Information Specialist Springdale
Resume:
Vicki L. McIver
Belle Center, OH
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Innovative, resourceful problem solver with 5 1/2 years in Managed Care working with Medicare Part D members, 4 1/2 years’ experience in retail pharmacy management and 23 years in a Drug & Poison Information setting as manager and certified poison specialist and pharmacist. Polished personable communicator with flexible open door management style. Proactive commitment to customer education, effective planner, organizer, team player who can manage multiple priorities and projects.
Extensive experience as key medical information resource with proven efficiency in providing medication alternatives for Medicare Part D members and physicians. Work within 3rd party formularies for affordable medications and prior authorizations. Maintain skills in financial resource accountability, formulation and preparation, dispensation and administration selection, interaction, and kinetics of medications.
Received Master of Public Health degree in 2010.
Career reflects demonstrated abilities in the following:
EDUCATION/PHARMACEUTICAL LIAISON
Present work experience:
Providing information for Medicare Part D benefit members in Managed Care setting.
Providing information for drug interactions, alternative medication information per formulary, Over the Counter medication.
Providing information for formulary and non-formulary medications offering alternatives.
Provide information on diabetic meters, medications including oral and injectable medications.
Prior work experience includes:
Responding comprehensively to drug information questions and concerns with medication interactions, treatment and pharmacokinetics.
Promote improved adherence for better outcomes
Handling public health concerns; collaborating with Environmental Protection Agency on water contamination issues and injury concerns within Children’s Hospital.
Work with multiple industries for adverse event reporting.
Supplied information and reported on adverse events for H1N1 vaccine in Cincinnati Public Health District to Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) a cooperative program for vaccine safety of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (CDC).
Advising customers on selection of medication brands, medical equipment and health care supplies.
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Supervising and evaluating teams of pharmacists, nurses and medical technician.
Maintaining accurate patient records, dosing information and directions for use; charge system files, inventories, control records and registries of poisons, narcotics and controlled drugs.
Planning, implementing and maintaining procedures for mixing, packaging and labeling pharmaceuticals in accordance with following policy and legal requirements; ensuring quality security and proper disposal.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Humana Inc Springdale, OH
Clinical Services Pharmacist, 2015-2021
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Drug and Poison Information Center, Cincinnati, OH
Certified Poison Information Specialist, 1994-2015
Call Room Manager
Manager of third shift at 24 hour Poison Control Hotline, provide immediate access to poison exposure management instructions.
Drug Emporium Pharmacy, Greensboro/ Winston Salem NC
Pharmacy Manager, 1990-1994
Staff RPh 1989-1990
Initially served as member of pharmacy staff and later returned as pharmacy manager.
Rite Aid Pharmacy, High Point, NC
Staff RPh, 1991-1994
Worked concurrently with pharmacy staff, Was floater to area pharmacies in High Point NC.
Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy, Winston-Salem, NC
Staff RPh, 1993-1994
Worked concurrently with pharmacy staff at three retail pharmacies
EDUCATION
Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
Master of Public Health, 2010
Participated in preparation and distribution of HINI Vaccine Information for Hamilton County Health; Department hotline; used VAERS for CDC vaccine safety program.
University of Cincinnati, College of Pharmacy, Cincinnati, Ohio
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, 1989
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS
Ohio Immunization Certificate, 2014
Registered Pharmacist.Ohio,1994
Certified Poison Information Specialist, 1994-2015
Registered Pharmacist-North Carolina, 1990
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Lawry, Lynn Lieberman, Lugo-Robles, Roberta, McIver, Vicki. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Improvements to a framework for gender and emerging infectious diseases. Sept 2021.
Lawry, Lynn Lieberman, Lugo-Robles, Roberta, McIver, Vicki. Frontiers Global Women’s Health.
Improvements to a framework for gender and emerging infectious diseases. Feb 2023
Goetz, R.J., Auger, K.A. Carson, T., Sweeney R. Riedl, V, Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH. A Thousand Fold Clonidine Dosing Error, Clinical Toxicology, (2008) Vol. 46, No.5
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Travel to Belize twice a year; participate in a medical mission as lead pharmacist and board member for Partners for Medical Relief. Head of ordering and dispensing pharmaceuticals to citizens of Belize; evaluate drug interactions, epidemiological rates of disease, prevalence and communicable levels, 2010, 2012-2022.
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