Start, stop, pivot: how COVID-19 catalyzed changes to health-system pharmacy practice

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted almost every sector imaginable in health care, especially pharmacy practice. Dr. Julie Cunningham, Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer of clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Midwest region, and Dr. Dmitry Walker, Assistant Director, Pharmacy Oncology in Investigational Drug Services at West Virginia University Medicine discuss stopping and starting pharmacy services due to COVID with Gretchen Brummel.

 

Guest speakers:
Julie Cunningham, PharmD, R.Ph
Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer of clinical practice 
Mayo Clinic Midwest Region

 

Dmitry Walker, PharmD, MS
Assistant Director, Pharmacy Oncology in Investigational Drug Services West Virginia University

 

Moderator:
Gretchen Brummel, PharmD, BCPS
Pharmacy Executive Director
Vizient Center for Pharmacy Practice Excellence

 

Show Notes:

[01:26-03:51] Background of Julie and Dmitry

[03:52-04:47] Understanding impacts of COVID-19 on pharmacy practice

[04:48-09:20] Focus of the Survey

[09:21-16:05] How practices have been impacted from the beginning

[16:06 -18:01] Other shifts in staffing or hiring

[18:02-19:35] Challenges of pediatric RSV and influenza surge

[19:36-22:49] Learning from where we've been through this process

[22:50-25:48] Future predictions

 

Links | Resources:

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Vizient Pharmacy Network Tech Recruitment/Retention Pulse Survey Click here  (member link)

Pharmacy technicians: the engine of health-system pharmacy Click here (member link)

 

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