Quality Assurance Medical

Deepali Hattangadi

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*******.**********@*****.*** 609-***-****

Public profile URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deepalihattangadi

DRUG SAFETY

SPECIALIST

Meticulous, dedicated pharmacist with over ten years experience in the

pharma field. Strong background of retail, long term care and hospital

pharmacy, high-caliber patient service and a continuous focus on improving

care strategies. Strong relationship development skills, fostering

increased productivity and cooperation among staff, providers, and nurses.

Strong knowledge of GCC (Global Customer Complaints) and ARGUS.

Core Competencies

Utilization review evaluations. Workflow prioritization keeping in

Excellent written and mind the rule of 'Customer first'.

communication skills. Deep understanding of oncology

Medical communication and adverse pharmacotherapy.

events reporting. Policy & Regulatory Compliance

Quality & Patient Safety Excellent team building and coaching

Strategies skills

Excellent research, analytical and Previous experience in Long Term

interpretative skills. Care and Retail and Hospital

Patient & Stakeholder Outreach. settings.

Professional Experience

COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER, Toms River, New Jersey

Clinical Pharmacist, March 2011 to present

Community Medical Center, part of the Barnabas Health System, is a 592-bed,

fully accredited acute care hospital, offering area residents world-class

medical treatment. It is the state's largest non-teaching hospital and

Ocean County's largest and most active healthcare facility. Currently

serving as a clinical pharmacist for the hospital.

Key contributions:

. Actively involved in accurately verifying and dispensing oral and

intravenous medications for the emergency department outpatients as

well as hospital inpatients. This involves extensive data entry and

documentation of adverse events and interventions on every patient.

. Clinical interventions, consulting with doctors and nurses on the

appropriate treatment therapy and also suggesting use of other

alternatives for both therapeutically feasible and cost-effective

therapy.

. Performing hospital floor rounds when scheduled and interacting one-

on-one with the patients.

. Daily routine also involves pulling narcotics from the safe and Pyxis

update functions, checking on warfarin INRs, as well as triaging for

the hospital floors and stocking up on their daily medications by

performing medication and code cart checks.

PRINCETON HEALTHCARE, Plainsboro, New Jersey

Clinical Pharmacist, May 2012 to July 2012

Princeton healthcare is a fully accredited 300 bed state of the art

healthcare facility located in Plainsboro, New Jersey. They have various

centers for excellence, including cardiac, breast cancer and bariatric

centers.

Worked here as a per diem pharmacist

Key contributions:

. Actively involved in accurately verifying and dispensing cart fill and

now doses

of oral and intravenous medications for the hospital inpatients as

well as outpatients.

. Triaging for the hospital floors and performing clinical

interventions.

. Performing other specific functions as assigned by the supervisor.

Omnicare Pharmacy, Edison, New Jersey

Long Term Care Pharmacist, 2008 to 2010

Served as a staff pharmacist for Omnicare Pharmacy, which is a Fortune 500

Long Term Care company based in Covington, Kentucky and a leading provider

of pharmaceutical care for the elderly. Leveraged expertise in utilization

assessment, and consultation on appropriate prescription and non-

prescription medications, dosages, and duration of therapy for nursing home

and assisted living patients.

Key Contributions:

. Gained expertise in dosing and dispensing for pediatric patients in

acute care settings, including IV protocols, driving substantial

quality improvement with a 0% error rate over three months; client

increased contract for 20% increase in prescription orders, thus

generating considerable business.

. Maintained extensive communication with customers and other health care

professionals in order to achieve desired results in a timely and

accurate manner, as a result greatly improved clientele relations.

. Established rigorous quality assurance (QA) guidelines and served in a

final QA role for medications prior to facility delivery, across dosage

strength / form, medication expiry, and dispensing quantities, thus

greatly reducing dispensing errors.

. Developed training to other staff and mastery of e-prescribing systems

and auto-fill robot operations to increase efficiency, succeeded in

delivering about 400 prescriptions per day.

Rite Aid Pharmacy, Mercerville, New Jerse

Retail Pharmacist, 2006 to 2008

Practiced in a retail pharmacy setting with Rite Aid Pharmacy, which is

currently the largest drugstore chain on the East Coast and the third

largest drugstore chain in the U.S. Performed extensive prescription intake

/ processing, counseled patients regarding their medications and consulted

with physicians regarding drug dosages and therapy management.

Key Contributions:

. Built impressive rate of productivity, from 500+ to 700+ prescriptions

per day, by revitalizing pharmacy operations and improving community

relations.

. Greatly increased efficiency by regularly performing store inventory

and supervising an average of 3 pharmacy technicians, providing ongoing

training, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

. Performed extensive drug utilization reviews and consulted physicians

or their designated agents in cases of possible allergies, drug-food,

or drug-drug interactions, thus greatly reducing medication errors.

. Communicated with patients on a daily basis and suggested

therapeutically effective and cost-effective OTC products as well as

prescription medications, thus giving a personal touch to the practice

and greatly increasing the number of highly satisfied customers.

Research Experience

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Research Assistant, 2004 to 2005

Conducted an array of cancer research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, which is

a non-profit organization, and also one of the Nation's first cancer

hospitals built in 1904. Supported multiple concurrent research projects

and leveraging laboratory skills / techniques and robotic systems. Managed

data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Key Contributions:

. Evaluated DNA / RNA spanning quality, mutation, and reactions; utilized

Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer to compare mutant profiles and performed RT-

PCR reactions in DNA from patient BRCA1 genes.

. Gained mastery of robotic systems / instruments, including PROPIC, Pro-

Express, and the Tecan Robot.

. Served an NIH-funded Proteomics research project, conducting sequence

analysis for Colon Crypts.

. Pursued a wide variety of experimental methods such as fluorescence

detection, petridish growth assay, and cell mutation detections on MCF-

7 type breast cells.

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Research Assistant - Institute for Cancer Prevention, 2001 to 2004

Investigated potential cancer therapies, maintaining breast, prostate, and

lung cancer cell lines. Performed MTT, Western blot, 2D electrophoresis,

Alkaline unwinding, Senescence and Clonogenic assays, and fluorescence

assays. Collected, managed, and evaluated data to interpret results and

develop findings.

Key Contributions:

. Researched the effect of selenium on breast tumor cells (MCF-10) and

the mechanism of Methotrexate.

. Utilized FACS analysis to develop cell percentages across cell cycle

phases.

. Conducted poster and podium presentations at the 23rd American

Association of Cancer Research in 2003; abstract accepted, "The role of

p53 and senescence-like growth arrest in the response of MCF-7 breast

tumor cells to the antifolate Methotrexate."

. Presented to the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology,

"Characterization of the response to the anticancer drug Methotrexate

in the breast tumor cell," and presented poster to the Graduate

Research Association of Students in Pharmacy (GRASP).

Education and Credentials

Master of Science in Pharmacology & Toxicology, 2003

Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, Virginia

Thesis: "Characterization of the response to the anticancer drug

Methotrexate in the breast tumor cell."

Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, 2001

VMHP shah College of Pharmacy - Richmond, Virginia

Recipient, Tata Scholarship for academic excellence

Licensure: Licensed & Registered Pharmacist in the State of New Jersey,

#28RI03145

Language Skills: English, French, Spanish

Technical Proficiency Highlights: EDI-DX, Propic, Hummingbird, Biotools,

Graph-Pad Instat

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the American Heart Association in Basic Cardiac Life Support

and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, 2011.

Certified in the Pharmacy Based Immunization Delivery program, 2011.

Certified in Medical Informatics by the eHCF School of Medical Informatics,

India, 2011.

Publication

Highlights

1. Deepali Hattangadi, David A. Gewirtz, "Influence of p53 and Caspase 3

Activity on Cell Death and Senescence Arrest in Response to

Methotrexate in the Breast Tumor Cell," Journal of Biochemical

Pharmacology, Volume# 66, Issue# 33, October 2004.

2. Anthony Yeung, Deepali Hattangadi, "Enzymatic Mutation Detection

Technologies," Biotechniques, Volume# 38, Issue# 5, April, 2005.

Keyword Summary

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strategies, patient treatment, patient communication, patient education,

healthcare education, educational program, training program, development

program, budget administration, cost reduction, cost management, cost

avoidance, expense reduction, expense management, expense avoidance,

compliance, compliance oversight, compliance reporting, regulatory

oversight, regulatory reporting, policy design, policy development, policy

implementation, procedure design, procedure development, procedure

implementation, process design, process redesign, process evaluation,

process automation, change management, continuity, quality assurance, QA,

quality control, QC, quality management, QM, leadership, team building,

team development, performance management, coaching, training, mentoring,

working knowledge of Microsoft office applications.

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