Hyeun Ah Kang, Ph.D.

Dr. Hyeun Ah Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Health Outcomes Division at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy. Her current research activities focus on evaluating health care resource utilization, costs, and predictors of clinical and economic outcomes using large real-world databases. Her research interests include sickle cell disease, opioid use, and cancer disparity.

Dr. Kang is a recipient of numerous merit awards including the 2021-2022 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) New Investigator Award, Best Student Poster Research Presentation at the 2018 and 2019 ISPOR Annual International Meetings, 2019 APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APRS) Presentation Award, and Abstract Award Winner-Graduate Program at the UT Austin College of Pharmacy 15th Annual Louis C. Littlefield Celebrating Pharmacy Research Excellence Day (2019).

Her teaching focuses on Pharmacoeconomics, research methods, and data analysis. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Pharmacy in South Korea in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and worked as a researcher for the Health Insurance Review & Assessment services (HIRA) in South Korea. She received her M.Ed. degree in Quantitative Methods from the UT Austin College of Education and Ph.D. in Health Outcomes from the UT Austin College of Pharmacy in 2017 and 2019, respectively. She is the TxCORE Outstanding Graduate Student Award co-winner (2019) and was a faculty member at the University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy from 2019 – 2021.

Education
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
M.Ed., The University of Texas at Austin
M.Pharm, Sookmyung Women’s University
B.Pharm, Sookmyung Women’s University

Research Profile 
ORCid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1194-742X
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=7396VV8AAAAJ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyeun-ah-kang/