Pharmacy Podcast Network

Who is Dr. Swathi Varanasi? Tune into the first episode of The Element Apothec Show to learn about the host–an integrative health pharmacist, wellness entrepreneur, speaker, author, and educator. Dr. Swathi Varanasi, better known as Dr. Swathi, was recently named one of The 50 Most Influential Leaders in Pharmacy. Dr. Swathi has paved the way for other healthcare professionals to pursue non-traditional career paths through creating postdoctoral training programs, industry internships, and online courses. She is a speaker, author, and co-founder of the international award-winning plant-based wellness and skincare brand, Element Apothec. As a healthcare disruptor, she looks for opportunities to break barriers and challenge her western-trained colleagues to think beyond the conventional scope of their practice. Through the many modalities of integrative medicine and patient-centered shared decision-making, she believes that health and wellness is achievable for everyone. Emphasizing an evidence-based approach, Dr. Swathi is passionate about educating practitioners, students, patients, and consumers, and strives to empower everyone to be the best, most authentic version of themselves. Dr. Swathi received her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from the Medical University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy (Charleston, SC) and her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Carleton College (Northfield, MN). She is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition from Cornell University. Dr. Swathi serves adjunct faculty and has guest lectured at colleges, universities, and conference stages worldwide. She has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Yahoo, Well+Good, and mindbodygreen. Dr. Swathi lives in Los Angeles, CA, and Toronto, ON, Canada. In her free time, she can be found delving into personal development, spending time with her fiancée, learning about sustainable fashion, or planning her next trip (35 countries and counting!).

We are excited today to bring you a special guest. Jason O’Connor is

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Through jubilant wins and gut punching losses, the pharmacists of New York never give up. Listen in as PUTTcast host Lauren Young digs into the upcoming positive changes under New York's new Medicaid carve out, and PSSNY's inexhaustible fight to get it across the finish line.

Special Guests:

Heather Ferrarese, President, Pharmacists Society of the State of New York

Steve Moore, Owner, Condo Pharmacy, Past President, Pharmacists Society of the State of New York

Greg Reybold, Director of Healthcare Policy & General Counsel, ACPI

John Beckner, R.Ph., from NCPA talks about how immunizations include much more than flu and COVID. They are a door opener to capture many new, and profitable, revenue streams. NCPA can help with detailed guide books and classes to show how to bill for immunizations and how you can obtain, and profit from, a CLIA waiver. Check out the website; www.ncpa.org and look under the Resources tap.

Special guests: Jack Teitelman - President of TITAN Group, Drug Diversion Experts Peter Kreckel Pharmacist in Charge and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacology for Saint Francis University

We are getting so close to the end of the year and the end of Season 5 of the Holistic Pharmacy Podcast! I want to thank you so much for tuning in and learning how to be better practitioners and humans together. I could not do this without your support and feedback, and it truly inspires me to keep going every day even when challenges inevitably arise. With the solstice coming up, I invite you to take stock of your year and your life, and reflect on what resources you already have that you can tap into. Winter is the season for slowing down and introspection, so really allow yourself to just be. Ask yourself what you need, and what would serve you. And take care of yourself! Which leads me to the topic of today’s episode, where today’s guest passionately shares about her own journey and the powerful realization that women in healthcare need to take care of themselves just as well as they take care of their patients. Dr. Tamar Lawful, is a Doctor of Pharmacy and graduate of the University of the Sciences - Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. She is a licensed Pharmacist in California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As an Advanced Practice Pharmacist, she specializes in Pharmacogenomics, Nutritional Genomics and Integrative Nutrition. She combines these skills as Founder of LYFE Balance, Inc. where she takes a holistic and integrative approach to deprescribe unnecessary medications; promote food as medicine; guide healthy lifestyle changes; and highlight the importance of self-love to help women working in healthcare reclaim and maintain their health. With her signature InHer GlowTM Health Empowerment program, she utilizes nutrigenomics to guide clients' health goals and has helped women with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hormonal disorders lose weight, get off medications and adopt a sustainable healthy lifestyle. Her clients go from putting themselves on the back burner to the point of failing health to loving themselves first, eating healthy, eliminating brain fog, having more energy, losing weight and living their best lives! Dr. Lawful has devoted her talents to foster youth programs, youth summer camps, and philanthropic endeavors. Born in Jamaica and raised in New Jersey, she now calls California home and enjoys being a mother, playing the guitar, spa days, food, and beach life.

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In this special episode, we highlight conversations in four key areas that provide actionable insights that can drive positive business outcomes.

Growth: A candid conversation on Transition of Care: How Culture and Technology Can Bridge the Gap and how the commitment to caring for people remains key. Listen to the full conversation in Episode 9.

Pharmacy Operations: This was an eye-opening conversation on Lean Six Sigma – Making It Work for LTC Pharmacy to drive greater efficiencies. Listen to the full conversation in Episode 7.

Policy: An open conversation on Politics & Policy: How Elections Affect Your Pharmacy and how to be an advocate for your profession. Listen to the full conversation in Episode 13.

Technology: Our own Bob Bates, COO of RedSail Technologies, sat down on The Great Enabler – Cloud Technology and shared why cloud computing should be an integral part of a long-term care operation. Listen to the full conversation in Episode 5.

Get ready to deconstruct everything you’ve ever thought about the field of mental health and psychology. Today I’m honored to bring in the esteemed Holistic Physician, Restorative Coach, Podcaster, Psychiatrist Expert Witness at Welcome to Humanity - Dr. Fred Moss. Dr. Fred has been actively practicing in the mental health field internationally for over 40 years, and as a psychiatrist, has been an unwavering stand for the transformation of the prevailing, disempowering conversation that encompasses the industry globally. He is a firm believer that conversation, communication, creativity, and human connection are ultimately at the source of all healing of all conditions in all fields. Along with being a highly successful restorative/transformational coach, his signature technology, True Voice Podcasting is for people who are ready to take their lives back by speaking their authentic message into the world. TVP is designed to guide people from all walks of life, who are ready to rediscover the confidence and courage necessary to bring their full and real humanity back into all areas of their life. Dr. Fred’s conversations and talks are designed to be thought-provoking and compelling and leave audiences refreshed and revitalized, with a new sense of what it really means to be a human being. Dr. Fred Moss, MD is the foremost expert on delivering your True Voice into the world so that it can heal. Your voice matters. Your voice can heal. More About Dr. Fred Dr. Fred Moss arrived on Earth on March 1, 1958, and from that very second has been earmarked to be a healer. The family he was born into was in chaos and, in many ways, was counting on his arrival to bring health and wellness back into balance. Little Freddy had his hands full, and over the next six decades, he has made it his business to bring healing to the world around him, not only to his family and friends but to the community and world at large. What a journey it has been. Dr. Fred has had a host of life experiences, including, among other things, being a 2-time college dropout and a Northwestern University Medical School graduate (1988). Over the last four decades, Dr. Fred has been firmly entrenched in the mental health system, first as a child care worker and then as an internationally well-known psychiatrist. In addition, Dr. Fred has had leadership roles in multiple modalities, including inpatient and outpatient, homeless shelters, nursing homes, orphanages, halfway houses, drug rehabilitation centers, home visits, prisons and jails, and telepsychiatry in many regions of the USA. Dr. Fred has been committed to the notion that communication, connection, creativity, and conversation are at the heart of all healing of all conditions of all types. Without this, people simply do not heal. With it, miracles regularly occur. Voices heal. Listening heals. We humans are best when we are connected to others, and Dr. Fred’s life mission has now become to assure that all people know that who they are and what they do matters and that their voice, no matter where they are from, or where they are going, can be heard. As the founder of the Welcome to Humanity movement, and the True Voice Podcasting Mastermind and methodology, Dr. Fred now finds himself making the difference he came here to make. His years in the community, where he has been a physician to over 40,000 patients, and his storied and adventurous life traveling around the world, has now left him uniquely qualified to remind us all of what we already know. Communication is where love arises from, and speaking truth and listening authentically are the source of that love. Dr. Fred is married to his dream partner, Alexandra, and lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California. He is the proud father of two beautiful children in Texas and is owned collectively by his three cats, Valentino, Despacito, and Winston. Links, audio podcast, and more -Welcome To Humanity podcast, a show that explores what it means to be human and how to live an extraordinary life.

-Book: Creative 8: Healing Through Creativity & Self-Expression. -Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss/ & https://www.linkedin.com/company/dr-fred/

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Is There a Pharmacist Shortage? CNN and Forbes reported this week, January 30th - February 1st, through two different stories about a staffing issue due to a shortage of pharmacists throughout the country. The statistics released by the US Department of Labor in fall of 2022 show that the total number of active pharmacists in the United States rose to a new record high of 315,470. 

Today's guests are Alex C. Varkey, PharmD, MS, FAPhA APhA President-elect Designate; Director of Pharmacy Services at Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center and Dr. Swathi Varanasi, PharmD Integrative Health Pharmacist. 

Alex discusses the American Pharmacists Association stance on the subject of pharmacist shortages and Swathi discusses the changing roles of the pharmacist and her business Element Apothec. 

Dr. Swathi Varanasi, or Dr. Swathi for short, is a bilingual pharmacist specializing in integrative and preventative health. Dr. Swathi has paved the way for other healthcare professionals to pursue non-traditional career paths through creating postdoctoral training programs, industry internships, and online courses. She is a speaker, author, and co-founder of the international award-winning plant-based wellness and skincare brand, Elēment Apothēc.