The Places You’ll Go: Contemporary Opportunities Facing the Profession of Clinical Pharmacy

Clinical pharmacists have established critical roles in optimizing patient outcomes, but barriers exist to ensure all patients receive this care. Barriers include value tracking and workload metrics, societal impression, and recognizing value in direct and non-direct patient care. These barriers are faced in every discipline of clinical pharmacy. Pharmacists are continually evolving in their practice models to provide the best possible care to patients. The laws around provider status and advanced practice pharmacy models are changing rapidly and often vary from state to state since there is not currently a federal mandate for pharmacist provider status. The recent global pandemic also highlighted the areas where pharmacists can serve to fill in gaps of patient healthcare; many laws were amended or changed to allow pharmacists to provide care during this period and these changing laws will have a lasting impact on the ways pharmacists can impact care. This session will be divided into 3 sections, an introductory session that will highlight current novel practice models that demonstrate the essential role of the pharmacist followed by a pro-con debate about the necessity of provider status or advanced pharmacy practice models to provide impactful patient care.

Moderator: Lisa Hayes, BCCCP, BCEMP No speaker description available.   View Biography

Exploring the Essential Role of the Pharmacist: Novel Patient Care Pathways 9:45 AM to 10:15 AM Speaker: Jordan D. Haag, Pharm.D., BCACP, BCPS Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer, Outpatient Services   View Biography

Should Pharmacists Be “Pro” for Provider Status 10:15 AM to 10:45 AM Speaker: Emily Zadvorny, Pharm.D., BCPS Executive Director, Colorado Pharmacists Society, Denver, Colorado   View Biography

Why Provider Status Might Be a Bitter Pill to Swallow 10:45 AM to 11:15 AM Speaker: Melissa J. Snider, Pharm.D., BCACP, CLS Associate Director in Ambulatory Care The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Columbus, Ohio     View Biography