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Occupation Influenced Diabetes
By Dallas Collins, PharmD Candidate 2024 and Adenike Atanda, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, CTTS According to the CDC’s National Diabetes...
Sep 9, 20235 min read
Impact of Depression on Type II Diabetes Management
By Faith Spivey, PharmD Candidate 2024 and Adenike Atanda, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, CTTS Type II diabetes (T2DM) in the United States...
Aug 6, 20234 min read
Changes in AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for Management for Heart Failure
By Jiya Thomas, PharmD and Adenike Atanda, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, CTTS Introduction The AHA/ACC/HFSA guideline for the management of heart...
Jul 7, 20233 min read
DRESS Head to Toe: Patient Case of Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms
By Madison Abbs, PharmD and Alexandria Taylor, PharmD, BCPS Patient Case: Patient is a 23-year-old female presenting to the emergency...
Jun 25, 20234 min read
Pharmacists and Hepatitis C: From Specialty to Primary Care
By Zach Krauss, PharmD and Sarah Leupold, PharmD Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a viral infection that causes liver inflammation, sometimes...
May 26, 20234 min read
Tackling Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: 2023 ADA Pharmacologic Approaches to Glycemic Treatment Updates
By Justin Ramnarain, PharmD; Claudette Donatien, PharmD; Sami Barakat, PharmD; Rebecca Khaimova, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES Introduction In...
Mar 30, 20235 min read
Nonstatins and New Goals – 2022 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway Cholesterol Updates
By Kathryn Litten, PharmD, BCACP and Oluwaseun Awofisayo, PharmD Candidate 2023 Introduction In October 2022, the American College of...
Mar 14, 20233 min read
Bigger isn’t always Better: The Case for Microlearning
By Kate Cozart, M.Ed., Pharm.D., BCPS, BCGP, BCACP Most of us know that our focus is finite. Data, in the form of attention span curves...
Mar 4, 20232 min read
Interprofessional Collaboration: Getting Busy with It!
By Cassie Heffern, PharmD, BCACP I’ve worked within a family medicine residency clinic that serves a largely medically underserved...
Dec 5, 20223 min read
Topical Therapies for Psoriasis: Where do we start, and what's new?
By Zach Krauss, PharmD Candidate 2023; Juanita A. Draime, PharmD Introduction Psoriasis vulgaris is an inflammatory skin condition that...
Oct 3, 20227 min read
Psychological Safety
By Kate Cozart, M.Ed., Pharm.D., BCPS, BCGP, BCACP Code Blue MICU. You hear the call overhead. You sprint two flights of stairs. You...
Jul 26, 20223 min read
A Day in the Life of a Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner in a VA Outpatient Clinic
By Kate Cozart, M.Ed., Pharm.D., BCPS, BCGP, BCACP; Aleia Judd, Pharm.D., BCACP; and Dr. Paula Newberry, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCGP, BCACP...
May 3, 20224 min read
Pearls from the ADA 2022 Updates on Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes
By Da Som Kim, PharmD; Kathleen Horan, PharmD; Rebecca Khaimova, PharmD, BCACP Diabetes is a chronic and progressive disease...
Apr 28, 20224 min read
Network and Chill
By Mohammad Abu Mallouh, PharmD, MHSA In the Middle East, where I grew up, our version of networking is called “wasta.” Over there, this...
Apr 4, 20223 min read
ISTH Direct Oral Anticoagulant (DOAC) Update for Use in Venous Thromboembolism in Obesity
By Jason Chau, PharmD; Holly Flynn, PharmD; Sarah Greiner, PharmD; Stephanie Hendricks, PharmD According to the Centers for Disease...
Mar 27, 20227 min read
Perspective: ACCP MeRIT Program
By Andrew Bzowyckyj, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES Everyone has their own reasons for enrolling in the ACCP Mentored Research Investigator Training (MeRIT) program, a two-year initiative focused on developing your research and scholarship skills. For me, I was approximately five years into my first academic position and looking to continue my professional growth. I was at a point where I had put a significant amount of time and energy into establishing my clinical practice site and sub
Aug 13, 20214 min read
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