A Pharm.D. as of 2002, with residency training in general pharmacy practice and geriatrics, certified in pharmacotherapy (BCPS), full-time faculty member at a college of pharmacy, and clinical pharmacist with an inpatient family medicine service.
Teaching has always been on my radar. In pharmacy school my interest in laboratory data interpretation and nephrology was piqued. My experience in residency laid the foundation for a lifelong interest in anticoagulation, dementia, and heart failure. Among, in between, before, and after all of this, I learned to enjoy drug literature evaluation, clinical research, pathophysiology, and general pharmacology.
I was once asked, “What is your favorite drug, mechanistically?” After a brief pause and a false start, I gave two answers, “Warfarin and lisinopril, or any ACE inhibitor.” This is pretty much true today.
For my entire career, my time has been split between two worlds–academia and the hospital. My clinical duties have taken me from rounding with internal medicine teams at an academic medical center, consulting on inpatient skilled nursing and hospice units at a community hospital, and working with a family medicine residency program at an urban community teaching hospital.
I’m blessed to be doing what I’m doing, and whatever I can do here to help others be successful, I will give it my best shot. Thanks for stopping by!