Kristin Villa

I graduated from Purdue University with a PharmD in 2010 and Master’s in 2014. My Master’s thesis was titled “Risk Attitudes and Characteristics of Student Pharmacists Across Cohorts,” which focused on personality characteristics of student pharmacists and the relationship between personality characteristics and the culture of pharmacy, our professional societal role, and adoption of innovative practice styles. I am currently working on my PhD at Purdue with a dissertation topic of “Consequences of 2014 Legislation on Controlled Substance Dispensing Patterns and Utilization of the Indiana Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: A Three-Year Review.” My research interests include the intersection of law, policy, and pharmacy practice. For the last two years, I have coordinated and taught the pharmacy law course in the College of Pharmacy and am currently developing an online version of this course across three colleges of pharmacy in Indiana. When not at Purdue working on my degree and teaching, I work as a pharmacist at Walgreens in West Lafayette, IN.