Dr. Bounthavong is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy with the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Bounthavong also serves as Peer Faculty with CHBRP. 

Dr. Bounthavong’s research interests include pharmacoeconomics, program and implementation evaluations, applied econometrics, and evidence-synthesis using Bayesian methods. More recently, his research has centered around evaluating academic detailing’s impact on aligning provider’s behavior with evidence-based practice, particularly with the opioid epidemic. 

Dr. Bounthavong obtained his PharmD from Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy, PhD from the University of Washington's Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute, and Master of Public Health from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.