Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Email:Fang_Zhang@harvardpilgrim.org

Phone: (617) 509-9962
Fax: (617) 859-8112

Fang Zhang, PhD

Fang Zhang is an instructor of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. His primary research interests are in health services, public health surveillance and general Bayesian methodology development, particularly as it pertains to the statistical aspects of evaluating the impacts of local, national and international pharmaceutical policies and drug safety monitoring. He is currently providing statistical support for various studies including studies to evaluate the impact of Medicare drug benefit on use and cost-related underuse of medicines, studies to evaluate the prior authorization policies of atypical antipsychotic agents, bipolar agents and antidepressants. He is also involved in multi-site studies on vaccine and medication safety.

Recent publications:

• 1. Wagner AK, Ross-Degnan D, Gurwitz JH, Zhang F, Gilden DB, Cosler L, Soumerai SB. Effect of New York State regulatory action on benzodiazepine prescribing and hip fracture rates. Ann Intern Med 2007; 146(2):96-103
• Grant R, Adams AS, Mah Trinacty C, Zhang F, Kleinman K, Soumerai SB, Meigs JB, Ross-Degnan D. Relationship Between Patient Medication Adherence and Subsequent Clinical Inertia in Type 2 Diabetes Glycemic Management. Diabetes Care 2007
• Bambauer KZ, Safran DG, Ross-Degnan D, Zhang F, Adams AS, Gurwitz J, Pierre-Jacques M, Soumerai SB . Depression and cost-related medication nonadherence in medicare beneficiaries. Arch Gen Psychiatry (in Press) 2007; 64
• Bambauer KZ, Soumerai SB, Adams AS, Zhang F, Ross-Degnan D. Provider and patient characteristics associated with antidepressant nonadherence: the impact of provider specialty. J Clin Psych (in press) 2007