Dr. Chewning received the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy national Dawson Award for Excellence in Patient Care Research for innovative and impactful Research in the areas of social determinants of health, patient communications, and the medication use experience. Her research, teaching and publications address patient perspectives, shared decision-making, dissemination and implementation studies and comparative effectiveness outcomes. She seeks to improve patient and health care provider communication and patient/ public health outcomes through improved partnerships. She has long engaged diverse stakeholders (American Indian, Latinix, African American, Muslim and underserved rural communities.) As study principal investigator and co-PI she has received over $6 million for her studies.

Dr. Chewning conducts multi-site longitudinal, descriptive and intervention studies to identify how to improve patients' management of their health and regimens.  She and her students have conducted research related to falls, arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, end stage renal disease, and cancer.  Their work addresses 

Sonderegger Research Center

Dr. Chewning is the founding director of the Sonderegger Research Center (SRC), serving for 30 years in that position. The brain child of Joseph Wiederholt, the SRC was the first Social and Administrative Pharmacy research center in the US. With support of the NIH ICTR-CAP, Dr. Chewning and others in the Sonderegger Research Center established the Pharmacy Practice Enhancement and Action Research Link (PEARL Rx), an ongoing collaborative partnership with over 130 pharmacists in Wisconsin.

With her colleagues and graduate students, Dr. Chewning has worked with pharmacists to implement and evaluate pharmacy based interventions. She and her students have also studied a range of issues related to disparities in care, transitions in care, deprescribing and medication reconciliation.

Awards

She and her graduate students have received numerous awards for their research.  Chewning's doctoral students Joanne Peters and Karishma Desai received the 2015 International Conference on Communication in Health Care award for best research abstract. In 2015, along with co-authors and former graduate students Pallavi Patwardhan, PhD and Mohamad Amin, PhD, she received the Best Paper Award of 2014 published in the journal Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. In 2011, along with former student Beth Martin she as co-author received the Wiederholt Award for best research paper published in JAPhA (coauthored with Beth Martin, PhD and Ruth Bruskewitz, PhD). Her students have received annual awards for best APhA ESAS post-graduate papers in 2010, 2005, and 2003. 

In addition to her teaching roles, she is the member of several university and School of Pharmacy committees.  She is a founding member of the NIH funded ICTR Community Academic Partnership steering committee. She is a member of the School of Pharmacy Curriculum Committee, Interprofessional Education Committee, University of Wi-Madison Faculty Senate and serves on mentoring committees for junior faculty mentoring committees.

Background:

Dr. Chewning (Professor) completed her PhD in Educational Psychology and a post-doctoral program in Industrial Engineering/Health Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. She is a fellow in the American Pharmacists Association (APhA APRS) and the Association for Communication in Healthcare (ACH). She has chaired and served on several Canadian and US NIH and CDC study section review committees. She has served on Institute of Medicine committees evaluating Title X and family planning needs in the country. She is past chair of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Social Administrative Sciences Division. Dr. Chewning also serves on the steering committee for the NIH funded ICTR-CAP.

Dr. Chewning received the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy national Dawson Award for Excellence in Patient Care Research for innovative and impactful Research in the areas of social determinants of health, patient communications, and the medication use experience. Her research, teaching and publications address patient perspectives, shared decision-making, dissemination and implementation studies and comparative effectiveness outcomes. She seeks to improve patient and health care provider communication and patient/ public health outcomes through improved partnerships. She has long engaged diverse stakeholders (American Indian, Latinix, African American, Muslim and underserved rural communities.) As study principal investigator and co-PI she has received over $6 million for her studies.

Chewning conducts multi-site longitudinal, descriptive and intervention studies to identify how to improve patients' management of their health and regimens.  She and her students have also studied a range of issues related to disparities in care, transitions in care, deprescribing and medication reconciliation.

Sonderegger Research Center

Dr. Chewning is the founding director of the Sonderegger Research Center (SRC), serving for 30 years in that position. The brain child of Joseph Wiederholt, the SRC was the first Social and Administrative Pharmacy research center in the US. With support of the NIH ICTR-CAP, Dr. Chewning and others in the Sonderegger Research Center established the Pharmacy Practice Enhancement and Action Research Link (PEARL Rx), an ongoing collaborative partnership with over 130 pharmacists in Wisconsin.  With her colleagues and graduate students, Dr. Chewning has worked with pharmacists to implement and evaluate pharmacy based interventions.

With support of the NIH ICTR-CAP, Dr. Chewning and others in the Sonderegger Research Center established the Pharmacy Practice Enhancement and Action Research Link (PEARL Rx), an ongoing collaborative partnership with over 130 pharmacists in Wisconsin. With her graduate students, Dr. Chewning has worked with pharmacists to implement and evaluate pharmacy based interventions. 

Awards

She and her graduate students have received numerous awards for their research.  Chewning's doctoral students Joanne Peters and Karishma Desai received the 2015 International Conference on Communication in Health Care award for best research abstract. In 2015, along with co-authors and former graduate students Pallavi Patwardhand, PhD and Mohamad Amin, PhD, she received the Best Paper Award of 2014 published in the journal Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. In 2011, along with former student Beth Martin she received the Wiederholt Award as a co-author for best research paper published in JAPhA. Her students have received annual awards for best APhA ESAS post-graduate papers in 2010, 2005, and 2003.  

Chewning teaches in the required Pharm.D. course, Pharmacist Communication: Educational Behavioral Interventions, as well as leading a graduate seminar on social and behavioral theory.

Professional Interests: Identifying client needs for health information and support and identifying interventions to promote improved health outcomes.

Fun: Chewning has a performing Irish Band Onadare.

Education:

BA 1968 - University of Chicago
PhD 1973 Educational Psychology - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Postdoctoral 1974 Industrial Engineering/ Health Systems Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chewning teaches in the required Pharm.D. course, Pharmacist Communication: Educational Behavioral Interventions, as well as leading a graduate seminar on social and behavioral theory.

• Amin MEK, Qudah BA, Kaur A, Rawy M, Chewning B. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning2021, 13 (12), 1607-10.
• Planalp EM, Kliems MA, Chewning BA, PaltaM, LeCaire TJ, Young LA, Cox ED. Development and validation of the self-management barriers and supports evaluation for working-age adults with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. BMJ Open Diabetes Research Care.2021/6/1. In press.
• QudahB, Thakur T, Chewning B. Factors influencing patient participation in medication counseling at the community pharmacy: A systematic review. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2021. Mar 16;doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2021.03.001. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33766505.
• Thakur T, Chewning B. Pharmacists’ opioid risk and safety counseling practices: A Latent Class Analysis approach. Res Social Adm Pharm. Accepted for publication 2021:7/30.
• Thakur T, Chewning B. Handout use to facilitate opioid risk and safety communication in community pharmacies. J Am Pharm Assoc. (2003).2021 Jun 11;.doi:10.1016/j.japh.2021.06.010.[Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID:34176760.
• Rawy M, Look K, Amin MEK, Chewning B. Development and validation of a theory-based instrument to predict community pharmacists’ intention to provide pharmaceutical care services. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2021 Apri;17(4):664-676.
• Thakur T, Chewning B. Communication between patients and health care professionals about opioid medications. Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy./5/29.2021.In press.
• Thakur T, ChewningZetes N, Lee JTY. Involving caregivers in design and assessment of an opioid risk and safety communication intervention in children. Patient Education and Counseling. 2021/3/10 (in press).
• Thakur T, Chewning B. Evaluating the effect of a handout on community pharmacists’ opioid safety counseling. Pharmacy (Basel), 2021 Feb 28;9(1): 49.
• Pinzon MCM, Myers S, Renken J, Eggert E, Chewning B, Mahoney JE. Essential elements to “design for dissemination” within a research network –a modified Delphi study of the Community-Academic Aging Research Network (CAARN). Implementation Science Communications. 2021 February 12;2(1):1-16.
• Vivian E, Flanagan, C., Chewning, B, Porco, M., Hoffath L. Hear Our Voice: Factors Influencing the Health of Youth Living in Low Income Housing. (2021) Progress In Community Health Partnerships,2021, volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 2021,509-516.
• Snyder E, Chewning B, Kreling D, Perkins SM, Knox LM, Adeoye-Olatunde OA, Jaynes HA, Schommer JC, Murawski MM, Sangasubana N, Hillman LA, Curran GM. An evaluation of the spread and scale of PatientToc TM from primary care to community pharmacy practice for the collection of patient-reported outcomes: A study protocol. Res Social Adm Pharm, 2021 Fe 17(2):466-474.
• Thakur T, Frey M, Chewning B. Student Pharmacist Opioid Consultations with Standardized Limited English Proficiency Patients: A Pre-Post Educational Intervention Study. Curr Pharmacy Teach Learn. 2020:12(4) 418-22.
• Thakur T, Chewning B, Zetes N, Lee JTY. Pharmacy intervention to facilitate transparent opioid-risk and safety communication. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003)2020 Nov-Dec 60(6) 1015-20.
• Thakur T, Chewning B. Patient and pediatric caregiver experiences and expectations about opioid risk education and counselling. Journal of Opioid Management.2020: May/June 16(3):227-232.
• Chewning B, Bylund CL, Shah B, Arora NK, Gueguen JA, Makoul G. Patient preferences for shared decisions: a systematic review. Patient Educ Couns. 2012 Ja 86(1):9-18. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.02.004. Epub 2011 Apr 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 21474265.
• Svarstad B, Chewning B, Sleath B, Claesson C. The brief medication questionnaire: A tool for screening patient adherence and barriers to adherence. Patient Education and Counseling. 1999;(37):113-124.

Member, Board of Directors for Medical Education Institute

Chair, Board of Directors for the Design Coalition Institute