Talk to Your Pharmacist

In this podcast, our guest, Shawn Hodges, PharmD, President/CEO, Innovation Compounding shares the following in compounding pharmacy: - types of compounding pharmacy - advocacy - key issues and regulations affecting compounding Guest - Shawn Hodges, PharmD Website: www.innovationcompounding.com Email: shodges@innovationcompounding.com Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD www.pharmacyadvisory.com https...

During this episode, you’ll learn how a pharmacist is using her passion for women’s health to help pharmacists help women with selecting birth control. Dr. Sally Rafie founded the Birth Control Pharmacist to educate and support pharmacists who are prescribing birth control. Connect with Sally Rafie, PHARMD, BCPS, APH, NCMP: LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/sallyrafie Twitter - https://twitter.com...

In this interview with Tara Thompson, PharmD of Innovation Compounding, she shares the following tips about compounding pharmacy: - What is compounding pharmacy? - How did you get into compounding? - Women’s Health specific compounding needs Female sexual dysfunction Pelvic health Hormones & pellet hormone therapy Guest - Dr. Tara Thompson, PharmD Linked In: Website: www.innovationcompounding....

In this episode, you'll hear from a pharmacist in the ambulatory care practice and functional medicine niche. Melody Hartzler's typically sees patients with diabetes and IBS as well as thyroid, HTN, HLP, COPD. Listen in to learn how to get started in functional medicine. Guest - Dr. Melody Hartzler Website: https://pharmtotable.life/about/ IG: @Pharmtotable.life Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD ww...

In this episode, you’ll hear from Ken Sternfeld, who is the Founder and Director of New Business Development at RXVIP. Ken is a pharmacist by training, who went to work in other fields after school. He now uses those marketing and business skills, that he developed along the way, to build business models for reimbursing pharmacists for their services such as medication management and pharmacogenom...

During this episode, you’ll learn how a pharmacist is combining his passions for community pharmacy with technology. David D. Pope, PharmD, CDE is currently the Chief of Innovation and Co- Founder of STRAND Clinical Technologies, a rapidly-growing suite of technology that bridges clinical pharmacy with the retail landscape. STRAND’s technology, including the STRAND Intervention platform, is used b...

In this episode, you'll hear from a live panel discussing The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Population Health, Healthcare Access and Quality from the Becker's Hospital Review Clinical IT & Pharmacy Conference in May 2019. Adam Myers, MD, MHCM, FACHE, CHCQM, CPHRM, Chief, Population Health, Cleveland Clinic; Director, Cleveland Clinic Community Care Charles Watson, DO, Chief Medical Inform...

In this episode, Joey Mattingly, PharmD, MBA, PhD, shares about his career path with a large retail chain to LTC to academia and consulting. Joey is also the new Speaker for APhA’s House of Delegates. He pursued his PhD in pharmaceutical health services research with an emphasis in pharmacoeconomics, while teaching at the University of Maryland. With this role, he hopes to do more to impact polici...

In this episode, you'll hear from panelists at a recent Becker's Hospital Review Conference featuring the first pharmacy track. This panel discussion is titled "Health IT & Pharmaceuticals: Cost Savings and More" -- Brad Myers, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, Executive Director – Pharmacy and Laboratory Services, University of Missouri Health Care -- Susan Kokura, PharmD, Corporate Clinical Pharmacy Manage...

In this episode, you’ll hear from Dr. Autumn Zuckerman. Autumn received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy, then completed two years of ASHP-accredited residency training at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System VA, specializing in ambulatory care. She began working at Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy in July 2015 and soon after joined the Infectious D...

In this episode, you'll hear from APhA Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker, Eileen McDargh. Eileen discusses cultivating resiliency skills to control burnout which was the theme from APhA’s meeting in Seattle so our listeners can all learn from that great keynote: Question: why this topic: Question: Why the word “cultivate” and how do you define resiliency Give us insights that we can practice to help...

In this episode, you’ll hear from two 2nd year pharmacy residents discuss their research on burnout. Main discussion points for the podcast Burnout (community-based setting perspective) - what is burnout, why is it important, what contributes to burnout, strategies to prevent burnout Residency - value of residency training, why I choose residency vs. job, what does a resident do, etc. Research - h...

In this episode, our guest is Melissa Madigan, PharmD, JD, is the Policy and Communications Director for the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). Melissa shares about the following topics: What is NABP? What are the dangers for patients related to purchasing prescription medications online? What are some proposed solutions? What is the Verified Internet Pharmacy program? Guest - Meli...

In this episode, you'll hear from Honeybee Health owner, Jessica Nouhavandi, PharmD. Key POINTS from Jessica: The pharmacist mindset needs to be rewired - away from what insurance wants to what the patient needs Protect the trusted triage between the patient, doctor and pharmacist - No room for medication to be politicized Online players needs to be held MORE accountable - they break every vow of...

In this episode, you’ll hear about sparking joy from Dr. Jessica Louie, PharmD, APh, BCCCP - Burnout and Declutter Coach, Certified KonMari Consultant, Critical Care Pharmacist and Assistant Professor at West Coast University School of Pharmacy. Take Action today with FREE resources on Mindful Decluttering and How to Set Goals + a free Burnout Doctor webinar on 3 myths of burnout & 6 ways to r...

In this episode, I caught up with another APhA Annual Meeting speaker, Stuart Beatty, PharmD, who is an expert on expansion of pharmacy services, to share about: ● Value-based payments ● Population health ● Payment/justification for services ● Provider status opportunities (discuss Ohio) Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD ● www.pharmacyadvisory.com ● https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a...

In this episode, you’ll hear from industry expert on how blockchain is a possible solution for the drug supply chain. Dwight DeVera of RxTransparent shares about a new FDA pilot and some points for pharmacies to know about the Drug Supply Chain and Security Act. Guest: Dwight DeVera Web: https://www.rxtransparent.com Twitter: @dwightdevera Linkedin: http://Linkedin.com/in/dwightdevera Youtube: htt...

In this episode, you’ll hear from an ER pharmacist who shares what life is like in the emergency room. This is a fast-paced, think-on-your feet type of environment and one where pharmacy can play a major role in advising on high cost medications and implementing opioid stewardship programs. Dr. Justin Griner also hosts a Facebook group called the Tennessee Pharmacy News where he keeps pharmacists...

In this episode, Alex Barker with the HappyPharmD helps pharmacists create fulfilling careers and lives. For a time, he was a burned-out clinical pharmacy specialist. Now, he is the founder and head coach at TheHappyPharmD.com where alongside his team, he creates classes to help over 400 pharmacists find and create new career paths. We recently published the book Indispensable: The Prescription fo...

In this episode, you’ll hear a live episode from APhA Annual Meeting where I connected with a conference speaker, Molly Ekstrand, to discuss excelling in team based care. Molly will talk about the value proposition for successful ambulatory care pharmacists. Guest - Molly Ekstrand, BPharm, BCACP, AE-C LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-ekstrand-bpharm-bcacp-ae-c-49396a10 Twitter: @Ekstran...

Have you always wanted to be an author? Learn how pharmacist, Tony Guerra, has successfully created over 14 audiobooks. Tony Guerra is a Maryland pharmacy graduate that teaches college chemistry and pharmacology. He precepts an academic rotation focused on face-to-face classroom teaching and educational publishing. His primary goal is to make complex science both engaging and accessible which he d...

What do pharmacists do? That’s what Pharmacists for Healthier Lives media campaign is hoping to show the American public: “Pharmacists do more than fill prescriptions; they are an essential part of the healthcare team.” It’s important to grow the public’s understanding of the value of a pharmacist. During this episode, Lucinda Maine shares about the new media campaign, Pharmacists for Healthier Li...

In this episode, you’ll hear from Dr. Tim Ulbrich who is a clinical professor of pharmacy and program director for the Master’s in Health-System Pharmacy Administration at The Ohio State University. After paying off more than $200,000 in non-mortgage debt, Tim is working to empower pharmacists and pharmacy students to take control of their financial future. He is the Co-founder & CEO of Your F...

If you want to better understand DSCSA and how it affects pharmacists and pharmacies, then this episode is for YOU! In this episode, we learn about the following things associated with the Drug Supply Chain and Security Act (DSCSA): How do the rules affect retail pharmacy? Why is track-and-trace important to pharmacies? Are there consequences of non-compliance? What types of solutions exist in the...

During this episode, you’ll learn how a pharmacist is combining his passions for informatics and antimicrobial stewardship. Dr. Brian Fung, who shares about life as an informatics pharmacist on his YouTube channel (link below), will cover the following in this episode: - Day to day activities of pharmacy informatics - Current state of pharmacy informatics - Future state of pharmacy informatics Con...