HERBERT WETHERBE

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Address: **** ****** ***** **

City: Hermon

State: NY

Zip: 13652

Country: USA

Phone: 315-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 120

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HERBERT J. WETHERBE

Work Experience

Per Diem Pharmacist

Massena Memorial Hospital, One Hospital Drive - Massena, NY

October 2004 to Present

Responsibilities include verifying medication orders entered by Nursing staff into the Hospital Information

System, preparing IV admixtures including TPNs and PPNs, stocking Pixis dispensing units with

controlled drugs, preparing compounding orders, and consulting nurses and other hospital staff including

physicians regarding medication questions.

Floater Pharmacist, SP Pharmacist, and Staff Pharmacist

Kinney Drugs, Inc., 29 E. Main Street - Gouverneur, NY

February 2003 to September 2012

Retired after completing 10 years of service with the Company. My responsibilities included about 6 years

of traveling to the various retain chain pharmacy stores to fill in for pharmacists off days for regular days

off, vacation, sick leave, holidays, and special requested days off; filling in at central fill and mail order

pharmacies of the company as assigned; about 4 years of assuming the SP Pharmacist position at one of

the retail stores in Massena, NY involving supervision of pharmacists, technicians and other supporting

staff, evaluations, being responsible for the controlled drug inventory, monitoring the drug inventory for

profitability, keeping current with the laws of pharmacy retail practice and maintaining the current licenses

of the pharmacy, doing patient consultation and routine prescription dispensing to customers; being a

resource of drug information for the medical health care team in the area as needed, and merging the

pharmacy with another store location in Massena due to a change in the job market in the community

as a result of the closure and down sizing of two main employers, GM and Alcoa.

HIS Clinical Consultant Pharmacist Application Specialist

HBO-ACI, INC., 320 Watercress Drive - Roswell, GA

September 1996 to January 2003

Responsibilities included Acting Chief Information Officer for the Ahmadi Hospital in Kuwait (Kuwait

Oil Company), McKessonHBO & Company (now just McKesson Company) STAR System software

application implementation and upgrades, and liaising with various hospital clinical department staff to

ensure accuracy and functionality in clinical automation. Assignments also included upgrades of the

STAR System at the Security Forces Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as well as marketing various

Health Information Systems software to various health institutions throughout Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and

the United Arab Emirates.

Staff Pharmacist

Kinney Drugs, Inc., 29 E. Main Street - Gouverneur, NY 13642

February 1996 to September 1996

Retail dispensing pharmacist for a chain pharmacy for the spring and summer until an unexpected

opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait became available in September 1996. I returned to

Kinney Drugs in 2003 just before the Iraq War after being advised by the US Embassy that it might be

in my interest to return to the U.S.A. See above.

Clinical Pharmacist

Security Forces Hospital, P.O. Box 3643, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 11481 -

Riyadh

February 1993 to February 1996

Responsibilities included:

Acting Supervisor of the In-Patient Unit Dose Section, which involved direct responsibility for,

and supervision of, five staff pharmacists and five pharmacy technicians. Activities consisted of

pharmacokinetic monitoring of critical drugs in the Intensive Care Units (adult, pediatric, and neonatal);

participation in the Internal Medicine daily admission rounds, consultations and subsequent follow-up of

physician requests for patient monitoring, and attendance at medical lectures and grand rounds; lecturer

to various hospital departments including surgery, EENT, dental, nursing, and pharmacy; development

of a clinical clerkship program for the training of pharmacy staff; provider of drug information in the

Drug Information Center of the Hospital; implemented a clinical pharmacy task force to incorporate

clinical pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical care throughout each section of the pharmacy; worked

closely with the Quality Management Department in preparation for incorporating JCAHO Standards

into pharmacy practice; editor of the bimonthly Pharmacy Newsletter; initiated bi-weekly CEU activities

in the department; participated on the P&T Committee including the preparation of drug monographs

for formulary additions; and was a member of the hospital library committee, ad-hoc antibiotic subcommittee

of the P&T committee, and quality management week planning committee.

Clinical Pharmacist

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Superior Street and

Fairbanks Court - Chicago, IL

February 1992 to January 1993

Responsible for prospective on-going critical drug monitoring and therapeutic intervention for acute

and intensive care units including participation in internal medicine daily rounds and weekly pharmacy

conferences; wrote orders for spinal cord injury patients according to protocol; responsible for daily

routine checking of IV's, TPN's, chemotherapy, large volume admixtures, unit dose dispensing, and

compounding; and involved in monitoring investigational drug studies according to protocols and in

record keeping of these studies.

Pharmacist

PharmStaff, Ltd., 1645 Irving Park Rd. - Chicago, IL

September 1991 to January 1993

Provided pharmacist dispensing services to various hospital and retail pharmacies throughout the

Chicago and suburban areas contracted through PharmStaff while completing Pharmacy rotations

in drug information (U of Il Hospital), ambulatory care (Michael Reese Hospital), internal medicine

(Westside VA Hospital), and advanced medicine (Westside VA Hospital) as part of the requirements for

the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree program and continuing as needed while being employed full time at

Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Staff Pharmacist

Covenant Medical Center, Champaign Campus, 407 S. Fourth Street - Champaign, IL

August 1989 to August 1991

Prepared emergency room IV admixtures as required, and cardioplegic solutions for cardiac surgeries;

dispensed unit dose medications for the various nursing units; was on-call five night shifts weekly.

Staff Pharmacist, Level I

King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), P.O. Box 7191, Riyadh, Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia 11462 - Riyadh

July 1987 to August 1989

Work involved the preparing and dispensing of ophthalmic pharmaceuticals including eye drop dilutions,

subconjunctival and intravitreal injections; routine unit dose, outpatient preparation and dispensing,

revising the pre-packaging system for ophthalmic preparations, in-servicing nursing staff about specific

medications, participation in various hospital committees such as quality assurance (later known as

quality management), and being on-call during the night time for emergency extemporaneous intravitreal

preparations.

Staff Pharmacist (GS 11/4)

Veterans Administration Medical Center, 1900 East Main Street - Danville, IL

January 1983 to July 1987

This position involved routine dispensing, checking, inspection and Clinical Pharmacy responsibilities

(i.e., patient chart reviews for acute, intermediate, psychiatric, and alcoholic rehabilitation units).

Additional responsibilities included memberships on various hospital committees (i.e., chemotherapy

policy forming committee, pharmacy and therapeutics ad hoc committee on hypertension, patient

education committee). I was responsible for the chemotherapy preparation section and for the technical

support staff for this section; responsible for the development and implementation of policies and

procedures for pharmacy services in accordance with JCAHO; responsible for reorganizing and

systematizing the pharmacy purchasing and stock control section including the setting up of a book

keeping system for accurate accounting of all expenditures; and responsible for being the "in-charge

pharmacist" at a branch pharmacy VA facility in another city for a period of time until staffing became

available.

Consultant Pharmacist

various independent local pharmacies in northern Illinois - Wadsworth, IL

January 1980 to January 1983

I contracted my pharmacist services with various local independent pharmacies for dispensing and

patient consultation while being employed full time at Walgreens Pharmacy.

Chief Pharmacist, Assistant Manager Registered

Walgreen Drug Company, 296 E. Deerpath - Lake Forest, IL

May 1979 to January 1983

Responsibilities included overseeing activities of pharmacists and technicians; retail administration,

management, community relations, as well as dispensing and extemporaneous compounding preparations; patient counseling; inventory control; third party billing; and cash management including

bank deposit preparation.

Education: Pharm.D. Degree in Pharmacy Practice with rotations in Drug Information, Ambulatory Care,

Internal Medicine, and Advanced Medicine

University of Illinois College of Pharmacy at Chicago (UIC College of Pharmacy) - Chicago, IL

1989 to 1992

Graduate Studies in Social Work

University of Illinois Graduate School of Social Work - Champaign, IL

1985 to 1986

Master of Divinity (M.Div. Degree) in Divinity studies with a concentration in Old Testament

Studies including Hebrew, Ugaritic, Aramaic, and Greek language studies

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School - Deerfield, IL

1971 to 1979

B.S. in Pharmacy in Pharmacy Practice

University of Illinois College of Pharmacy at Chicago (UIC Colllege of Pharmacy) - Chicago, IL

1973 to 1978

B.S. in Chemistry in Major: Chemistry, Premed; Minor: Biological Sciences

Northern Illinois University - DeKalb, IL

1965 to 1969

Diploma in Biblical Languages

Moody Bible Institute - Chicago, IL

1961 to 1964

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