Professional Bio
Ghadeer Dawwas, PhD, MSc, MBA, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a Faculty Scholar at the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research (CHSR), and a member of Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center (VTRACC).
Dr. Dawwas holds PhD and MSc degrees in pharmacoepidemiology from the University of Florida, an MBA from Stratford University, and a bachelor’s in pharmacy from the University of Jordan. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Dawwas is a pharmacoepidemiologist and her research program uses readily available healthcare data to provide stakeholders including patients, clinicians, payers, and policymakers with evidence on the risk/benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic alternatives to improve clinical decision-making. The major themes of her research center on the evaluation of anticoagulants, research methods, and the intersection of comparative effectiveness research and health policy. Her most notable contribution stems from the work that evaluated apixaban and rivaroxaban in patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) that, among other evidence, led CVS Caremark to reverse its decision regarding the removal of apixaban from CVS preferred formulary list.
Dr. Dawwas' work resulted in notable peer-reviewed manuscripts published in Annals of Internal Medicine, Diabetes Care, and Lancet Hematology. She is a section editor of the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. Currently, she serves as the PI of two grants funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the American Society of Hematology (ASH) that aim to improve VTE treatment and prevention in populations historically excluded from randomized clinical trials.
Dr. Dawwas is the recipient of several awards from national and international organizations including fellowships from the ASH and American Association of University Women (AAUW), Best Article of the Month by Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives, Paper of the Year by American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (ACCP), International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) Second Best Abstract Award, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Top Research Presentation, and Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award.
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Education
MSc - Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences - University of Florida, 2017
PhD - University of Florida, 2018
Fellowship - Biostatistics Epidemiology and Informatics - University of Pennsylvania, 2022
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Email
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Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307