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When we look into the crystal ball of pharmacy practice and education, we see numerous opportunities and potential changes, such as accountable care organizations (ACO), medication-therapy management (MTM), transition-in-care teams, patient-centered medical homes, pharmacogenetics, etc. From a didactic perspective, the faculty in the Raabe College of Pharmacy work hard to make sure we continue to be at the forefront of the future of pharmacy practice. In December, a White House We the People petition was started to recognize pharmacists as health care providers. Within weeks, the petition surpassed the 25,000-signature threshold required to trigger an official review and response by the Obama administration. As pharmacists, we need to be aware of the efforts and progress being made in regards to obtaining provider status for our profession. In this issue of The Ampul, we examine these efforts. Our working relationship with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana continues to flourish and provide learning opportunities for our students and faculty. During this academic year, four sixthyear pharmacy students completed Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences (APPE) throughout Ghana. Additionally, three faculty from the Raabe College of Pharmacy spent time teaching pharmacy students at KNUST. This allowed the ONU faculty to demonstrate our integrated method of teaching pathophysiology, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry and therapeutics. I hope you will enjoy reading about some of their experiences in this issue of The Ampul. Our students continue to impress and challenge us as faculty. The implementation of our colleges mission to be the teacher-scholars of pharmacy education can be ostensibly linked to the proliferation of awards and recognitions our students and faculty have received. In this issue of The Ampul, we have provided you with some of these stories. We always welcome the opportunity to catch up with alumni and friends of the college. Alumni give back to the Raabe College of Pharmacy in so many ways. I am truly appreciative and grateful for all your support!
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The Ampul is a publication of The Rudolph H. Raabe College of Pharmacy Editors: Josh Alkire Lynn Bedford Amy (Rettig) Prigge, BSBA 94 Laurie Wurth Pressel Design: Toma (Grothous) Williams, BFA 96 Photography: Ken Colwell Contributors: Scott Wills, BSBA 87
The Ampul is published by Ohio Northern University, 525 S. Main St. Ada, OH 45810, 419-772-2000. The R.H. Raabe College of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University has long been recognized as one of the premier colleges of pharmacy in the nation, continually meeting the high standards of pharmaceutical education. Throughout its prominent history, the college has graduated pharmacists who now have successful pharmacy practices and who are active in local, state and national health-related organizations. More than one-fourth of all pharmacists in Ohio are Ohio Northern alumni. www.onu.edu/pharmacy
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Jenelle Sobotkas term as president of the American Pharmacists Association ended in March, but her desire to serve is stronger than ever. Sobotka, professor and Endowed Chair of Pharmacy Practice at ONU, reflects on her presidential year and the game changer that she and pharmacists across the country are pushing for in order to transform the practice of pharmacy.
WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR LEGACY TO BE AS THE 2012-13 PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION?
Wow, legacy is a tall order! But I do hope pharmacists will look back on this year as the year that aligned the
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profession for achieving provider status. In fact, the theme of my keynote address at the 2013 APhA National Conference in Los Angeles in March was A Game-Changing Year: Building Teams and Game Plans for our Future. We worked hard to develop strategic plans and
to build relationships with other national pharmacy associations, health care professional groups and other stakeholders. APhA will be taking specific action steps this coming year, in collaboration with other national organizations, to pursue provider status.
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During her keynote address, Sobotka displays the special-edition football made by the Wilson Football Factory in Ada, Ohio, which was auctioned to benefit the APhA Foundation.
It is our choice whether this game change in the health care system engages our talents in medication management or ejects us from the game for other players and technology that they believe can play our position better or at lower costs.
HOW DID YOUR CONNECTION WITH ONU INFORM YOUR EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE PROVIDER STATUS?
I received inspiration and encouragement from ONU and other student pharmacists across the country. They are the future of our profession, and they are the biggest reason why Ive devoted so much energy toward this cause. We need to achieve provider status so todays student pharmacists can fulfill their potential and step into the roles for which our pharmacy schools have prepared them. The public deserves access to the patient care services they can provide! The Raabe College of Pharmacy, for example, is teaching students to practice pharmacy on the cutting edge. The curriculum covers the latest in therapeutics, pharmacogenomics, patient care services, medication therapy management and documentation with electronic records. Through the ONU Healthwise Clinic for University employees, students receive real experience in managing patient health needs, including counseling patients, taking blood pressure and glucose readings, and administering immunizations. ONU students graduate fully prepared for the new model of practice.
The students also are inspirational with their commitment to be involved and actively improve our world. This past year, right after Christmas, a student pharmacist from St. Johns University in New York started a White House We the People petition to recognize pharmacists as health care providers. Early in the New Year, the petition went viral, flashing through mass email communications at national and state pharmacy associations and through schools of pharmacy. Many ONU student pharmacists signed the petition. On Jan. 9, the petition exceeded the 25,000 required signatures for a White House response. As just one example, I think this grassroots movement shows the momentum and excitement especially among young people surrounding the issue of achieving provider status.
Our goal is to make a difference in medication outcomes by making sure patients have access to the services pharmacists can provide.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS?
Legislative action is needed to change the language in the Social Security Act to include pharmacists as health care providers. To reach this goal, we will need not only national pharmacy organizations working together, but also individual pharmacists to step up to the plate. Our profession has historically had a limited voice and influence in politics, and this will need to change. I was thrilled by the overwhelming response to the We the People petition. But its easy, with just a click, to sign a petition from your home computer. It will take all those pharmacists who signed the petition, and many more, to educate legislators, donate to political action committees, and activate patients to support the provider status legislation and access to our pharmacist clinical services.
WHAT DID YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT YOUR LEADERSHIP ROLE THIS YEAR?
The people, of course! I worked with some incredible people and made new friends, from other APhA board members and staff, to pharmacists and pharmacy educators across the country. I never tired of the meetings to discuss opportunities to advance our professions role in patient care.
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pharmacy chain to invite them to deliver CE seminars in other states during their school breaks and summer vacations. Gossels records show he delivered 1,327 seminars in 47 different states as well as Europe and the Caribbean between 1973 and 1993. He met thousands of practicing pharmacists, often driving or flying to every major city in a state within a few days. He learned some valuable lessons in his travels. For example, the word party means two completely different things depending on if youre in Las Vegas or Fargo, and its never wise to joke about the Civil War in South Carolina. Most importantly, he says, he learned that pharmacists, no matter where they practice, share one thing in common they are all eager to learn about new developments in their field. Those were busy years, Gossel reflects. But if I didnt think I was doing something beneficial, I wouldnt have continued. Gossel, whose home office overflows with research papers, journals and the latest industry news, is a role model for lifelong learning. He believes CE requirements play a major role in advancing the pharmacy profession and keeping pharmacists upto-date in a rapidly changing field. CE courses also have the added benefit of bringing pharmacists together for networking, he adds. In addition to seminars, Gossel has written more than 700 CE home-study lessons for the Ohio Pharmacist journal and other publications. He wrote many of the lessons in collaboration with Wuest. For some articles, he worked with ONU student pharmacists who appreciated the opportunity to add a published article to their rsums. Tom is one of the most prolific writers I ever came across, says Wuest. He was the workhorse in putting the materials together. For many years, the Ohio Pharmacist editor shared Gossels CE lessons with every state pharmacy association in the U.S. Today, the journal editor distributes his articles to 11 state associations. Most of Gossels CE articles provide background information on new drugs. But hes also written about over-the-counter medications, patient counseling and FDA regulations. Toms CE lessons are extremely well received by pharmacists all over the country, because the lessons are practical and current and can be applied to a variety of pharmacy settings, says Amy Bennett, R.Ph., assistant executive director of the Ohio Pharmacists Association. Pharmacists appreciate receiving information about the drugs from someone other than the manufacturer. He conveys objective information about how the new drug fits into current therapy, advantages and disadvantages, patient counseling tips, and more. While Wuest ended his CE involvement after his retirement, Gossel only slowed down. Retired from ONU for 11 years, he continues to write three to four highly informative and thoroughly researched CE articles each year. The topics just come naturally, he says. I have files galore with background information. Bennett, whos been Gossels editor for the past 33 years, hopes he never puts down the pen and that he continues to enlighten and inform pharmacists on the topics that matter. Tom is an asset to the profession of pharmacy, she says. There is no question hes influenced the continuing education of pharmacists all over the country.
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Once hailed as Americas faculty by a leading pharmaceutical company, Gossel and Wuest traversed the nations byways, often together and sometimes alone, delivering CE seminars. They also co-authored hundreds of homestudy lessons that were shared with every state pharmacy association in the U.S.
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Pharmacists never stop learning because theres always something new to learn, from the latest drug therapies to the most recent FDA regulations. And every lesson including those geared toward practicing pharmacists requires a teacher, someone committed to providing relevant, accurate and insightful information.
For the past 40 years, Dr. Tom Gossel, BSPh 63, ACIT 89, ACIT 97, has been that knowledgeable and dedicated teacher, producing more continuing education (CE) lessons for pharmacists than perhaps anyone else in the country. From Ohio to Florida, Maine to California, thousands of pharmacists have stayed current in their profession because of CE courses developed by Gossel, who taught pharmacology and toxicology at Ohio Northern for 30 years and served as dean of the Raabe College of Pharmacy from 1993 to 1999. Gossel developed many of the lessons in collaboration with his friend and colleague, Dr. J. Richard Dick Wuest, professor emeritus of pharmacy practice at the University of Cincinnati.
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Gossel and Wuest first teamed up in the early 1970s, when boards of pharmacy began implementing CE requirements for Amy Bennett, R.Ph., license renewal. The assistant executive director of deans at Ohios four the Ohio Pharmacists Association schools of pharmacy devised a plan to make it easy for Ohio pharmacists to obtain their CE hours. Each school designated two professors to travel to cities and towns throughout Ohio to deliver CE seminars. Gossel and Wuest were both selected by their college deans for the task.
The two met in a hotel lobby before an event at which they were scheduled to speak. They were both frantically scribbling notes and shuffling papers. It was love at first sight jokes Wuest, when the two busy professors and family men noticed they shared something besides pharmacy in common last-minute preparation. Gossel and Wuest began to work together pooling their time and intellectual talent to develop first-rate CE courses. They made a perfect team, informing and entertaining their CE students. Wuest claims he was the jokester and Gossel the perfect straight man. Their success in Ohio prompted a national
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In a sport where the primary focus is getting there first, Alison Steinbrunner was late getting started. Whereas 5-year-olds across the nation are now running cross country competitively in organized leagues, Steinbrunner didnt begin until the eighth grade. Even then, it was something she did as a laugh. It was a social activity almost. This is amazing when you consider how good she is. My friends got me started; it was just an easy thing to do, I guess, she says. Everyone was like, Oh, just run after school. Its easy. Its fun. So, in the fall of eighth grade, she ran cross country for the first time. We went to small meets, because our cross country program wasnt really big. I think I won a couple of the small meets. It wasnt a big accomplishment to win the meet by any means, but after winning one, I thought, Oh, I think maybe I could be good at this. She didnt run track in the spring, but became nervous that her fellow eighthgraders would all become faster than her. I knew my friends were all running every day in the spring. And I didnt want to come back to cross country and not be able to run with them. I got nervous and started running a little bit around my neighborhood in the spring and summer. And I think thats probably what made me kind of decent at cross country.
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Kind of decent gave way to very good, as Steinbrunner continued running throughout high school. As a freshman, she became one of the first freshmen in Tecumseh High School history to qualify for state. She dominated as a high school senior, winning seven races and helping Tecumseh win the Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division for the first time in school history. The school also advanced to the state meet for the first time in school history. She was named the 2008 Springfield News-Sun All-Area Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year and finished seventh in the state in cross country. When it came time to consider colleges, Steinbrunners search for academic quality superseded her desire to run for a Division I program. It was pharmacy first. I did look at Division II and Division I schools, so I could have gotten scholarships to run, but Ohio Northern pharmacy is just the best. Then I met the coaches and came to ONU. But yeah, it was pharmacy first, then running. It probably didnt hurt that her mother, Lori Ann (Hinegardner), BSEE 86, and grandfather, William D. Hinegardner, BSME 62, are both Northern alumni. Still, she has few regrets over her decision. Today, the fourth-year pharmacy major from New Carlisle, Ohio, runs cross country and both indoor and outdoor track for ONU.
I think because ONU is D3, we all just want to run, she explains. I feel like if I were at a school where kids were getting scholarships, they might be there just for the scholarships. And there would be more pressure. Here, if I have to miss practice for an exam or something, its fine. And everyone on the team wants to be here. So I feel like the atmosphere at ONU is better. This ONU atmosphere has produced what many might consider to be the Universitys finest distance runner. During the 2012-13 cross country season alone, Steinbrunner won the OAC championship in the 5,000-meter run with an OAC record time of 17:39.21. In indoor track, she broke her own school record in the 5,000-meter run, broke records in the 1-mile run and 3,000-meter run, and was part of the record-breaking distance medley relay team. In outdoor track, she holds University records in the 5,000-meter run and the 10,000-meter run. She was named a 2012 Division III Womens Cross Country All-Academic honoree by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), too. So how does she balance the rigors of a Northern pharmacy education with the intense training necessary to run at such a competitive level?
Anyone in pharmacy knows that you have to do a lot of studying, so its about time management, she says. If were on the bus to an away meet, were studying on the bus if we need to. Its hard to explain because Ive just always done it. I guess I dont know what people who arent in athletics do. But some days, I dont do anything besides study and go to practice. So there are a lot of sacrifices. Somehow, she manages to squeeze in a few additional extracurricular activities into her already busy schedule. Im in a couple things, she says. Those couple things include writing for The Pharmacy and Wellness Review, a student-created pharmacy research journal. Shes a chemistry teaching assistant and a member of Kappa Epsilon, the womens professional pharmacy sorority; Rho Chi, the national pharmacy honor society; and Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honorary. Steinbrunners successes have been tempered with her share of setbacks, as well. She missed time during both her sophomore and junior years of high school with injuries. In college, a bout with mononucleosis forced her to sit out the entire outdoor track season as a second-year student.
But a silver lining can be found in missing that outdoor track season: As a fifth-year pharmacy student next year, shell have one year of eligibility left. Steinbrunner fully expects to participate in the outdoor track season in 2014, despite the long layoff that shell have to endure. Thats going to be so weird. When I race again next year, I wont have raced for a whole year. As for her future career plans, or how shell choose to use her pharmacy degree, Steinbrunner is unsure. I dont know yet. Thats the big question! I guess well find out after rotations. I have no idea. But for now, Steinbrunner will simply keep running. The 2013 outdoor track season is currently winding down. After that, she looks ahead to her remaining season of eligibility a year from now. Until then, its one practice at a time, one race at a time, one meet at a time. Shell be ready, and shell do what she can to be first.
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The average Ghanaian doesnt discover that he or she has cancer until its too late. There are few cancer wards in the hospitals, and screening for cancer is not practiced to the degree that it is in the U.S., says Dr. David Kinder, ONU professor of medicinal chemistry. The folks who develop cancer are not likely to be seen until their cancer is advanced and, typically, untreatable. Despite the lack of advanced oncology care in their country, pharmacy students and professors at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana were eager to learn about oncology drug therapies. As part of the ongoing partnership
between ONU and KNUST, three ONU pharmacy professors traveled to Ghana in March and spent two weeks teaching an oncology module. Their overall purpose was to demonstrate an integrated style of teaching for the KNUST faculty members as they work to develop a PharmD program at their university. Kinder, a medicinal chemist, Dr. Mark Olah, a pharmacologist, and Dr. Jeff Allison, BSPh 71, PharmD 95, a clinical pharmacist, each taught part of the oncology module similar to how they teach it at ONU. The ability to monitor some adverse reactions to cancer medications through objective means is difficult in Ghana, but we could teach observable subjective data to help monitor these adverse reactions, says Allison. KNUSTs faculty requested the oncology module for the first demonstration, says Kinder. The subject was one that they felt they lacked depth in their faculty to teach, he explains. So, it made sense that we would be invited to teach something they were attempting to build up.
Kinder, Olah and Allison enjoyed their interactions with KNUST students and professors. We were very well received, says Allison. It is very difficult to commit to an integrated style of teaching and very fearful for a faculty member to give up a traditional way of teaching. We wanted them to see how this could be done and answer any questions they may have had. KNUST students were bright and inquisitive, adds Kinder. They frequently asked probing questions in terms of clinical aspects of what we presented that reflected personal experience, where they wanted to know more of what they had seen, but not understood clinically. We delighted in answering their questions. Allison says the trip reminded him that people all over the world share similar aspirations and desires to help their fellow man. The sharing of ideas and listening to their concerns of providing health care was very meaningful to me, he says.
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I first met Kelly during my community IPPE hours. Kelly was my preceptor and the pharmacy manager at the Walgreens in my hometown. After my IPPE hours, she allowed me to intern in her store for the rest of the summer. She also has helped me make other contacts within Walgreens so that I can pick up extra hours at other stores. Finally, she is helping me shadow and possibly intern at a hospital in the near future so that I can broaden my scope past retail pharmacy. Kelly has become my good friend throughout the past year, and I look to her as a role model. I feel comfortable asking her anything, and I know I can trust her advice. Sarah Aldrich I wanted to be a resource for students with questions and to help guide them along their path the way I was guided as a student. I first met Sarah in thesummer of2012 while completing her IPPE hours. I have enjoyed getting to know her and her family better. I have helped Sarah find opportunities for shadowing with my personal and professional contacts in the community at numerous sites beyond her required experiential hours. I really enjoy having students and taking the time to slow down in my busy day to educate others. Kelly (Ward) Balyeat, PharmD 09
I attended the mentorship dinner last year at ONU. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting with the students and hearing about their goals in pharmacy. We got to talk about how pharmacy and ONU has changed over the years.I only corresponded with the three girls at my table once after the dinner but extended an invitation for them to visit my pharmacy sometime or rotate through our site. Last March, Maggie asked if she could come for a site visit to learn more about our 340B pharmacy, how we operate to serve the underserved population and our extensive patient assistance program. She spent part of a day with me, and we discussed at length the value ofexcellent pharmacy services and how our department serves our patient population in helping them achieve their health care goals. Janell (Johns) Claudy, BSPh 80
Like most pharmacy students, I am trying to figure out where I would like to practice after graduation. I recalled that Janell talked about her pharmacy being a 340B pharmacy, so I contacted her and set up a shadowing experience. When I arrived, she showed me all of the facilities and how the pharmacy functions within the grand scheme of a family health practice. She is a great role model, and I feel like I can ask her anything and she will give me an honest answer. I also know that I am welcome back to her pharmacy at any time. I did not expect to gain so much from attending a dinner, and I am so glad that I attended. Maggie Sant
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pharmacy. Kuhn currently serves on the American Pharmacists Associations (APhA) Editorial Advisory Board of the Pharmacy Today publication, and she is a new practitioner officer for APhAs Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management, for which she is a member of the Education Committee. In 2011, she was awarded the APhA Distinguished New Practitioner Award. As an assistant professor at the South Carolina College of Pharmacy, she implemented a community pharmacy residency program and a medication therapy management (MTM) elective course. Kuhn is the MTM coordinator for the Kroger Patient Care Center, Columbus Division. Jeff Bartone, PharmD 08, was installed as OPA vice president. Bartone practices at Hocks Pharmacy in Tipp City, Ohio. He also has practiced at Walgreens Pharmacy in Dayton and Hocks Pharmacy in Vandalia, Ohio. An OPA member since 2007, Bartone has been an active member of the OPA Independent Special Interest Group for several years and has shown a keen interest in issues impacting independent pharmacy practice. He also has volunteered on the OPA Finance Committee, Long Range Plan Committee, and Member Services & Development Committee. As a member of the OPA Executive Committee the last two years, Bartone worked to increase membership and increase communication between the board and the membership.
Craig Kimble, PharmD 98, was installed as a trustee representing District 7 in southeast Ohio. Kimble is corporate director of pharmacy for Fruth Corporation, overseeing the pharmacy operations of 25 stores in southern Ohio and West Virginia. Kimble has been an active member of professional pharmacy organizations, including various committees of OPA. Kevin Fuschetto, PharmD 07, was installed as a trustee representing District 14. Fuschetto is clinical pharmacist for Giant Eagle Pharmacy in Salem, Ohio, coordinating medication therapy management services for patients. He is a member of OPAs Disease State Management Task Force. In 2011, Fuschetto received OPAs Upsher-Smith Innovative Pharmacy Practice Award. Ben Holter, PharmD 08, was installed as a trustee representing District 8. Holter is the pharmacy manager/pharmacist in charge at The Drugstore at OBleness Memorial Hospital in Athens. Established in 1879, OPA represents more than 4,000 pharmacists, pharmacy educators and pharmacy students throughout the state. OPAs mission is to unite the profession of pharmacy and encourage interprofessional relations while promoting public health through education, discussion and legislation.
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Turner came to study pharmacy at ONU in 1959 and was a member of Kappa Psi fraternity and Rho Chi, participated with The Northern yearbook, and played basketball and baseball. After graduating in 1963, Turner practiced pharmacy in his hometown of Newark, Ohio, before joining Eli Lilly as a sales representative. When the opportunity to purchase Gardners Drugstore in Ada, Ohio, presented itself, Turner and his late wife, Mary Ann Gardner Turner, BSPh 63, purchased the store and returned to Ada. Soon after returning to Ada, Turner joined the faculty at the Raabe College of Pharmacy in 1977 as the pharmacist for the model pharmacy. In developing the colleges externship program, he visited hundreds of pharmacy students at various pharmacies around the state. He served as advisor for Phi Lambda Sigma and Kappa Psi. In addition, Turner served as treasurer for the Ohio Pharmacists Association as well as a member and president of the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. Further, Turners community service included the Hardin County Health Board, the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Liberty Bancshares Board. Turner also was the voice of Ada home football games for many years. He retired from ONU in 2001. The Town and Gown Association was established in 1957 by a group of townspeople and University personnel whose primary interest was to develop and maintain a strong and positive relationship between the village and the University.
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Dr. Bruce Bouts BSPh 82 General Internist Blanchard Valley Medical Associates Inc. Findlay, Ohio Col. (Ret.) Mark Butler BSPh 79 Commander, 59th Clinical Support Group Lackland AFB, Texas Adrienne (Wood) Donaldson BSPh 99 Professional Services Consultant McKesson Foundation Inc. Moon Township, Pa. Dr. Shawn Eaton PharmD 01 District Manager CVS Caremark Tallmadge, Ohio George Hill BA 69, BSPh 74 Director, Pharmacy Services Catholic Health Initiatives Union, Ky. Kathy Karas BA, BSPh 75 Atwater, Ohio Richard Keyes BSPh 92 Executive Vice President of Supply Chain Operations and Mfg. Meijer Inc. Grand Rapids, Mich. Paul T. Kocis BSPh 88, PharmD 03 Clinical Pharmacist, Anticoagulation Clinic Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University Hershey, Pa. Phillip Lettrich BSPh 85 Director of Professional Relations Emdeon Business Services Twinsburg, Ohio Jay Meyer BSPh 82 Founder Eagle Launch Consulting Covington, Ohio Theresa Tip Parker BSPh 74 Director of Trade Relations & Pharmacy Operations Abbott PPD Abbott Park, Ill. Robert Bob Parsons BSPh 71 Executive Vice President Ohio Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists Marietta, Ohio Nichole (Pearson) Penny BSPh 98 District Pharmacy Supervisor Walgreens-Grand Rapids East District Kentwood, Mich. Dr. Ervin Pierstorf 53, Hon. D. 78 Chairman of the Board and CEO, Retired Fairview Photo Services Rocky River, Ohio, and Pinellas Park, Fla. Tom Wiechart BSPh 81 Pharmacist Rite Aid Lima, Ohio Suzanne Eastman Wuest BSPh 74 Executive Director for Clinical Services Catalina Health Resource Cincinnati, Ohio
Philanthropy means a lot to me. Without the support of our generous donors, I would not have been able to afford to go to ONU. When I graduate, I hope to support students like myself. Allie Fay, a third-year pharmacy major from Canton, Ohio
Bob Parsons, BSPh 71, has worked at OSHP for 14 years. When OSHP was an all-volunteer organization, he served in a number of leadership positions as a volunteer, including the office of president. Hes also served in leadership positions at the Ohio Pharmacists Association. Parsons is active in his church and with his local board of the American Cancer Society. He and his wife, Robin, have been married for 21 years and have two adult daughters. Parsons enjoys researching his family history and studying the early history of rock n roll. Hes also a credentialed parliamentarian.
Q: Tell us about your work. A: I am responsible for coordinating OSHPs educational and operational events, handling member relations and relations with our 14 local chapters, maintaining relationships with other state and national professional organizations, monitoring legislation and regulations, providing material for our publication and website, and serving as secretary to our Board of Directors and House of Delegates, among other duties. For me personally, the most rewarding part of my work is working with our 431student members. Because my work brings me to ONU routinely, I am probably better acquainted with thestudents than most other advisory board members. Id like to think that this helps to make me an effective board member. Q: What are the keys to your success in your career? A: Professional organization work appealed to me even as a student. Foremost, I strive to be highly organized, excel at customer relations, and always look out for theneeds of our members. I also advocate for the pharmacy profession to other health professions and to the public. Q: What trends have you noticed in the pharmacy field? A: The trends in hospital and health-system practice are the most obvious to me because I serve this area of our profession. For what seems like decades, pharmacists have been trying to make the case to the rest ofthe health care world that if we were able to get closer to the patient, we could improve lives andreduce health care costs. This isnow starting tohappen. Pharmacists are becoming integral, valued contributors tomulti-disciplinary care, and patient care is improving because of it. Q: What do you believe are the biggest strengths of the College of Pharmacy? A: Its hard to name just a few. What strikes me first, being personally acquainted with so many of the students, is their degree of talent and dedication to their chosen profession. Its really unsurpassed. Equally striking is the dedication of the faculty and staff. I dont particularly like the phrase about having the right people on the bus, but for lack of better wording, thats what I see at the college. The faculty and staff take a personal interest in the success of their students, and thats inspiring. Q: What do you think are the most exciting things happening at the college right now? A: ONU Healthwise. This program couldbe the poster child for pharmacist-based wellness programs. Also, the partnership with the Pharmacy Council of Ghana and GhanasKNUST College of Pharmacy offers an exciting opportunity to make a difference in pharmacy education in that country and impact patients lives there.
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