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EDUCATION

Passed Board Exams-Pending NYS Licensure

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Long Island University, Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and

Health Sciences, Brooklyn, New York

09/06-05/17/13

Degree Received: Doctorate of Pharmacy

WORK EXPERIENCE

Beth Israel Hospital-Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York

February 2010 - Present

Job Title: Pharmacy Technician

Job Responsibilities included:

. Compounding Intravenous medications

. Fill prescription labels

. Refill and repair automated dispensing machine

Yana's Diagnostic Testing, Brooklyn, New York May 2009

- Sept. 2009

Job Title: Marketing Executive

Job Responsibilities:

. Created successful telemarketing campaign targeting physicians and

internists for ultrasound testing center

June 2006 - January 2009

Job Title: Finance Manager

Job Responsibilities:

. Managed finances of 20-person company

. In charge of all financial records, including accounts receivable,

billing and invoices and, payroll.

Translator (Russian to English and English to Russian)

PHARMACY CLERKSHIP EXPERIENCE

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Education (APPE's)

Community Practice-Walgreens # 4362

April 11th, 2013 to

Preceptor: Alvina Lee, Pharm. D-Pharmacy Manager May

13th, 2013

Responsibilities:

. Conduct phone calls to physician

. Fill prescriptions

. Patient counseling on both over-the-counter and prescription

medications

. Conduct transfers and accept prescriptions orders over the phone.

. Typing newly dropped off prescriptions.

. Conduct blood pressure measurements and Hypertension counseling.

. Patient counseling on Diabetes.

IV Admixture-Home Infusion---Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center February

28th, 2013

Preceptor: Salvatore Cannizzaro, Rph

to April 9th, 2013

Responsibilities:

. Compound intravenous medications for the entire hospital.

. Compound intravenous medications for pre-chemotherapy sessions

. Ad ease medications for stock for the pharmacy

. Identify USP 797 regulation and observe it strictly while compounding

intravenous medications.

Pediatrics Pharmacotherapy---Montefiore Medical Center January

23rd, 2013 to Preceptor: Dr. Susan Villegas

February 26th, 2013

Responsibilities:

. Attend medical rounds with an attending, two third year medical

residents, one first year resident and two medical students every day

starting at 7 am.

. Attend all the medical conferences post rounds three days a week.

. Make interventions.

. Identify medication errors or adverse drug reactions.

. Learn about this population of patients; the differences in dosing,

different disease states and their treatment for the pediatric

population.

. Conduct a presentation on methemoglobinemia.

. Conduct a presentation on influenza and the 2012-2013 flu season.

. Write two care plans and three FARM notes

Brookdale University Medical Center November

15th, 2012 to Preceptor: Dr. Elizabeth Watson

December 21st, 2012

Responsibilities:

. Observe the function of the main pharmacy.

. Learn about site specific automation system (Omnicell)

. Fill pill trays in the HIV ambulatory clinic

. Counsel patients within the HIV clinic.

. Learn and use the computer order-entry system within the satellites

(ICU, Pediatrics, CCU, 10th Floor, ED)

. Compound intravenous (IV) medications within sterile products

department.

. Conduct a major presentation on stability of compounded IV products

. Compound chemotherapy intravenous medications.

. Compound total parenteral nutrition (TPN)

Acute Care-Maimonides Hospital October 11th, 2012

to

Preceptor: Dr. Elaine Wong

November 13th, 2012

Responsibilities:

. Participate in medical rounds with the attending, 1st & 2nd year

residents.

. Monitoring team patients throughout their stay.

. Identify adverse events of medications

. Identified medication-related interventions (correct dosing, dual

therapy)

. Presented a drug monograph on Exenatide

. Presented a Major Case presentation on Hepatitis C.

Internal Medicine-Brooklyn Campus VA Hospital September

6th, 2012 to Preceptor: Dr. Nino Marzella

October 9th, 2012

Responsibilities:

. Participated in medical rounds every day with the attending, 1st & 2nd

year residents and medical students.

. Monitored all patients on the team roster throughout their stay as in-

patient.

. Identified adverse drug events and notified my team of such an event.

. Identified medication-related interventions (unnecessary medication,

too high or too low dose, recommendation of alternative agent) as a

way to optimize patient care.

. Conducted a journal club presentation on Truvada's newest FDA approved

indication based on the trial conducted to show its beneficial use.

. Conducted a major case presentation on Pneumonia using guidelines to

reinforce a pharmacological recommendation to appropriately treat a

patient along with appropriate definitions, risk factors and treatment

for each category of pneumonia.

Ambulatory Care-Brooklyn Campus VA Hospital June

25th, 2012 to

Preceptor: Dr. Christopher Ho

July 27th, 2012

Responsibilities:

. Work at the anticoagulation, diabetes, liver and primary care clinics

. Counsel patients, within such clinics, on their medication including

any adverse effects, important information they should know, how and

when to correctly administer their medication.

. Work with the attending physician and pharmacist in a

multidisciplinary form to provide patients within such clinics the

best possible care in managing their chronic conditions.

. Make pharmaceutical recommendations to change patient therapy in a

beneficial way for the patient.

. Write chart notes within the VA system.

. Conduct a journal club presentation on primary literature for a

specific disease state and its correlating pharmacological therapy.

. Perform a major case presentation using guidelines and clinical trials

to reinforce a pharmacological recommendation to better the patient's

management of his/her chronic disease states.

Drug Information-LIU International Drug Information Center June 7th,

2012 to

Preceptor: Dr. Eunice Pyon

June 22nd, 2012

Responsibilities:

. Receive drug information phone calls.

. Conduct thorough research using drug information resources to answer

questions received.

. Conduct a journal club presentation on primary literature for a

specific disease state and its correlating pharmacological therapy.

. Perform a mock P & T committee presentation for formulary addition of

a medication using primary literature articles, guidelines, package

inserts and so on.

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Education (IPPE's)

Institutional Practice--Manhattan Campus VA Hospital January

28th, 2011 to

Preceptor: Dr. Antony Pham

April 29th, 2011

Responsibilities:

. Visiting, observing, taking to patients with medical and pharmacy

interns, medical residents, and hospital staff physicians.

. Write Pharmaceutical Care Plans and FARM notes.

Community Practice---CVS Pharmacy #2906 July

28th, 2010 to

Preceptor: Ola

September 1st, 2010

Responsibilities:

. Filling prescriptions

. Put in and receive phone calls by physicians and physician assistants.

. Counseling patients on over-the-counter medications

. Writing Pharmaceutical Care Plans

. Writing Interventions

Community Practice-Walgreens Pharmacy #4363 November

13th, 2008

Preceptor: Marisa Park

Responsibilities:

. Participating in Brown Bag Day where patients from around the

neighborhood came with their medications for counseling. We observed

how the Pharmacist counseled these patients.

Introductory Community Service-CVS Pharmacy #845 October

30th, 2008

Preceptor: Andrew Ha

Institutional Practice-SUNY-Downstate Medical Center

October 16th, 2008

Preceptor: Nicholas Galeota

Responsibilities:

. Observe a hospital pharmacy; how it functions; what the pharmacists'

role is within a hospital setting.

Long Term Care-Gouverneur's Hospital Nursing Facility

September 25th, 2008

Preceptor: Ron Zavala

Responsibilities:

. Observe the function and setting of a pharmacy within a long term care

facility.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

September, 2011-December, 2011

BIG/LITTLE Student Mentor Program sponsored by Pharmacy

Leadership Society (PLS)

Responsibilities:

. Help third year Pharmacy professional students adjust to the

professional program, its requirements, and its standard of learning

and the professor's expectations of new students.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent and literate in Russian and Spanish

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