Division of Pharmacy Professional Development - University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
46 episodes
3 months ago
We explore a wide range of topics related to pharmacy practice, patient care, and healthcare delivery in every setting. Listen in as we speak with respected experts and key thought leaders about their lessons learned. Our goal is to empower pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students to advance their practice by introducing them to new knowledge and role models.
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We explore a wide range of topics related to pharmacy practice, patient care, and healthcare delivery in every setting. Listen in as we speak with respected experts and key thought leaders about their lessons learned. Our goal is to empower pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students to advance their practice by introducing them to new knowledge and role models.
Kristin Wiisanen, PharmD - Clinical Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Precision Medicine at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy - talks with us about using genomics to guide therapeutic decisions.
Key Lessons:
Precision medicine and personalized medicine are synonymous terms.
Pharmacogenomics is a tool to personalize treatment decisions. However, it is not the only tool. Other readily available and routinely collected clinical information has been used to personalize therapy for decades (e.g. blood type, serum creatinine, CV risk score).
While creating a separate pharmacogenomic service can help ease practitioners into using pharmacogenomic tests, learning how to integrate genetic information as a routine part of clinical decision-making is the ultimate goal.
Pharmacists have a unique role (and responsibility) to know when and how to use the results of pharmacogenomic tests.
Teaching students, residents, and fellows to use pharmacogenomic information should be done in an integrated manner - considered alongside other clinical data, not in isolation.
Several excellent resources now exist that can assist pharmacists and other providers use the results of pharmacogenomic tests including the Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base (PharmGKB) and the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) Guidelines.
PharmacyForward
We explore a wide range of topics related to pharmacy practice, patient care, and healthcare delivery in every setting. Listen in as we speak with respected experts and key thought leaders about their lessons learned. Our goal is to empower pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students to advance their practice by introducing them to new knowledge and role models.
