69th Pharmacy Practice Seminar • PPS 2021

 

James A. Karboski, PharmD
Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice Neill B. Walsdorf Fellow in Pharmacy
The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

 

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Presentation:  Heart Failure and High Cholesterol:  Practical Implications of Treatment Guidelines

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Bio: Dr. Karboski earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Washington State University in 1985. Subsequently, Dr. Karboski earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio in 1987. He continued his training in Texas where he completed a Clinical Sciences Fellowship in Pharmacokinetics at the University of Texas at Austin. Later, while a faculty member at the University of Iowa, Dr. Karboski was a Geriatrics Fellow of the Iowa Geriatrics Education Center. Dr. Karboski directed the Adult Internal Medicine Residency program in collaboration with Brackenridge Hospital for 15 years, supervised 14 residents and created a program that is nationally recognized as a superior training program for future academicians. Dr. Karboski has authored numerous scientific and professional articles in the areas of clinical therapeutics and pharmacokinetics. He has presented over 200 times before various professional, scientific and student groups. Dr. Karboski is recognized for his contributions to teaching excellence and the use of technology in teaching. Dr. Karboski teaches extensively in the undergraduate, Pharm.D., and graduate programs at the University of Texas. He has been nominated for the prestigious Texas Exes Teaching Award for seven of the last eight years and won the award in 2000. He has been nominated for the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award for the past two cycles and has been cited by the P4 class as a faculty member who had the highest impact on their professional development for each of the past six years. He has served as the Section Editor – Cardiovascular Diseases for the APhA Drug Treatment Protocols, Section Editor – Cardiovascular Diseases for ASHP’s PharmPrep 3rd Edition, Chair of the Biomedical Research Group Investigational Review Board and item writer and board member for the NABP Foreign Pharmacy Equivalency Exam.

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Greg Rockers, R.Ph.
Managing Director
The Williamson Rockers Group,LLC

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Brian Williamson, PharmD
Managing Director
The Williamson Rockers Group, LLC

 

 

Lucas G. Hill, PharmD
Clinical Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

 

Bio: Lucas G. Hill graduated from the UMKC School of Pharmacy and completed a combined residency/fellowship in the UPMC Department of Family Medicine. He is now a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice at The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. Dr. Hill is Director and Principal Investigator of Operation Naloxone, an interprofessional opioid overdose prevention program funded through the Texas Targeted Opioid Response. His research is focused on clinician-community collaborations to address substance use disorders through evidence-based treatment and harm reduction strategies. Dr. Hill coordinates the first year of the UT Foundations for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice curriculum and leads the embedded addiction module. He provides an additional 16 hours of addiction-related instruction in the required pharmacy curriculum and precepts both the overdose prevention service IPPE and addiction medicine elective APPE. He also serves as faculty advisor for the UT Student Pharmacist Recovery Network. In 2018, Dr. Hill was awarded the GenerationRx Champion Award for excellence in addiction-related education by the Texas Pharmacy Association and Cardinal Health.

 

Disclosure: Lucas Hill receives financial support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Texas Health and Human Services

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Disclosure: Lindsey J. Loera does not have any relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies (as defined by the Standards for Integrity and Independence).

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Presentation:  Texas Pharmacy Law Update

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Bio: Allison Vordenbaumen Benz graduated from the University of Texas, College of Pharmacy in August 1988 and completed a Master’s of Science degree in Pharmacy Administration through the Option II program at the University of Texas at Austin in December 1994. Following graduation, she worked as a community pharmacist in California and Texas. Allison has been an employee of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy since August 1994 and has served for 6-years as Senior Enforcement Officer, 3-years as Assistant Director of Enforcement, and 14-years as Director of Professional Services before being appointed to her present position on December 1, 2017. In her position as Executive Director, Allison serves as the chief executive officer of the agency and an ex-officio member and secretary of the Board. Allison is a member of the Capital Area Pharmacy Association; the National Association of State Controlled Substances Authorities; the National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws, Prescription Monitoring Program Resource Group; and the National Charity League, Inc., Capital of Texas Chapter. Her awards include the Texas Pharmacy Association, “Forty Under 40” Award in July 2006.

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Jacquelyn L. Bainbridge, BSPharm , PharmD, FCCP, MSCS, FAES Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor, Department of Neurology Anschutz Medical Campus University of Colorado

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Presentation:  Treatment Advances in Multiple Sclerosis

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Bio: Jacquelyn L. Bainbridge, BSPharm, PharmD, FCCP, MSCS, FAES, is a Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she holds joint appointments in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, and the Department of Neurology in the School of Medicine. Dr Bainbridge received her doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Colorado in Denver, where she subsequently completed a specialty residency in neurology. Dr Bainbridge is a Multiple Sclerosis Certified Specialist (MSCS) who is actively involved in clinical research in many areas of neurology, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease (PD), back pain and cannabis.  She has reviewed and written several book chapters on MS, epilepsy, migraine, chronic pain, women’s issues, pharmacokinetics, and the practice of pharmacy. Dr Bainbridge is a frequent lecturer on topics of neurologic and pharmacologic interest, including chronic pain disorders, epilepsy, migraines, movement disorders, MS, neuroprotection, restless legs syndrome, Huntington’s disease and the administration of cannabis for therapeutic intent.

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Presentation: Shining a Light on Migraines: A Closer Look at Treatment and Prevention

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Bio: Kristin Janzen is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy. After graduating from UT College of Pharmacy, she completed a combined PGY1 & 2 Pharmacotherapy residency at Butler University and Indiana UniversityHealth in Indianapolis, IN, where she stayed on faculty for a year prior to returning home to UT. She currently practices at Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas in Internal Medicine, where she precepts APPE students and residents on academic internal medicine rotations. Her research and teaching interests focus on core medicine disease states, such as pulmonology, cardiology, diabetes, and interprofessional education.

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Senior Adults Specialty Healthcare

Disclosure: Cherie Simpson does not have any relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies (as defined by the Standards for Integrity and Independence).

 

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Dr. Saklad was born in Los Angeles, California in 1953, and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School in 1970. He received his baccalaureate degree cum laude in Bacteriology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1974. His Doctor of Pharmacy degree was earned at the University of Southern California in 1978. He had a National Institute of Mental Health training fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy supervised by Jim Wilson, Pharm.D., BCPP at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute of the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha in 1978-9. He then joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy and the clinical staff at San Antonio State Hospital (SASH) in 1979. He was the first clinical pharmacist employed by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (now Texas Health and Human Services) when he began as Clinical Coordinator at SASH. He has lived in San Antonio, Texas since 1979. He is married and the father of triplet sons.

During his 38 years career, Dr. Saklad has provided clinical care, education, and research in a variety of settings and treatment roles at SASH. He team teaches didactic courses for second and third professional year pharmacy students. He is the course director for Advanced Pharmacotherapy Laboratory, a third professional year opportunity for students to develop their clinical presentation skills that is given across four campuses. He precepts and mentors third and fourth professional year pharmacy students (P3’s & P4’s) at SASH. He received the UT Austin College of Pharmacy’s Teaching Award from the Class of 2014. He authored and successfully discussed with members of the Texas Legislature the creation of a clinical research unit at SASH that was funded by the Texas Legislature and jointly governed by the UT Austin College of Pharmacy, UT Health Science Center San Antonio Department of Psychiatry and SASH.

Dr. Saklad initiated and developed the first websites for the UT Austin College of Pharmacy in 1994, the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) in 1997, and the CPNP Foundation in 2015. He helped to design, organize and was a founding member of CPNP when it incorporated in 1998 as well as the CPNP Foundation in 2012. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the CPNP for a two-year term. He has served as a member or officer of the CPNP Communications Committee since the creation of CPNP from 1995 to 2011 and was the Founding Senior Editor of the Mental Health Clinician, CPNP’s Open Access journal, from 2011-13. Currently, Dr. Saklad is Treasurer of the CPNP Foundation a member of the CPNP Business Development Committee. He was on the task force that developed The Mental Health Pharmacy Directory to improve patient access. He is the Director of The University of Texas Psychiatric Pharmacy Program. In 1988, he helped to create and has chaired The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy’s Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy Update since 2007.

Dr. Saklad publishes articles and presents to many groups around the country on a variety of pharmacy and mental health-related topics. He edited Psychopharmacology Update newsletter from 1998-2002 and edited two editions of a compendium based upon this newsletter, Psychopharmacology Desktop Reference, published by Manisses Communications Group in 1999 and 2002. He provides updates on his Twitter feed on a variety of topics @pharmacopsych.

Dr. Saklad is a principal or co-investigator for several studies of the efficacy and adverse effects of Phase II, III, and IV psychotropic agents in schizophrenia, mood disorders, depression, and other serious and persistent mental illness, as well as their pharmacokinetics and interactions. He was the Director of UT Health Science Center San Antonio’s Advanced Pharmacotherapy Research with research facilities located at Laurel Ridge Treatment Center and President of Alamo Superior Research, LLC. He has been affiliated with the Behavioral Wellness (“Be Well”) Center, Department of Psychiatry, UT Health San Antonio since 2009.

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Disclosure: Dr. Saklad has the following relevant financial relationships, potential or perceived, with commercial or conflicts of interest to disclose:

• Employee of Texas Department of Health Services San Antonio
• Speakers Bureau: Actavis, Otsuka, Sunovion
• Consultant: Janssen, Jazz, Otsuka, Teva
• Other: Member of Pharmacists Foundation, Business Development Council for San Antonio

Review of Conflicts Policy: The UT Austin College of Pharmacy has a very strict policy to ensure against commercial conflicts of interest in CE programming. For this conference, the planning committee picks two committee members who have appropriate backgrounds to review content, and report any potential conflict of interest to the CPE Director. If conflict issues are discovered, they are addressed with speakers to make appropriate changes. Evaluations are collected from all participants with specific questions around the listed conflicts of commercial interest.

 

 

Justin Pedigo is a clinical assistant professor and Regional Internship Program Director for the San Antonio region at the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, and he completed his Doctor of Pharmacy training at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy in Abilene, Texas. Dr. Pedigo completed a two-year Pharmacotherapy Residency in Lubbock, Texas with TTUHSC, and afterwards he served as a drug information clinical practice specialist with the University of Texas Medical Branch Correctional Managed Care in Huntsville, Texas. Dr. Pedigo provides drug information consultant services to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services Vendor Drug Program and University Health Systems. As a drug information pharmacist, Dr. Pedigo has provided evidence-based population health services to the state offender population including writing evidence-based treatment guidelines and algorithms, and he has provided education to a wide array of healthcare professionals.

 

Disclosure:  Dr Pedigo has no relevant financial relationship(s) with commercial interests or conflicts of interest to disclose.

 

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Gerard Gawrys, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP
Infectious Disease Pharmacy Specialist
Residency Program Director
Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital

 

After graduating from the St. Louis college of Pharmacy, Dr. Gawrys completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at the VA Hudson Valley HealthCare System in Castle Point, New York. Here, Dr. Gawrys was able to gain knowledge in overall clinical and administrative aspects of patient care and the profession of pharmacy. From there, he completed a PGY2 residency in infectious diseases at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center where he was able to focus on his passion for antimicrobial stewardship and infectious disease pharmacotherapy.  Utilizing his experiences in PGY1 and PGY2, Gerard has served as an infectious disease clinical pharmacy specialist since August 2013, coordinating antimicrobial stewardship efforts with a multidisciplinary team at Methodist Healthcare System in San Antonio. His day to day responsibilities include daily antimicrobial stewardship, infectious disease consultations, and precepting pharmacy students from UT Austin and UIW. Gerard serves as the residency program director for the expanding PGY1 pharmacy residency program at Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital. He is a board certified in infectious diseases pharmacist.

 

Disclosure: Dr. Gawrys has no relevant financial relationship(s), potential or perceived, with commercial or conflicts of interest to disclose.

Holli Temple, Pharm.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice

The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

Holli Temple, Pharm.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice

The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

 

Emory S. Martin, Pharm.D.
Pharmacy Project Specialist

Steward Health Care

Emory is a native of Houston, Texas and married Carolyn Reed of Rexburg, Idaho after he completed two years of voluntary missionary service in Japan.  They have five children and 16 grandchildren.  Emory graduated with a PharmD degree from UC San Francisco in 1984.  In his first month of hospital clinical rotations as a pharmacy student, he set a career path toward hospital pharmacy and student precepting.  He completed two years of clinical residency training at University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor.  In 1986, he joined the clinical pharmacy faculty at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy precepting adult medicine rotations.  In 1990 he transitioned to part-time UT faculty status as he practiced hospital pharmacy in Austin, Round Rock, and Temple serving as a clinical pharmacy coordinator, hospital pharmacy director, and multi-hospital system pharmacy administrator.  He continued to precept hospital pharmacy, adult medicine, infectious disease, and pharmacy administration APPE rotations, as well as IPPE rotations with students through 2017 – for a total of thirty years of student precepting.  For eight years he served as hospital pharmacy residency program director.  Emory has held a visiting professor appointment with Toho University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in Chiba, Japan for 12 years.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists for 10 years, including serving one term as President.

Disclosure:  Dr Martin has no relevant financial relationship(s) with commercial interests or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Emory S. Martin, Pharm.D.
Pharmacy Project Specialist

Steward Health Care

Emory is a native of Houston, Texas and married Carolyn Reed of Rexburg, Idaho after he completed two years of voluntary missionary service in Japan.  They have five children and 16 grandchildren.  Emory graduated with a PharmD degree from UC San Francisco in 1984.  In his first month of hospital clinical rotations as a pharmacy student, he set a career path toward hospital pharmacy and student precepting.  He completed two years of clinical residency training at University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor.  In 1986, he joined the clinical pharmacy faculty at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy precepting adult medicine rotations.  In 1990 he transitioned to part-time UT faculty status as he practiced hospital pharmacy in Austin, Round Rock, and Temple serving as a clinical pharmacy coordinator, hospital pharmacy director, and multi-hospital system pharmacy administrator.  He continued to precept hospital pharmacy, adult medicine, infectious disease, and pharmacy administration APPE rotations, as well as IPPE rotations with students through 2017 – for a total of thirty years of student precepting.  For eight years he served as hospital pharmacy residency program director.  Emory has held a visiting professor appointment with Toho University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in Chiba, Japan for 12 years.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists for 10 years, including serving one term as President.

Disclosure:  Dr Martin has no relevant financial relationship(s) with commercial interests or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Emory S. Martin, Pharm.D.
Pharmacy Project Specialist

Steward Health Care

Emory is a native of Houston, Texas and married Carolyn Reed of Rexburg, Idaho after he completed two years of voluntary missionary service in Japan.  They have five children and 16 grandchildren.  Emory graduated with a PharmD degree from UC San Francisco in 1984.  In his first month of hospital clinical rotations as a pharmacy student, he set a career path toward hospital pharmacy and student precepting.  He completed two years of clinical residency training at University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor.  In 1986, he joined the clinical pharmacy faculty at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy precepting adult medicine rotations.  In 1990 he transitioned to part-time UT faculty status as he practiced hospital pharmacy in Austin, Round Rock, and Temple serving as a clinical pharmacy coordinator, hospital pharmacy director, and multi-hospital system pharmacy administrator.  He continued to precept hospital pharmacy, adult medicine, infectious disease, and pharmacy administration APPE rotations, as well as IPPE rotations with students through 2017 – for a total of thirty years of student precepting.  For eight years he served as hospital pharmacy residency program director.  Emory has held a visiting professor appointment with Toho University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in Chiba, Japan for 12 years.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists for 10 years, including serving one term as President.

Disclosure:  Dr Martin has no relevant financial relationship(s) with commercial interests or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Holli Temple, Pharm.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice

The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy

 

Dr. Holli Temple is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Health Outcomes & Pharmacy Practice Division. She is a Course Coordinator for Introduction to Patient Care and the associated Care and Respect for the Elderly (CARE) Program. Additionally, she is the Inpatient Coordinator for Advanced Health Outcomes & Pharmacy Practice Experiences, Austin/Temple/Waco region.  Previously, Dr. Temple practiced pharmacy at North Austin Medical Center (NAMC) from 1995 – 2011.  Her responsibilities at NAMC focused on implementing and managing Clinical Pharmacy Services. In addition, she facilitated the Medication Safety Group and served as the NAMC representative to the Austin Multi-Institutional Review Board.   From 2000-2011, Dr. Temple precepted students on Adult Medicine and Institutional Pharmacy rotations and served the UT College of Pharmacy as the Institutional Coordinator for the Austin/Temple/Waco region. She has contributed to ASHP’s PharmPrep publication as an author and continues to be a section editor for the Renal Disorders chapter.  Academically, Holli completed her B.S. in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University in 1992, her B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Texas in 1994, and her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Texas in 1999.  Dr. Temple has received the following honors and awards associated with her pharmacy practice: recipient of the 2004 Caregiver of the Year award from North Austin Medical Center, named to the 2003 Rho Chi Alumni Honor Roll, and recipient of the 2002 Wm. Arlyn Kloesel Outstanding Preceptor Award.

Disclosure: Dr. Temple has no relevant financial relationship(s), potential or perceived, with commercial or conflicts of interest to disclose.

 

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Emory S. Martin, Pharm.D.
Pharmacy Project Specialist

Steward Health Care

Emory is a native of Houston, Texas and married Carolyn Reed of Rexburg, Idaho after he completed two years of voluntary missionary service in Japan.  They have five children and 16 grandchildren.  Emory graduated with a PharmD degree from UC San Francisco in 1984.  In his first month of hospital clinical rotations as a pharmacy student, he set a career path toward hospital pharmacy and student precepting.  He completed two years of clinical residency training at University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor.  In 1986, he joined the clinical pharmacy faculty at The University of Texas College of Pharmacy precepting adult medicine rotations.  In 1990 he transitioned to part-time UT faculty status as he practiced hospital pharmacy in Austin, Round Rock, and Temple serving as a clinical pharmacy coordinator, hospital pharmacy director, and multi-hospital system pharmacy administrator.  He continued to precept hospital pharmacy, adult medicine, infectious disease, and pharmacy administration APPE rotations, as well as IPPE rotations with students through 2017 – for a total of thirty years of student precepting.  For eight years he served as hospital pharmacy residency program director.  Emory has held a visiting professor appointment with Toho University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in Chiba, Japan for 12 years.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Society of Health System Pharmacists for 10 years, including serving one term as President.

Disclosure:  Dr Martin has no relevant financial relationship(s) with commercial interests or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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