Tony Scott, PharmD, MBA, DPLA, is the Director of Pharmacy at Emory University Hospital and Director-at-Large for ASHP’s Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders. Dr. Scott was the lead author on a recent publication titled ‘ Leading diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within the pharmacy department ’ in AJHP. We talk through the article and you’ll hear ways you can incorporate DEI in your work environments!...
Feb 01, 2023•29 min
Welcome to the New Year! The start of another year is a great time to set new goals for yourself, both professional and personal. This episode of Small Scripts will walk you through three ways to set both professional and personal goals.
Jan 21, 2023•12 min
Chase Pruitt, MD, DDS, is a former Oral Maxillary Facial Surgeon who sold his co-founded practice, Omaha Oral Surgery, to a private equity firm. After effectively retiring in his mid-30s, he is now pursuing bitcoin and software development through a new company, Omaha Healthcare Technology. Dr. Pruitt and I are longtime friends from our undergraduate days at the University of Wyoming. He completed his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of D...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Andrea Sikora, PharmD, MSCR, BCCCP, FCCM, is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and is a critical care clinical pharmacist at Augusta University Medical Center. We talk through critical care pharmacist practice models, her recently awarded RO1 grant funding, and her new book “Pay it Forward: a map to mentorship in medicine.” You can purchase the book on Amazon !...
Nov 11, 2022•55 min
Brent Reed, PharmD, MS, BCPS-AQ, is a PhD student in Organizational Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Reed practiced for ten years as a cardiology pharmacist specializing in the management of heart failure and was a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. We talk through his career shift to pursue his PhD in Organizational Science and how he hopes to help the profession of pharmacy through studying burnout. We also talk through burnout and att...
Sep 01, 2022•50 min
Jay Holloway, PharmD, is a Community Pharmacist at Heart City Drug in Ainsworth, Nebraska. He is a vocal supporter of improving transgender healthcare and making our work environments more inclusive. We talk through ways we can improve transgender health and small actions you can do to promote inclusivity!
Aug 10, 2022•25 min
Within the United States, reproductive rights have come back into the spotlight with the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs Wade. On this episode, I asked two friends and colleagues to join me in discussing reproductive health and rights, Kat Miller, PharmD, MHA, DPLA, FASHP, and Meghan Swarthout, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP. We talk through the healthcare implications around reproductive rights and how to get involved with advocacy. Many thanks to Kat and Meghan for having this conversation and talk...
Aug 02, 2022•41 min
Dr. Kevin Astle and Dr. Kyle Wilby started RxSHARE which stands for Pharmacists for Sexual and Gender Health Advocacy, Reform, and Equity. Dr. Kevin Astle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, AAHIVP, CDCES, is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Kyle Wilby, PharmD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Program Evaluation at the Dalhousie University College of Pharmacy in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They share their goals for RxSHARE and how they conn...
Jul 17, 2022•25 min
Jeff Little, PharmD, MHA, FASHP, FACHE, is the Director of Pharmacy and Outpatient Imaging at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. He served as the 2021-2022 ASHP Chair of the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders. Jeff has an extensive background in advocacy and focused the ASHP SPPL on advocacy this year. He talks through his experiences with congressional and state leaders and gives me advice on the Section for this next year!
Jul 09, 2022•52 min
Almut Winterstein, RPh, PhD, FISPE, is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, the Dr. Robert and Barbara Crisafi Chair for Medication Safety, and director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Safety at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. As an expert in drug safety she has chaired the Food and Drug Administration’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee. She also leads the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Researc...
Jul 01, 2022•30 min
Megan Rech, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM, is an Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist and Research Director of Emergency Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center. Dr. Rech and colleagues published a recent article in JACCP titled “Premature attrition of clinical pharmacists: call to attention, actions, and potential solutions." We discuss the paper, reasons for the premature attrition and ways to prevent it. I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation and it made me think we need different pract...
Jun 24, 2022•33 min
Heidi Finnes, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, is the President of the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) and Senior Manager of Pharmacy Cancer Research at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Finnes details her goals for HOPA this year, including DEI and burnout. We also discuss investigational drugs and clinical trials!
Jun 04, 2022•27 min
Small scripts is a series intended to highlight a specific topic in a concise and short amount of time. This episode discusses five mistakes managers make and how you can avoid them. If you are in a leadership role or aspiring to be in one, listen in on the pitfalls to avoid!
May 20, 2022•10 min
Martin Van Trieste, BPharm, is the President and CEO of Civica Rx, which is a non-profit company whose mission is to ensure that essential generic medications are accessible and affordable. Civica Rx has partnered with health systems to reduce drug shortages and recently announced they will begin manufacturing insulin for release in 2024 that will cost no more than $30 per vial and no more than $55/box of 5 pen cartridges. Martin has been named one of the 100 most influential people in healthcar...
Apr 15, 2022•26 min
Rita Jew, PharmD, MBA, BCPPS, FASHP, is the President of the Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). Dr. Jew has over 30 years of pharmacy experience and has held many professional organization leadership positions. We discuss her vision for ISMP and how to make our medication systems safer!
Apr 07, 2022•34 min
RaDonda Vaught, RN, a former nurse in Tennessee, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult for a medication error. She mistakenly gave the wrong medication causing the patient to die. I talk about the potential implications the verdict has on medication safety and the need to improve our systems in our hospitals to better support our staff and patients.
Apr 05, 2022•8 min
Patricia (Patti) Kienle, BS Pharm, MPA, BCSCP, FASHP, is the Director of Accreditation and Medication Safety for Cardinal Health Innovative Delivery Solutions. She is the 2022 recipient of the Harvey A.K. Whitney Lecture Award, the highest honor in health-system pharmacy. Patti is recognized as an expert on medication safety, hazardous drugs, and compounding practices. She is a member on the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Compounding Expert Committee. Patti has received numerous awards in her ...
Mar 24, 2022•22 min
Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, is the Senior Director of Pharmacy Practice and Quality at American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). He was awarded the ASHP CEO Staff Excellence Award at the most recent ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting. He’s recognized as an expert on drug shortages, sterile and nonsterile compounding, and hazardous drug safety. Dr. Ganio is frequently interviewed by the media on pharmacy topics. He is a wealth of knowledge on all pharmacy practice quality initi...
Mar 10, 2022•26 min
Rebekah Fenton, MD, FAAP, is a board certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine fellow at the Lurie Children’s Hospital at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She wrote her story of being the First Black Fellow at her institution in a Medium post . Her story is one of being overly supervised and under supported leaving her to receive feedback to toughen it out. The pervasive loneliness and feeling unseen is a heartbreaking read, yet one that connects with so many. Whe...
Mar 02, 2022•29 min
Jimmy Pruitt III, PhamD, BCPS, BCCCP, is an Emergency Medicine Clinical Specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is the Founder of Pharmacy Friday Pearls, Pharm So Hard podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pharm-so-hard-podcast-an-emergency-medicine/id1479624416 ), Pharmacy and Acute Care University or PACU ( https://pharmacy-acutecareuniversity.com ), and the upcoming Emergency Medicine Pharmacotherapy with Resuscitation or EMPoweRx ( https://empowerx-conference...
Feb 15, 2022•32 min
Jacinda Abdul-Mutakkabir, PharmD, MPH, AAHIVP, is an Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy. She was the lead author on a study published in Lancet in 2021 titled " A three-tiered approach to address barriers to COVID-19 vaccine delivery in the Black community ." Her work in COVID-19 vaccine equity was awarded by the Inland Empire Concerned African-American Churches Dorthy Ingram Trailblazer Award in 2022. Dr. Abdul-Mutakkabir and I talk about her how she became involved...
Feb 04, 2022•27 min
Tim Ulbrich, PharmD, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Your Financial Pharmacist (YFP). Dr. Ulbrich and I talk about his entrepreneurial journey that led him away from his planned career in academia. He describes how your environment growing up likely shapes the way you think about finances. We also talk through real estate, market investing, cryptocurrency, NFTs, HSAs, retirements, and everything in between. This episode is not financial or investing advice, but two individuals connecting on persona...
Jan 29, 2022•35 min
This week on the podcast we have an edition of Small Scripts talking about Managing a Crisis and Turnaround. If you listened to the 17th episode with Dr. Rachel Phillips, I mentioned she interviewed me for one of her MBA classes but I chose to pull that out of her podcast episode. She asks about a time I managed a crisis and I chose a time I managed a turnaround of an area that would’ve been classified as in crisis. It’s the first time I’ve been interviewed on the podcast and Dr. Phillips does a...
Jan 09, 2022•31 min
Kayley Lyons, PhD, PharmD, MS, is the Digital Health Workforce Lead at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Lyons and I talk about the cultural differences between the U.S. and Australia including stark differences in healthcare and COVID-19 response, as well as her non-traditional path as a pharmacist leading to her current role in digital health. It was so great to reconnect with her and it was exciting to hear her work in the digital health space!
Dec 22, 2021•48 min
Magi Tareke, PharmD, is a pharmacist, model, and was on season 25 of the Bachelor reality television show. She came to the U.S. from Tigray in Ethiopia and has perspectives from both countries. Dr. Tareke and I talk about her experience as a pharmacist in both the U.S. and Ethiopia, how she manages two careers, and her time on the Bachelor season 25. She opens up about her family, the ongoing conflict in Tigray and the impacts it has had on healthcare in the region. She started a nonprofit calle...
Dec 11, 2021•45 min
James (Jim) Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, is the Chief Clinical Officer at Omnicell and Professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. He received the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s (FIP) Distinguished Practice Award in 2021 for his work in the international pharmacy community. Dr. Stevenson and I talk about his work in international pharmacy as a member of FIP, his push for change of pharmacy’s medication use systems that led him to Omnicell, and pharmacy’s need for t...
Dec 03, 2021•48 min
Maureen Judkins, PharmD, MS, is the President of the Massachusetts Pharmacists Association and Clinical Pharmacist at Tufts Medical Center. Dr. Judkins and I went to pharmacy school together at the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy and she has made a name for herself since graduation! We talk about her initiatives for MPhA this year, including provider status, how she has stayed actively involved in professional organizations, and the landscape of retail pharmacy where she has spent the m...
Nov 19, 2021•55 min
Emily Heil, PharmD, MS, BCIDP, AAHIVP, is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is active with antimicrobial stewardship, infectious diseases inpatient service, HIV clinic, and global health through a partnership at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Emily and I were co-residents at UNC and I’m so proud of all she has accomplished since residency. We talk about steward...
Nov 13, 2021•43 min
Rachel Phillips, PharmD, is the Senior Director of Specialty Fulfillment Operations at OptumRx that oversees their nationwide specialty pharmacy operation and a former Regional Health and Wellness Director at Walmart where she oversaw more than a 100 Walmart stores in 5 states for pharmacy, OTC, and optic areas. Rachel and I have been friends for a long time and her career trajectory is impressive. We talk about continually evaluating your career and going after new opportunities as they arise, ...
Nov 05, 2021•40 min
Small scripts is a series intended to highlight a specific topic in a concise and short amount of time. This episode discusses plate evaluations as a method to manage workload and capacity. If you've ever struggled with how to manage everything you've become involved with and need to make some changes, listen in on how to do a plate evaluation!
Oct 22, 2021•12 min
