WSPA Community Practice Academy Podcast

For the final podcast of the 2025 season, we have a special podcast for listeners. We have Dr. Amiel Angelo hosting a conversation on tips and tricks for the holidays with special guest, Dr. Kennedy Erickson from Chehalis Pharmacy. Join us as we have a conversation on how to handle your health during the holidays with tips that could be used yourself and for your patients, too! For more tips from...

Join us for a critical conversation on vaccines during the 2025 respiratory season. We sit down with PGY1 resident, Dr. Holly Seyler of Kelley-Ross Pharmacy, to discuss the changes resulting from new federal and state guidelines that affect pharmacy immunization services. Understanding these updates is vital, but what remains constant is the urgent need to protect our most vulnerable patients. Lin...

Washington State University student pharmacist, Indy Howard, presents advice on how to best provide compassionate care for patients. Inspired by her own experiences, Indy shares lessons learned from three patients on the importance of being compassionate while providing care. Implicit biases and patience have major impacts when it comes to providing appropriate patient care. Please give a listen t...

The Community Practice Academy 2023 Fall podcast features Dr. Cody Clifton from the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Networks (CPESN) discussing pharmacogenomics testing as a service that can be offered to patients in the community practice setting. Additionally, we dive deeper into the nuances of medical billing and how CPESN can help in this space. As medical billing continues to be an ongoi...

4th year student pharmacist representative for the CPA, Natalie Dziadosz, interviews Dr. Sterling Elliott on opioid stewardship. Dr. Elliott is a pharmacist who specializes in orthopedics. His work with post-operative pain has given him a specific view on how best to work with opioids in the community as pharmacy practice still faces issues with ongoing abuse, misuse, and recovery. This interview...

With the end of the Public Health Emergency, it's important to see how this has impacted pharmacy practice. With community practice still being changed due to policy changes and approval of EUA medications, the field of community pharmacy has not stopped changing. PY4 University of Washington students, Ruger Stufflebeam and Adam Taniguchi interview community leaders, Chris Schaffner (Schaffner's P...