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Bruce Lambert, Ph.D.
Dr. Lambert is professor in the Department of Pharmacy Administration, clinical professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and adjunct professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Lambert’s research focuses on pharmacoepidemiology, patient safety and medication errors, health outcomes associated with provider-patient communication, and on information retrieval. He is currently the principal investigator on a four year project, funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to study the effect of similarity and prescribing frequency on auditory perception of drug names as well as a Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to study methods to optimize prescribing (TOP-MED)
Dr. Lambert's publications have appeared in Drug Safety, The Journal of Medical Systems, Health Communication, Social Science & Medicine, Medical Care, The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, The Drug Information Journal and many other journals. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Health Communication.
For his work on medication errors, Dr. Lambert received the Best Published Paper award from the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1997, a Cheers Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and a Center Director’s Special Citation award form the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.
He has served as a Special Government Employee for the U. S. FDA and a member of the U. S. Pharmacopeia’s Consumer Interest and Health Education Advisory Panel. Dr. Lambert was a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Chicago Patient Safety Forum and currently serves on JCAHO's Medication Safety Advisory Panel and on the Research Committee of the National Patient Safety Foundation.