Is Amazon Your Next Pharmacy? This is a 3 part series from the Gavel & Pestle Podcast with Darshan Kulkarni, Pharm.D, MS, Esq.

PART 2 of 3

There are many different types of pharmacy, and other places where a trained pharmacist may work. This includes:

• community pharmacy
• hospital pharmacy
• clinical pharmacy
• industrial pharmacy
• compounding pharmacy
• consulting pharmacy
• ambulatory care pharmacy
• regulatory pharmacy
• home care pharmacy

Where's Amazon fit in? Are they just a potential wholesaler? What about the PBM Play? And how does their warehouse leverage play into the bigger picture? 

Gavel & Pestle Podcast Darshan Kulkarni, Pharm.D, MS, Esq.

Interview with Jocelyn Paonita, who is the founder of The Scholarship System, a 6-step process that helps families pay for college with scholarships and avoid student loan debt. She has helped families secure over $805,350 in scholarships with her online course.

Everyone’s leadership road is a little different; tell us what you are doing now and how you got there.

She created a system to not only work full-time as an entrepreneur, but helping others afford college.

What are some of the misconceptions students have about getting scholarships? Many students say “I will never get that scholarship”. What would you tell them?

Jocelyn talks about making sure to wait for the rejection to come rather than rejecting onesel

Is Amazon Your Next Pharmacy? This is a 3 part series from the Gavel & Pestle Podcast with Darshan Kulkarni, Pharm.D, MS, Esq.

PART 1 of 3

The Drug pipeline. A drug pipeline is the set of drug candidates that a pharmaceutical company has under discovery or development at any given point in time. This involves various phases that can broadly be grouped in 4 stages: discovery, pre-clinical, clinical trials and marketing (or post-approval).

Gavel & Pestle Podcast Darshan Kulkarni, Pharm.D, MS, Esq.
The Kulkarni Law Firm
2929 Arch Street, Suite 1700  Philadelphia, PA 19104-7327 Office Number: 

Incredible opportunity to talk with Dr. Kyle Hogarth who's an expert in pulmonary diseases -- including alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency. He is also involved with the minimally invasive diagnosis, management, and staging of lung cancer through bronchoscopy.

Dr. Hogarth was one of the first doctors in Illinois to work with the superDimension system -- an electromagnetic navigation system that uses 3-D imaging technology to detect and biopsy nodules and masses. He uses endobronchial ultrasound to biopsy lymph nodes, place stents in cancerous airways, and perform all other minimally invasive techniques to help patients with lung cancer. 

Specialty Pharmacy Co-Host:

Christopher W. Kennedy, MSM

Chief Operating Officer

Heritage Biologics, Inc.

About our content sponsor:

Heritage Biol

Show Notes:   1. The post that started the miniseries! https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6315221040192716800/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A6315221040192716800%2C6321712181922660353)    2. Petetheplanner.com - Peter Dunn's website 3. Pete on Amazon - http://amzn.to/2xotqg0 4. Please post your questions and topics relative to this miniseries on social media: #BacktoSchoolRx 

First time pharmacy buyers must be careful when buying a pharmacy.

An ill-advised pharmacy purchaser may find himself purchasing a headache, and a prepared pharmacy purchaser may find herself getting a better deal than originally anticipated.

The first 2 major questions to answer before beginning the process is to determine the type of pharmacy to purchase and the way you intend to purchase it.

1. 503A v 503B
2. 1. Is there adequate space
   2. Compounding within state v out of state
   3. Patients in state v out of state
   4. Large volume compounding v small volume compounding
   5. Sterile v non sterile

Licenses

• DEA
• Pharmacy State Board
• • One board?
  • Multiple boards
• FDA
• NABP/NCPDP number (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to obtain a NABP/NCPDP number so that you

#NCPA2017 Vaxigo Booth 434

We interview Dr. Cheryl Lee Eberting, founder and CEO of Vaxigo, with Justin Wilson, PharmD, David Nau, PhD, PharmD, and Rannon Ching, PharmD, from the Vaxigo Team to discuss this innovative & dynamic new technology platform positioned to revolutionize the immunizations opportunities for COmmunity Pharmacies. 

Vaxigo is an innovative Vaccination Management System leveraging self-service applications to transform the delivery of vaccines for both patients and providers. Most importantly, Vaxigo empowers patients to take charge of their immunization records with a Personal Vaccination Portal. Patients can build, keep, and share their personal vaccination record in a secure platform.

Vaxigo delivers an interoperable solution for patients, physicians, pharmacists, and nurses to digitally collaborate. This aids in the reduction of over-vaccinations      and helps reduce vaccine-preventable diseases. This enables healthcare

Intriguing interview with Steve Light Vice President of Consumer Health with Cardinal Health while we covered the RBC 2017 in San Antonio Texas.

Steve’s team are a passionate bunch part of the Consumer Health division at Cardinal Health dedicated to helping pharmacies implement successful strategies for diversifying their revenue, driving front-end sales and supporting patient health.

Check them out here:

http://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/services/retail-pharmacy/business-solutions/retail-advantage/retail-solutions.html 

Interview touches on the following:

• Maximize the productivity and profitability your pharmacy’s front-end
• Receive the most accurate and up-to-date information on merchandising tips, new items, suggested end caps and private labels

If targeting Millennials is not part of our overall marketing strategy, it should be.

Guest Chris Cielewich, Senior Vice President for FlavoRx and cohost Nicolle McClure discuss why it’s important to be including the younger demographic in your marketing, and how easy it is to target them digitally, through prescribers and in your local community. With over 80 million Millennials in the United States, the demo is too large and influential to be ignored.

Nicolle McClure

GRX Marketing 

2929 Westown Pkwy., Suite 100

West Des Moines, IA 50266

515.440.1270 

 

Talking with Jim Springer, VP South Region, about the importance of preserving and supporting pharmacy ownership and the impact on community health. 

Part One of our Three Part Series with RxOwnership

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