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BRUCE A. BERGER, PhD, RPh
 Bruce is a Professor and Head of the department of Pharmacy Care Systems at Auburn University. He was awarded an Alumni Professorship in 1996 for outstanding teaching, research, and service at Auburn University. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Bruce received his BS in Pharmacy from The Ohio State University. After practicing pharmacy for two years he returned to Ohio State and received his Masters and Ph.D. in social and behavioral pharmacy. He taught at Ohio State before moving to West Virginia University in January, 1980. After two years at WVU, Bruce moved to Auburn University and has been there since.
His research interests include health behavior change and improving treatment adherence. He is also interested in developing new service roles for the pharmacist. He has written or presented over 800 papers or seminars on these topics. Specifically, Dr. Berger has conducted workshops on health behavior change, strategies for improving treatment adherence leadership, interpersonal effectiveness, managing angry or difficult people, managing change, and managing resistance to change. He has attracted over four million dollars in funding to support his research and has been a project leader in a reengineering project of a major U.S. drug chain.
He has been a consultant to Pfizer, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Walgreens, and GSK.
He is the recipient of the Johnson & Johnson Award, the Lyman Award and the first American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's Award of Excellence for his research. He is the 2001 recipient of the Jack L. Beal Post baccalaureate Alumni Award from the Ohio State University.
Bruce has a regular column in US Pharmacist.
In October of 1997 Bruce was named by American Druggist magazine one of the 50 most influential people in U.S. pharmacy.
In March of 2004 Bruce was awarded a fellowship by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science for a lifetime of quality research.
Bruce is the 2007 winner of the APhA Wierderholt Prize for the best research publication in the social, behavioral, and administrative sciences in pharmacy in the Journal of the APhA. The study focused on the impact of motivational interviewing.
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WILLIAM A. VILLAUME, M.Div, MA, PhD
 Bill received his doctorate in Communication from The Ohio State University and taught for 20 years at Auburn University in the Department of Communication and Journalism before transferring to the faculty of the Harrison School of Pharmacy in the Fall of 2003.
In his teaching and research Bill focuses on the verbal and nonverbal processes in communication. He is currently developing a theoretical model of the communicative dimensions underlying Motivational Interviewing that account for its effectiveness with patients. Bill has published articles in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, the International Journal of Listening, and the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. He is a four time recipient of the Nichols Award for top research paper at the annual convention of the International Listening Association.
Bill is also a professional level Authorware programmer. His dual expertise as a programmer and as a communication scholar allowed Bill to team with Bruce Berger in developing the Auburn University Virtual Patient for teaching Motivational Interviewing. This project won the 2005 Innovation in Teaching Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
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JAN KAVOOKJIAN, MBA, PhD
 Dr. Kavookjian joined the professional and graduate faculties of the Harrison School of Pharmacy in June, 2006, after nearly five years as faculty with the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. She received her MBA (1989) and PhD (2001) from Auburn; while completing her PhD she was named as an Auburn University top 10 doctoral candidate and also held an AFPE/USP graduate research fellowship. She has developed and taught courses in patient communication and pharmacy management, and a graduate course in behavior theories and intervention research. As a behavioral scientist, she recently completed a study among type 2 diabetes patients which examined outcomes and psychosocial factors (quality of life, stage of change for self-care behaviors, depression, coping style) and their relation to clinical indicators (A1C, hypertension, lipid profile, body mass index) and health care utilization (diabetes-related ER visits and overnight hospital stays). She is also currently developing measures and interventions for medication adherence behaviors, and for the exercise and diet behaviors related to obesity. Dr. Kavookjian also applies her behavior science research skills to physician behaviors (prescribing, monitoring, and patient counseling on physical activity). One study provided her the opportunity to train pharmacists to use Motivational Interviewing (MI) for academic detailing encounters with physicians to influence prescribing of generics and formulary brand medications. A current project in this realm includes a survey of pediatricians in several states to assess readiness and barriers for counseling overweight/obese pediatric and adolescent patients about engaging in physical activity. Dr. Kavookjian has had experience training pharmacists, Certified Diabetes Educators (CDEs), and primary care physicians in Motivational Interviewing. She is frequently invited to serve as a speaker/trainer for several pharmacy-specific as well as non-pharmacy-specific health care provider associations at the state and national levels and has been invited back three times to deliver a featured half-day MI workshop at the American Pharmacists Association Foundation Advanced Practice Institute for Diabetes. In addition, she serves as a reviewer for several journals and was recently named a top 5% reviewer for the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. She also serves on the Behavioral Medicine Council of the American Diabetes Association. |
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