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September 2012 .
issue 3
in
practice...
an electronic news
publication of the
Department of Pharmacy
Practice &
Administrative Sciences
at the University of New
Mexico College of
Pharmacy
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 Matthew Borrego, PhD,
RPh Appointed Iterim
Chair of the UNM COP
Department of Pharmacy
Practice &
Administrative Sciences
On August 29, 2012 Dr.
Lynda S. Welage, Dean of
the UNM College of
Pharmacy announced the
appointment of Dr.
Matthew Borrego to the
position of Interim
Chair for the DPPAS,
Below is the
announcement:
"I am pleased to
announce that Dr. Matt
Borrego, has agreed to
serve as the Interim
Department chair for
Pharmacy Practice and
Administrative Sciences.
As many of you know Dr.
Borrego is an alumnus of
the College (BS in
Pharmacy 1989, MS in
Hospital Pharmacy
Administration 1995) who
then went on and
completed his Doctor of
Philosophy at the
University of Arizona
under the mentorship of
JoLaine Draugalis. Dr.
Borrego is currently an
Associate Professor in
the Department of
Pharmacy Practice and
Administrative Sciences
here at the College. He
also serves as a senior
fellow in the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
Center for Health Policy
and a research faculty
member in the Southwest
Hispanic Research
Institute here at the
university. Please join
me in welcoming Dr.
Borrego to his new role
which will officially
begin Sept 1, 2012.
As I had previously
indicated Drs Mark
Holdsworth and Jess
Benson decided to step
down from their
administrative positions
as Chair and Vice Chair,
respectively of the
Department of Pharmacy
Practice and
Administrative Sciences
to pursue exciting new
scholarly opportunities.
Please join me again in
thanking them for their
tremendous service over
the years."
-Lynda S. Welage,
PharmD, FCCP
Dean,
UNM College of Pharmacy
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in the profession:
AACP
Annual Meeting
This year 9 PPAS faculty members, 3
staff members, 2 pharmacy students
and the Dean attended the AACP
Annual Meeting, July 14-18, 2012 in
Kissimmee, Florida. The meeting was
filled with energy and excitement
that began with an Opening General
Session keynote delivered by Sir Ken
Robinson, Ph.D. entitled "Bring on
the Learning Revolution." The
programming for the entire meeting
was centered on education reform and
provided tools for pharmacy
educators to use in teaching their
students how to creatively think at
all levels of the learning
continuum. The meeting concluded
with a lively discussion at the
House of Delegates. There is more to
come in future newsletters from each
of the faculty members who were in
attendance, as they will share their
perspectives on what they learned,
including a report on the outcome of
the 2012 House of Delegates.
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in the
community:
Dr. Megan Thompson Receives Award
Letter
The following is the text of a
letter sent from Jessica Lineberger
of Cardinal Health to Dr. Megan
Thompson:
"Thank you for
submitting your proposal for the
Cardinal Health Foundation's
Preventing the Abuse and Misuse of
Prescription Medications Grant
Program. I'm very pleased to inform
you that University of New Mexico
College of Pharmacy's program,
Preventing the Abuse and Misuse of
Prescription Drugs in New Mexico,
has been selected as a 2012 grant
recipient! University of New Mexico
College of Pharmacy will receive a
grant in the amount of $15,000 to
help raise awareness in your
community about the growing public
health issue of prescription drug
abuse and misuse.
As
mentioned in the request for
proposal document, grantees will be
required to conduct a survey to
target audiences before and after
implementation. We will be convening
all recipient organizations in the
coming weeks to discuss the
evaluation process and other related
matters. The Ohio State University
College of Social Work will play an
active role, as well. "
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in clinical
affairs:
August 2012 Report
Clinical Affairs is
pleased to announce that we started
scheduling MTM patients at the
Family Practice Clinic and billing
Molina for those services last
month. Molina is increasing the
number of MTM patient referrals and
Molina MTM patients are also being
scheduled at UNM Southeast Clinic in
addition to the Family Practice
Clinic in September. The
Presbyterian HIV MTM pilot has
encountered delays related to the
Truman Street Clinic move and IT
issues on Presbyterian’s end related
to their MTM software vendor. We are
working with Presbyterian to develop
a temporary patient referral process
that is manual in the interim. The
UNM Medical Group’s Insurance Coding
and Billing staff provided coding
and billing training program for the
Pharmacy Practice faculty involved
in the Molina pilot.
Traci
Jastrzemski continues to contact
Pharmacy Practice faculty to assist
them with their
credentialing/billing packets as
well as coordinating access to exam
space in the UNMH outpatient clinics
for the clinical initiatives. The
UNM Medical Group’s Insurance Coding
and Billing staff provided coding
and billing training program for the
Pharmacy Practice faculty involved
in the Molina pilot. In addition,
this past month we continued our
discussions with the UNM Employee
Group to explore a potential role
for the College of Pharmacy in the
management of their pharmacy
benefits program. Clinical Affairs
continue to work on a signed
agreement with UNMH Clinics to
provide practice management support
and facility fee code billing
services. However, UNMH has agreed
to allow the Pharmacy Practice
faculty to start seeing MTM patients
while both parties continue to work
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in scholarship:
ISPOR Presents Award to Dr. Dennis
Raisch
Dr. Dennis Raisch has been awarded
the International Society for
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes
Research Distinguished Service
Award, Chairman of Risk-Benefit
Management Special Interest Group
2012
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in
academia:
Dr. Ludmila Bakhireva
"I
appreciate the opportunity to
provide an update on my academic
life and beyond through the PPAS
newsletter. I grew up in a family of
academicians (both of my parents, my
grandfather, and my uncle were/are
university professors), so as a
child I was surrounded by such
strange terms as dissertation
defense, manuscript, accreditation,
colloquium, seminar, control group,
rector (equivalent of a University
president or provost in Russia),
experiment, vivarium, patent etc.
While I contemplated for a while
other options for a career path, I
guess the family influence won over,
and now I have been in academia,
including graduate school, for over
12 years. I currently serve as an
IOR for three courses (a PharmD
course, a graduate course, and a
5-week intensive workshop for
pharmacy residents) and regularly
take PharmD students on research
rotations. Mentorship of
undergraduate, graduate, and
professional students become an
important part of my academic life
and I can only see that effort to
grow in the future. When I joined
UNM in 2007, I was pleasantly
surprised how open faculty members
across HSC were to collaborative
projects, allowing me access to
their clinic population, and helping
me navigate NIH proposal writing and
submission process. My current
research efforts are in the area of
maternal and child health,
pharmacoepidemiology, and substance
abuse. On a national level I am
actively involved in the Teratology
Society and Research Society on
Alcoholism. At home, I am trying to
keep up with my son and my husband,
who are both very much into sports.
I often hear the following comments
from my 7-year old son: “why it
takes you so long to get down this
slope?”, “Daddy and I are much
faster in our kayak”, “this zip line
is not scary at all”, “can we do
skydiving next year?”. On my end I
am trying to keep the academia
vocabulary to a minimum at home,
sometimes less successful than
others…."
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in service:
Shawn McGee
"I started working at the
College of Pharmacy in July, 2007 as
a part-time Admin I from the
temporary pool. Today, I am the
Teaching Assistant in the
Pharmaceutical Care Labs. I set up
equipment and supplies prior to each
lab and assist the faculty and
students during lab. With 28 hours
of instruction each week, keeping up
with the PCL faculty and students
can be challenging! In order to
better help students and Care Lab
faculty, I became a Certified
Pharmacy Technician in 2011. This
summer I completed two
certifications in sterile and
non-sterile compounding. These
certifications are geared towards
helping students with compounding
sterile and non-sterile products.
I’m also working hard on an
undergraduate degree and I am taking
12 hours this semester, so if I’m
cranky, you know why!
A program
that I have become involved with
thanks to Megan Thompson and Krystal
McCutchen is the HEALTH NM (Hope,
Enrichment and Learning Transform
Health in New Mexico) program
through the Office of Diversity. I
am very proud to be a part of this
program. Youth, mainly from
underserved populations, participate
in activities to become exposed to
health professions. When the groups
come to the Care Lab, Krystal gives
them information about the College,
and then we compound chapstick or
lip balm. This has been a very
rewarding partnership between
Student Services, the PCL and the
Office of Diversity.
I also provide administrative
assistance to PPAS through data
entry on exams and special projects
as assigned. I will be your travel
agent for the foreseeable future so
if I start saying “Welcome Aboard”
or “thanks and come again soon”, you
will know why. I will also be
helping with various accounting
functions while we look for a
replacement for Vanessa. I promise
not to spend your money on games or
other things that I want!"
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more news:
Seminar Series
PPAS 2012 Seminar Series - will be
resuming soon. Each series begins at
noon in UNM Domenici Education
Center, Rm 3010. The following
presenters are lined up:
September 26th – Dr. Lauri Hudson
October 24th – TBD
November 28th
– Dr. Krista Salazar
Watch for announcements on topics.
If you are interested in presenting
or have someone you would like
invited, contact Dr. Patricia
Marshik at 272-0579 or
PMarshik@salud.unm.edu
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