Pharmacy on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
From day one, members of the pharmacy profession have been on the front lines of healthcare’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These are just some of their stories. Submit your story today.
Front Line Stories
Lauren Cimino
Samford University McWhorter School of Pharmacy and Christ Health Center
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Amy Abdelmalek
Public health and community services are all about making a difference in people's lives and providing them with all the care and security that they need.
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Caroline Mejias-De Jesus
Being able to offer oral chemotherapy education to the patients while they are at home has been crucial for patient care and has decreased the uncertainty of cancer care during current times.
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Michael Palkimas
The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic did not prevent us from providing life-saving medications and pharmacy services to our unique population of patients.
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Muhammad Amir
It was identified that pharmacists’ roles have to be enhanced from simple dispensing to clinical.
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Reem Motan
Overall, this pandemic made me aware that going the extra mile to help our patients and colleges can help improve the lives of others.
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Ruchira Kumar
The central pharmacy is the backbone for all other pharmacy operations in the institution. We were tasked with rapidly redesigning workflow and supplying the necessary medications to care for the surge of patients with COVID-19.
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Blake Barlow
Without our residents, it would have been exceedingly difficult to provide adequate pharmacy clinical coverage to all patients due to the acute increase in patient volume at MGH.
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Joseph D'Antonio
I understood the risks of entering the ambulatory surgery building, and knew that the only thing keeping me safe was the PPE I had donned at the start of my shift.
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Sharon King O'Harrow
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many new challenges to our working environment.
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Ken Chen
With additional skills in biostatistics, epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine, pharmacists can contribute greatly to the pandemic like other healthcare professionals do.
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Debra Goff
I am proud to work with my colleagues to provide COVID-19 education while also raising awareness of the value of clinical pharmacists.
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Laura Truhlar
This experience demonstrates the essential role of the pharmacist, and reminded me why I became a board certified critical care pharmacist – to provide the best care possible for our patients who need it the most.
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Nick Mercuro
While most patients received the medication in the context of clinical trials, the antimicrobial stewardship team was able to have a 10,000 foot view of all the patients. It was through this unique perspective that Nick Mercuro was able to identify a cluster of adverse reactions and wondered if there were larger implications.
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Mehrnaz Sadrolashrafi
As a recent graduate fresh out of critical care residency training, I never thought I would be getting ready to work in the front line of a national pandemic only a couple of months after the end of my residency training.
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Evan Mulvihill
It was my job to take care of patients before a pandemic befell us. And it is a job that I truly love.
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Marie D'Angelo
As the pandemic continues, pharmacists have the unique opportunity to communicate with patients and collaborate with providers to ensure that worse health outcomes do not occur during this crisis.
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Madison Stanley
I am grateful to have had this opportunity to not only educate, but ease the fears of patients in a rural population.
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Duaa Salem Jawhar
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped us realize the importance of cooperation and harmonization between different individuals from different specialties to reach the best patient care journey.
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Renna Marwan Sakka
During these stressful times, change has impacted the didactic and clinical curriculum of pharmacy students across the globe.
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Victor Perez
What this experience showed me was that no matter whether you are a professional in practice or a student in school, you can have a major impact on others during these troubling times.
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Amber Lanae Martirosov
I am proud of how quickly we modified our clinical practice and leveraged trainees to conduct such a wide outreach for our patients.
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Umair Uddin Ansari
A patient was transferred to the COVID-19 ICU and was taking an oral chemotherapy drug, ibrutinib, that was recommended to be continued while admitted.
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Philip Bassett
Pharmacy Services at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah operates three anticoagulation specialty clinics. These clinics care for approximately 1,800 anticoagulated patients across Utah and surrounding states.
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Patricia Christopherson, Maria Hankes, Karen Klosinski, Kaia Zepke
Our group of emergency room pharmacists at Aspirus Wausau Hospital stepped up when COVID-19 hit Wisconsin, working side-by-side with the emergency room team.
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Heena Patel
I am proud to say to date, we activated 13 SARS-CoV-2 clinical trials and enrolled upwards of 141 patients.
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Brian Cross
After the dust settles with COVID-19, ambulatory care pharmacists in the East Tennessee region will come out of this stronger than they were before ...
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Kush Patel
He truly went beyond what was expected of the pharmacy staff, let alone a student on a rotation.
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Catherine Li
Performing patient outreach after discharge allowed the pharmacist to assess the real-world situation.
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Kim Schwab
In March, we knew very little about COVID-19. Scratch that, we still know very little about it.
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Leeanne Mobayed
Though rural, COVID-19 has spread rapidly throughout Navajo Nation surpassing the infection rate in several hot-spots ...
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Yale New Haven Health
I am immensely proud of this team’s collaborative efforts in caring for patients and each other during the pandemic.
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Roger Woolf
The state of Washington was an early epicenter for the outbreak, and we experienced an immediate impact on how healthcare was provided.
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Natalie Madere
I was looking for a way to spread joy for our patients, doctors, nursing staff, and other colleagues during a very stressful time working the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jessica Bianco
I am proud of the fact that we made the safety of our ambulatory team and our patients are first priority and did so very quickly.
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Melanie Berry, Monica Mahoney, and Nicole Francisco
Through their proactive outreach, the team was able to ensure that all patients were able to obtain adequate supply or be switched to an updated regimen, and no patient experienced a lapse in therapy.
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Katelyn Smith
COVID-19 has forced practice shifts throughout many areas of our healthcare system, including ambulatory care clinics.
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Svetlana Fortel
Someday the most important question of one's career ... is going to be what did you do during COVID-19 pandemic?
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William Amarquaye
Pharmacists all around the globe are working hard on the front lines during this pandemic to make sure our patients are safe and their medication therapy is optimized during this time.
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Madeline Acquilano
I was on my Critical Care II rotation and I began to see everything rapidly change around me.
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Michael Peters
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted so many areas across the globe, and the city of Indianapolis and Marion County in Indiana were not spared from this impact.
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Daryl Schiller
Obtaining medications and supplying them were critical tasks in the midst of national medication shortages and the fast pace of newly created patient care areas.
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Shan Wang
I rounded every day with our surgical ICU team to take care of critically ill COVID-19 patients since the pandemic started.
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Nancy Palamara
My community hospital had seven positive or suspected COVID-19 patients in our medical ICU of 19 bed. Weeks later that seemed like nothing.
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Radhika S. Polisetty
One of the biggest challenges facing the medical teams was the lack of any set of guidelines on how to manage these patients.
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