2023 AzPA Spring Clinical Digital Program

CVENT CONFERENCE APP

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In addition to the Cvent app, we also have a website! The 2023 Spring Clinical website contains all the same information and features as the app but can be accessed via computer or mobile browser. Please utilize this site if you are having issues downloading and/or operating the app. You can utilize this User Guide for questions about downloading and accessing the Cvent app and website.

Welcome to Phoenix!

How to Redeem Your CE

Lecture Panda is the learning platform that AzPA utilizes to submit your CE credits.

GETTING STARTED:

Locate your “2023 AzPA Spring Clinical Conference” email which provides you with the link to access Lecture Panda. Look for an email from noreply@lecturepanda.com for further instructions.

INSIDE LECTURE PANDA:

The top left corner of the event you are in should read “2023 AzPA Spring Clinical Conference,” and there are 5 tabs running across the top of the screen. You will progress through each tab until you reach the end where you will submit all of your information:

• Materials: Powerpoint slides will be posted here.

• Credits: Select the credits you earned. Click the box next to the credit and enter the CE session code in the box and hit submit.

• Evaluations: All CE assessments and evaluations are stored here. You MUST complete them and hit the green [Submit] button in order to get CE credit for that session.

• Complete: Now you will see all credits that have been claimed and certificates will appear for you to download. Note: This statement contains information provided to NABP from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) via CPE Monitor®. ACPE policy states paper and/or electronic statements of credit may no longer be distributed directly to learners as proof of ACPE credit.The official record of credit may be located in the learner’s e-profile in CPE Monitor®

ACCREDITATION:

The Arizona Pharmacy Association (AzPA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing education. Please refer to the AzPA website and Lecture Panda for UAN numbers and disclosures.

HOW TO CLAIM CREDIT:

To claim CE credit for the CPE program, participants must have actively participated in the entire session, submit the corresponding session code, and complete a session evaluation using the AzPA online CPE submission site. You may claim your CE credit until April 5, 2023.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

AzPA Spring Clinical education sessions are designed for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from all practice settings. Courses appropriate for pharmacist participation are designated by an ACPE universal activity number ending in the letter “P.” Courses appropriate for pharmacy technician participation are designated by an ACPE universal activity number ending in the letter “T.”

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Learning objectives for CPE sessions are provided on the AzPA website, digital program, online CPE submission site and announced in each session.

DISCLOSURES:

Any financial support for individual education sessions will be provided on the AzPA website and announced at each session. Faculty disclosures are provided on the AzPA website, digital program, online CPE submission site, and announced at each session. AzPA Education Committee and AzPA staff disclosures are provided on the AzPA website.

SESSION HANDOUTS:

Presentation Slides can be found within LecturePanda under [Materials] Tab.

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Focus on Hyperlipidemia: Patient Case-When Statins Aren’t Enough Focus on Sepsis: Medication Safety and the Technician’s Role

Focus on Hyperlipidemia: How Old Is Too Old? Debating the Use of Statins for Primary Prevention in the Elderly-Therapeutic Debate

Immunization Update - Jeopardy Style! Pharmacogenomics Primer for Pharmacists

CONTINUING EDUCATION SESSIONS

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2023

8:15AM - 9:15AM | GENERAL SESSION: Let Your Voice

Be Heard: A Discussion of Advocacy and ASHP House of Delegates

Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Mindy Burnworth, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Janelle Duran, PharmD, BCPS; Jake Schwartz, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP, BCCCP, BCPS, FAzPA; Christi Jen, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Danielle Kamm, PharmD

Educational Goal: To share recently adopted policies and upcoming policies that are being reviewed by ASHP House of Delegates for approval or discontinuation. The goal is to gather all AzPA – ASHP members’ opinions and voice on such policies being reviewed, prior to the House of Delegates’ Regional Delegate Conference.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Describe ways Arizona pharmacy professionals can get involved in advocacy through state and national pharmacy associations.

• Discuss the role of Arizona delegates to the ASHP House of Delegates.

• Discuss the potential impact of selected policies coming before the ASHP House of Delegates in June to the practice of pharmacy in Arizona and to pharmacy personnel.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Describe how a pharmacy technician may contribute to ASHP policies.

• Recognize how policies may impact pharmacy technicians.

9:15AM - 10:15AM | GENERAL SESSION: Advancing

Pharmacy Practice and Recognizing Excellence

David Warner, PharmD

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Identify opportunities that participation in national pharmacy practice initiatives offer to enhance pharmacy services at your institution.

• Describe opportunities that practice standards offer to evaluate pharmacy services and plan strategically.

• Evaluate strategies to use quality and benchmarking tools for pharmacy services evaluation.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Explain opportunities for pharmacy technicians to use pharmacy practice initiative tools to improve pharmacy operations and services.

• Identify how to prepare for practice standard evaluation process surveys.

• List pharmacy operations measures useful to evaluate pharmacy services.

10:45AM - 11:45AM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Sepsis: Medication Review

Kathleen Bloomquist, PharmD; Brian Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM

Educational Goal: This session will provide a foundational understanding of sepsis and septic shock, serving as a starting point for our focus on sepsis series.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Describe the pathophysiologic basis for hemodynamic instability in septic shock.

• Identify vasopressors that are likely to be of benefit in patients experiencing septic shock.

• Identify fluids used in resuscitation that are most likely to remain in the intravascular space.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Identify vasopressors that are likely to be of benefit in patients experiencing septic shock.

• Identify fluids used in resuscitation that are most likely to remain in the intravascular space.

10:45AM - 11:45AM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Hyperlipidemia: Medication Review

Lauren Rimsza, PharmD; Amy K. Kennedy, PharmD, BCACP;

Alejandro Vazquez, PharmD

Educational Goal: Statin therapy has long been the backbone of pharmacotherapy treatment of hyperlipidemia, but new agents have emerged in recent years. This presentation will review the new treatment options that are alternatives to statin therapy.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Describe the mechanisms of action (MOA) of evinacumab, and bempedoic acid, and inclisiran.

• List the adverse effect profiles of evinacumab, bempedoic acid, and inclisiran.

• Recall the data that demonstrates the efficacy of evinacumab, and bempedoic acid, and inclisiran.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• List the new treatment options that are alternatives to statin therapy.

• Discuss the storage requirements, dosage forms, and strengths available for these alternative treatment options.

CONTINUING EDUCATION SESSIONS

1:00PM - 2:00PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Sepsis: Guideline Update

Gabriella Gambadoro, PharmD; Brian Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM

Educational Goal: To provide participants with a foundational knowledge of the guidelines used for the management of patients with sepsis and septic shock.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the role of corticosteroids in managing sepsis.

• Review the goal timing of antibiotics when treating patients with sepsis.

• Differentiate patients with sepsis who may benefit from a fluid restricted resuscitation strategy.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the role of corticosteroids in managing sepsis.

• Review the goal timing of antibiotics when treating patients with sepsis.

1:00PM - 2:00PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Hyperlipidemia: Guideline Update

Caroline Adrian, PharmD; Jacob D. Northrup, PharmD, BCADM, CDCES

Educational Goal: Statin therapy has long been the backbone of pharmacotherapy treatment of hyperlipidemia, but new agents have emerged in recent years. This presentation will compare and contrast the most current lipid management guidelines.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Summarize most recent updates to guideline(s).

• Identify indications for treatment based on lipid goals and ASCVD risk factors.

• Contrast treatment options for hyperlipidemia based on most recent guidelines.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Summarize most recent updates to guideline(s).

• List the first line medications recommended by the guidelines for the treatment of hyperlipidemia.

2:00PM - 3:00PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Sepsis: Patient Case for the New Practitioner

Jake Schwarz, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP, BCCCP, BCPS, FAzPA

Educational Goal: After attending the first 2 foundational sessions in the management of sepsis, this case-based presentation aims to bring everything together for the new practitioner. This session aims to incorporate evidence and guideline-based strategies into the management of a patient with septic shock and serves as a capstone to the previous two introductory sessions.

Learning Objectives (Pharmacists Only):

• Apply criteria for sepsis and/or septic shock to a patient case.

• Design an appropriate resuscitation strategy for a hemodynamically unstable patient with septic shock.

• Apply criteria for initiating corticosteroid treatment to a patient case.

2:00PM - 3:00PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Hyperlipidemia: Patient Case-When Statins Aren’t Enough

Erin Raney, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM

Educational Goal: After attending the first 2 foundational sessions in the management of sepsis, go beyond the basics by applying guidelines and drug information about the newly approved hyperlipidemia medications to patient cases. This session aims to incorporate evidence and guideline-based strategies into the management of a patient with hyperlipidemia and serves as a capstone to the previous two introductory sessions.

Learning Objectives (Pharmacists Only):

• Choose treatment goals for hyperlipidemia based on patient specific characteristics.

• Recommend treatment for hyperlipidemia based on patient specific characteristics.

• Monitor treatment outcomes for hyperlipidemia based on patient specific characteristics.

2:00PM - 3:00PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Sepsis: Medication Safety and the Technician’s Role

Christi Jen, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA; Sylvia Gomez, CPhT

Educational Goal: This session will build upon the foundation laid out during the first two “Focus on Sepsis” sessions and provide additional information and resources geared toward pharmacy technicians involved in the care of patients with sepsis and septic shock.

Learning Objectives (Technicians Only):

• Describe the consequences of delays in antibiotics when treating patients with sepsis.

• List 4 medications that are truly STAT when treating patients with septic shock.

CONTINUING EDUCATION SESSIONS

3:15PM -

4:15PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on SepsisTherapeutic Debates

Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP; Brian Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM

Educational Goal: This session will go beyond the guidelines into the cutting edge of sepsis research. Two practitioners will advocate for different approaches that are currently supported by the literature and the audience will decide which approach makes the most sense.

Learning Objectives (Pharmacists Only):

• Critique the evidence for and against a liberal fluid resuscitation in early management of sepsis.

• Evaluate the evidence for “maximum” doses of norepinephrine when treating patients with septic shock.

• Evaluate the literature for the use of balanced salt solutions or saline as resuscitative fluids in patients with sepsis and septic shock.

3:15PM

- 4:15PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Focus on Hyperlipidemia: How Old Is Too Old? Debating the Use of Statins for Primary Prevention in the Elderly-Therapeutic Debate

Ariane Guthrie, PharmD, BCPS; Thu Nguyen, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS

Educational Goal: Beyond age 75 years, clinical practice guidelines are unclear about whether to continue statins for primary prevention. This clinical debate will explore the data (or lack thereof) for use of statins in primary prevention among patients aged 75 years and older.

Learning Objectives (Pharmacists Only):

• Evaluate the evidence for initiating statin therapy for primary prevention in older adults.

• Evaluate the evidence for deprescribing statins in persons with advanced age.

• Compare risks and benefits of statins for primary prevention in older adults.

4:30PM

- 5:30PM

| GENERAL SESSION: Demystifying Pain Management – Overview of the 2022 CDC Opioid Guidelines Update

Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP; Amy Kennedy, PharmD, BCACP

Educational Goal: This session will allow attendees to review and apply the updated CDC Opioid Guidelines to patient care scenarios in a variety of settings. Recommendations from the guidelines will be discussed during the session, along with supporting evidence. Where applicable, interactive patient cases will be presented to allow for application of the principle highlighted by the recommendation.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Given a patient case, develop a plan to taper the patient off of long-term opioid therapy.

• Evaluate a patient case to determine if co-prescribing of naloxone is appropriate.

• Differentiate between substances detectable and not detectable on commonly available opioid screening assays.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Identify long-term opioids used in pain management.

• Discuss the purpose of co-prescribing naloxone.

CONTINUING EDUCATION SESSIONS

SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2023

8:15AM - 9:30AM | GENERAL SESSION: Pharmacy Law

Update

Roger Morris, RPh, JD; Katie Lavigne, JD; Kaitlyn Fydenkevez, JD

Educational Goal: To impart knowledge to the learners regarding recent changes to Arizona law and the facts, reasoning, and holdings of federal and state court cases over the last year that are relevant to the attendees’ practice.

Pharmacist and Technician Learning Objectives:

• Describe ramifications of recent pharmacy related court cases.

• List recent changes in Federal Pharmacy Law.

• List recent changes in State Pharmacy Law.

9:45AM - 10:45AM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Interstitial Lung Disease Associated with Anticancer Therapy

Farah Raheem, PharmD, BCOP

Educational Goal: Provide updates on treatment related pulmonary toxicity with focus on interstitial lung disease, outline old, new, and emerging anticancer therapies associated with interstitial lung disease, and summarize management recommendations.

Learning Objectives (Pharmacists Only):

• Identify anticancer agents associated with pulmonary toxicity.

• Describe diagnosis of treatment related interstitial lung disease.

• Define grading of anticancer treatment-related interstitial lung disease.

• Discuss management of anticancer treatment related interstitial lung disease and pneumonitis.

9:45AM - 10:45AM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Immunization Update

- Jeopardy Style!

Holly Van Lew, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP

Educational Goal: Provide updates on immunization recommendations for routine immunizations and COVID-19 vaccines. This will be an interactive session in the form of a Jeopardy-style question and answer format.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the most recent updates for routine vaccinations, including pneumococcal, Hepatitis B and other vaccines with updated indications and expanded age ranges.

• Apply the current recommendations for COVID-19 vaccinations to case-based scenarios and review planned commercialization activities for COVID-19 vaccinations.

• Assess current immunization practices at your practice site and determine implementation strategies for expanding vaccination efforts.

• Discuss vaccine administration best practices, including injection technique and documentation.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Describe tools and resources available for immunization schedules and recommendations.

• Identify the appropriate age-based recommendations for immunizations that impact dose and route of administration.

• Determine ways to support increased vaccine administration and improve workflow to support vaccinations.

• Discuss vaccine administration best practices, including injection technique and documentation.

9:45AM - 10:45AM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Pharmacogenomics

Primer for Pharmacists

Adrijana Kekic, PharmD, BCACP

Educational Goal: Provide pharmacists with a primer of clinical applications and implementation of pharmacogenomics (PGx) for personalized drug therapy management.

Learning Objectives (Pharmacists Only):

• Discuss navigation of genotype-based guidelines.

• Discuss the current and future role of the pharmacist in pharmacogenomics (PGx) implementation efforts.

• Define the role of pharmacogenomics in personalized drug therapy.

• Identify pharmacogenomics resources.

CONTINUING EDUCATION SESSIONS

10:45AM - 11:45AM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Health Needs of Refugees in Arizona: Caring for Traumatized People … And for Yourself

Kathleen Fairman, MA, PhD; Mary Kaech; Juliana Davis, MPh

Educational Goal: Recent conflicts around the world have brought many thousands of forcibly displaced people to Arizona from places including Afghanistan, Cuba, the Middle East, African nations, Venezuela, and the Ukraine—and more arrive daily. Most have suffered substantial trauma, including homelessness, loss of loved ones, long stays in refugee camps, deprivation, or torture. What will the influx of these traumatized people mean to you as a practicing pharmacy professional?

Pharmacist and Technician Learning Objectives:

• Explain principles of trauma-informed care for vulnerable refugee populations.

• Explain self-care strategies to protect against negative health consequences of refugee work among health care workers.

• Describe the demographic profile of Arizona’s refugees.

• Describe the health profile of refugee populations.

10:45AM - 12:15PM | BREAKOUT SESSION: Advances in Pharmacotherapy

Robert J. Lipsy, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP, FAzPA

Educational Goal: Present an unbiased review of the past year’s newly approved drugs and biologics. The review provides pharmacists and technicians with the critical information they need to know to optimize their patient’s therapy.

Pharmacist Learning Objectives:

• Identify new drugs approved in 2022-2023.

• Describe the anticipated benefits of the newly approved drugs.

• Describe the possible adverse drug reactions of the newly approved drugs.

• Summarize any specific storage or administration of the newly approved drugs.

Technician Learning Objectives:

• Identify new drugs approved in 2022-2023.

• Identify drug related questions that require the technician to refer to the pharmacist.

• Summarize any specific storage recommendation of the newly approved drugs.

speaker biographiesSPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Caroline is a Northern Virginia native who received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Mississippi in 2022. She is a current PGY-1 Community Pharmacy Resident at Sun Life Health in Pinal County, AZ. Post-residency, she hopes to continue working with underserved populations through ambulatory care pharmacy practice. In her free time, she enjoys trying new recipes, exploring the outdoors, and frequenting coffee shops.

Kathleen is a PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy resident at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson (BUMCT). She graduated from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency at BUMCT. Her current practice interests include Critical Care and Emergency Medicine.

After completion of her pharmacy practice residency Janelle was employed at Scottsdale Healthcare, now HonorHealth, from 2000 to early 2014. During her 14 years at Scottsdale Healthcare Janelle’s role evolved from staff pharmacist to clinical pharmacist and lastly to clinical coordinator. In March 2014, Janelle embraced the opportunity to serve Dignity Health as the system pharmacy administrator for a 38 hospital system. As pharmacy administrator Janelle facilitated evidence based medication utilization with decreased practice variation through support of the development of a System Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and development of integration of system medication management decisions within the Dignity Health electronic healthcare record (EHR). Through this effort system policy work related to antimicrobial stewardship, system formulary, quality and nursing workflow were achieved. With the merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health into CommonSpirit Health, a 140+ hospital system in 2019, Janelle’s role evolved to her current title, system manager of clinical pharmacy services. At CommonSpirit Health Janelle facilitates multiple system teams to support the development of system guidelines and provide system-level oversight of the formulary program at CommonSpirit Health.

Chris is a clinical assistant professor with the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy and an emergency medicine pharmacist at Banner University Medical Center – Tucson (BUMCT). Before joining the UA as a faculty member, Dr. Edwards worked in as an emergency medicine pharmacist and as the senior manager of clinical pharmacy services at BUMCT. His research interests include analgesia, sedation, resuscitation, and the pharmacist’s role in emergency medicine.

Kathleen Bloomquist, PharmD

Janelle Duran, PharmD, BCPS

Caroline Adrian, PharmD

Christopher Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Kathleen, an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, holds an MA in Sociology, and a PhD in Health Psychology. She practiced as a research methodologist for more than 25 years in various health care settings before coming to Midwestern University in 2013. While working for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, she oversaw the rates paid to all Medicaid-contracted hospitals, served teams that negotiated payment rates with providers and the federal government, and was responsible for agency program evaluation research. She served for six years as the Associate Editor and Senior Methodology Reviewer for the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy (JMCP). Dr. Fairman has published more than 90 Medline-indexed articles and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. At Midwestern University, she teaches Research Methods and Statistics, Advanced Analytics, and Evidence-Based Health Care, as well as providing methodological support for numerous student and faculty research projects.

Kaitlyn, an Associate with Quarles and Brady, uses her prior government experience to provide forward-thinking counsel to health care entities and providers of all kinds. She advises clients on compliance with state and federal health care privacy laws, including HIPAA and HITECH, as well as state, federal and international non-health specific data privacy and security issues, including those related to: internet terms and conditions, privacy policies, domestic and international general privacy laws, including GDPR and CCPA. Prior to joining the firm, Kaitlyn spent time in both the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General (OCIG) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). With her broad range of government health care experience, she helps her clients manage today’s challenges while also balancing a focus on future growth.

Gabriella is a PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident at Banner University Medical Center –Tucson. She graduated from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and completed her PGY1 at Banner University Medical Center –Tucson. Her current practice areas of interest include critical care and emergency medicine.

Sylvia is a pharmacy technician supervisor with Mayo Clinic with over 12 years of hospital experience. She has trained a number of technicians in sterile compounding and has a passion for helping technicians practice at the top of their license.

Kaitlyn Fydenkevez, JD

Gabriella Gambadoro, PharmD

Kathleen Fairman, MA, PhD

Sylvia Gomez, CPhT

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Ariane is a Geri-PACT Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner at the Northern Arizona VA Health Care Center. She graduated from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy in 2020. Dr. Guthrie completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, followed by PGY2 geriatric/ ambulatory care residency at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy-Glendale. She recently earned Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy and plans to pursue additional certification in geriatrics. She serves on the Pharmacy Education and Research Committee and Educational Affairs Committee for the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP), as well as the Education Committee for AzPA.

Christi Jen is the Clinical Pharmacy Manager at Mayo Clinic Arizona since 2021. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, Dr. Jen served as a Clinical Manager at for 2 years and Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist for over 11 years. Dr. Jen’s tenure in the emergency department (ED) led to the development of clinical pharmacy services including the pharmacist-driven culture follow-up program and the medication history technician program in the ED. Dr. Jen currently serves as ASHP’s Chair for the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists and in various capacities in its Section Advisory Groups and Council on Therapeutics. She has presented both locally and nationally on various topics pertaining to emergency medicine, disaster preparedness, and precepting to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel.

Mary is the Executive Director of the Phoenix Refugee Connections.  Ms. Kaech holds a master’s degree from Arizona State University (research focused on refugee resettlement and nonprofit management).  She has been part of the Phoenix Refugee Connections (PRC) network since 2010. Ms. Kaech first learned about refugees in Tucson in 2003, through the South Sudanese “Lost Boys” community. Spending time with them helped her see some of the beautiful riches refugee neighbors bring to this country and the enormous challenges they must overcome to thrive. After moving to Phoenix in 2006 and volunteering at the Lost Boys Center,  Mary saw a need to engage others in building a community where former refugees are welcomed as friends and set up to thrive.

Adrijana is a Pharmacogenomics Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Assistant Program Director (APD) for Community-Based Pharmacy Residency, and APD for Outpatient Pharmacy Education at Mayo Clinic in Arizona (MCA). As a pharmacogenomics (PGx) clinician, researcher, and educator, she leads the implementation of PGx services across the Mayo Clinic. She is the Secretary of the PGx Task Force and Co-chair of the Pharmacy Research Council. Research areas include pharmacogenomics studies in anesthesia, transplant, oncology, palliative care, cardiology, and large-scale whole exome sequencing study for pre-emptive medication monitoring. Master of Healthcare Innovation candidate focused on precision medicine, Dr.Kekic is especially interested in developing multi-omics clinical decision platforms, digital tools for greater health equality, and building interactive platforms for science communication. Dr.Kekic lectures extensively on pharmacogenomics with a niche in psychopharmacology. An international speaker and a PGx subject expert, she frequents precision medicine podcasts, conferences, and other media platforms.

Mary Kaech

Christi Jen, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, FAzPA

Ariane Guthrie, PharmD, BCPS

Adrijana Kekic, PharmD, BCACP

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Amy is a clinical associate professor with the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy and clinical pharmacist at El Rio health center. Before joining the staff at UA, Dr. Kennedy worked as a clinical pharmacist at a health center for the homeless. Her scholarship interests include preventive health, the impact of medication adherence on mental health outcomes, the role of therapeutic lifestyle modifications, medication therapy management outcomes, and the pharmacist’s role in caring for the underserved.

Brian completed his Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Arizona. He completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency (PGY1) and Critical Care Residency at the University of Arizona/ University Medical Center. Brian is currently a Clinical Pharmacist in the Surgical-Trauma ICU at Banner - University Medical Center Tucson and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Arizona. In addition, he is the Residency Program Director for the Critical Care Residency. Brian’s clinical interests include medication safety, management of critically ill trauma patients, sepsis, and sedation/analgesia.

Katie, an Associate with Quarles and Brady, assists clients with a diverse range of regulatory issues and transactional matters. She offers practical legal counsel to clients on a wide range of pharmacy regulatory issues such as controlled substances and state licensure compliance. Katie’s work also involves advising pharmacy benefit manager, insurance carrier and third-party administrator clients to understand an ever-changing regulatory landscape with multifaceted implications across business segments. She has experience with credit card compliance, program audits, federal and state health care laws and regulations, and Medicare Part D pharmacy benefits. Prior to joining Quarles, Katie worked for a PBM and a global health care services company. Her previous business experience and acumen allows her to bring a unique perspective to her legal work when advising clients.

Robert serves as the Senior Clinical Pharmacist for SinfoniaRx and Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice and Science College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona. Dr. Lipsy serves on numerous pharmacy quality, management, policy and disease-state committees. The author of numerous articles, books and chapters, he’s delivered more than 100 presentations and lectures on topics from evidence-based medicine to pharmacotherapy. A fellow of the American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists and the Arizona Pharmacy Association, he received the Elias Schlossberg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arizona chapter of the ASHP.

Katie Lavigne, JD

Brian Kopp, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM

Amy Kennedy, PharmD, BCACP

Robert Lipsy, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP, FAzPA

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Roger Morris, RPh, JD

Roger, a Partner with Quarles and Brady, represents pharmacies and related health care entities in a wide variety of regulatory compliance and transactional matters. A practicing pharmacist before becoming a lawyer more than 30 years ago, Roger brings deep experience in the pharmacy industry to the work he does for retail pharmacies (including mail order), pharmacy wholesalers, compounding pharmacies, veterinary pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), pharmaceutical manufacturers and health care providers, including hospitals, health systems and medical staff. He also has experience in the highly innovative telemedicine and telepharmacy sectors, assisting clients with the unique state and federal regulatory compliance issues they face, as well as acquisitions and the creation of and construction of facilities. Knowing the pharmacy world as he does – its language, business models and practices, and industry actors – Roger is able to combine uncommon industry insight with deep knowledge of his client’s businesses to address their legal and business needs.

Thu Nguyen, PharmD, BCGP, BCPS

Thu received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University Of Arizona College Of Pharmacy. She also completed two years of residencies including Pharmacy Practice at St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital and Geriatrics at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy-Glendale. Currently she is practicing as a clinical pharmacist at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona where she collaborates with other healthcare providers on an internal medicine team to provide optimal care to veterans.

Jacob D. Northrup, PharmD, BC-ADM, CDCES

Jacob is a rural Pennsylvania native and a 2015 graduate of D’Youville College School of Pharmacy in Buffalo, NY. He has been a Clinical Pharmacist with Sun Life Health in Pinal County, AZ since 2019 and has a passion for providing chronic disease state management and education for patients in underserved rural areas. He has also been a contract insulin pump trainer since 2021. Outside of work, you can find him doing various outdoor activities (cycling, mountain biking, hiking, traveling, or volunteering for the Arizona Trail Association as a trail steward). He looks forward to continuing to provide education to his pharmacy peers and patients in clinic throughout his career.

Farah Raheem, PharmD, BCOP

Farah is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and an oncology clinical pharmacist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona with clinical practice emphasis on breast cancer and gynecological malignancies. Dr. Raheem obtained her PharmD degree from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy in Tucson, Arizona in 2018. After graduation, Dr. Raheem completed her PGY1 pharmacy residency training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio followed by PGY2 in oncology at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Raheem’s career interests include oral chemotherapy, clinical research, precision genomics, and teaching.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Erin Raney, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BC-ADM

Erin received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Arizona and then completed pharmacy practice and ambulatory care specialty residencies at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. She is currently a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy in Glendale, Arizona. She practiced as a clinical pharmacist in the Midwestern University Family Medicine Clinic, providing collaborative disease management services for patients with chronic cardiometabolic conditions for 15 years. Her primary teaching responsibilities and clinical interests are in the areas of endocrinology, with an emphasis on women’s health. Her scholarship efforts focus on the development and evaluation of continuous professional development strategies for students and practicing pharmacists. She is a member of the American Pharmacists Association, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists, and the Arizona Pharmacy Association.

Lauren is a PGY1 resident at El Rio Health. She is from Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona. Her current practice interests include diabetes, hypertension, heart failure and anticoagulation management in the ambulatory care setting. Upon completion of the PGY1 residency, she plans to start her career as an ambulatory care clinical pharmacist.

Jake graduated from the University of Arizona-College of Pharmacy in 2010 and then went on to complete a PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency in Lakeland, FL. Jake returned back to Phoenix and practiced at Phoenix Children’s Hospital prior to taking a clinical pharmacist position at Yuma Regional Medical Center, where he worked for over 9 years in various positions including serving as the PGY-1 Residency Program Director and Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator at Yuma Regional Medical Center for over 7 years before recently accepting a position as an ICU Pharmacist at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. Along the way Jake has attained board certifications in Pharmacotherapy, Critical Care, and Infectious Diseases. Jake also graduated with a Master of Business Administration with healthcare administration focus from the University of Massachusetts in Spring of 2021. Along with constantly learning for himself, Jake has also been active in the education of healthcare professionals throughout his career. He has been an IPPE and APPE preceptor multiple Colleges of Pharmacy, including UofA, Midwestern, Purdue, and Drake University. Jake has also taught his pharmacy residents on clinical rotations, as well as provided didactic lectures to the medical and nursing staff at Yuma Regional to help improve patient care at the institution. In Spring 2022, the University of Arizona named Jake their Preceptor of the Year for his dedication to teaching and excellence. Jake has also been an active member of the Arizona Pharmacy Association having served on the AzPA Board of Directors since 2016 in several positions, including recently completing a term as the AzPA President and currently serving as the Association’s Treasurer. Jake has also been active in AzPA in the education of pharmacy professionals by presenting at a number of different AzPA Conferences, and in 2021 was named a Fellow of the Arizona Pharmacy Association.

Lauren Rimsza, PharmD

Jacob Schwarz, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP, BCCCP, BCPS, FAzPA

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Juliana

Juliana has spent over 7 years in the public health field in a variety of infectious disease, epidemiology, and international health roles. She has managed several health programs and currently manages Arizona’s Refugee Health Screening program, Refugee Medical Assistance benefit, Refugee Health Promotion program, and various COVID-19 coordination and funding projects for refugees and refugee service providers in Arizona through the Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program.

Juliana holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Cedarville University and a Masters of Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies from Boston University. Juliana was born and raised in the Azores, Portugal, spent time abroad in Indonesia and Morocco, and currently resides in Arizona with her husband and two children.

Captain Holly Van Lew is an advance practice pharmacist working in the Indian Health Service (IHS). She is a national trainer for multiple pharmacist and pharmacy technician immunization certificate programs, training more than 2,000 pharmacists, students, and technicians to administer vaccines.

CAPT Van Lew works at the local, regional, and national level to educate pharmacists, providers, and nurses about immunizations with a focus on meeting patient vaccine needs at every encounter. She is currently the IHS Vaccine Task Force Deputy Lead where she is responsible for standing up an agency vaccine program to distribute, track, and administer COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Alejandro Vazquez is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science. He completed a residency in Ambulatory Care and academia with The University of Florida College of Pharmacy and Gulf Coast Area Health Education Centers. He also received a teaching certificate from the same program. Previously, he practiced chronic disease management in homeless and indigent patients at Turning Points Clinic in Bradenton, FL. He currently practices Ambulatory Care with Banner Health Pharmacy Service. His areas of interest include chronic disease management, focusing on tobacco cessation, asthma and COPD, diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.

David J. Warner is Senior Director, Consulting and Practice Development and Senior and Lead Consultant, ASHP Consulting, in the Practice Advancement Office at ASHP, Bethesda, Maryland. His previous roles at ASHP include Director, International Residency Program Development, Manager, Residency Program Development, and Accreditation Services Associate, all in the Accreditation Services Office at ASHP. He has worked at ASHP since 1998 and during that time led survey teams to conduct more than 700 reviews of managed care, pharmacy practice, specialized, PGY1 and PGY2 residency programs in domestic and international practice settings, co-led the development of new processes for program review and accreditation decisions; and, offered preceptor and program development workshops and seminars.

Most recently, he has been lead and coordinating author for the accreditation standards, competencies, educational goals and objectives, and related survey tools for the ASHP International Pharmacy Practice Residency Program, International Advanced Pharmacy Practice Residency Program, and International Hospital Pharmacy Services program, and for the standard for certification as a center of excellence in medication-use safety and pharmacy practice, a new program for pharmacy departments in the United States.

David J. Warner, PharmD

Alejandro Vasquez, PharmD

Holly Van Lew, PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP

Shepherd Davis, MPH

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2023

12:00PM - 12:45PM

“Take Action Against Obesity: Do More Than Lifestyle Modifications” sponsored by Novo Nordisk

Program Description:

Establish the urgency to understand that obesity is a disease that needs to be treated like other chronic, progressive diseases. Discuss the underlying physiology that leads to weight regain after weight loss with lifestyle changes alone. Review recommendations from national medical societies on the appropriate use of anti-obesity medication. Discuss data from select trials that evaluated a GLP-1 RA as a chronic weight-management therapy in patients with overweight and obesity.

About the Speaker:

Ken Fujioka, MD Endocrinologist & Director of Nutrition & Metabolic Research Center, Scripps Clinic, San Diego, California

Dr. Fujioka is currently the Director of the Nutrition and Metabolic research and Obesity Telemedicine at Scripps Clinic in the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology. He has completed over 150 clinical trials and authored over 100 peer reviewed papers. In 1995, he started the Center for Weight Management at Scripps Clinic, which has grown from one physician to over a dozen healthcare providers who cover all aspects of obesity treatment. The center cares for over 1000 patients per month and is completely insurance-based, with a significant number of patients having managed or accountable care. Dr Fujioka is certified in obesity medicine by the American Board of Obesity medicine (ABOM) and is currently the president-elect of the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists.

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