Pharmacist

Mina Morkos

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Experienced Pharmaceutical Professional

Specialty and hospital pharmacy

Home infusion pharmacy

IVIG and Hemophilia Infusions

CVS and Independent Retail pharmacy

Long term care pharmacy

Patient monitoring

Client Relationships

A highly motivated and solutions-focused pharmaceutical professional with current experience in hospital and retail pharmacy management focusing on close patient monitoring and patient education. Promoting profitable relationships with current and potential patients. Growth-oriented and results-driven. Additional background supporting production, identifying and resolving problems. Experienced in multiple areas of pharmaceutical industry such as infusion settings, retail, medical insurance, sales and inventory control.

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

Licensed pharmacist in good standing with the California State Board of Pharmacy - Jan 2020

APhA's Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery Certificate

Pharmacy Technician Certificate (PTCB)

Faculty of pharmacy, Cairo University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MESA VERDE LTC AND RETAIL PHARMACY - COSTA MESA, CA. Intern pharmacist, 11/2019 - Now

Preparing medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders.

Dispensing medications by packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.

Patient counseling and education.

Completing pharmacy operational requirements.

Answering questions and requests made by health care professionals.

Maintaining records for controlled substances.

Removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory.

RE PHARMACY HEAD-QUARTER OFFICE- IRVINE, CA. Intern pharmacist, 5/2019 – 11/2019

Reviewing patients’ clinical assessments to ensure close monitoring and enforce patient’s safety.

Providing Medication therapy management (MTM) services to the patients in cooperation with their physicians to minimize drug-drug interactions risks, improve patient’s adherence and reduce medication cost.

Conducting cold chain tests to achieve the highest levels of drug stability during delivery process to the patient.

Designing informative patient friendly handouts to familiarize the patient with their disease state.

Finding clinical trials and scientific articles to support specific uses of medications.

Participating in reviewing and updating pharmacy policies and procedures.

Filing and updating the pharmacy’s material safety data sheets (MSDSs) folder.

Representing the pharmacy in business events.

RE SPECIALTY PHARMACY - IRVINE, CA. Intern pharmacist, 1/2018 – 5/2019

Member of the Immunoglobulin therapy (IVIg/SCIg) and Hemophilia treatment team.

Contacting physicians’ offices for new prescriptions.

Providing patient counseling and education.

Monitoring and assessing patients for infusion related reactions and side effects.

Furnishing nursing orders and scheduling patients for infusions in coordination with nursing agencies.

Calculation of the appropriate infusion rates for patients based on age and clinical conditions.

Programming infusion pumps and preparing infusion supplies for patients.

Finding supporting medical literature and clinical trials for insurance prior authorization purposes to help the patients get their medications covered on time.

CVS PHARMACY- COSTA MESA, CA. Pharmacy technician, 1/2016 - 12/2016

Energetic, success-driven pharmacy professional with hands-on experience in prescription preparation.

Friendly individual with can-do attitude and highly effective customer service style that promotes recurring business.

Fast prescription typing and filling, meeting the huge workload needs.

Exceeded pharmacy target ranking 1st in “CVS digital pharmacy program” customers enrollment Excellent customer services surveys.

CVS Pharmacy- COSTA MESA, CA. Inventory specialist pharmacy technician, 12/2016 - 12/2017

Promoted to inventory specialist ensuring medications availability according to customers’ needs, reducing pharmacy waste and applying effective inventory control.

SANBAWY PHARMACY - CAIRO, EGYPT Pharmacy Manager & Retail Pharmacist, 6/2012 - 9/2014

Supervised pharmacy technicians.

Actively dispensed prescriptions for patients, provided counseling and focused on relationship building with customer.

Stocked and maintained logs of medications inventory and expiration dates for effective inventory control.

Communicated with doctor’s office to keep patients’ medications up to date.

Managed prescriptions insurance billing issues.

Continually worked with customers to achieve better service using active listening skills to offer understanding and resolve patient treatment needs and issues.

CAIRO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HOSPITAL - CAIRO, EGYPT. Pharmacist, 10/2013 - 9/2014

Provided counseling to patients regarding prescriptions and Ensured that the pharmacy was operating efficiently.

Reduced pharmacy waste by conducting effective inventory control.

Offered reliable patient counseling service.

Worked efficiently in a team providing the best pharmaceutical services for patients.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Rx-connect, CPR+, CareTend and Digital Rx pharmacy software platforms experience.

Excellent advanced computer skills (Microsoft office, Windows and Networking).

Customer-Focused, Marketing Skills, Presentation Skills, Sales Negotiation, Talent Development, and Diversity Awareness.

CERTIFICATION & ASSOCIATIONS

Best achiever medical sales member in “Model of sales team” training project – Novartis® pharmaceuticals-Egypt.

Medical Rep. Training in Merck Serono® pharmaceuticals-Egypt.

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