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Career Reconstituted: How these pharmacists turned their job into a dream job
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This is the real-life story of how I quit my awesome job as a clinical pharmacist of 11-years with no real plan of what I’d do next. I had a vague notion that I wanted something different, to make a greater impact, and use different parts of my brain. I started talking to friends, then friends of friends, and so on and so forth. Now, I’m discovering some brilliant career pivots proving that there is life after clinical pharmacy. And I want to share my journey with you.
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It's a wrap!
Feb 26, 202400:04:51Tap to summarizeSeason one of Career Reconstituted has wrapped. I'm in the final lap of my job search as I've narrowed it down to THE WHAT and just need to figure out THE WHERE and THE HOW. Once the dream job comes to fruition, I'll pop back in with all the deets. Until then, bye friends. Stay tenacious out there.
Transcribe →Dr. Michelle Payan - clinical oncology pharmacist to co-founder and CEO of non-profit organization that provides holistic care to cancer patients
Feb 19, 202400:48:11Tap to summarizeMichelle is so thoughtful about her career path. This is what we all should do! She was a clinical pharmacist in oncology for 20-years before she became disenchanted with the US healthcare system (metrics, money, etc) and saw a chasm in the care of patients with cancer. She took a masters course and dove right in. She is now the CEO and co-founder of Kairos Therapeutic Retreat, which provides holistic, integrative care (for free!!!) to patients who are living with the aftermath of cancer. Please check out her website and consider donating: http://kairoshealth.org/ This episode will drop on Monday (2/19/24) on You Tube, Apple Music, and Spotify. Please listen, get inspired...and leave a rating and review if you'd like.
Transcribe →Dr. Wilson Tam - Medication Therapy Management Pharmacist to Director of Sales Engineering
Feb 12, 202400:41:10Tap to summarizeDr. Wilson Tam started as a Medication Therapy Management intern and now works in Healthcare Technology as Director of Sales Engineering. He’s on the forefront of important sectors like specialty pharmacy, infusion companies, and information technology. Wilson started his unique career path off with two things: 1) a professor who engaged him in important conversations and 2) an idea to answer a clinical question. In turn, those sparks created a chain of events that led him to wanting to solve the hardest problems in our field. I love this convo, please join us! This episode of Career Reconstituted will drop 2/12/24 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
Transcribe →Dr. Omolola Adeoye-Olatunde - community pharmacy to professor and health equity researcher
Feb 5, 202400:50:13Tap to summarizeI love this convo with Lola because we get deep really quick & talk about how race and racism affect healthcare outcomes. I knew I was in a safe space to go there because Lola is the founder-director of the Health Equity Research (or HER) lab. Furthermore, she and her team have worked with students to host over 100 health fairs where they administered 4,000 vaccines (and more). Lola breaks down terms, gives real life experiences, and talks about how to get into the work. Hope you join us and love this convo as much as I did. Here's the link to her paper that we discussed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079557/
Transcribe →Dr. Nicolas Georgiades - clinical pharmacist to MSL to tech entrepreneur
Jan 29, 202400:46:09Tap to summarizeNick figured out how to take the leap by fixing a problem he encountered in his previous role as an MSL. He made the solution into one company (PharmAccelorator) and joined forces on another one (PharmacoTalent). So now he runs a tech company, coaches pharmacists to become MSLs, and helps companies find good candidates. He has a lot of advice for pharmacists who are looking to join industry. This episode of Career Reconstituted drops 1/29/24 on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Please follow or subscribe and leave a comment. Here are the links to Nick's companies: http://www.pharmaccelerator.com/ http://www.pharmacotalent.com/
Transcribe →Dr. Samia Baig - Public health researcher, data scientist, and software developer
Jan 22, 202400:47:06Tap to summarizeSo excited to have a "girls who code" (!) episode with Dr. Samia Baig who works on a bunch of really cool projects by combining public health with biostatistics and software development. Coolest part? She learned it herself, and shares how she did this in our convo. Would love for you to join and let us know what you think. This episode drops Monday (1/22/24) on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Please follow/subscribe and leave a rating.
Transcribe →Dr. Alex Barker - ambulatory pharmacist to founder of The Happy PharmD
Jan 15, 202400:57:13Tap to summarizeI love this conversation with Dr. Alex Barker. He started out as a residency-trained ambulatory care pharmacist and became the founder and CEO of The Happy PharmD, which is a pharmacist career coaching firm (and more). We discuss workplace bullying, what burn out looks like, imposter syndrome, and pharmacy job trends. His website is here, so check it out: https://thehappypharmd.com/ This episode of Career Reconstituted will drop 1/15/2024. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and You Tube. Please follow/subscribe and leave a rating and review.
Transcribe →Dr. Carol Holtzman - pharmacy professor to public health specialist by way of knocking on doors in Lesotho
Jan 8, 202400:53:40Tap to summarizeDr. Carol Holtzman has an impressive story. She was a pharmacy prof and HIV clinician in Philly until one day, she moved with her family to Lesotho, a country in Southern Africa. While there, she knocked on doors to get a job until she got her big break making a mobile phone app for tuberculosis (where she had to code!). After this, she worked for the State Department and USAID as an public health specialist doing HIV programatic work for the world. I love her story, and you will too. This episode of Career Reconstituted will drop 1/8/2024. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and You Tube. Please follow/subscribe and leave a rating and review.
Transcribe →Frank Harvey - community pharmacist to CEO of Surescripts
Jan 1, 202400:46:32Tap to summarizeFrank Harvey started out as a community pharmacist and is now the CEO of Surescripts, which is a health information network that established electronic prescribing more than two decades ago. But don’t get me wrong, Frank is a community pharmacist at heart (the kind with a soda fountain) and a vocal advocate of the profession. Our conversation dives into his impressive career path, using data to drive policy on utilizing pharmacists in primary care deserts, artificial intelligence, and so much more. This episode drops Monday January 1st, 2024. Find us as Career Reconstituted on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and You Tube.
Transcribe →Anisha Patel - pediatric palliative care pharmacist and podcaster
Dec 18, 202300:44:24Tap to summarizeAnisha Patel lives and works in London, England and is our first international pharmacist. She is a hospital pharmacist working in pediatric palliative care and a university professor who pivoted into podcasting. In this episode, we debate the merits and limitations of the National Health Service compared to the US’ public/private health system (including how much pharmacists get paid in the UK). Anisha also shares her story of being an international pharmacist in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a stint and why she started her podcast, The Pharmacist Diaries (which is fantastic and 3-years running).
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