Talk to Your Pharmacist

In this episode, we have Russell Gong who is the Co-founder and Head of Product & Brand for Cabinet Health Inc. His mission is to bring unmatched quality, environmental sustainability, and personalized care to all health essentials. Prior to Cabinet, Russ worked 10 years in social enterprises building and scaling local businesses in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia. He is a Techstars Alumni and a member of the US Army National Guard serving as a Ranger Qualified Infantry Officer. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Ali.

A few of the key points from Russ about Cabinet's business:

1. Quality: Batch-level quality testing in medicine, partnership with Valisure, why supply chain matters, gluten free medicine

2. Sustainability: Environmentally sustainability in medicine and companies, how is cabinet improving their footprint in the environment and building a company from the ground up

3. Personalized Care : Personalized care what that means? From bundles, to customer relationships, to medicine itself.

Guest - Russell Gong

Cabinet's website: https://cabinethealth.com/

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA

www.hillaryblackburn.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/

@talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook

@HillBlackburn Twitter

It's been exciting to watch several female pharmacy leaders of health systems all across the country, including Jillian Foster of Baptist Memorial Healthcare Corp (TN/MS/AR) during this past year!

Jillian Foster is the System Pharmacy Leader at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation. She shares how she led her team through COVID and advice for other female leaders or aspiring leaders.

If you want to learn more about Jillian's leadership story, check out her episode on the show in 2017.

In this 4 part series Women Leading in a Crisis, we connected with another CPO of a large health system, LeeAnn Miller. She is the Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer for System Pharmacy Services at Yale-New Haven Health (YNHH). LeeAnn is responsible for advancing pharmacy services to drive high-value care for patients and the community.

Yale New Haven Health is comprised of 5 Delivery Networks spanning the Connecticut shoreline and Rhode Island. LeeAnn oversees approximately 950 FTEs spanning acute care and ambulatory services inclusive of retail and specialty pharmacy. LeeAnn completed her undergraduate training at West Virginia University School of Pharmacy where she also earned a Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Policy. She later completed a post-graduate doctor of pharmacy degree at Shenandoah University in Virginia.

During the Covid-19 crisis, we’ve heard anecdotally about women leaders doing a better job and new research backs that up. One study found that outcomes related to Covid-19, including number of cases and deaths, were systematically better in countries led by women. Another looked at governors in the U.S. and similarly found that states with female leaders had lower fatality rates.

Pharmacy has and will play maybe even a bigger role in 2021 as we roll out the COVID vaccine, and each of these ladies has been interviewed by media about the #vaccine and represented the pharmacy profession well!

It's been exciting to watch several female pharmacy leaders of health systems all across the country during this past year!

After reading HBR's article in December 2020 on Women Are Better Leaders During a Crisis, we decided to interview some female pharmacy leaders to hear how they were handling the COVID Crisis. https://lnkd.in/gthJ9ZC

To continue the series, our guest is Susan M Mashni, Pharm D, BCPS who is the VP & Chief Pharmacy Officer, Mount Sinai Health System and Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine. Sue encourages leaders to step up and let go of the fear factor.

It's been exciting to watch several female pharmacy leaders of health systems all across the country during this past year!

After reading HBR's article in December 2020 on Women Are Better Leaders During a Crisis, we decided to interview some female pharmacy leaders to hear how they were handling the COVID Crisis. https://lnkd.in/gthJ9ZC

To kick off the series, our guest is Helen McKnight. Helen graduated from University of Florida with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at University of Maryland Medical System. She has been a pharmacist for 25+ years. Her current role is Director of Pharmacy Services at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Prior to moving to Alabama, Dr. McKnight practiced Pharmacy in South Florida and Upstate New York. She has been fortunate to be part of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists “Leading Edge” and ASHP Foundation “Pharmacy Leadership Academy” programs. In 2016, Dr. McKnight completed her MBA with an emphasis in Healthcare Management from New England College in New Hampshire. In 2019, Dr McKnight became the first Alabama pharmacist to pass the Board of Pharmacy Specialties-Compounded Sterile Preparations exam.

Helen shares about the “Seasons of Leadership”

Guest - Helen McKnight , PharmD, MBA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-mcknight-pharmd-mba-bcscp-b0a930bb/

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD

www.hillaryblackburn.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/

@talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook

@HillBlackburn Twitter

In this episode, our guest is Marialice Bennett, a former APhA Past President and the 2021 APhA Remington Medal recipient. Marialice is a Professor Emerita of Pharmacy Practice and Science and former Residency Director for The Ambulatory and Community Care Residency Programs at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. She served as a co-founder and pharmacy director of University Health Connection, an innovative interprofessional health care clinic for faculty and staff of the university, from 1999 to 2011. She currently works with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and with the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) to advance community-based pharmacy practice and community-based residency programs. She earned her BS degree from The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy in 1969.

Professor Bennett is recognized as a practice innovator and an agent of change. She was among the first clinical pharmacists to practice at the OSU Medical Center. Her practice team’s contribution to the development of both the OSU College of Pharmacy Clinical Partners and the OSU University Health Connection resulted in 2005 and 2006 ASHP Best Practice Awards. She received the 1999 APhA Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award for her contributes to practice, the 2011 OPA Beal Award for lifetime contributions to pharmacy, 2015 OSU College of Pharmacy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2016 Bowl of Hygeia Award for service to the community.

She has been involved with several national practice-based research projects including Project Impact: Hyperlipidemia and Patient Self-Management: Diabetes. She has contributed to numerous projects and tools developed to implement medication therapy management (MTM) nationally as well as frequently speaking and publishing on practice innovation. She received the 2004 APhA Foundation, Jake Miller Award for her contributions to practice-based research.

Professor Bennett loves to teach and to mentor. She strives to bring innovation and inspiration to all learners. Over the past 30 years she has contributed to the advancement of community residencies nationally and leaves a legacy of cutting edge PGY1 and PGY2 programs at OSU. She feels blessed to have mentored 108 residents and numerous students during her career. She is honored to be the recipient of several OSU teaching awards, the 2004 APhA Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award, 2009 APhA Gloria Niemeyer Franck Leadership Mentoring Award, the 2013 Linwood F. Tice Friend of APhA-ASP Award, and the 2016 OSU Alumni Society Josephine Sitterle Failer Award for volunteer service to students.

Her service includes 2011-12 APhA President; 2007-2009 President of APhA-Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management and member of the APhA Board of Trustees; and member of numerous task forces, panels, and commissions related to MTM, practice innovation, and community residencies.

Topics covered:

Community based practice has been your passion

Teaching & mentoring

Telling the story of being a woman and an innovator in pharmacy.

Addressing past and current barriers to women in leadership.

Advice for overcoming some of the current barriers.

Guest - Marialice Bennett, BSPharm, RPh, FAPhA

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marialice-bennett-60b39011/

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA

www.hillaryblackburn.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/

@talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook

@HillBlackburn Twitter

Launching Your Medical Writing Career

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Our guest, Alex Evans is a pharmacist and medical writer currently living in Jacksonville, FL. He grew up in NC and went to pharmacy school at UNC. He’s addicted to the ocean, and during my time there he spent one month each over two summers in Roatan, an island off the coast of Honduras, as an intern at a dive shop, where he filled tanks, loaded the boats, and led dive and snorkel tours. Alex paid for the trips there by teaching marine biology for Duke TIP at their Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC, once I got back.

After graduating, Alex spent a year in South Carolina before moving to Hawaii, where he lived for five years, both on the Big Island and Maui. Dr. Evans got into medical writing in 2016, and grew it from a hobby that made a little 'pocket change' to producing enough income to move into a part-time role at Ascension. He is now working as a pharmacy project manager at Ascension three days/week and writing the other two days.

Guest - Alex Evans, PharmD, MBA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexevanspharmd/

https://www.pharmcompliance.com/

https://alexevanspharmd.journoportfolio.com/

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA

www.pharmacyadvisory.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/

@talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook

@HillBlackburn Twitter

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Derek Imars who is the Area Director, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain-Midwest with The Resource Group. In this role Derek assists The Resource Group Participants in achieving business transformation goals within the Pharmaceutical space. Over the past few years he has been integral in the strategic development of The Resource Group’s National Operations - Pharmaceutical Community and has led many initiatives including but not limited to deployment of inventory management standards, enhancement of pharmaceutical procurement, and improvements within internal medication delivery. As a pharmacist himself, Derek sees his role as a bridge between finance, supply chain, technology, and pharmacy working daily to enhance patient care. This past year has been no different with Derek’s efforts focused on mitigating COVID-19 and now COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Background

1. What is The Resource Group?

2. What is the National Operations - Pharmaceuticals Community?

3. What is your current role?

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Explained

1. Why is the National Operations - Pharmaceutical Community unique?

2. Why is it necessary?

3. Why haven’t more supply chain solutions deliberately focused on this area of supply chain operations?

COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

1. What are the obvious challenges (well known/published)?

2. What are the hidden challenges (on the ground/not well known)?

3. How do you (National Operations - Pharmaceuticals Community) combat some of these hidden challenges?

Impact on the Future

1. How has this vaccine (COVID) changed the industry?

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA

www.hillaryblackburn.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/

@talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook

@HillBlackburn Twitter

In this episode, our guest is Professor Claire Thompson. Claire is an award-winning scientist, strategist, and storyteller with more than 15 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry spanning the large multi-nationals GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, virtual and Contract Research Organisations. She is CEO of Agility Life Sciences, an award-winning CDMO, consulting, and communications firm which works with organizations across the healthcare space to advance their products and raise their profile. She is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge and holds an Honorary Professorship from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. Claire is Chair of the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s Women in Science and Education (FIP WiSE) initiative.

Guest - Prof. Claire Thompson, CEO, Agility Life Sciences

www.agilityhealthtech.com

@agilitylifesci

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA

www.hillaryblackburn.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/

@talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook

@HillBlackburn Twitter

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Carlene Link, who is a clinical pharmacist who works in the inpatient setting for a Level 1 Trauma hospital. She completed her undergraduate at John Carroll University, received her Pharm.D. from The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, and completed her PGY-1 residency at Mt. Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital. In 2010, she became a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist (BCPS).

She began her career as an Internal Medicine clinical specialist where she worked inpatient rounding with her teams for five years and then moved into the business sector, working for an international drug information company for another five years.

Following the birth of her second child, she stepped back from Corporate America to raise her kids while returning to the clinical setting. A mom to two active boys, she is a workout enthusiast who loves fashion, cooking, traveling and reading.

An active medical blogger, she is extremely passionate about empowering busy moms in healthcare to embrace their work-life harmony, advancing the profession of pharmacy and inspiring and motivating the next generation of pharmacy leaders (find her on social media @drcarlenelink!).

Main points: Making a Commitment to Excellence

- embracing work-life harmony

- finding and cultivating passions outside of medicine

- career path and advice for current and future students and residents

- pharmacy career options outside of the traditional pharmacist role

- how to advance our profession.

Guest - Carlene Link, PharmD, BCPS

@drcarlenelink

Host - Hillary Blackburn, PharmD, MBA

www.hillaryblackburn.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-blackburn-67a92421/

@talktoyourpharmacist for Instagram and Facebook

@HillBlackburn Twitter