleen Metge, pharmacy, will head the research program, which tries to answer the questions: "Can the benefits of pharmaceutical use be improved and, if so, how?" The Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Group is providing a five-year, $250,000 grant towards the establishment of a chair, and other sources of public-based funding are being explored to complete the funding. The research will focus on obtaining explicit understanding of how pharmaceuticals contribute to better health. The program's studies will use the province's Pharmacare database and a synthesis of other research findings to determine how drugs really perform when prescribed by an average physician for a typical patient. The chair also has a teaching and service component in familiarizing physicians, pharmacists, nurses, students, researchers and the public of the challenge of ensuring a drug remains effective after it is marketed. Metge has experience in Canada and U.S. in the science related to medication use and public policy development. She practised pharmacy in British Columbia for 15 years and received her PhD in pharmacy administration specializing in economics and epidemiology from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. She joined the University of Manitoba in 1995.
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