Biosketch

Ronald E. Aubert, PhD, MSPH

Ronald Aubert is currently Vice President of Clinical Analytics and Outcomes Research, at Medco Health Solutions Inc.  His responsibilities include directing and implementation of outcome research studies, managing client and product support and reporting; provide consultation to internal and external clients.  Areas of focus for CAOR include analyses to identify pharmacogenomic opportunities and evaluate the impact of pharmacogenomic testing on clinical outcomes, the impact of plan design changes on drug utilization, health disparities in medication adherence and integrated medical and pharmacy claims studies to monitor quality of care indicators for external clients.  CAOR supports the development and evaluation of new products such as Specialty Pharmacy, medicare part D pharmacy benefit,  and clinical safety products.

Prior to coming to Medco Health, Dr. Aubert was a Senior Health Care Analyst at USQA Center for Health Care Research  where he was principal investigator on randomized trials evaluating the effectiveness of nurse case management and a study evaluating screening and case management in high risk Medicare enrollees.  He was Chief of the Epidemiology Section, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Dr. Aubert received a B.A. from Oberlin College, an MSPH and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at the CDC.  He holds or has held the following appointments: faculty at Emory University School of Medicine, the Medical College of Georgia and Morehouse School of Medicine; the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Improving Chronic Illness Care Initiative and Chairman of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Diabetes Initiative advisory committee.