Authors


Craig McDonald, MD

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Expert: Pharmacists Play Crucial Role in Safe, Effective Elevidys Treatment in DMD

Pharmacists are crucial in Elevidys administration, ensuring accurate dosing, coordinating treatment timing, and managing adverse effects to optimize patient outcomes.


Alexandrina Balanean, MPh

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Augmented Intelligence Can Help Reduce Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Supporting the Enhancing Oncology Model

Even with technological advancements, provider involvement and oversight remain essential.



Ivelisse Mayedo, PharmD Candidate

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Changing the Game: Pharmacy Students' Perspective on Naloxone OTC Approval

To eliminate the existing stigma in the community, addiction must be recognized as a treatable condition rather than an immoral act.


Mary Margaret Maddox, PharmD Candidate 2022

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Clinical Updates, Awareness Efforts During Parkinson's Awareness Month

April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month, so what better time to refresh your understanding and promote awareness around Parkinson disease than now?


Eugene Lee, PharmD

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Prevalence of Dosage Modifications and Impact on Response Milestone Among Patients With CML Treated With Imatinib Using RWD

This abstract will be presented at the Oncology Pharmacists Connect (OPC) meeting in Austin, Texas, from June 19 to 20, 2025.



Audrey White, PharmD Candidate

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Bridging the Gap: How Pharmacists Can Expand and Transform Mental Health Services

This expansion of their role goes beyond traditional dispensing duties, positioning pharmacists as an essential bridge between patients and the broader health care system.



Nana Kwesi Owusu-Boakye, PharmD Candidate

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The Blood Detective: Tackling Medication-Induced Hematological Disorders

These disorders can be fatal, making pharmacists’ role in detection crucial.


Chance G. Partlow, PharmD Candidate

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Managing Hematologic Cancer Therapies and Reducing COVID-19 Risk

In this high-risk population, strategies for minimizing viral exposure during a pandemic are being considered with oncology treatment options.


Jolene Bressi, PhamD, PMP, BCMAS

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Data Show Cognitive Consequences of Benzodiazepine Use

The drug may be a risk factor for dementia-related illnesses.


Lynsey D. Steffen

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Proposed Bill Requires States to Use Opioid Settlement Funds to Address the Opioid Epidemic

The money could be used for prevention and treatment services, health care practitioner training, or other ways to stem the epidemic.


Laura E. Knockel, PharmD, BCACP

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Measles on the Move: Guidance for Pharmacists During Outbreaks

Between December 22, 2024, and March 7, 2025, reported measles cases in the US climbed precipitously.


Evan Cox

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Biospecimen Waste in Hospitals Can Be Used in Clinical Research for Drug Development

Billions of samples are discarded while investigators struggle to assemble collections.


Emma Murter, PharmD, MPH

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Can Low-Dose Naltrexone Fill the Gaps in Palliative Pain Management?

Emma Murter, PharmD, MPH, and Madison N. Irwin, PharmD, BCPS, discuss the potential role of low-dose naltrexone in managing chronic pain in palliative care, highlighting its anti-inflammatory properties, limited adverse effects, and current evidence gaps—particularly in comparison to traditional opioids and adjuvant analgesics.


Sonia Amin Thomas, PharmD, BCOP

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Novel Therapies Show Promise in HER2-Low Metastatic Breast Cancer

HER2-low disease demands a different approach from that of HER2-negative disease.


Ravi Patel

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APhA 2025: Enhancing Medication Management and Patient Safety With AI

AI is offering new ways to support pharmacists' decision-making and patient care.



Jessica Warwick

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New Jersey Society of Health-System Pharmacy Hosts 2nd Annual Pharmacy Leader and Pharmacy Technician Symposium

The NJSHP's 2nd Annual Symposium fosters networking and education for pharmacy professionals, featuring expert insights on compliance and regulation in pharmacy compounding.


Karley Wilson, PharmD, MBA

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Pharmacists Play a Vital Role in Providing Care to Patients With Uterine Cancer

Pharmacists’ role in community-based cancer centers are expanding, with a more significant role in treatment plan selection, education, collaboration to create individualized care plans, managing adverse effects, and aiding with financial toxicities.


Scott Canfield, PharmD, CSP

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Multisite Health-Systems Specialty Pharmacy Study Evaluates Adherence to Self-Administered Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs

High adherence to treatment is a key first step toward better patient outcomes, including sustained disease control or remission.


Kathleen Villarama, PharmD Candidate 2023

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The Importance of the Pharmacist in Travel Health

Not only are pharmacists easily accessible to the public, they are also highly visible as a source for travel immunization services.


Khadija Khan-Chan

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Pharmacists Can Help Slow the Opioid Crisis

Patient education, naloxone training, and monitoring programs make a difference.


Jenna Jackson, PharmD

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Zuranolone Offers a Much-Needed Option For Postpartum Depression

However, the cost of zuranolone makes it challenging to access and justify, given study results comparing it with brexanolone.


Darrell Childress, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP

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Precision Bayesian Modeling Tailors Vancomycin Dosing in Patients With Obesity

The future of vancomycin dosing lies in optimizing dosing regimens to individual patient needs.


Yelena Lapidot, PhD

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AI Can Help Bridge Disparities in Cancer Care Through Digital Platforms

Collaboration between AI-based platforms and health care organizations offers promising results.


Omolola (Lola) Adeoye-Olatunde, PharmD, MS

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Health Care Is a Human Right: A Roundtable on Values, Visibility, and the Work Ahead

In this roundtable, 3 pharmacy faculty members reflect on how shifting federal priorities and the defunding of research initiatives have impacted their work, communities, and careers—while highlighting the power of resilience, solidarity, and reimagined academic impact in advancing public health equity.


Sam Martinez, PharmD, BCOP, BCPS

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Assessing Prescriber Justification for Use of Outpatient Chemotherapy in the Acute Care Setting

This single-center, descriptive, retrospective chart review identified barriers to outpatient chemotherapy use, revealing avoidable inpatient stays and highlighting targets for stewardship interventions.


Julia Nickerson-Troy, PharmD, MS, BCACP

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Is a 90-Day Supply the Best Option to Improve Medication Adherence?

Interventions to improve medication adherence may have a greater impact on individual patients and the population as a whole than any novel treatment or therapy.