As a pharmacy professional, how can you be sure which industry conferences to invest in and attend? Which Healthcare Conferences do you need to attend? 

Erin L. Albert, MBA, PharmD, JD - Pharmacy Podcast Show Guest host brings our listeners a dynamic interview with Kristin Eilenberg CEO at Lodestone Logic. 

Lodestone Insights  puts information at the fingertips of business leaders allowing them to make more informed and strategic business decisions. We have built the world’s only human curated and organized database of information and activities happening at conferences and symposia. We are tracking thousands of conferences in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals, science, diabetes, oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and technology sectors. Our clients leverage our Lodestone Insights products and services to make more informed strategic decisions.

Through Lodescore, Lodesight, and our other products, managers, bu

Ron Lanton - with True North Political Solutions brings another Health Policy Check-Up Segment with State Rep. Heidi Brooks with the state of Maine House of Representatives. She is a native of the Lewiston-Auburn area and graduated in the top 10 of her high school class. Brooks went on to earn a bachelor's degree at Boston College and a medical degree at New York Medical College. After completing an internship and residency in internal medicine at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, Mass., she returned to Maine. 

Brooks has been actively involved in the community as a volunteer with the Maine People's Alliance, where she serves as co-chair of the board. She is the secretary of the Maine Democratic Party-Democratic State Committee. She is a grateful graduate of the 2012 class of Emerge Maine, a training program for Democratic women. She serves on the local Head Start board.

They discuss MAC Drug Pricing Transparency and other pressing issues to our pharmacy in

Guest host Blair Green Thielemier, PharmD interviews Dr. Alan L Hanson, Division Chair and Professor at Melvin H. Weinswig University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy. 

The University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Pharmacy is a world-class leader in pharmacy education, research, and service in the pharmaceutical, social, and clinical sciences. We educate future pharmacists and scientists and provide professional development opportunities globally to practicing pharmacists and the pharmaceutical industry.  

Blair Green Thielemier, PharmD is an independent clinical pharmacist living in Northeast Arkansas with her husband and young daughter.  Blair is a pharmacist business coach, contributing author for Pharmacy Times and a guest host on the Pharmacy Podcast Show. She has a passion for writing and also advocate for pharmacist-led clinical services. In her spare time she enjoys travel photography, golfing, scuba diving and snow skiing.  

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Alex Barker, PharmD., and Blair Green Thielemier, PharmD discuss interesting, creative, and resourceful ideas for pharmacists to generate additional income in 2016. 

No matter where you are on your pharmacy career path, having extra cash on hand is a nice safety net, and a great way to pay off your pharmacy school loans more quickly.

The challenge is holding a side job while balancing your current job and personal responsibilities. Although a second pharmacy job is achievable (especially weekend shifts), these 26 ways to make extra cash won’t take up as much of your valuable time—and the payoff may still be high.

Article posted on Pharmacy Times Published Online: Thursday, October 29, 2015

http://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/alex-barker-pharmd/2015/10/26-ways-pharmacists-can-make-extra-cash

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Shining a light on the backstories, the passions, and the innovation behind some of the most interesting people affecting change in not only how people do business, but also how we all interact with the world…

We are proud to welcome our newest Pharmacy Podcast Host Alex Barker, PharmD, who graduated from Ferris State University, completed a PGY1 residency focusing on ambulatory care and academia, and currently works as a clinical pharmacy specialist in an ambulatory care and anticoagulation clinic. He is the founder of Pharmacy School HQ (http://www.pharmacyschoolhq.org), which is dedicated to helping students become pharmacists. 

Alex interviews Timothy Ulbrich, PharmD, who is the associate dean of workforce development and practice advancement and an associate professor of pharmacy practice at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) College of Pharmacy. He received his PharmD degree from Ohio Northern University and completed postgraduate residency training at The Ohio State University. He recently received the Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award and has also received the Most Influential Professor award from the graduating class 3 years i

We are joined by independent pharmacy business accounting expert - Ollin Sykes founder of Sykes & Company, P.A.

Sykes & Company, P.A., was established in 1984 as a firm that offers accounting, tax and business advisory services. Sykes serves clients in northeastern North Carolina from their Edenton NC location and serve clients across the USA through their seamless cloud based accounting technology and video conference capabilities.

Industries we serve include:

• Pharmacies
• Professionals
• Agri-businesses
• Real estate developers
• Retailers
• Wholesalers
• Contractors
• Associations
• Manufacturers

Sykes also work with the owners, executives, employees and retirees of their business clients. In their work with individuals, Sykes focus on primarily middle and upper-income clients so that they can concentrate on the areas of public accounting most relevant to pharmacy owners needs. 

We interview Kim Kersten - Board of Director member of the American Pharmacy Purchasing Alliance (APPA). 

Welcome to the American Pharmacy Purchasing Alliance (APPA), the leading association for pharmacy buyers. APPA is made up of a group of dedicated and experienced professionals in the pharmacy purchasing industry. Our decades of experience enable us to provide members of the alliance excellent services and valuable information. 

Our mission is to:

Meet the discerning needs of pharmacy buyers
Create networking opportunities for participants
Educate and provide industry-related information
Enhance knowledge of pharmacy buyers through educational opportunities and events
Simplify the process needed to complete certain transactions
Promote the role of pharmacy purchasing in total patient care
Provide a unified voice for the members of the alliance

The members of APPA con

Interview with Alan G. Rosenbloom, President and CEO of Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) about the Avalere Health Study: Long Term Care (LTC) Pharmacy Sector Plays Key, Growing Role in U.S. Seniors' Care as New Payment, Delivery Models Gain Prevalence in the industry.  

More Transparent Drug Pricing Can Help LTC Pharmacies Sustain High Quality SNF, ALF Patient Care

Washington, DC - A new Avalere Health study of the nation's growing long term care (LTC) pharmacy sector - the most detailed analysis since Medicare Part D was implemented in 2006 - finds LTC pharmacies playing a greater role in seniors' clinical care as new health payment and delivery models such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), bundled payments and value-based purchasing proliferate amid a rapidly changing healthcare marketplace.

The study, entitled " Long-Term Care Pharmacy: The Evolving Marketplace and Emerging Policy Issues ," was conducted for the Senior Care Pharmacy