Biography—

Theresa Shireman is Brown University’s director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and a professor in the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice.

As a health services researcher, Shireman specializes in pharmaceutical policy, pharmacoepidemiology and health economic evaluations. Her work has contributed to understanding how medications are used and to what effect in people who are on chronic dialysis, development of a novel methodology to tracking medication exposure over time, development of a bleeding risk prediction model for warfarin in older adult patients with atrial fibrillation, and health economic evaluations of expensive therapeutic agents.  

Shireman previously served as a faculty member of KU’s School of Pharmacy and KU Medical Center’s School of Medicine for 15 years before joining Brown University. She has been a longtime member of the American Geriatrics Society, as well as the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology.

In addition, Shireman has managed a number of contracts with state Medicaid agencies evaluating pharmaceutical use in children with disabilities and other vulnerable populations, examining the quality of diabetes care for people with disabilities, and creating a claims-based algorithm to distinguish between subgroups of individuals with disabilities.