Pharmacy Podcast Network

Pharmacy Podcast Network co-host and Founder of the Pharmapreneur Academy Blair Green Thielemier, PharmD with BT Pharmacy Consulting, LLC interviews Shantel Houston a 4th year pharmacy student at the University of South Florida, College of Pharmacy about which topics she found the most helpful.   The url to sign up for the Summit, which will be launching for another 5 free days on September 15-19th, 2017 is at ElevatePharmacySummit.com  SIGN UP TODAY: https://elevatepharmacysummit.com/ref/6/?campaign=PharmacyPodcast

#PharmacyFutureLeaders Title: Academic Rotation Guest: Emily Henningsen (email: Emily-Henningsen@uiowa.edu) P4, University of Iowa Welcome to the Pharmacy Podcast Network, I’m your cohost Tony Guerra for the PharmacyFutureLeaders podcast broadcasting from the Des Moines Health and Public Services Building at DMACC’s Ankeny Campus Connect with me on YouTube where you can find over 900 pharmacy videos supporting my audiobook Memorizing Pharmacology. Today we have our P4 student, Emily Henningsen, a PharmD Candidate from Preston, Iowa who is looking at both ambulatory care and clinical community pharmacy opportunities. She’s especially excited to help patients with their continuity of care. She chose an academic rotation to impact students and learn what goes on behind the scenes as one develop

About Integrated Care Partners: To enhance already established standards of patient centered care, and improve the health of the population we serve by creating a system-wide community-based care coordination team and process.   Our Mission:  To be a high-performing network of integrated providers successfully delivering value-based population health.  Integrated Care Partners (ICP) is a physician-led, clinically integrated health care network whose mission is to assist our members in providing the highest quality care at the most reasonable cost for our patients in the current, rapidly changing medical environment. CONTACT: https://integratedcarepartners.org/about-us  About Sean Jeffery, PharmD Sean Jeffery, Pharm.D., CGP, FASCP  SeanJ12cropDr. Sean M. Jeffery is Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at Integrated Care Partners, the care coordination and clinica

The Pharmacy Podcast Network was honored to cover the 2017 McKesson ideaShare, helping to Shape Independent Pharmacy with the Power to Perform. The McKesson Pharmacy Technology & Services division, MPTS, sponsored the PPN. We kick off this 12 podcast series of MPTS customer testimonials, thought leaders interviews, and MPTS executives interviewing Senior Vice President and General Manager of MPTS Mr. Bernie Reese, 30+ pharmacy technology veteran of McKesson. About MPTS: McKesson Pharmacy Systems provides technology and services that help you deliver care to your patients, manage your operations, and gain insight into your data. In addition to three unique pharmacy management systems, we offer adherence and clinical solutions to help minimize DIR fees, manage patient care, and simplify management

Retired X-Wing Fighter, Force User, Lawyer, and Pharmacist Darshan Kulkarni strikes back to the Gavel & Pestle Podcast Universe to share his advice for selling your pharmacy business. ---May the Force be with You!  Preparation Consider a self audit Consider a data room Have a HIPAA agreement in place Have clear financial data available for viewing for at least 3-5 years Make sure employment agreements for all key employees are done Be open to owner financing But have clear deliverables and A very clear exit strategy - how do you get your money if he doesnt pay? Looking at appropriate valuation There are quick and dirty strategies 3x Gross sales Online calculators Ask others what they have paid for similar sales Consider an actual valuator

Dr. Erin Albert welcomes back Joseph T. Rannazzisi Deputy Assistant Administrator (RETIRED), Office of Diversion Control, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the final segment of the 3 part series.  About Joseph T. Rannazzisi Joe Rannazzisi, JD, RPh, began his career with the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) in 1986. He served as a staff pharmacist at the Veterans Administration for the 18 months preceding his employment with DEA. During his DEA career, he served as a Diversion Investigator (Indianapolis), Special Agent/Criminal Investigator (Indianapolis/Detroit), Clandestine Laboratory Coordinator (Detroit), Homicide Task Force Supervisor (Detroit), Staff Coordinator (Domestic Operations-Headquarters), Section Chief (Dangerous Drugs and Chemicals Section-Headquarters), Assistant Special Agent in Charge (Detroit), and Deputy Chief (Office of Enforcement Operations-Headquarters). In January 2006 he was appointed

#PharmacyFutureLeaders Today we have Dena Scully has been a pharmacy technician for 35 years starting in high school, has worked in retail, hospital, managed care, and teaching. She’s earned her BBA from the University of Michigan – Flint. She now teaches full-time program at Charter Healthcare training center. How long is your program? How do you break up your program to comply with ASHP accreditation? How do your students do their externship hours? How do you get a Pharmacy Technician off the ground? How long does it take to develop? How did you learn about the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC)? Is it easier to find PTEC from another technician or a pharmacist? How was the Michigan Pharmacy Association part of guiding you towards a program? How did you use the ASHP guidelines to set up your program? How did you use the interactions at the first PTEC meeting? How did the info

ACMA Board Certified Medical Affairs Specialist Program (BCMAS) Certification – Q&A with Dr. William Soliman - Chair – Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs   An experienced executive with several years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, Dr. Soliman has held key positions within medical affairs where he was instrumental in launching a variety of innovative platforms expanding the role of medical affairs across the industry. He is currently the Chair of the Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA). Dr. Soliman is often invited to speak at important pharmaceutical industry conferences focusing on medical affairs, patient navigation and its relationship to field based medical teams, and the ever-changing role of the medical science liaison (MSL). He has also held a variety of critical management roles across the industry at Eisai, Veeva, Retrophin, Gilead Sciences, Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer Ingelheim a

The RxSafe RxASP 20 Adherence Packaging system has made a significant impact to the efficiency of a Community Independent Pharmacy, Love Oak Pharmacy. Special Guest & RxSafe Customer: Ben McNabb, Owner, Love Oak Pharmacy Topic: How RxASP 20 adherence packaging has allowed Ben to introduce a tangible product to his customers and increase revenue and profitability in the process. Questions: Tell me a little about RxSafe and how the RxASP 20 works in independent retail pharmacies. You also just introduced a new marketing service called PakMyMeds, can you tell me what that is? Can you give me some background on Love Oak Pharmacy? Why did you decide to purchase a product like the RxASP? Tell us what your experience has been with the RxASP 20. Let’s talk about how adding a new product line instead of simp

#PharmacyFutureLeaders Today we’re speaking to Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine but her clinical home is at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. She is a founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Bellevue Literary Review.  Her newest book is “What Patients Say; What Doctors Hear,” an exploration of doctor-patient communication and how refocusing the conversation between doctors and patients can improve health outcomes. Everyone’s leadership road is a little different, how did you become a leader in the Patient / Doctor relations space? As a bestselling author, many think that your life is perfect, what was your most difficult moment as an author that might help others understand the struggle to get to where you are?

McKesson Pharmacy Technology and Services Division Vice President of Sales – Ian Fallon interviews Pharmacy Technology Innovation Vice President of Towncrest Pharmacy Mike Deninger from Iowa City on the Med-Sync impact on patient care and operational efficiency. Mike Deninger Towncrest Pharmacy, Inc. 2306 Muscatine Avenue Iowa City, IA 52240 Ph: (319) 337-3526 Medication synchronization is when the pharmacist coordinates the refill of yourmedications so you can pick them up on a single day each month. Many people miss doses of their regular medications and med sync can make you more likely to take them.

PCAB Sterile and Non-Sterile Compounding Workshop July 25-26, 2017 Fairleigh Dickinson School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Florham Park, NJ The PCAB Sterile and Non-Sterile Compounding Pharmacy workshop provides pharmacy personnel with a comprehensive overview of the accreditation process and a standard-by-standard review of the req

The Independent Pharmacist's Take on Health Coaching   Health coaching is a technique that empowers patients to make lasting health behavior changes that improve overall well-being. It provides patients with health care implementation options that better suit their lifestyle and abilities.   Health coaching programs have the potential to foster better health outcomes, especially with patients who are chronically ill or represent an at risk population for medication non-adherence (e.g. elderly, patients on psychotropic medications).   Independent Pharmacy Owner:  Vito Colombo can be reached at vitocolomborph@yahoo.com    Dr. Christina

Part 2 - We address:   -Rescheduling of drugs, ex: benzodiazepines -Opioid crisis -Heroin addiction -How we might fix the problem of opioid addiction in the US   Mr. Joseph T. Rannazzisi — Deputy Assistant Administrator (RETIRED), Office of Diversion Control, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Joe Rannazzisi, JD, RPh, began his career with the U.S. Drug Enforcement(DEA) in 1986. He served as a staff pharmacist at the Veterans Administration for the 18 months preceding his employment with DEA. During his DEA career, he served as a Diversion Investigator (Indianapolis), Special Agent/Criminal Investigator (Indianapolis/Detroit), Clandestine Laboratory Coordinator (Detroit), Homicide Task Force Supervisor (Detroit), Staff Coordinator (Domestic Operations-Headquarters), Section Chief (Dangerous Drugs and Chemicals Section-Headquarters), Assistant Special A

#PharmacyFutureLeaders  Cristal Greene has been a certified pharmacy technician since 1998, worked in a pharmacy since 1994 as a junior in high school at a small hospital pharmacy, and went on to earn a Bachelor’s in Biology from Wichita State University and has taught at Hutchinson Community College since 2008 as the Pharmacy Technician Program Coordinator. We talk about her leadership road, hybrid pharmacy technician program at Hutchinson Community College, the Pharmacy Technician Educator’s Council (PTEC) national meeting in Las Vegas July 13-15, 2017 https://www.pharmacytecheducators.com/content/annual-conference and the challenges of running and maintaining an ASHP Accredited Pharmacy Technician Program https://accred.ashp.org/aps/pages/directory/technicianprogra

Dr. Erin Albert brings us a special Pharmacy Podcast Episode with Co-Founder Doug Hirsch of GoodRx. GoodRx was co-founded by Scott Marlette and Doug Hirsch, both early employees of Facebook. Hirsch was VP of Product at Facebook back in 2005, and Marlette, one of the company's first 20 employees, was an engineer who worked on, among other things, Facebook's photo application.   WHAT IS GOODRX?  GoodRx is the leading prescription discount and pricing transparency provider, bringing millions of Americans the lowest possible prices for prescription drugs. 

Mindfulness is getting a lot of hype in the news, and many corporations and organizations such as Google, Aetna and UCLA have staff teaching Mindfulness. In fact, Aetna appointed a “Chief Mindfulness Officer” over a year ago. We’ll discuss how Mindfulness is being used to improve physical, mental and emotional health, and to manage, if not reduce stress, chronic pain and PTSD. We'll talk about its benefits and the compelling research conducted so far. And if you’re interested in trying it, how to start a Mindfulness practice. Bio of our guest - Tanya Valle  Tanya Valle helps professionals lead life from purpose and passion. And she provides Mindfulness instruction to organizations and individuals. As a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, she develops and implements Mindfulness programs for organizations, communities, and individuals. She also provides independent Life Coaching services. A native New Yorker, Tanya is a former New York

#PharmacyFutureLeaders Janine Kelbach, RNC-OB is a Cleveland, Ohio resident, freelance writer and owner of WriteRN.net. Janine has been an RN since 2006, specializing in labor and delivery and ventured into writing in 2012. Her mission to help other writers build their businesses as she did with her 2 kids and a husband. Everyone’s leadership road is a little different, how did you become a leader in a nurse writer and coach? What kind of degree or writing experience did you have before you launched? As a writer and nurse, many think that your life is perfect, that you have the best of both worlds every day and all the time. what was your most difficult moment as writer that might help others understand the struggle that a coach might help them get through? Can you explain the difference between what you do as a business writing coach or a writing coach and we think of athletic teams as needing coaches, how does a writer need?

SenioRx Radio, part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, in collaboration with the ASCP returns with a dynamic interview about Value Based Care in LTC Pharmacy. Chad Worz, host of SenioRx Radio interviews Harry Thibodeau, PhC, R.Ph., CCP, FASCP Chief Operations Officer with Pharma-Care, Inc. Medication related problems and medication mismanagement are a huge health problem with serious cost implications. In this age of austerity, employers are working hard to ensure that they provide employees and their families continued access to high quality health care while saving money. To this end, the Asheville Project has proven to reduce avoidable treatment and hospitalizations that will generate substantial cost savings; up to four times greater than the cost of the program. Starting in Asheville, North Carolina, a Value Based Insurance Design, Medication Therapy Management (MTM) has had a long track record of achieving positive health outcomes for health plan enrollees w

Bio for Dr. Lisa Dragic: Dr. Dragic received her PharmD from Temple University School of Pharmacy. Dr. Dragic is currently a PGY-1 pharmacy resident at the Samuel S. Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany, New York, with a concentration in pain management and palliative care. Her current research is focused on alcohol monitoring by ethyl glucuronide in patients on chronic opioid therapy. Upon completion of the PGY-1 residency, Dr. Dragic will be completing a PGY-2 in Pain Management and Palliative care at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock, Arkansas.   Bio for Dr. Jeffrey Fudin: Dr. Jeff Fudin graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences with a BS and PharmD. He is a Diplomate to the Academy of Integrative Pain Management, a Fellow to ACCP and ASHP, and a member of several other professional organizations. He is President and Director, Scientific and Clinical Affairs for Remi