Population Health - Where To Begin and Where We Are Going

Rx Reddit React Podcast

For this year's first WSPA ACA podcast, we are doing a Reddit react style episode! We have PGY2 rep Celena Wilson hosting Drs. Levi Lancaster, Steven Elrod, and Samantha Korsak. Reddit is a place where people post anonymously and provides a chance to impart some real life thoughts and advice. Join us as we go through some Reddit stories and how current practicing pharmacists have their own honest, wholesome, and blunt takes on issues surrounding work life balance, job prospects, and other issues.

Special Paths to Amb Care: An Interview with Dr. Sara McElroy

Tune in to the WSPA Ambulatory Care Academy podcast as Dr. Chase King explores a unique path to becoming an ambulatory care pharmacist. In this episode, Dr. King sits down with the insightful Dr. Sara McElroy, who shares her unique trajectory from a community pharmacy residency to making a direct impact on patient lives at HarmonyCares, where she brings ambulatory care services directly to the patients' home.

505(b)2 and Drug Approval Pathways

Join us for another episode of the Ambulatory Care Academy Podcast where we have an insightful discussion with Darell Connor, AmCA student representative, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate 2025 from Creighton University and Pharmacy Corporate Project Manager with the American Oncology Network. In this AmCA Podcast, Darell discusses the 505(b)2 drug approval pathways and its impacts. Drug approval has evolved, and how patients may eventually get medications has expanded beyond "FDA drug approval". Listen in as we converse with Darell and learn how the 505(b)2 pathway will impact ambulatory care pharmacy.

Pain and Palliative Care

In this ACA podcast, resident representatives Jinha Park, PharmD and Olivia Hiskey, PharmD interview two pain specialty pharmacists. Drs. Corinne Dolan and Connor Rowan share how they got into providing pain and palliative services as amb care pharmacists at their institutions. Listen to this podcast to learn how they got into their specific position as well as their insight to the opportunity for helping patients treat pain in a variety of settings and patient poulations.

Population Health - Where To Begin and Where We Are Going

Population healh is defined as, "The health outcomes of a group of individuals, especially in addressing outcomes involving social determinants that impact health in patients (ie. behaviors, social, economic factors, etc.). In this Ambulatory Care Academy Podcast episode, we cover a new and growing practice space, Population Health. PGY1 representative, Olivia Hiskey, and PGY2 representative, Jinha Park, interview Drs. Rebecca West, Raina Ensign and Michael Lee on their roles and how their positions relates to population health. If you are interested in this field or plan on helping patients in ambulatory care or managed care, then this podcast is for you!