Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative Pharmacy
University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy
Dr. Michelle L. Blakely, Assistant Professor in Social and Administrative Sciences at the University of Wyoming (UW), holds a Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences and an M.Ed. in Counseling from Auburn University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with Psychology Departmental Honors from the University of South Alabama. Dr. Blakely is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Motivational Interviewing (MI) expert. She has extensive experience teaching MI to a variety of health care professionals including physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, case managers, and counselors. Dr. Blakely is also an active scholar, having authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and an interdisciplinary book that combines the natural and social sciences to increase our understanding of human behavior.
Dr. Blakely was faculty at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, and Director of Disability Services at Truman State University before coming to UW. Her fields of specialization are social and behavioral sciences, communications, health policy and patient health outcomes. Her research interests pertain to increasing knowledge and understanding of factors that impact the pharmacist-patient relationship and behavioral aspects of medication adherence. She explores patient and provider self-reported psychosocial variables to obtain a better understanding of health behaviors and behavioral interventions on patient outcomes. She is particularly interested in identifying factors that impact healthcare relationships as they pertain to vulnerable and/or underserved patient groups such as patients with developmental disabilities.
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