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Posted: 29-Oct-24

Location: New York, New York

Type: Faculty

Categories:

Pharmacy

Job Setting:

Academia

Requirements:

Residency Required

Specialty Practice Areas:

Ambulatory Care

Required Education:

PharmD

Position Summary

Touro College of Pharmacy invites applications for 12-month faculty position in Ambulatory Care at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. Specialty of particular interests are oncology, ambulatory care, psychiatry, or acute care.

Interested candidates should email their CV and Letter of Intent to Michael Liu at cheuk-michael.liu15@touro.edu. In addition, please complete the job application via Touro. 

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities include but not limited to the following:

• Develop an innovative clinical practice in an ambulatory care setting and serve as a preceptor and role model for students on introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences
• Provide didactic classroom teaching and recitation instruction on campus
• Provide service on college committees, will attend and participate in departmental meetings, and will perform other faculty duties as appropriate
• Contribute to new knowledge (research) through research activities, poster presentations, publications, obtaining grants and/or contracts, clinical trials, and other scholarly work
• Provide reports and other documents as requested by Department Chairs, Directors, and Deans.

Practice Site Job Responsibilities

Daily services provided by the pharmacist faculty member and/or students supervised by the faculty member include:

• Perform medication reconciliation for patients seen in the clinic
• Perform prospective medication review for patients seen in the clinic
• Administer vaccines (flu, pneumococcal, shingles)
• Counsel patients on medications prescribed by providers on appointment discharge
• Design patient education leaflets for commonly prescribed agents including pain medications such as NSAIDs, Opioids, antimicrobials, and others as indicated
• Respond to drug information queries
• Perform prospective drug utilization reviews and provide interventions regarding agents prescribed by providers and to include review for drug interactions, contraindications, renal dosing, cost effective medication prescribing, preventative medication prescribing (such as PPIs to prevent gastropathy when using NSAIDs)
• Perform screening tests for the  clinic as indicated and permitted by NYS law (for example hemoglobin A1c HIV or others)
• Perform pharmacogenetic testing when indicated
• Provide clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy education to providers and residents in areas identified by the providers (for example, antimicrobial spectrum/coverage indications for anticoagulant discontinuation, duration of action, and reversal agents, and pain management, renal dose, adjustment of commonly utilized agents, common and important drug-drug and drug-disease interactions)
• Provide timely information and updates on prescribing laws and regulations in NY State
• Detect, report, and manage adverse drug reactions and medication errors
• Develop collaborative drug therapy management protocols to include ambulatory care services, prescribing, and ordering laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging
• Review medication storage to assist in meeting regulatory requirements
• Offer a rotation in the pharmacotherapy service to residents
• Lead and collaborate on research endeavors with school faculty and students

Qualifications

Education/ Experience

• Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) with post-graduate training- a PGY-1 and PGY-2 Residency required, preferably in ambulatory care or Fellowship or equivalent clinical experience
• Previous academic experience and board certification in an area appropriate for the applicant's training and experience (e.g. BCPS or BCACP) are preferred 
• Must be eligible for licensure in the state of New York

Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities

• A high degree of interpersonal competency: Professionalism, diplomacy, judgement, and discretion required
• Strong commitment to teaching practice and scholarship
• Exemplary interpersonal communication and organization skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook

Travel

• As required

Physical Demands

• Able to lift up to 5 lbs.

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