Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Michelle A. Chui, PharmD, PhD, FAPhA graduated from Creighton University with her PharmD, and Purdue University with her PhD. She is the Hammel-Sanders Distinguished Professor in the Social & Administrative Sciences Division in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy. She is the Director of the Sonderegger Research Center for Improved Medication Outcomes which is a forum that unites scholars, students, practitioners, funders, and policy makers in the creation of innovative approaches that address medication use issues. She is the Co-Director (along with colleagues in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine) of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research TL1 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral program, and co-director of the Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE), where she directs professional development programs for underrepresented scholars. Her research focuses on applying human factors engineering approaches to improving medication safety in the outpatient setting, and teaches the required medication safety course in the pharmacy curriculum. She has published over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. She has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) four times on the first submission to develop a patient safety learning laboratory, test a systems redesign intervention to improve over-the-counter medication safety, to evaluate CancelRx, a health IT functionality to reduce medication discrepancies, and to develop a patient safety learning laboratory. She has mentored over 40 successful trainees, including junior faculty, graduate students, TL1 and KL2 trainees, residents, and pharmacy students. Her lab received the Best Paper Award in the Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy journal (2022) and Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy journal (2023).