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6/1/2018 Inpatient Care Practitioner
Hillary Guadagno
Director of Pharmacy6/1/2018 Ambulatory Care Practitioner
Edward M. Saito
Edward’s Story Dr. Saito earned his Pharm.D. from Creighton University (Omaha, NE) in 2012, then completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Moses Cone Hospital (Greensboro, NC) in 2013 and a PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency at Kaiser Permanente Colorado (Denver, CO) in 2014. He is currently Assis6/1/2018 Pharmacy Practice Leadership
Erica Diamantides
Specialty Pharmacy Manager5/23/2018 Opioid Management
MAHEC/UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Asheville, NC
Naloxone co-prescribing program in family medicine residency clinic Overview Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is a large family medicine residency program with integrated clinical pharmacists. We identified patients who met CDC-based criteria for naloxone — 50 morphine milligram equiva5/11/2018 Opioid Management
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Prospective pharmacist review of high-risk patients treated with opioids for chronic pain at a family medicine clinic Overview The project evaluated the impact of a pharmacist’s pre-visit review of high-risk patients treated with opioids for chronic pain followed by primary care providers at a famil5/11/2018 Opioid Management
Baptist Memorial Healthcare, Memphis, TN
Opioid-light initiative: A multi-modal approach to reduce opioid prescribing in the emergency department Overview Tennessee ranks second nationally in opioid-related deaths — approximately 80 percent involve prescription opioids. Due to the alarming rate of opioid use and associated overdoses in our5/11/2018 Opioid Management
Cone Health Greensboro, NC
Pharmacist intervention to monitor and reduce opioid use in patients with chronic non-cancer pain as part of interdisciplinary pilot monitoring program Overview In 2016, the CDC released guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain. The guidelines recommended the following actions: establi5/11/2018 Opioid Management