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Education:

• Postdoctoral Scholar 2005 Health Services Res, University of California-Davis
• PhD, 2002 Pharmacy Admin, University of Florida
• Certificate, 2002 Health Commun, University of Florida
• BS, 1997 Psychology, University of Florida

Overview

Dr. Young is currently an Assistant Professor in the Social and Administrative Pharmacy Division of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin. Since completing his PhD at the University of Florida, Dr. Young has served as a postdoctoral researcher in Health Communication and Health Services Research at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine located in Sacramento, CA. He also served as a Lecturer in the UC-Davis Department of Communication.

Dr. Young's expertise in the behavioral sciences underpins his work in four main areas: consumer/patient behavior in the medications use process, marketing and health outcomes research, health communication, and health services research. Dr. Young's more specific research and teaching interests address: 1) psychological theoretical/foundations of research on the patient's role in health care and drug use, 2) social, economic, and political issues related to U.S. health care system (in general) and profession of pharmacy (in particular), dynamics of drug use process, illness behavior, and health care utilization, 3) prescribing and medication use processes from perspectives of health professionals (e.g., sources of professional information decision making, assessment of quality), 4) the pharmaceutical industry, public policy, prescription drug products, pricing, promotion, and distribution, and 5) adapting techniques from the social sciences for research in the field of social and administrative pharmacy.

Highlighted Publications:

• Young HN, Bell RA, Epstein RM, Feldman MD, Kravitz RL (2006). "Types of information physicians provide when prescribing antidepressants." Journal of General Internal Medicine. 21(11): 1172-77.
• Shrank WH, Asch SM, Joseph GJ, Young HN, Ettner SL, Kholodenko Y, Glassman P, Kravitz RL (2006). "Physicians' perceived knowledge of and responsibility for managing patients' out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs." Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 40(9):1534-40.
• Shrank WH, Joseph GJ, Choudhry NK, Young HN, Ettner SL, Glassman P, Asch SM, Kravitz RL (2006). "Physicians' perceptions of relevant prescription drug costs: Do costs to the inidividual patient or the population matter most?" The American Journal of Managed Care. 12: pp.545-551.
• Cline RJW, Young HN (2005). "Direct-to-consumer print ads for drugs: do they undermine the physician-patient relationship?" Journal of Family Practice. 54(12):1049-57.
• Young HN, Cline RJW (2005). "Textual cues in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising: Motivators to communicate with physicians." Journal of Applied Communication Research. 33(4):348-369.
• Shrank WH, Young HN, Ettner SL, Glassman P, Asch SM, Kravitz R (2005). "Do the incentives in three-tier, incentive-based pharmaceutical benefit plans operate as intended? Results from a physician leadership survey." The American Journal of Managed Care, 11: 16-22.
• Young HN, Paterniti DA, Bell RA, Kravitz RL (2005). "Do prescription drug ads educate the public? The consumer answers." Drug Information Journal, 39: 25-33.
• Young HN, Lipowski EE, Cline RJW (2005). "Using social cognitive theory to explain consumers' behavioral intentions in response to direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising." Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 1(2): pp. 270-288.
• Cline RJW, Young HN (2004). "Marketing drugs, marketing health care relationships: A content analysis of visual cues in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising." Health Communication, 16(2):131-57.
• Young HN, Cline RJW (2003). "Look George, there's another one! The volume and characteristics of direct-to-consumer advertising in popular magazines." Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management. 15(3):7-21.
• Ried LD, Wang F, Young HN, Awiphan R (1999). "Patients' satisfaction and their perception of the pharmacist." Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association. 39(6):835-842.