Unscripted

Martin Van Trieste, BPharm, is the President and CEO of Civica Rx, which is a non-profit company whose mission is to ensure that essential generic medications are accessible and affordable.  Civica Rx has partnered with health systems to reduce drug shortages and recently announced they will begin manufacturing insulin for release in 2024 that will cost no more than $30 per vial and no more than $...

Rita Jew, PharmD, MBA, BCPPS, FASHP, is the President of the Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).  Dr. Jew has over 30 years of pharmacy experience and has held many professional organization leadership positions. We discuss her vision for ISMP and how to make our medication systems safer!

RaDonda Vaught, RN, a former nurse in Tennessee, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult for a medication error. She mistakenly gave the wrong medication causing the patient to die.  I talk about the potential implications the verdict has on medication safety and the need to improve our systems in our hospitals to better support our staff and patients.

Patricia (Patti) Kienle, BS Pharm, MPA, BCSCP, FASHP, is the Director of Accreditation and Medication Safety for Cardinal Health Innovative Delivery Solutions. She is the 2022 recipient of the Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award, the highest honor in health-system pharmacy.   Patti is recognized as an expert on medication safety, hazardous drugs, and compounding practices. She is a member on the Uni...

Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, is the Senior Director of Pharmacy Practice and Quality at American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). He was awarded the ASHP CEO Staff Excellence Award at the most recent ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting. He’s recognized as an expert on drug shortages, sterile and nonsterile compounding, and hazardous drug safety. Dr. Ganio is frequently interviewed...

Rebekah Fenton, MD, FAAP, is a board certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine fellow at the Lurie Children’s Hospital at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.  She wrote her story of being the First Black Fellow at her institution in a Medium post . Her story is one of being overly supervised and under supported leaving her to receive feedback to toughen it out. The per...

Jimmy Pruitt III, PhamD, BCPS, BCCCP, is an Emergency Medicine Clinical Specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is the Founder of Pharmacy Friday Pearls, Pharm So Hard podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pharm-so-hard-podcast-an-emergency-medicine/id1479624416 ), Pharmacy and Acute Care University or PACU ( https://pharmacy-acutecareuniversity.com ), and the upco...

Jacinda Abdul-Mutakkabir, PharmD, MPH, AAHIVP, is an Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy. She was the lead author on a study published in Lancet in 2021 titled " A three-tiered approach to address barriers to COVID-19 vaccine delivery in the Black community ." Her work in COVID-19 vaccine equity was awarded by the Inland Empire Concerned African-American Churc...

Tim Ulbrich, PharmD, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Your Financial Pharmacist (YFP).   Dr. Ulbrich and I talk about his entrepreneurial journey that led him away from his planned career in academia. He describes how your environment growing up likely shapes the way you think about finances. We also talk through real estate, market investing, cryptocurrency, NFTs, HSAs, retirements, and everything in...

This week on the podcast we have an edition of Small Scripts talking about Managing a Crisis and Turnaround. If you listened to the 17th episode with Dr. Rachel Phillips, I mentioned she interviewed me for one of her MBA classes but I chose to pull that out of her podcast episode. She asks about a time I managed a crisis and I chose a time I managed a turnaround of an area that would’ve been class...

Kayley Lyons, PhD, PharmD, MS, is the Digital Health Workforce Lead at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia.   Dr. Lyons and I talk about the cultural differences between the U.S. and Australia including stark differences in healthcare and COVID-19 response, as well as her non-traditional path as a pharmacist leading to her current role in digital health. It was so great to reconnec...

Magi Tareke, PharmD, is a pharmacist, model, and was on season 25 of the Bachelor reality television show. She came to the U.S. from Tigray in Ethiopia and has perspectives from both countries.  Dr. Tareke and I talk about her experience as a pharmacist in both the U.S. and Ethiopia, how she manages two careers, and her time on the Bachelor season 25. She opens up about her family, the ongoing con...

James (Jim) Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, is the Chief Clinical Officer at Omnicell and Professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. He received the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s (FIP) Distinguished Practice Award in 2021 for his work in the international pharmacy community. Dr. Stevenson and I talk about his work in international pharmacy as a member of FIP, his push...

Maureen Judkins, PharmD, MS, is the President of the Massachusetts Pharmacists Association and Clinical Pharmacist at Tufts Medical Center.  Dr. Judkins and I went to pharmacy school together at the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy and she has made a name for herself since graduation! We talk about her initiatives for MPhA this year, including provider status, how she has stayed actively i...

Emily Heil, PharmD, MS, BCIDP, AAHIVP, is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is active with antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases inpatient service, HIV clinic, and global health through a partnership at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Emily and I were co-...

Rachel Phillips, PharmD, is the Senior Director of Specialty Fulfillment Operations at OptumRx that oversees their nationwide specialty pharmacy operation and a former Regional Health and Wellness Director at Walmart where she oversaw more than a 100 Walmart stores in 5 states for pharmacy, OTC, and optic areas.  Rachel and I have been friends for a long time and her career trajectory is impressiv...

Small scripts is a series intended to highlight a specific topic in a concise and short amount of time. This episode discusses plate evaluations as a method to manage workload and capacity.  If you've ever struggled with how to manage everything you've become involved with and need to make some changes, listen in on how to do a plate evaluation!

Joanna Lewis, PharmD, MBA, is the 340B Compliance Coordinator at Baptist Health and is the founder of The Pharmacist's Guide. Conversation with Joanna is so easy and natural. We talk about several critical topics not heard often enough including navigating work and life harmony as a new mom, her career path including her decision to stay home for a years, and how she manages her well-being. W...

AnesthesiologyPeggy McNaull, MD, is the John Rowlingson Professor and Chair of the University of Virginia Department of Anesthesiology and is a Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist. She is the first female Chair of Anesthesiology at UVA. Dr. McNaull has a long track record of improving quality and outcomes for patients. She started the University of North Carolina Medical Center's Opioid...

Jason Dearen is the author of Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease and an investigative journalist on the national investigative team with the Associated Press. Jason and I talk through the details of his book, which is “the untold story of the worst contaminated drug crisis in U.S. history” and is the true story of the New England Compounding Center. Even being a pharmacist, I didn’t kn...

Greg Sarchet, PharmD, is a Commander and Commissioned Corps Officer in the United States Public Health Service. He is the Director of Professional Services with responsibility for 8 departments at the Whiteriver Indian Hospital in Whiteriver, AZ.  Greg is a childhood friend of mine as we went to school together from first grade all the way through pharmacy school. It was great to catch up with him...

Small scripts is a series intended to highlight a specific topic in a concise and short amount of time. This episode discusses the importance of and how to practice positivity. We can all use more positivity in our lives, so listen in on ways to improve your mindset!

Brittany Bissell, PharmD, PhD, BCCCP, is a pulmonary/medical ICU pharmacist at UK HealthCare and an Assistant Professor in both the UK College of Medicine and UK College of Pharmacy. Dr. Bissell co-authored a recent publication in AJHP titled "Gender inequity and sexual harassment in the pharmacy profession: Evidence and a call to action" (Article found HERE ). We discuss the article, ho...

Small scripts is a new series intended to highlight a specific topic in a concise and short amount of time. This episode provides tips for how to catch up from a vacation. Vacations are a vital part of our well-being, but many of us stress about what we'll come back to following the time off. If you don't have a strategy for catching up when you return, you'll either not disconnect...

Sandra Leal, PharmD, MPH, FAPhA, CDCES, is the current President of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and Executive Vice President for Tabula Rasa HealthCare.  Dr. Leal highlights her APhA Presidential address of "Be the Voice" and how she advocates for #health disparities, socioeconomic issues, and diversity. She is a pharmacy champion and uses social media as an advocacy tool...