My guest today is Donna Bartlett, PharmD.  We’re discussing her book MedStrong: Shed Your Meds for a Better, Healthier You - Aging Well Through Deprescribing.  This is part 11 of 15 in my Pharmacist Authors Summer Series.  If you’re a pharmacist or pharmacy student who is interested in deprescribing or a professor at a school of pharmacy, you need to listen to this interview!

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Bio (2023)

Dr. Donna Bartlett is a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist licensed in Massachusetts.  She received her BS in Pharmacy and her Doctor of Pharmacy degrees at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University-Boston.  Currently, Dr. Bartlett is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University, and oversees an internal medicine clinical site at HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster, MA. Dr. Bartlett has over 15 years’ experience as a clinical pharmacist and over 20 years of retail experience. Education expertise and areas of interest includes polypharmacy, deprescribing, geriatrics, medication access and affordability, falls prevention, adherence, and community outreach. Dr. Bartlett hosts podcasts for the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists- The Senior Care Pharmacist Podcast and hosts her own website dedicated to deprescribing https://donnabartlett.com. She presented at the first International Deprescribing Conference in Denmark in the Fall of 2022. She is the author of MedStrong: Shed Your Meds for a Better, Healthier You-Aging Well through Deprescribing.