The Edutainer with Dr. Erin L. Albert

Today's episode - we chat with Suzy Soliman of Pharmacist Moms!

Bio on Suzy:

Dr. Suzanne Soliman earned her PharmD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. She then completed a residency in primary care with an emphasis on education at Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy and a teaching fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Suzy worked as a clinical pharmacist, a medical science liaison and national field team educator prior to becoming an Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. She most recently was an Associate Dean at Touro College of Pharmacy New York and an independent pharmacy owner.

Suzy has 75 publications and has presented at numerous national meetings. She is a Rufus A. Lyman award recipient which is granted for the best manuscript published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education. Suzy has served as a medical expert on a number of pharmacy issues and has been a reviewer for Annals of Pharmacotherapy and Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. She has been quoted in “Crain”, “Chicago Business Magazine” and “Time Out Chicago”.   Currently, she is the Chief Academic Officer for the Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA). Her areas of interest are assessment and development of medical affairs professionals.

Suzy loves spending time with her husband and children, cooking, baking and eating!! She recently started working out and is addicted to the “barre”. For years, she struggled between work/life balance and the support from the Pharmacist Moms Group has really helped her. Ultimately finding that balance is something she works on each day. She tries to live by one of her favorite quotes by Rumi: “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor”.

Website: https://www.pharmacistmomsgroup.com/

Pharmacist Moms on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pharmacistmomsgroup/

Today we focus on a newer organization - Pharmacist Moms, by chatting with its founder, Dr. Suzanne Soliman.

Dr. Suzanne Soliman earned her PharmD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. She then completed a residency in primary care with an emphasis on education at Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy and a teaching fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Suzy worked as a clinical pharmacist, a medical science liaison and national field team educator prior to becoming an Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. She most recently was an Associate Dean at Touro College of Pharmacy New York and an independent pharmacy owner.

Suzy has 75 publications and has presented at numerous national meetings. She is a Rufus A. Lyman award recipient which is granted for the best manuscript published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education. Suzy has served as a medical expert on a number of pharmacy issues and has been a reviewer for Annals of Pharmacotherapy and Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. She has been quoted in “Crain”, “Chicago Business Magazine” and “Time Out Chicago”.   Currently, she is the Chief Academic Officer for the Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA). Her areas of interest are assessment and development of medical affairs professionals.

Suzy loves spending time with her husband and children, cooking, baking and eating!! She recently started working out and is addicted to the “barre”. For years, she struggled between work/life balance and the support from the Pharmacist Moms Group has really helped her. Ultimately finding that balance is something she works on each day. She tries to live by one of her favorite quotes by Rumi: “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor”.

Suzy at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannerabi/

More on Pharmacist Moms:

Online: https://www.pharmacistmomsgroup.com/

At Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pharmacistmomsgroup/

At Twitter: https://twitter.com/smsoliman1

**DISCLOSURE** This is the day job for me as sr. dir. of education

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🔥🔥🔥Breaking up the podcast miniseries to bring some urgent and important news over at the day job front! 🔥🔥🔥

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You get:

-12 BCGP homestudy learning modules, each at least 1.5 hours of BCGP credit, dripped into your My Learning Tab at ASCP.com/learning throughout the year after buying the bundle this week. This will serve as at least 18 hours of BCGP recertification credit.

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-This 2020 BCGP bundle is HOMESTUDY ONLY. No live webinars here. If you live in a state that also requires live credit - please consider this in advance.

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Today - we're going to take a look at one US State Pharmacy Association - The Indiana Pharmacists Association. We chat with Dr. Denise Fields, who is President of IPA this year.

IPA is online at: https://www.indianapharmacists.org/

Denise's profile on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-fields-pharmd-12293613/

Denise C. Fields, PharmD, BC-ADM, FASHP became a Diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine in 2018.  She currently works as a Lifestyle Pharmacist at the Cummins LiveWell Center in Columbus, IN.  Dr. Fields received her B.S. in Pharmacy from Butler University and her PharmD from Purdue University.    She holds conventional medicine certifications in Immunization Delivery, Diabetes Care, Anticoagulation, Medication Therapy Management and Pharmacogenomics.  She is also board certified in Advanced Diabetes Management. Dr. Fields began her Lifestyle Medicine Journey as a CHIP facilitator, and now participates in the training of new CHIP facilitators at the Cummins LiveWell Center.  She has also completed Dr. McDougall’s Starch Solution Certification Course for Professionals.

Dr. Fields has experience in various pharmacy practice sites including community (independent and chain), hospital (critical access to teaching sized hospitals) and managed care.  She has fulfilled such roles as clinical pharmacist, informatics pharmacist, medication safety pharmacist and Director of Pharmacy.

She currently serves as co-chair for the Pharmacist Member Interest Group within the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and as the President of the Indiana Pharmacists Association.  Prior to these roles, she served as President of the Indiana Society of Health System Pharmacists in 2015 and President of the Indiana Academy of Non-Traditional Pharmacists in 2017.  Dr. Fields has served on the Board of Directors for both the Indiana Pharmacists Association and the Indiana Rural Health Association.   She has served on Section Advisory Groups for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists for the past 7 years.  She served as Chair of the Indiana Pharmacy Practice Advancement Initiative Task Force from 2014-2015.

We are back with our ongoing miniseries on orgs, tribes and associations that you need to now as a pharmacist in 2020!

Today, our friend of the show, Dr. Lucinda Maine of AACP is back. This time, we tackle a few of the controversies in #pharmacy practice right now, including - too many schools? No growth in practice? How might we evolve as a profession? Should pharmacy schools embrace separate marijuana degrees?

Dr. Maine's Bio is at: https://www.aacp.org/article/lucinda-l-maine-phd-rph

And don't forget - we've got more episodes coming on this series AND here are the previous germane episodes as well:

1. The Digital Medicine Society - Jennifer Goldsack: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Independence-Day---Lets-Talk-About-DiMe---A-New-Society-of-Digital-Medicine-Professionals-e4h5jh

2. The Aerospace Medical Association - Jeff Sventek: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Space--Medicine--Aerospace-Medical-Association---Jeff-Sventek-e5bbqd

3. The American Society of Pharmacovigilance - with Dr. Sara Rogers: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Lets-Keep-it-Safe-Out-There-The-American-Society-of-Pharmacovigilance---Sara-Rogers-e5bqlh

4. Women in Pharmacy What's Next & PharmaSis Magazine - with Dr. Jerrica Dodd: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Ep-2---Women-in-Pharmacy-Whats-Next--PharmaSis-Magazine-with-Dr--Jerrica-Dodd---Associations--Societies--Tribes-and-Orgs-in-Pharmacy-A-New-Decade--New-Directions-e98kej

5. Industry Pharmacists Organization with Jim Alexander: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Ep--4---Industry-Pharmacists-Organization-IPhO---Tribes--Organizations--Associations-for-2020-Miniseries-Continues-e992pu 

6. Functional Medicine Pharmacists Alliance with Dr. Lauren Castle: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Ep-3---Functional-Medicine-Pharmacists-Alliance-with-Dr--Lauren-Castle---Associations--Societies--Tribes-and-Orgs-in-Pharmacy-A-New-Decade--New-Directions-e98mj7 

7. International Society of Cannabis Pharmacists with Dr. Melani Kane: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/New-Miniseries--Ep-1---ISCPh--Melani-Kane---Associations--Societies--Tribes-and-Orgs-in-Pharmacy-A-New-Decade--New-Directions-e98jbp 

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Also this week:

It's FRIDAY!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!

Today, I'm going to Bake & B$!@#%! with my annual B&B bake off friend, 🍪🍪🍪, BUT - here's a few 'sweet' things to contemplate this weekend!

1. The podcast miniseries on Tribes, Associations & Orgs for the Next Decade right here, right now!

Melani Kane - ISCPh

And more to come!

2. LinkedIn Live this week with The Digital Apothecary - with Tim Aungst! https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6608162514494607360/

Cures 2.0 needs YOUR FEEDBACK by December 16th!

3. The Nontraditional Healthcare Professional - Finals Crunch Time!

4. Submit your proposal at ASCP for our 2020 Call for Proposals until 12/31/19! www.ascp.com/callforproposals

5. Blog on the Case for Rituals to support Values at LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rituals-culture-work-albert-mba-pharmd-jd-pahm-hmcc-edutainer/

6. Past Podcast on Meetings.

7. Podcasting 101 workshop #2 Saturday - yay! Thank you, Kelly Hartman of Insights Consulting! 

Industry Pharmacists Organization is at: https://www.industrypharmacist.org/ 

Thanks to Jim Alexander for sharing more on his tribe! More on IPhO at:

Website: https://www.industrypharmacist.org/about.php

BTW, here are some of the other podcast episodes in this series!

1. The Digital Medicine Society - Jennifer Goldsack: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Independence-Day---Lets-Talk-About-DiMe---A-New-Society-of-Digital-Medicine-Professionals-e4h5jh

2. The Aerospace Medical Association - Jeff Sventek: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Space--Medicine--Aerospace-Medical-Association---Jeff-Sventek-e5bbqd

3. The American Society of Pharmacovigilance - with Dr. Sara Rogers: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Lets-Keep-it-Safe-Out-There-The-American-Society-of-Pharmacovigilance---Sara-Rogers-e5bqlh

4. Women in Pharmacy What's Next & PharmaSis Magazine - with Dr. Jerrica Dodd: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Ep-2---Women-in-Pharmacy-Whats-Next--PharmaSis-Magazine-with-Dr--Jerrica-Dodd---Associations--Societies--Tribes-and-Orgs-in-Pharmacy-A-New-Decade--New-Directions-e98kej

5. Functional Medicine Pharmacists Alliance with Dr. Lauren Castle: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/Ep-3---Functional-Medicine-Pharmacists-Alliance-with-Dr--Lauren-Castle---Associations--Societies--Tribes-and-Orgs-in-Pharmacy-A-New-Decade--New-Directions-e98mj7

6. International Society of Cannabis Pharmacists with Dr. Melani Kane: https://anchor.fm/theedutainer/episodes/New-Miniseries--Ep-1---ISCPh--Melani-Kane---Associations--Societies--Tribes-and-Orgs-in-Pharmacy-A-New-Decade--New-Directions-e98jbp

Our guest for episode 3 is Dr. Lauren Castle of the Functional Medicine Pharmacists Alliance!

Here's where you can find both online:

Functional Medicine Pharmacists Alliance:

www.fmpha.org

Dr. Castle:

www.DrLaurenCastle.com

Don't forget! This is our last miniseries of the decade and we have a few other episodes already rolled out!