Michelle Chui, assistant professor in the Social and Administrative Sciences Division, is among three individuals selected by the UW Institute for Clinical and Translation Research (ICTR) Research Education and Career Development core (ICTR REC) as a KL2 scholar begining June 1, 2011.

Chui’s work will focus on describing the role of community pharmacists as medication experts. She will use a human factors/work systems approach to characterize their work flow and the demands and resources associated withthat work. Her goal is to identify patient safety gaps in the work system and lay the groundwork for designing interventions to improve the safety of medications dispensed from community pharmacies. Her mentors will be Ben-Tzion Karsh, College of Engineering, Industrial Engineering Department, and David Mott, associate professor in the Social and Administrative Sciences Division and Hammel/Sanders Distinguished Chair in Pharmacy Administration, School of Pharmacy.

The KL2 Scholars Program is funded by the NIH through ICTR’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) and is currently training a cohort of 21 KL2 Scholars. The program provides promising young clinical and translational investigators the training, mentoring, and protected time to develop an independent research program. This group of three new scholars marks Cohort 7 of the ICTR KL2 scholars program. They join a diverse array of individual scholars and mentors with wide ranging research interests and home academic departments.