Angela C. Straza, PharmD is the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Medication Safety & Quality Chair, and the PGY1 Residency Program Director at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.  Completed Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Drake University in Des Moines, IA and residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Work focused on Medication and Patient Safety, Opioid Stewardship, Accreditation and Survey Methodology. Serves as PGY1 Residency Program Director and longitudinal P4 student coordinator. Passionate about helping students and residents meet their professional and personal development goals.

PNM#11 - Jami Johnson

Jami Johnson is a Medical Science Liaison for BTG Specialty Pharmaceuticals and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy. Prior to her move to industry, she was the Assistant Managing Director of the Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Information.  She completed undergraduate coursework at the University of Oklahoma in Norman prior to completing the Doctorate of Pharmacy Program at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy.  Dr. Johnson worked as a Poison Information Provider at the OCPDI while completing her PharmD, which initially sparked her interest in toxicology.  After graduation, she completed the Clinical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program at UFHealth-Jacksonville and the Florida Poison Information Center-Jacksonville.  Upon completion of her fellowship, she obtained certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Applied Toxicology. When she isn’t MSLing, she enjoys donating her time to various professional organizations, most recently joining the ABAT NACCT 2019 Symposium committee and participating in AACT’s Clinical Toxicology Recommendations Collaborative Activated Charcoal project on the systematic review committee and clinical recommendations panel. She is dedicated to continued professional improvement and growth, mostly recently joining the OU Health Sciences Center’s 2019 Leadership Council.

Her professional interests include critical care with an emphasis on cardiotoxicity, and natural toxins, especially venomous snakes. Her personal interests include avoiding the aforementioned natural toxins in the wild and spending time with her friends and family.

BOOMER SOONER!

In this episode:

PNM#11 - Jami Johnson

Jami Johnson is a Medical Science Liaison for BTG Specialty Pharmaceuticals and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy. Prior to her move to industry, she was the Assistant Managing Director of the Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Information.  She completed undergraduate coursework at the University of Oklahoma in Norman prior to completing the Doctorate of Pharmacy Program at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy.  Dr. Johnson worked as a Poison Information Provider at the OCPDI while completing her PharmD, which initially sparked her interest in toxicology.  After graduation, she completed the Clinical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program at UFHealth-Jacksonville and the Florida Poison Information Center-Jacksonville.  Upon completion of her fellowship, she obtained certification as a Diplomate of the American Board of Applied Toxicology. When she isn’t MSLing, she enjoys donating her time to various professional organizations, most recently joining the ABAT NACCT 2019 Symposium committee and participating in AACT’s Clinical Toxicology Recommendations Collaborative Activated Charcoal project on the systematic review committee and clinical recommendations panel. She is dedicated to continued professional improvement and growth, mostly recently joining the OU Health Sciences Center’s 2019 Leadership Council.

Her professional interests include critical care with an emphasis on cardiotoxicity, and natural toxins, especially venomous snakes. Her personal interests include avoiding aforementioned natural toxins in the wild and spending time with her friends and family.

BOOMER SOONER!

In this episode:

PNM#10 - Craig Cocchio  

Ruben Santiago turns the tables, flips the class, and interviews me for the PNM podcast.  

In this episode, we talk about my history, how EM PharmD got started, updates on the Burnout Code, new role with High Yield Med Reviews, and future directions for PNM.

In this episode: 

Athena Cannon is a current Pharmaceutical Care Leadership Resident at the University of Minnesota. She was born and raised in Texas. She completed her pharmacy prerequisites at the University of Texas at Arlington and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Abilene, Texas in 2020.    

Throughout her pharmacy program, Athena was involved in Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS), Phi Delta Chi (PDC), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) locally and nationally involved with the ACCP Endocrine and Metabolism Healthcare Committee.    

Early on in her pharmacy career, Athena was curious about the role of pharmacists in sports medicine and antidoping. Throughout the years, she has worked with and learned from professionals in sports medicine on the collegiate and elite level and has served as the first pharmacy intern for the U.S Antidoping Agency. 

During her fourth year of pharmacy school, Athena helped create a sports medicine elective APPE with Texas Tech University.    Athena’s over-arching passion in pharmacy lies in ambulatory care and nutrition and lifestyle education with a hope to continue to grow her knowledge and impact in sports medicine and anti-doping.    

Athena's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/athena-brindle-cannon-pharmd-309030a9/  

Robert S. Pugliese is Director of Innovation Design at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health where he co-founded the Health Design Lab, a creative space built with the purpose of merging together design-studio ethos with the science-oriented discipline to foster innovation in healthcare. As somebody who enjoys empowering future health care providers to be change-makers, Robert leads programs that train students to be health design thinkers and innovators. A Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Robert has spent over ten years practicing and teaching in Emergency Medicine. He believes that including both the patient and provider voice is vital to healthcare design, and he brings each of these perspectives to his work through his experience as a clinician and through his own journey coping with insulin-dependent diabetes.

Robert has presented on the intersection of healthcare and design at national venues such as SXSW and Stanford Medicine X. In 2019, Robert was selected as a Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree.

Health design lab

https://www.healthdesignlab.com/

Health Design Thinking, co-written by Ellen Lupton and Dr. Bon Ku, will be published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and MIT Press in March 2020.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/health-design-thinking

Health Design Lab - Robert’s role and Vision

How will newer technologies impact pharmacy in the next 5-10 years?

The transition from EM clinical practice to your role?

Nadia Awad, PharmD, BCPS (@Nadia_EMPharmD) is an emergency medicine pharmacist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from Rutgers College in 2007, and earning her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University in 2011, she completed two years of post-graduate residency training at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, specializing in emergency medicine pharmacy. She is board certified in pharmacotherapy. In addition, she is the associate editor and staff blogger of the blog, Emergency Medicine PharmD (http://empharmd.blogspot.com), and she has authored over 70 educational entries related to the application of pharmacotherapy in the emergency department.  

In this episode we spoke about: 

Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS (@emergencypharm)

Chris Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, is an assistant professor with the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and a clinical assistant professor with the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine.  After completing PGY1 and PGY2 residency training with the University of Arizona, Chris worked as a clinical pharmacist in the emergency department of Banner University Medical Center - Tucson (BUMCT) then as a senior manager of clinical pharmacy services with BUMCT before moving into a faculty role with the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy.

As a faculty member, he maintains a clinical practice in the emergency department at BUMCT, coordinates a pharmacotherapeutics course for second-year pharmacy students, and researches pharmacy practice in emergency medicine.  Chris currently serves as a delegate to ASHP’s House of Delegates representing the state of Arizona, as Director at Large for the Arizona Pharmacy Association, and as vice-chair for ASHP’s Council on Education and Workforce Development.

Full bio here

In this episode we covered:

The petition to BPS can be found here

I got a chance to speak with Ashley and Brooke Barlow (@theABofPharmaC).

They are currently PGY2 residents and are an absolutely essential follow on Twitter. I

n this episode, we covered essential pharmacy residency recruitment season changes we’re all facing in 2020. Advice from these professionals, who’ve already mastered social media, can help you not only get noticed during 2020 residency recruitment but also land the best possible residency for you.

-Seeking a residency in 2020

-Program Instagram accounts and virtual residencies

-Programs providing “answers” to the “normal” questions:

--What’s a residency day like?

--How do you interact with other providers?

--What’s a typical on-call schedule like?

-Social media CV

- How should you package social media professional activity?

-Jeff Cain link social media-based research (@DrJeffCain)

-Professional vs personal social media accounts

-Asking questions over making statements on medical social media

Seeking diversity in experience, expanding knowledge, and creating human connections with other passionate individuals

Full episode here

LinkedIn- Priya A. Patel, PharmD, MBA

Regional Director of Pharmacy at Baylor Scott & White Health.

How great leaders inspire action - TED Talk - Simon Sinek

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek

Extreme Ownership -  Leading up the chain of command - Jocko Willink

Tribe of mentors - Tim Ferriss

Think Like a Monk - Jay Shetty

Board Certification for retail to in-patient settings

American College Of Healthcare Executives