Pharmacy Podcast Network

Join host Jenna Carmichael, PharmD on this episode of the Holistic Pharmacy Podcast, Journal Club Edition for a discussion on From gut dysbiosis to altered brain function and mental illness: mechanisms and pathways with guest Angela Cates, PharmD, BCPS, CFMP
Dr. Angela Cates is a pharmacist, board certified pharmacotherapy specialist, and certified functional medicine practitioner. She is a graduate of the Purdue University School of Pharmacy.
In 2020, Angela founded Cates Pharmacy Consulting, LLC focused on ensuring safe medication use, and in 2021 she pivoted her practice to include a functional medicine approach and created Cultivate Health & Wellness with a focus on the gut-brain connection.
Cultivate Health & Wellness serves parents of children and teens working to identify and reverse the underlying causes of their child’s anxiety and depression. Angela uses an integrative approach, with a focus on the gut microbiome, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, and functional lab testing to optimize mental wellness.
Angela volunteers routinely at the free health clinic in her county providing care to the underserved population. She also serves as the Pharmacology Adjunct Faculty Instructor for the Division of Occupational Therapy at Indiana Wesleyan University. Angela lives on a farm with her husband and two children, and in her spare time enjoys spending time with family, traveling, and cheering on her children. Angela loves reading and considers herself a life-long learner.
Article link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27090305/
How to get in touch with Angela:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/angela-cates-2a323b100
Facebook: @consultingpharmacist
Instagram: @cultivatehealthwellness
Dr. Jenna Carmichael of Wobbly Arrow Wellness is a holistic oncology pharmacist and health coach. She works with women on the cancer journey looking for a different perspective on wellness. She combines her knowledge in the oncology space along with holistic healing methods of meditation, reiki, and yoga to help empower her clients to choose the path that works the best for their goals. She also offers genetic testing services to get a true, personalized idea of how her clients process their medications for safe and effective therapy. Go to www.wobblyarrowwellness.com for more information on her services.
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The NACDS Total Store Expo is the largest gathering of retailers and suppliers in the health and wellness industry. Discover new and innovative products, technology, and services. The 2022 Event was in Boston August 27th through 30th and the Pharmacy Podcast Network was a proud Press & Media partner for the gathering. 
Todd Eury CEO of the Pharmacy Podcast Network had the opportunity to talk with several leaders in the Chain Retail Pharmacy sector of our profession including: 
Dr. Daniel Zlott PharmD 
Senior Vice President, Education & Business Development  
American Pharmacists Association (APhA) 
Dr Jason Ausili, PharmD
Head of Pharmacy Transformation
EnlivenHealth
Nimesh Jhaveri, MBA 
President, Community Pharmacy and Health 
Healthmart | McKesson
Joe Tammaro
Vice President Pharmacy of Consumer Solutions
DrFirst, Inc.
Dr Chirag Patel, PharmD MBA  
Senior Product Manager
FDB (First Databank, Inc.)
Melanie Marcus, MBA 
Chief Marketing Officer
Surescripts
William (Bill) Holmes 
Chief Executive Officer 
RxSafe 
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Providing long-term care services to patients who don't want to be in an assisted living facility or nursing home is needed in communities throughout the nation.  The medical at home (MAH) model represents a shifting population of patients preferring to receive the same care they would receive in a long-term care (“LTC”) facility in their homes, which is a lower cost environment.
What Services Are Provided for MAH? 
Non-Medical Home Care Services 
Pharmacy Operations and Prescription Orders
Special Adherence Packaging
IV Medications
Compounding/Alternative Forms of Drug Composition
Pharmacist On-call Service
Delivery Service
Miscellaneous Reports, Forms and Prescription Ordering Supplies
Guests: 
Dr. Lisa Faast, PharmD - Pharmacy Owner & CEO of DiversifyRx 
Dr. Adam Robinson, PharmD - Pharmacy Owner at Save Rite Drugs 
Deborah C. Marcello, RN,BSN,CCM - CEO of Happier at Home 
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Join today's discussion with Dr. Tim Ulbrich, as we talk about the finances of pharmacy and medicine! Did you know that the #1 barrier for going to medical school for most pharmacy graduates is related to financial concerns? Listen in as we address these valid concerns and uncover ways to maximize your financial wellness as a pharmacist and future physician!
Topics covered include general personal finance recommendations, how to handle pharmacy debt along with medical school debt, the benefits of physician loans, and how to achieve financial wellness!
Links:
1. Your Financial Pharmacist: https://yourfinancialpharmacist.com/
2. Seven Figure Pharmacist: https://www.sevenfigurepharmacist.com/
3. The Physician Pharmacist: www.PhysicianPharmacist.com
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State of technology: As pharmacy leaders, we only have so many options available to us at one time which is why we decided to build our own focused on better management of drug shortages. 
References:
OrbitalRx.com 
How Hospitals Are Battling Shortages in Staffing, Supply-Chain
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-08-03/how-hospitals-are-battling-shortages-in-staffing-supply-chain
4 Major Medication Shortages That Could Affect You
https://bestlifeonline.com/medication-shortages-news/
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Introduction­
 
As a leader in innovation within healthcare, Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) consistently seeks ways to leverage technology and automation to support efficient medication management for its mother-baby and pediatric populations. Seeking intelligent medication management solutions, TCH selected an as-a-Service offering that combined an automated dispensing system with expert services to optimize their central pharmacy operations. Learn from industry experts how pharmacy automation and an intelligent infrastructure transform medication management to support better care and outcomes for mother-baby, pediatric, and patient populations.
 
Participants
 
·      Jeff Wagner, Vice President, Pharmacy, Respiratory Care, and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Services
·      Gee Mathen, Director, Pharmacy Clinical Applications, Technical Services, Texas Children's Hospital
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Earl Simmons (DMX) gonna give it to ya, a new definition of pain that is!
 
Back in 2009, a prominent study showed that U.S. Schools of Medicine were barely covering the topic of pain management in respective curricula (weighing in at a mere 9 hours on average), which paled in comparison to numerous other medical conditions. Obviously, the rest of healthcare professional schools, that’s us in pharmacy too, had a reconning to take action and amp up the education on pain management, and of course substance use disorder (SUD), commonly referred to as addiction.
 
It's been a wild ride, and in this episode of the Pain Pod, Mark “Pain Guy” Garofoli sits down for a chat with Dr. Lucas Hill, PharmD on the intersection of Academia (the Ivory Tower) and SUD.
 
Come one, come all, to the Pain Pod!!!
 
Episode References
 
·     June 10th, 2022 Time Magazine article “Fewer Than Half of U.S. Pharmacies Carry One of the Most Effective Drugs for Opioid Abuse”: https://time.com/6186319/buprenorphine-overdoses-pharmacy-drug-treatment/
·     AACP Opioid Efforts Database Submission: https://www.aacp.org/opioid
·     APhA Institute on SUD: https://aphainstitute.pharmacist.com/
·     Chronicle of Higher Education Article: https://www.chronicle.com/article/one-university-takes-on-the-opioid-crisis/
2011 Article on U.S. Schools of Medicine 9 hours of Pain Education: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21945594/
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Pharmacy Times Continuing Education (PTCE) provides industry leading pharmacy CE to retail, oncology, managed care, specialty, and health-systems pharmacists. They use multiple deliverables in the live, virtual, on-demand, and print formats created by in-house pharmacists to deliver tailored multi-specialty education.
The Managed Care Implications of Cost, Disease Burden, and Quality of Life in Myelofibrosis
 
Educational Objective: Recognize the quality-of-life impacts and cost of therapy challenges patients with myelofibrosis face and explore strategies available to better manage this diagnosis.
 
 
 
Melissa Pozotrigo, PharmD, BCOP
Senior Clinical Pharmacist
OncoHealth
Atlanta, Georgia
 
Melissa Pozotrigo, PharmD, BCOP, has no financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
 
 
Pharmacy Times Continuing Education™ is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity is approved for 0.5 contact hour (0.05 CEU) under the ACPE universal activity number 0290-0000-22-397-H01-P. The activity is available for CE credit through August 29, 2023.
This activity is supported by an educational grant from Incyte Corporation.
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Educational Objective: Outline the standard treatment options for myelofibrosis as well as review clinical data for Janus kinase inhibitors and emerging targeted therapies.
 
 
Victoria Nachar, PharmD, BCOP
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Hematology
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
 
Victoria Nachar, PharmD, BCOP, has no financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Pharmacy Times Continuing Education™ is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity is approved for 0.5 contact hour (0.05 CEU) under the ACPE universal activity number 0290-0000-22-396-H01-P. The activity is available for CE credit through August 29, 2023.
This activity is supported by an educational grant from Incyte Corporation.
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Educational Objective: Review the etiology and pathophysiology of myelofibrosis, including the World Health Organization classification and diagnostic criteria.
 
 
Victoria Nachar, PharmD, BCOP
Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Hematology
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
Victoria Nachar, PharmD, BCOP, has no financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
Pharmacy Times Continuing Education™ is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity is approved for 0.5 contact hour (0.05 CEU) under the ACPE universal activity number 0290-0000-22-381-H01-P. The activity is available for CE credit through August 29, 2023.
This activity is supported by an educational grant from Incyte Corporation.
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Hello beautiful listeners! I’m so excited to share this episode with you diving into the journey of one psychology-majoring basketball player turned-brilliant market researcher turned-pharmacy performance coach. Tyson Clarke has studied the highest performers in several industries to come up with a customized approach to help independent pharmacies to serve their patients’ needs with an integrative approach while creating revenue streams to drive their business forward.
Tyson started his career in elite sport, and was dismayed with how scarce effective training was present in the corporate world.
Through working in Australian community pharmacy, and being more committed to results than positive feedback - he's created a tool for effective distribution of culturally sensitive intelligence - voiceta. A speech operated platform to train social skills in the same manner an elite athlete would.
He's currently excited about changing the cultural landscape by helping people tell the truth , and gain communication skills with his extremely effective Assertiveness training.
Connect and train with Tyson at Motherofskill.com.
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Dr. DeLon Canterbury PharmD, is a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist who focuses on the special needs of older patients who may have concurrent illnesses taking multiple medications. His extensive background ranges from Personalized Care, Medication Deprescribing, to Health Cost Savings! He was inspired to pursue this calling, because of his late grandmother who passed from complications of Dementia, where a medication had been incorrectly prescribed leading to her health declining rapidly. This fatal medication error could have been avoided had a trained Geriatric Pharmacist paid close enough attention to her medication history. He never want any more patients of his or loved ones to endure what my family had to because of something preventable, which is why he founded GeriatRx.
Dr. Jerrica Dodd, PharmD is the founder of the PharmaSis Magazine. The PharmaSis Magazine, where the goal is to celebrate women in pharmacy. These women have determined to define their careers and ultimately leave a legacy while building the lives of which they dream. 
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Disclaimer: This podcast is not approved for CME credit. Every diabetes treatment plan is different, individual results may vary – nothing you hear on this podcast should be considered medical advice. All claims are supported by clinical evidence referenced in the show notes. For clinical study results, please refer to the Dexcom G6 User Guide. For product-related questions, please refer to the instructions for use. For complete safety information, go to dexcom.com/safety-information. 
Smart devices are sold separately. For a list of compatible smart devices, visit: dexcom.com/compatibility. 
 
Fingersticks required for diabetes treatment decisions if symptoms or expectations do not match readings.
 
Data from collaborator devices and products must be verified by those collaborator devices and products. Users should confirm data and connections with their collaborator devices and products.
The Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (Dexcom G6 System) is a real time, continuous glucose monitoring device indicated for the management of diabetes in persons aged 2 years and older. 
Egils Bogdanovics, MD and Tomas Grace, MD are paid spokespeople for Dexcom.
Dexcom G6 System User Guide
 
Safety Information
 
Dexcom Clarity Website
 
About Hello Dexcom 
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The NACDS Total Store Expo is the industry’s largest gathering of its most influential leaders. It is a combination of both strategic and tactical business meetings between existing and new trading partners and is attended by industry decision-makers. It will give you and your company a unique opportunity to gain new insights into today’s evolving marketplace and set your course for the future. This is also an excellent opportunity for retail media executives to engage the supplier community.
We talk with Dr. Christie R. Boutte, PharmD, the Senior Vice President, Reimbursement, Innovation and Advocacy with the NACDS. 
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A new report penned by Pamela Spence, EY’s Global Health Sciences and Wellness Industry, explores how heath care in the future will be transformed by a living, intelligent ecosystem that enables care delivery anytime and anywhere, and how pharmacists can utilize AI technologies to make health care even more human.
 
According to EY, there is no single new technology that holds the key to the future of health care. Rather, as technologies such as sensors, cloud computing, AR/VR and 5G continue to evolve and converge with more advanced technologies, like quantum computing and the metaverse, they are enabling the creation of a growing internet of medical things (IoMT), which will extend itself everywhere – beginning with sensors in and on our bodies, to our homes and working environments, and beyond, to smart specialist care facilities. The result: unprecedented growth (36% CAGR over the next three years) in quantity and quality of health data available. Data – particularly the disparate, often unstructured data generated from our daily lives, which is often relevant to health outcomes – requires new analytical tools to turn it from raw information into actionable insights.
 
EY identified two key areas for pharmacists to focus in order to create value in this intelligent health ecosystem of the future:
 
·       Personalized insights through artificial intelligence – AI offers a means to connect, combine and interrogate unstructured data differently and unlock actionable insights. With the power of AI, pharmas can begin to link the huge volumes of data generated and the vast array of technological tools being developed into a comprehensive, integrated smart health system. This data-driven smart system enables the breakdown of silos between care settings and optimizes decision-making across the patient journey.
 
·       User experience defines the value – The explosion in data and technological innovation offers pharmas a way to reinvent care as a patient-centered, personalized health experience. To succeed in this reinvented world companies will need to consider not only traditional clinical metrics, but also the non-clinical measures which capture the subjective reality of the patient’s own experience. Use of these measures to generate actionable insights via AI will be the pivot for the move from data to value and thus, for BioPharma companies to gain fair reimbursement for innovation and new products.
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Pharmacy accessibility is key for the emerging role of community pharmacists as providers of patient-centered, medication management services in addition to traditional dispensing roles. Community pharmacies may serve as accessible locations for patient-centered, medication management services that enhance the health and wellness of communities. Although chain pharmacies represent the majority of pharmacy locations across the country, access to community pharmacies in rural areas predominantly relies on regional franchises and independently owned pharmacies. 
Guest: 
Lucas A. Berenbrok, PharmD 
Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy 
Download the journal article here: https://www.japha.org/article/S1544-3191(22)00233-3/fulltext#%20
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Pharmacy Profit Summit is dedicated to bringing new strategies, tactics, and vetted companies to active pharmacy owners that want to improve their pharmacy profits. Our attendees are action takers. They don't attend the Pharmacy Profit Summit to get CEs or qualify for rebates.
Listen into this summary episode with special guests: 
Brad Jones, CEO of Retail Management Solutions 
Vince Costanza, CEO of RxBLU Cloud-care software technology 
Debbie Marcello, CEO of Happier at Home 
Pharmacy owner, Dr. Adam Robinson co-Owner of Save Rite Drugs 
Dr. Jamie Wilkey CEO of PGx Consulting Confidence Academy
CEO of GRx Marketing Nicolle McClure 
Chelsea Holloway, Marketing & Sales Coordinator at Retail Management Solutions
…and the founder of DiversifyRx and the Pharmacy Profit Summit LIVE, Dr. Lisa Faast 
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Join us in today's show where I talk with Dr. Tess Calcagno as she reflects on her experiences in medical school and analyzes the parallels to her prior pharmacy education!
In today’s show, we will cover topics related to applying to medical school, international medical care, a recap of an entire year of 3rd year medical rotations (including surgery), introduce USMLE STEP 2, and finish up with Medical Residency applications!
Links:
1. The physician perspective on pharmacist-physician collaboration and trust: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35346606/
2. Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS): https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-residencies-eras/about-eras
3. The Physician Pharmacist: www.PhysicianPharmacist.com
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Darshan Kulkarni, PharmD JD, is excited to welcome guest Jay Holloway, Pharm D. to discuss Rules about Trans Representation in the #pharmacy on this episode of the DarshanTalks Podcast. 
They discuss #healthequity , his experiences working as an illustrator, addressing trans populations, terms like #genderdiversity, the weight of the term #masculine and what #masculinity means, #cisgender#sexualorientation #genderidentity, and how it connects to #LGBTQ+ populations. They also discuss what it takes to manage a trans identity, insurance and reimbursement coverage, job discrimination, the role of #Rxshare and more. 
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Vaccinating Young Children for COVID – Tips for Pharmacists
Beverly Schaefer, RPh, a community pharmacist from Seattle, WA, has been vaccinating young children for decades. She says pharmacists already have all the training they need to administer COVID-19 vaccines to children the age of 5. Listen to her as she shares her tips for vaccinating young children. (Length: 12:47)
This resource was produced as part of “Vaccine Confident,” which is funded in part by a collaborative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — CoAg number 1 NU50CK000576-01-00. The CDC is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Contents of this resource do not necessarily represent the CDC or HHS, and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government.
Resources
APhA’s Pharmacists’ Guide to Coronavirus
Comprehensive Guide to COVID-19 Vaccination Schedules (.pdf)
Vaccine Confident Open Forum: The Latest COVID-19 Recommendations (Webinar 6/28/2022)
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