2012 CU Pharmacy alumna Julia Slejko has traded places going from student to faculty with her career in academia. She had been working in biotech for about seven years before considering graduate school, taking pharmaceutical sciences courses as a non-degree student at the CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the early 2000s. Then she discovered CU Pharmacy's Center for Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research (CePOR) degree program and found her fit in pharmacoenomics, the scientific discipline which compares the value of one pharmaceutical drug or drug therapy to another.
"The idea of economics applied to healthcare or pharmaceutical settings really captured my imagination," she said.
Having a strong basis in the training through CePOR provided knowledge in different methods and areas of research which she applies today in her faculty role with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
"I think it speaks to the multidisciplinary nature of the CePOR faculty, and the breadth of experience they have across many types of studies and all the different methods that they use," Slejko said.