Vizient Pharmacy Vision Awards celebrate the values and achievement of our pharmacy members. The Excellence in Executive Leadership Award is given to an enterprise leader who demonstrates strategic insight, advances leading clinical practices, and shows business acumen for the entirety of their organization. Christine Collins, Senior Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Lifespan, this year’s winner of the Executive Pharmacy Leadership Award, joins Vizient’s own Dan Kistner, Group Senior Vice President of Pharmacy Solutions and host Gretchen Brummel to discuss executive leadership.

Guest speakers:

Dan Kistner, PharmD

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Show Notes:

[01:28 - 03:01] Christine’s background

[03:02 - 04:22] Dan’s Background

[04:23 - 09:35] Programs and expansion at LifeSpan

[09:36 - 19:18] Trends in executive pharmacy leadership

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Every year, the Vizient Pharmacy Vision Awards celebrate the values and achievements of Vizient member pharmacies. In 2022, the MD Anderson Pharmacy Division won the Excellence and Performance Improvement Award for working toward a just culture through education and evaluation of adverse events. Dr. Marisa Mendoza and Dr. Ali-Reza Shah-Mohammed provide the details of their successful program.

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Guests:

Ali-Reza Shah-Mohammadi, PharmD, MS, FISMP, CMQ

Show Notes:

[02:21] Just Culture and the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire

[04:11] First steps

[05:40] Importance of the gap analysis

[06:22] Educating all staff, not just leadership

[07:43] Passion counts

[09:03] Three misconceptions about Just Culture

[11:19] Staff response and implementation

[12:44] How to get started

[14:49] Future plans

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Vizient Pharmacy Vision Awards celebrate the values and achievement of our pharmacy members. The winners of the Excellence and Innovation Award implement an innovative approach to challenging patient care or operational practice issues with other departments or disciplines. Dr Kelsey Waier, director of operations; Dr. Jon Hutchinson, senior pharmacy supervisor; and Dr. Stephanie Kang, COVID vaccine coordinator from UCSF Health join host Gretchen Brummel to discuss their award-winning program.

Guest speakers:

Jon Hutchinson, PharmD

Stephanie Kang, PharmD

Moderator:

Show Notes:

[00:55 - 02:40] Kelsey, Jon, Stephanie roles at UCSF

[02:44 - 04:00] Others integral to the award

[04:01 - 06:19] Innovative approach to COVID vaccines

[06:20 - 07:49] What else differentiates their efforts

[07:50 - 09:28] Demonstrating Success

[09:29 - 11:22] Future plans for the program

[11:22 - 12:17] What would you like frontline pharmacy staff to know

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Over the last century, delivery models and business practices in community pharmacy drastically changed. In recent years, we’ve seen this trend accelerate significantly. Dr. Randy McDonough CEO-Co-Owner of Towncrest Pharmacy discusses the challenges, positive opportunities within community pharmacy and how to take back the profession with host Gretchen Brummel.

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Show Notes:

[00:45 - 03:37] Randy’s background

[03:38 - 13:21] Challenges facing community pharmacy right now and how to address those challenges

[13:22 - 19:56] Shifting the pharmacy narrative towards entrepreneurialism

[19:57 - 22:04] Vision for the future

[22:05 - 22:53] Where people learn more about Randy’s approach to community pharmacy

[22:54 - 25:14] What recent new practitioners, graduates and pharmacy students should know about community pharmacy and how can they contribute

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CPESN USA

Towncrest Pharmacy

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Advancing & Transforming Pharmacy

Blueberry Pharmacy

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The expanding market for long-acting, injectable bupivacaine gives clinicians multiple, additional anesthetic options. Dr. Kerry Schwarz and Dr. John Schoen both Senior Clinical Managers in the Vizient Center for Pharmacy Practice Excellence, join Gretchen Brummel to discuss a recent Vizient Expert Panel on the topic.

Guest speakers:

Dr. John Schoen, PharmD, BCPS

Moderator:

Show Notes:

[00:50 - 01:40] Kerry’s background

[01:40 - 05:26] What's happening in the long-acting bupivacaine market

[05:27 - 07:00] Why Vizient wants to look at this

[07:01 - 11:36] Details on the expert panel process

[11:37 - 13:07] What evidence Vizient reviews

[13:08 - 14:21] Questions John reviewed in the comparative effectiveness assessment

[14:22 - 16:25] What Kerry assesses in the expert opinion section

[16:26 - 17:08] How these findings can be put into practice

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Long-acting bupivacaine products: full report (member link)

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Managing pharmaceutical spend is a high priority of every health system pharmacy. The road to success is smoother when traveled with trusted partners. Wendy Talley, director of pharmacy and Dr. Ashley Wilson, pharmacy manager from St. Tammany Health System, as well as Dr. Tony Huke, pharmacy executive director and advisory solutions at the Vizient Center for Pharmacy Practice Excellence discuss their collaboration with host Gretchen Brummel.

Guest speakers:

Ashley Wilson, PharmD, MHA

Tony Huke, PharmD, BCPS

Moderator:

Show Notes:

[00:58 - 01:55] Wendy, Ashley and Tony’s and backgrounds

[01:56 - 02:58] Challenges and successes at St. Tammany around pharmaceutical spend

[02:59 - 04:21] How Tony added to their efforts

[04:22 - 06:00] Opportunities Tony saw and his approach to providing support

[06:01 - 08:16] Some of the wins that came out of this collaboration

[08:17 - 09:42] What do you want frontline pharmacists to know about when consultants are engaged with an organization

[09:43 - 11:30] Barriers or challenges with this project

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Vizient Pharmacy Vision Awards celebrate the values and achievement of our pharmacy members. The winner of the Excellence in Clinical Practice Award implements novel strategies to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of medication utilization.  Dr. Eric Teye Matey, Clinical Pharmacogenomics Pharmacist and Residency Program Director of the PGY-2 Pharmacogenomics program from Mayo Clinic Rochester discusses the forward thinking of the pharmacogenomics program at Mayo with host Gretchen Brummel.

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Moderator:

Show Notes:

[00:51 - 04:54] Eric’s role at Mayo and background and integral pharmacogenomics team members

[04:55 - 06:16] Origins of the pharmacogenomics program at Mayo

[06:17 - 07:33] How the program has expanded

[07:34 - 08:35] Accomplishments of the program

[08:36 - 10:08] What frontline pharmacy staff should know about applied pharmacogenomics

[10:09 - 11:08] Future plans for the program

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Vizient Pharmacy Vision Awards celebrate the values and achievement of our pharmacy members. Dr. Travis Dick, director of clinical pharmacy practice, research and education and Dave Webster, director of acute care operations, both at the University of Rochester Medical Center discuss URMC’s award winning transformational practice programs with host Gretchen Brummel.

Guest speakers:

Dr. David Webster, BPharm, RPh, MSBA

Moderator:MBA

Show Notes:

[01:00 - 01:46] Travis and David’s roles at URMC

[01:47 - 02:58] Integral Team Members to URMC’s Success

[02:59 - 05:32] Supply Chain Success and Recent Wins for the Team

[05:33 - 08:08] Advice for Others Looking to Duplicate URMC’s Success

[08:09 - 09:13] How URMC is Leveraging Technology

[09:14 - 11:11] How is URMC Approaching their Practice Model

[11:12 - 12:01] How Staff Received this Process and Recruiting Impact

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Vizient Pharmacy Vision Awards celebrate the values and achievement of our pharmacy members. Dr. Katie Korte, Senior Director and Dr. Steven Lucio, Senior Principal, both at Vizient, discuss importance and the ease of applying for the third year of the Pharmacy Vison Awards with host Gretchen Brummel.

Guest speakers:

Dr. Steven Lucio, PharmD, BCPS

Moderator:

Show Notes:

[00:44 - 01:14] Katie’s background

[01:15 - 02:08] What are the Pharmacy Vision Awards (PVA)

[02:09 - 04:06] Surviving and Thriving in Clinical Practice

[04:07 - 07:37] Specific Categories within PVA

[07:38 - 08:19] Who can apply for PVA

[08:20 - 09:06] When are submissions accepted

[09:07 - 09:34] Winners announcements

[09:35 - 11:13] Considering Applying

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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted almost every sector imaginable in health care, especially pharmacy practice. Dr. Julie Cunningham, Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer of clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Midwest region, and Dr. Dmitry Walker, Assistant Director, Pharmacy Oncology in Investigational Drug Services at West Virginia University Medicine discuss stopping and starting pharmacy services due to COVID with Gretchen Brummel.

Guest speakers:

Dmitry Walker, PharmD, MS

Moderator:

Show Notes:

[01:26-03:51] Background of Julie and Dmitry

[03:52-04:47] Understanding impacts of COVID-19 on pharmacy practice

[04:48-09:20] Focus of the Survey

[09:21-16:05] How practices have been impacted from the beginning

[16:06 -18:01] Other shifts in staffing or hiring

[18:02-19:35] Challenges of pediatric RSV and influenza surge

[19:36-22:49] Learning from where we've been through this process

[22:50-25:48] Future predictions

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Vizient Pharmacy Network Tech Recruitment/Retention Pulse Survey Click here  (member link)

Pharmacy technicians: the engine of health-system pharmacy Click here (member link)

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