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.

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.