Medical Pharmacy

SUMMARY

Licensed pharmacist in Texas with PharmD degree from Creighton university and one year hospital experience from clinical rotations. Outstanding interpersonal skills with remarkable history of forming positive relationship with patients, colleagues and other health professionals. Dedicated to providing quality, accurate and safe medication related services to patients and other healthcare services.

EDUCATION

08/2013 - 05/2017 CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF

PHARMACY AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS, Omaha,

Nebraska

Doctor of Pharmacy

08/2008 - 08/2010 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON

CANCER CENTER, Houston, TX

Bachelors in Clinical Laboratory Science

06/2004 - 05/2007 HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Houston, TX

Associate in Science

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

2017- 2019 Pharmacist License

State of Texas.

2015-2018 Immunization Certificate

2016- 2019 MTM certification

WORK EXPERIENCE

5/2016 – 9/2017 Starr Plus Pharmacy, LLC. Lake Jackson, Texas

Pharmacist intern/Pharmacist (volunteer)

Decreased chances of error by evaluating orders for accuracy, completeness, proper dosage and directions, contraindications, allergies, and drug interactions.

Interpreted and dispensed prescription orders, MTMs, immunizations, counseled patients on prescription and non- prescription needs and day to day aspects of running the pharmacy.

Improved the pharmacist turn-around time by receiving verbal prescriptions/medication orders via telephone, clarified misunderstandings and repeated back the prescription/medication order to the prescriber/ agent.

Enhanced patient medication compliance by providing proper counseling on new medications, asking patient appropriate questions and assessing patient understanding with the read back method.

Conducted Quality Assurance, verified accuracy of all prescriptions, gathered complex clinical information, accessed and considered approved compendia, medical literature, coverage policy, and criteria information and work within regulatory guidelines to render appeal decisions.

Research, evaluate, and made determinations on member and provided appeals of pharmacy coverage decisions for members with the company’s Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage plans.

Insured compliance to the State Board of Pharmacy by maintaining proper documentation of inventory and records.

Improved customer satisfaction by decreasing the amount of telephone ring time before picking up and by providing good counseling and OTC assistance.

ADVANCE PHARMACY PRACTICE EXPERIENCES (APPE Rotations)

6/2016 - 7/2016 Community Pharmacy Practice APPE

Walmart Supercenter on Market Place Drive, Katy, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Achieved over 25% increase in weekly immunizations by organizing and leading an in-store project that recruited patients for vaccinations such as TDap and Pneumococcal vaccines.

Improved patient safety by proper analyzation of new and existing medications appropriately for allergies, drug-drug, drug-food & drug disease interactions, adverse effects, dose/schedule, dosage form and duplicate therapies.

Boosted medication adherence and refill pick up by using medication therapy management (MTM) and by contacting patients who may be at risk of non-adherence.

Verified that prescription labels were complete and included all required/necessary ancillary labels, provided patient counseling on new medications, calculated and prepared dosage forms accurately.

Documented appropriately and timely and also maintained confidentiality of all patient and health-care organization related information.

7/2016 – 8/2016 Acute Care APPE (Internal Medicine)

Houston Methodist Hospital West Houston, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Analyzed a patient’s state of health/illness based on patient-specific information, appropriately referred patient when needed and made recommendations based on the current guidelines.

Provided patient counseling on new anticoagulant medications, answered patient questions and documented appropriately.

Improved patient care by completing an evaluation of patient labs/vitals, diagnostic imaging, physicians’ comments and medications to determine if the patient is on the correct drug regimen for his/her illness and implemented changes when necessary.

8/2016 – 9/2016 Ambulatory Care APPE

Metropolitan Infectious Disease/Healix, Houston, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Created a process of selecting appropriate medication regimen for HIV patients with renal disease and using guidelines.

Formulated an appropriate pharmaceutical care plan including therapeutic endpoints/goals of therapy for a patient on antibiotic regimen, both manually and use of KINETIDEX software, and selected appropriate parameters to monitor efficacy and toxicity.

Assessed effectiveness of individualized therapeutic plans and made evidence-based drug therapy recommendations, including dosage forms, formulations and routes of administrations, by integrating patient-specific data with drug and disease information and using guidelines.

9/2016 - 10/2016 Hospital Pharmacy Practice APPE

Methodist Houston West Houston, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Achieved approximately 25% increase in hospitals HCAHPS through daily counseling on indication and side effect of inpatient medications.

Led an education project to teach the pharmacy technicians how to put all new inventories into the EPIC system; in preparation to the hospital’s EPIC system launch.

Championed a research in the use an analgesic medication in the hospital; identified the inappropriate uses and recommended some optimum parameters.

Performed discharge counselling and medication review with/for the patient. Also, reviewed and verified in hospital prescription orders.

10/2016-11/2016 Hematology/Oncology APPE

Houston Methodist Hospital Medical Center, Houston, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Enhanced patient safety and understanding by providing an extensive patient and/or caregivers counseling on the purpose, side effects and monitoring parameters of all chemotherapy medications and what to expect during chemotherapy treatment.

Reviewed patient’s medications daily to ensure each drug was dosed appropriately and following up with the health care team to adjust medications if the patient is experiencing side effects from chemotherapy.

Performed patient medication review of current home medications the patient was taking, to make sure there were no drug to drug interaction with the chemotherapy drugs.

Prepared and presented case presentations, journal clubs to the oncology team, also attended tumor board meetings, P&T meetings etc.

Used EPIC system to retrieve patient information, medications history, also to document, retrieve clinicians’ notes, labs, imaging etc.

1/2017 – 2/2017 Critical Care APPE

Houston Methodist Hospital Medical Center, Houston, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Determined effectiveness of individualized therapeutic plans and made evidence-based drug therapy recommendations, including dosage forms, formulations and routes of administrations, by integrating patient-specific data with drug and disease information and applying guidelines.

Evaluated patients state of health/illness based on patient-specific information. Appropriately referred patient when needed and made recommendations based on the current guidelines.

Provided patients counseling on new anticoagulant medications, asked patient appropriate questions, assessed patient understanding with read back method and documented appropriately. Counseling points were purposes, uses, side effects, missed dose, storage, handling and administration of the medications.

Provided documentation appropriately and timely. Also, maintained confidentiality of all patient and health-care organization related information.

2/2017 – 3/2017 Infectious Disease APPE

Houston Methodist Hospital Medical Center, Houston, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Promoted better patient care by performing patient medication review of current inpatient medications to ensure that there are no drug-drug interaction with the antibiotic drugs.

Daily infectious disease patient work-up using EPIC system, with head to toe presentation, monitoring patients’ drugs levels (vancomycin level, Tobramycin level, etc.)

Actively participated in daily rounds with the infectious disease team (physician, pharmacist, resident physician and resident pharmacist) providing regimen change recommendations and implementations.

Conducted a research literature review and wrote case report on Lactobacillus rhamnosus bacteremia thought to be caused by chronic use of probiotics in one of my patients.

Performed several case presentations, journal club presentations. Attended antimicrobial stewardship meetings, residency interviews meetings, clinical pharmacy meetings and formulary review meetings.

3/2017- 4/2017 Medication Safety APPE

Houston Methodist Hospital Medical Center, Houston, Texas

Pharmacist Intern

Improved patients’ safety by performing daily review of reports of medication related events/error submitted in Patient Safety Net (PSN) by nurses, pharmacists and physicians etc.

Decreased the chances of medication error by recommending systemic changes to help improve policy, to ensure that an encountered error does not occur again.

Decreased chances of narcotic diversion by performing daily review of Pyxis narcotic discrepancy and tracking the drugs in the inventory.

Performed extensive investigation, starting from the beginning of patient’s admission, step by step of incidence occurrence till the time it was resolved and contacted staffs involved in the incident if need be.

Documented (in EPIC system) a well written report of the incident; how it happened and what could be done to prevent future occurrence of such incident.

2010 – 2013 PROLAB Inc. Houston TX

Lead Medical Technologist-Generalist

Shift lead with two phlebotomists that worked with me. Achieved high level phlebotomist turnaround time through excellent communication.

Trained and mentored two other medical technologists and hence, improved performance over 30%.

Implemented a new policy and process that improved workflow, decreased downtime, and decreased error in patient’s results.

Performed other aspects of daily lab operations including collections, sample processing, result reporting/distribution, personnel direction (as appropriate), and clerical duties as required to maintain efficient work flow at a competent level and according to the needs of the patient/population served, communicating special circumstances to appropriate personnel.

SKILLS

Inventory

Case report writing,

Patient Counseling and Clinical applications

Prescription dispensing and compounding,

Product safety/ review,

MS Office (Word, Excel (pivot tables), Power point),

Epic system, MethOD and Connexus

Public speaking/presentations and Journal review writing,

Medication therapy management,

Immunization,

Association Membership

2016 - 2017 Class vice president

2015 – Present Member of American Pharmacists Association (APhA)

Pharmacy Student Member.

2014 – Present Member of Texas Pharmacy Association (TPA)

Pharmacy Student Member.

2010 – 2016 Member of America Society of clinical pathologist (ASCP)

Medical Laboratory Scientist.

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