The GoodPharmacists Podcast

Today, I get to speak to Dr. Mary Ngo who was one of the GoodRx Above and Beyond Pharmacy Award Winners. She won the Breakout Pharmacist Award and recently matched at the VA San Diego for PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency.

Derek Borkowski, PharmD is the founder and CEO of Cosmas Health. He is a pharmacist, software engineer, and creator of Pyrls - a popular new drug information website and mobile utilized by over 10,000 clinicians and student clinicians.

Derek is a 2018 Doctor of Pharmacy graduate from the University of Minnesota. His background includes experience in community pharmacy, digital health, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Zack Sessions is a hematology and oncology Medical Science Liasion and he graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2019. Zack and I connected because we were both interested in or working in content management within healthcare. Zack’s first role out of pharmacy school was as a clinical content manager at the College of American Pathologists Cancer Protocols.

Marissa Brooks, Pharm.D., M.B.A., is one of the Executive Fellows in Association Leadership and Management at ASHP. Marissa shares how she stumbled across this opportunity, what interested her to apply, what lessons she hopes to learn, and what a day in her life looks like.

The Happy PharmD was born out of a burdensome, burnout, and grateful hope for pharmacy. Alex Barker left his pharmacy job that he no longer loved to pursue entrepreneurship, but it wasn't easy. Alex shares the highs and lows to becoming an entrepreneur and creating a new identity for himself.

Global health is more important now than ever. Pharmacists play a role in global health, but what does that look like? Dr. Jeanine Abrons, PharmD, MS, shares with us what her career looks like with teaching, research, writing, and more.

What does a managed care pharmacist actually do? Dr. Fatima Ali is the Senior Pharmacy Director of Medicaid Pharmacy Services at Commonwealth of Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. She takes us through what a day in her life looks like on the health plan side.

The word "content" is everywhere. Health content is only growing, whether it's blogs, videos, podcasts, or social media posts. Megan Freeland and I talk about breaking into health communications and health content marketing.

Residency-trained & board-certified pharmacist, Kelley D. Carlstrom, shares how she pivoted from a clinical role to most recently a role at a healthcare technology startup company committed to building software products for oncology clinicians.

Today's guest, Janan Sarwar, talks about "windows and mirrors," taking an unconventional path, and life outside of the pharmacy profession. She completed a fellowship in Educational Technology, Research, and Development, and now she works as a Medical Program Manager full-time but pursues so many passions outside of her job.