PharmD/MBA Student at Univ of Maryland with interest in Managed Care
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Pharmacy Affairs Department Intern at excelleRx, Inc.
- Database Application Developer at Thomas Jefferson University
- Informatics and Information Technology Consultant (Self-employed)
- Medical Informatics Specialist at ProSanos, Inc.
- Medical Informatics Specialist at Institute for Scientific Information
- Education
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- University of Maryland Baltimore
- Yunnan Normal University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Florida State University
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Damon Douglas’s Summary
Damon Douglas left five years of medical informatics research to pursue a Doctor of Pharmacy/MBA at the University of Maryland and Merrick School of Business. Armed with a dual PharmD and MBA, Mr. Douglas aims to join the managed care community to help develop solutions that promote value based competition in health care.
Current and Previous Projects:
- Medical Options
- Collaborative Online Patient Case Learning Environment
Recent Publications:
Damon Douglas (2008) Using option-based contracts to improve health outcomes. Manag Care 17: 4. 50-52 Apr
Non-professional interests include studying chinese language, calligraphy and cooking.
Damon Douglas’s Specialties:
health care business planning, MS Excel, Java, XML, XSL, Oracle, SQL, pharmaceutical care, managed care, pharmacoeconomics
Damon Douglas’s Experience
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Pharmacy Affairs Department Intern
excelleRx, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; OCR; Hospital & Health Care industry)
June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)
• Pharmacy benefits conversion of pharmacies in the national Bioscript network to PBMPlus.
• Spreadsheet and report analysis with Microsoft Access database queries for project progress assessment.
• Market research and analysis of online C.E. and C.M.E. credit for nurses.
• Analysis of Employee Satisfaction Survey using MS Excel.
• Automatic contact query utilizing MS Visual Basic and XML. -
Database Application Developer
Thomas Jefferson University
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — August 2005 (8 months)
• Faculty Research Interest web application written in cold fusion.
• De novo construction of Faculty Research Interest Oracle Database.
• XML/XSLT based password verification protocol
• XMLRPC server application for remote procedural and legacy application activation on Windows and Linux systems.
• Taught XML/XSLT and UML department seminars. -
Informatics and Information Technology Consultant
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 7 months)
University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Genetics
• XML driven web database application for monitoring microarray laboratory customers
• Proteomics research of pancreatic membrane protein sequences to predict antibody sequence targets.
Astrolabe Analytica, INC.
• Creation of a protocol for drug information indexing in the medical literature.
• Xml driven de novo construction of a SQL Server database combining the MeSH and Medra dictionaries.
• Web application components for pubmed literature searching and importing.
The Chubb Institute, INC
• Instructor of XML/XSLT course for web application curriculum. -
Medical Informatics Specialist
ProSanos, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
March 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 4 months)
• Clustering algorithms for disease pattern discovery of the DCCT Diabetes database.
• Non-linear least squares algorithm implementation in R statistical programming language.
• XML driven clustering and distance matrix display algorithm for SVG -
Medical Informatics Specialist
Institute for Scientific Information
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TOC; Information Services industry)
March 2000 — March 2002 (2 years 1 month)
• Indexed drug information for pharmaceutical client in English and German
• Automated billing report generation in MS Excel
Damon Douglas’s Education
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University of Maryland Baltimore
PharmD, Pharmacy, 2005 — 2009 (expected)
NCPA Outstanding Student Member Award 2007, 2nd Place at the Interdisciplinary Patient Management Competition
- Activities and Societies:
- NCPA Secretary, Patient Care I/II Liaison, Maryland Legistlative Day Student Representative, NCPA Student Business Plan Competition, PharmD Business Curriculum Committee, Drug Chemistry Lecturer, Physical Chemistry Class Tutor, Biochemistry Class Liaison, NCPA National Meeting 2005, Derivatives Conference 2007,
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Yunnan Normal University
Chinese Language 1999 — 2000
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University of Pennsylvania
MS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 1996 — 1998
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
NIH Structural Biology Graduate Fellow -
Florida State University
BS, Biochemistry, 1992 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude
Additional Information
Damon Douglas’s Websites:
Damon Douglas’s Interests:
health care business models, health care economics, health care finance, pharmacology mathematical models, securities investing
Damon Douglas’s Groups:
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, Medical Options Institute
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Medical Options Institute -
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
Damon Douglas’s Honors:
Phi Beta Kappa
Damon Douglas’s Contact Settings
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