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Pharmacy 50 Awards Ceremony Part One | Winners 50 through 37 · Pharmacy Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Greg Chanferani, founder and CEO of RX Insider.
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  Speaker 1: Here at OURX insider, we always strive to celebrate and
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  Speaker 1: recognize innovative products, services, and companies across the pharmacy supply chain.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm proud to announce the Pharmacy five hundred. Inspired
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  Speaker 1: by the Fortune five hundred, the Pharmacy five hundred is
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  Speaker 1: a list of five hundred companies and national associations that
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  Speaker 1: had a significant impact on dispensing pharmacies across the United
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  Speaker 1: States last year. The Pharmacy five hundred represents companies that
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  Speaker 1: are shaping the pharmacy landscape, from driving operational efficiencies to
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  Speaker 1: supporting exemplary patient care. I invite everyone to join us
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  Speaker 1: in celebrating these businesses and their contributions to pharmacy. To
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  Speaker 1: learn more, please visit our website at rxinsider dot com.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to the global network of podcasters dedicated
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  Speaker 2: to the pharmacy profession. Welcome to the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to a four part special series on the
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  Speaker 3: Pharmacy Podcast Network. This is the founder of the Pharmacy
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  Speaker 3: Podcast Network, Todd Uri. This is something I've been looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to. This is the fifty most influential people in pharmacy.
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  Speaker 3: This is our awards, the Pharmacy Fifty Awards twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Get ready, this is part one.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe that this is already happening.
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  Speaker 3: Seems like it's taken for absolutely forever to get this
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  Speaker 3: set up and to have as many of the votes
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  Speaker 3: we come in. We have so much to share with
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  Speaker 3: you and just yeah, yeah, bring it in, bring it
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  Speaker 3: and bring it in. And I just think, I think that
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  Speaker 3: where pharmacy is going, what a perfect time to celebrate.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to introduce my co host for today,
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  Speaker 3: mister Steven Beckman, CEO of your ralph Pharma, Steven well Todd.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here for such an important
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  Speaker 2: set of awards and couldn't think of a better place
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  Speaker 2: to spend my time than in recognizing the pharmacists, the
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy texts, all the people around pharmacy that really, at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, make things happen for patients.
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  Speaker 2: And as head of a pharmaceutical company, we've been committed
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  Speaker 2: that for the last couple of years working with you,
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  Speaker 2: and I couldn't think of a better way to continue
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  Speaker 2: to honor that by being here today, So thanks for
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  Speaker 2: having me.
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  Speaker 4: You're very welcome. Hey in the studio with us.
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  Speaker 3: John to James from Pittsburgh Penncilvania.
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  Speaker 4: John is so good to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Always good to see you, Todd.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate the invite today, looking forward to hearing who
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  Speaker 6: the top fifty most influential or in pharmacy. And it's
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  Speaker 6: a good time, Like you said, to celebrate our profession.
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  Speaker 4: We need this celebration.
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  Speaker 3: It's been an exhausting twenty twenty five. We know that
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  Speaker 3: the entire industry is under some strain, but I think
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  Speaker 3: that there's so much strength coming into twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I like this awards program.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the first awards program for our profession for
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  Speaker 3: the year. It sets us up, It gets us excited,
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  Speaker 3: It lets us celebrate each other. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 3: these awards have been. This has been all about you,
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  Speaker 3: the voters out there. This is people, and these are
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  Speaker 3: our technicians and our compounders and our specialty pharmacists and
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  Speaker 3: even social media influencers. And that's something that I'd like
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  Speaker 3: to kind of start out with and really recognizing that
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  Speaker 3: we can't do these awards. We can't get into these conversations.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do what I do for a living. Podcasting
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  Speaker 3: back in two thousand and nine wasn't profitable.
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  Speaker 4: There wasn't enough money. And to be able to.
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  Speaker 3: Have sponsors like your Role Pharma, who is our platinum
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  Speaker 3: sponsor for the event, to have value drug assist us,
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  Speaker 3: to have independent pharmacy cooperative constantly support us in getting
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  Speaker 3: the voice of pharmacists and pharmacy owners and our texts
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  Speaker 3: and her compounders out there. And a shout out to
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  Speaker 3: Greg in Connecticut. He is a he's a new Englander's fan. John,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. We don't hold that against him, but
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  Speaker 3: we're not in the playoffs right at this point anyway,
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  Speaker 3: see who cares. But a shout out to our ex
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  Speaker 3: insider and their Pharmacy five hundred. They're Pharmacy five hundred
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  Speaker 3: is focusing on the businesses of pharmacy that deliver value
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  Speaker 3: to the profession and we've made that list Pharmacy Podcast
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  Speaker 3: Network three years in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Well to I have to say, first of all, one,
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  Speaker 2: does Pittsburgh have a football team? Right?
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to do Sorry Brown's fan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if I got to have to live in
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  Speaker 2: the dark side of the world. I might as well
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  Speaker 2: at least have a little fun. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think what's really important is we should be celebrating pharmacy.
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  Speaker 2: And it's great that this platform and this program has
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  Speaker 2: been put together, and honestly, we should probably be celebrating
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy and pharmacists and everybody every day because at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, one of the things I see
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  Speaker 2: from my perspective is that there is going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to be a renaissance in pharmacy. I think you are right.
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  Speaker 2: We struggle a lot. There's a lot of challenges. We
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  Speaker 2: see them, not even as clearly and daily as the
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  Speaker 2: people that are in it every day. But we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do our best to support it, and we need
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  Speaker 2: to find a way to enhance all the great things
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  Speaker 2: that pharmacists want to do. We were on a podcast
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  Speaker 2: not long ago where they were talking about all the
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  Speaker 2: added services things that we need to do. So we
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to make pharmacists profitable and give
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  Speaker 2: them the resources to continue to give care, especially as
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  Speaker 2: we see things being more challenging, whether it's a rural
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  Speaker 2: setting or something else. So pharmacists we value and today's
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  Speaker 2: what it's all about.
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  Speaker 4: We do value.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of value value drug and there a commitment to
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  Speaker 3: expansion of different segments of pharmacy. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about that. John to James, you're gonna have to promise
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  Speaker 3: to come back on a future Torks where we could
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  Speaker 3: really dig down into some of the strategy that you
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  Speaker 3: guys have been presenting.
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  Speaker 5: I'm all in to shoot me the invite.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be here, all right, let's talk about the growth
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  Speaker 3: of the Pharmacy fifty Awards. When I started this awards,
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  Speaker 3: it's embarrassing for me to say, but our first year,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I got more than like eighty three
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  Speaker 3: total votes to people to participate in it because they
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  Speaker 3: just didn't know what it was.
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  Speaker 4: It's very hard to market stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, it's hard to be a marketer
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  Speaker 3: in the realm of pharmacy because pharmacists don't naturally trust.
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  Speaker 3: They don't naturally trust anything. That's their job. That's how
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  Speaker 3: they keep people alive is by not trusting and by
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  Speaker 3: double checking, triple checking, you know, quadruple checking. So at
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  Speaker 3: eighty three votes, I was like, am I going to
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  Speaker 3: really put in all this time and effort to do this?
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  Speaker 3: The second year and it took off, and then our
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  Speaker 3: third year it just blew up. I think we had
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  Speaker 3: over three thousand votes, but to have sixty three hundred
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  Speaker 3: vote this.
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  Speaker 4: Year, it's just so exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you to everybody that voted,
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  Speaker 3: everybody that shared on social media, everybody that let the
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  Speaker 3: public know and public health know how important pharmacy is
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  Speaker 3: as a sector of our healthcare system is going through massive,
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  Speaker 3: massive ways, violent changes.
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  Speaker 2: Well tot. You know, look at patients and persistence is
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  Speaker 2: what you've showed. And when you have those two together
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  Speaker 2: and there is a need and opportunity, it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why you see sixty three hundred votes today.
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  Speaker 2: So this is fantastic. Next year, I'll make a betting man,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we should do an over under that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be over ten thousand.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to see our our categories expand based
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  Speaker 3: on what's happening in the markets. And the reason why
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  Speaker 3: I want to mention is, think about this last year.
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  Speaker 3: Our number one market was independent community pharmacy, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the participation the votes that we received. Social Media influence
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  Speaker 3: is the number one category this year and That really
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  Speaker 3: tells me that how important the voice of the pharmacists
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  Speaker 3: out there, that it's demystifying things, that's calling bull crap on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people that are putting information out that's not
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  Speaker 3: correct are kind of like setting the ship. And what
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  Speaker 3: better provider than to have our pharmacists as social media influencers.
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  Speaker 3: And we have several award winners. I can't wait to
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  Speaker 3: get into these people. There's just amazing people that are
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  Speaker 3: social media influencers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, social media is really important. I mean for industry
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  Speaker 2: like ours, which is highly regulated as a challenge in
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  Speaker 2: some respects, especially as a manufacturer or other. But we've
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  Speaker 2: embraced it, right, you know, if.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have really stepped it up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Iral has decided I want to do things differently
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  Speaker 2: and we're finding solutions. And obviously Pharmacy Podcast Network has
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  Speaker 2: been the platform in which we've really launched it and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's opened my eyes. I'm not twenty four. I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you what, agent, but I'm not twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: So social social media has always been something that I've
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  Speaker 2: kind of steered away from a little bit, but now
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  Speaker 2: I've kind of embraced it to the point where if
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  Speaker 2: you can do it well and do it right. We
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  Speaker 2: can't ignore how the platform is influencing it over the
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  Speaker 2: ways we used to communicate and educate, and so you
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  Speaker 2: have to be in it and you have to do
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  Speaker 2: it well. And again, Pharmacy Podcast Network has led the way.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for bringing me along the ride.
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  Speaker 4: Well it's been fun, John. I think of.
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  Speaker 5: When I grew up.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up Catholic and was an ultra boy and
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  Speaker 3: went and had to go to the confessional and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And so that sounds very familiar.
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  Speaker 4: I know I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Part of that club anymore, but there was a higher
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  Speaker 3: standard that we held our priests to with regards to
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  Speaker 3: morals and understanding pharmacists that pharmacists that participate in social
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  Speaker 3: media are hell to a much higher standard as they
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  Speaker 3: should be. And they almost have to think, and I
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  Speaker 3: know they have a license and stuff. What they comes
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  Speaker 3: out of their mouth and what they're saying could have
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  Speaker 3: could literally affect people's I mean it does.
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  Speaker 4: It affects people's health.
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  Speaker 6: It affects their health. It also affects their business. I
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  Speaker 6: think the number one thing that pharmacists struggle with over
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  Speaker 6: the years is they're all resilient and they all take
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  Speaker 6: care of patients every single day. The problem that they've
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  Speaker 6: had over the years is they just don't tell the
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  Speaker 6: story of how they took care of those patients. And
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  Speaker 6: the reason why is it's their day to day job.
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  Speaker 6: They get used to it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 6: With the social media being more prevalent right now and
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  Speaker 6: some of our guys getting into that marketing of social media,
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  Speaker 6: that story is a lot more popular. You can see
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  Speaker 6: that story, you know, whether it be LinkedIn, whether it
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  Speaker 6: be Instagram or TikTok, yeah, Facebook, you know, you think
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  Speaker 6: of the social media's platforms that are out there, and
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  Speaker 6: now that that story is getting out there, it's I
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  Speaker 6: don't think the question gets asked anymore.
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  Speaker 5: What do pharmacists do?
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  Speaker 4: True?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Us, they're so darn busy, you knows, as a
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  Speaker 2: as a patient going into my own local pharmacist, as
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  Speaker 2: well as being in the industry. I've never seen a
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  Speaker 2: group of people work as hard as they do. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when does time to do this? So now they're forcing
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  Speaker 2: themselves to your points out did to actually take hold
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  Speaker 2: of this opportunity to tell the story? And it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you tell a good story and it
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  Speaker 2: resonates it. It's gonna have tremendous impact. And I think
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  Speaker 2: we're just at the start of what the true story
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  Speaker 2: is going to be unfolding in pharmacy over the next decade.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, looking forward to it a whole new model.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward, I think I might go back to pharmacy school.
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  Speaker 5: Might be a little too late for that.
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  Speaker 3: But all right, without further ado, I want to get
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  Speaker 3: into this. I'm very proud to say this. When we
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  Speaker 3: started the awards, like I said, it was next to nothing,
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  Speaker 3: very very few votes. Last year, Katrina Abserve from New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand got voted in the in the list and it
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  Speaker 3: just freaking excited me to see that the Pharmacy fifty
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  Speaker 3: Awards was now reaching a global level.
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  Speaker 4: Well, guess what.
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  Speaker 3: Lara Dowling is our fiftieth most influential person in pharmacy.
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  Speaker 3: She is a social media influencer, she has her own
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  Speaker 3: business consultancy consultancy firm. She's an author and she concentrates
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  Speaker 3: on women's health specifically, and I just think she's dynamic.
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  Speaker 3: She she'll punch you right in the face too, like
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  Speaker 3: with her content like she doesn't she does not She's
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  Speaker 3: not a shy person. She's very she likes controversy, she
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  Speaker 3: likes getting into things to stick up for patients, and
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to have her on twerks. But she's
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  Speaker 3: just she's just outstanding. So congratulations all the way from
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  Speaker 3: Dublin County, Dublin County, Dublin, Ireland.
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  Speaker 4: I have to say Dublin, Dublin, Dublin copy Well.
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  Speaker 2: I like that. Being half Irish, this is great to
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  Speaker 2: see that. I mean global, I mean, this is that's
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  Speaker 2: new stuff. It never told us this, I know. So
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  Speaker 2: you're truly international.
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  Speaker 4: I have some Wow, Yeah, I have surprises.
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  Speaker 3: All right, We've got a lot of people, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Brian a lotta. She is an emergency medicine clinical pharmacist.
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  Speaker 3: I love seeing Brianna beyond here because the expansion into
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  Speaker 3: health system pharmacy is one of our goals for twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six and partnering with organizations to really dig down
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  Speaker 3: into the fast facivity of what's happening in health system.
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  Speaker 3: That's a place where your route plays everywhere. Whereas we've
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  Speaker 3: traditionally played in compounding specialty community independent chain, we've gone
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  Speaker 3: to any CDs a whole bunch. It's the health system
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  Speaker 3: pharmacy that we need to find a host and we
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  Speaker 3: need to kind of cultivate.
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  Speaker 4: So I was so excited to see Brianna make the list.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, just two here. The one thing that
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  Speaker 2: strikes me too is I think people forget there's many
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  Speaker 2: different pharmacy settings, right from long term care, the retail
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  Speaker 2: pharmacy to emergency medicine institutional. So I think that's really
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  Speaker 2: really cool too, because I don't think most common people
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  Speaker 2: think about pharmacy outside and maybe sure at their corner
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  Speaker 2: drug store.
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  Speaker 6: It's always been hospital and community. And you see the
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  Speaker 6: opportunities now man each care. You know how many of
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  Speaker 6: these young students get out of student pharmacists get out
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  Speaker 6: and they all want to work for a drug company.
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  Speaker 5: Now they want to be an MSL.
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  Speaker 6: So there's a lot there's a lot more opportunities than
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  Speaker 6: just traditional hospital and community.
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  Speaker 4: A quick comment about Brianna.
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  Speaker 3: Look, she's says something about going to the University of
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  Speaker 3: Toledo and move back to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if she's a browns.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Brianna, please let us know. That's awesome. We need
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  Speaker 2: all the help we can get go Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: Cleve all right, Number forty eight I know this woman.
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  Speaker 3: I know ak she goes by Autumn Cushman, I know
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  Speaker 3: her passion.
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  Speaker 4: I've met her.
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  Speaker 3: She is hot with She was at the JP Morgan
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  Speaker 3: conference because she's been funded several times. She came out
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  Speaker 3: and invented something called shift OS, which is actually shift
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  Speaker 3: X or it used to be called shift di X.
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  Speaker 3: It was a staffing agency, digital staffing agency basically like
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  Speaker 3: Uber for pharmacy technicians and pharmacists. And it is blowing
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  Speaker 3: up and I'm so proud of her and what she's built.
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  Speaker 3: As an entrepreneur, I always like seeing people succeed. But
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  Speaker 3: it's going to help change the game of where pharmacy
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  Speaker 3: care is going and how the more that the clinical
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  Speaker 3: role and the role of the pharmacist and treatment management
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  Speaker 3: is going to be. She's really going to be able
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  Speaker 3: to differentiate the type of pharmacists that they're looking for.
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  Speaker 3: The timing is it long term project?
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  Speaker 4: Is it short term?
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to see autom and her team grow
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  Speaker 3: Shift directs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how important is that? Given the last executive dose
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  Speaker 2: that we did, we talked about the challenges of staffing
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  Speaker 2: and response and things so and tool like this that
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  Speaker 2: can elevate the quality and retention of the staff and
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  Speaker 2: the pharmacy is going to be fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Aka is also a veteran of the United States Navy,
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  Speaker 3: so very proud of her in that, and she and
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  Speaker 3: Holly and her team are just they're setting the world
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  Speaker 3: on fire. They're getting a lot of attention from Wall
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  Speaker 3: Street in the lower investment realms, so expect to see
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  Speaker 3: big things out her in twenty twenty six. All right,
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  Speaker 3: Next up, congratulations to doctor Brandon Shank. He is a
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  Speaker 3: medical science liaison for Johnson and Johnson. I love seeing
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  Speaker 3: them have a staff member on. We just want to
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  Speaker 3: give a shout out to him. Make sure that we're
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  Speaker 3: scheduling everybody that you're listening, everybody that's on the Pharmacy
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  Speaker 3: fifty list. We do want a follow up interview that
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  Speaker 3: we can spend some time with you to really get
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  Speaker 3: to know how you're changing the game as a as
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  Speaker 3: a pharmacist. Once again, medical science laison, that is a
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  Speaker 3: huge field, that's a huge opportunity for pharmacistic and listening
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  Speaker 3: used to pharmacy students that are listening to this podcast
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  Speaker 3: or this live stream right now look deeper into medical
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  Speaker 3: science liaisons and what that means for communications to physicians
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  Speaker 3: and families.
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  Speaker 2: I was just gonna say I didn't interrupt you. I
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  Speaker 2: mean msls are one of the most critical positions we
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  Speaker 2: have in our industry and in our business. They are
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  Speaker 2: becoming truly essential. Historically, they were used just to really
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  Speaker 2: convey data and medical information and had certain abilities to
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  Speaker 2: talk outside of maybe the core promotional construct that we
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  Speaker 2: allowed in terms of products. But I'll tell you, as
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  Speaker 2: it becomes more and more difficult to utilize traditional salesforce,
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  Speaker 2: the MSL actually has become really really essentially important, always
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  Speaker 2: has been, but is actually growing. So it's great to
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: see an MSL sit here and being recognized here in
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the program.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Excellent, and thank you for pointing that out, because I
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: think there's something to that in the education opportunities that
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: they have to the public. I'd like to see some
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: of the ms doing some podcasting with us. Hey, shout
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: out to my friend and to John, to James's friend.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: We hang out with this guy. He's crazy. He's the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Joe Rogan of pharmacy. Mister Sean Narron, founder of a
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: core pharmacy.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Love this guy.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: He's in the independent community pharmacy sector of our voting.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: But really, John, you and I were just talking about
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: this before recording. I think he's the very first official
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: long term care pharmacy at home player in the nation.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: I'd like to figure that out, but I bet you
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: he could claim that.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: I'm sure he would love to claim that Sean's a
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: valuable commodity, not just for value drug before the profession.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: He promotes patient care and the model he has at
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: a core it's phenomenal. It's a closed door delivery basically
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: every single week, and he's involved. He's one of the
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: first gentlemen in Western Pennsylvania to have a healthcare worker.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: And in his practice, it's just the stuff that he does.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: He's always cutting edge. He'll tell you he always if
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: you ever go to his pharmacy, he will always tell
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: you that he wants everything to be sexy. He wants
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: a sexy pharmacy. Personally, you know, he's we call him.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: He's in the.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Western Pennsylvania group, the Militant Pharmacist. We all get together,
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: we always call him. His nickname is the Irish Consigliari,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: So we want to make him feel like he's the
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: mall boss of pharmacy kind of.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: He can pull that off.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I thought he can't very well trust me very well.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: And plus he's got multiple talents. If he's he's a
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Joe Rogan of pharmacy.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: He reminds me of Joe Rogan. He does need his
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: own podcast. I'm still after him to join the network
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: and develop it. So Sean shout out to you. We
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: need to we need you to podcast more. Hey, we're
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: going to take a quick message. We're going to be
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: right back.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Hey, Pharmacy podcast listeners, this is Brady Eerie, the producer
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: at the Pharmacy Podcast Network. I'd like to thank all
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: of our listeners and voters for participating in the Pharma
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: fifty Awards. I'd also like to thank one of the
• 20:02
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• 20:21
  Speaker 7: now back to the show.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Hey, we are back.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Pharmacy fifty Awards twenty twenty five. We are headed into
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: sharing number forty five on the list. Elaine Ramos she's
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: community engagement specialist. She's a pharmacy technician out of Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: It's so good to see pharmacy technicians being voted on
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: the Pharmacy fifty Awards because they are the right hands
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: of our pharmacists.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I tell you, we just referenced that last Executive Dose
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: podcast and I think a good thirty percent of it
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: was dedicated to the value and importance and growing importance
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that pharmacy technicians play. And again, most people probably undervalue
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: what they do, but clearly in just the last year,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I've learned a lot more about the importance of fact.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: What we're doing at a company is when we're looking
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: at ways of doing things differently and how we communicate promote.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: We don't think just pharmacy anymore pharmacists, I should say,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: we're now thinking pharmacists, pharmacy tech and asking those questions
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: of the different groups to make sure that if we
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: need to customize something or do something that'll be more
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: effective or more meaningful, we're not just lumping everybody together,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: but we're trying to be more critical of what we
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: do and how we say it.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I also want to say that having pharmacy
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: technicians start learning different pathways of how to grow their
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: own careers. To Backfiel, what is going to be needed
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: when pharmacies start taking on a lot more clinical discussions
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: and treatment management? A Laine actually works with kids, so
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: she is really a specialist within her sector as a
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: communey engagement specialist with children. So that's awesome to hear.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Shout out to you, Elaine, congratulations. Hey, number forty four
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: is a special pharmacist, a friend of mine I've known
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Llli Haverin. Doctor Haverin is with Walgreens in their Specialty
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Pharmacy division. She is director of Clinical Pharmacy Strategy. She
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: actually is going on vacation as we speak, as we're
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: here right now, She's actually going to be going on
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: vacation with her family. So safe travels to you.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Lally.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to see you at a sembia or the ANACDS.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: But do you get either of one of you?
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Know of Lollly.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I've met her once a long time ago, but that's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: sure she wouldn't remember me. But I hope she is
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: going somewhere warm with her family because it's pretty cold outside.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Right beca' seen this morning here in Pittsburgh.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Number forty three, I met Jordan Nordy
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: or Norday. Doctor Norday is a social media influencer. She's
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: an entrepreneur, she's a speaker. She's so young, but she
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: is so professional and she's so packed with business information understanding.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: She has an MBA, she has her farm D. She's
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: being picked up by local organizations in the Saint Louis,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Missouri area to speak on women's health, to speak on
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: different issues. She is a future shining star, and I
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: want everybody to pay attention to doctor Nordy because she's
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: out there, she's doing.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Things that's awesome.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: You know what's great so far we've only got through
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: the first ten and what the diversity of people young, old,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: all over the country. That just tells you how much
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: this particular track of profession can be special. And I
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: think that's what's great to see.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: I think when you look at the progression of the
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: student pharmacists, the NBA program at a lot of these
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: universities now it's sought after, so you have multiple pathways
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: where you can get a dual degree, not just your
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: farm D. When you get out. And I know several
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: successful younger students now that have that MBA behind it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: We always push the business end of it, just because
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: pharmacy is a business. At the end of the day,
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: we have to keep the doors open somehow.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You know, that's a really good point because I think
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of times people go a pharmacist. If you
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: have one hundred good pharmacists, you only have three good
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: business prema people. And I think, you know, that's kind
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of a flipping comment, But the point is is that
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: they are business people, maybe not the you know, traditionally
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: as strong as what we might think. So if you
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: have a program that can enhance a farm d with
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: an MBA or something like that, that's that's really sharp
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: because I think that will allow this run and renaissance
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to keep going because it's going to take managing both
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: sides of caring for patients and running a business ensure
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that we continue to do all the things that we
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: should do at the pharmacy level.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: And both of you are bringing up ideas because in
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: my head, and that is with the shift and changing
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: role of our farm system, to have an MBA to
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: really understand how to structure and scale your own business
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: is one thing. But even if you work for a
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: health system, even if you work in specially pharmacy, having
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: that MBA internal to a company that you work for
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: is only going to benefit you from a business perspective.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: So I love this.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Well a diversity. I mean, look at we went back
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: and we had the techs, right, you know, we were
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: thinking about progression of growth. I never even thought about this,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: but one of the one of the progressions for a
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: good tech if they weren't going to stay as a tech,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: is coming into the pharmaceutically and into the sales side
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: of things. Maybe not as an MSL, but that would
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: be a powerful person to be in the role of
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: communication and sales for us. So the crossover and the
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: better understanding the interdependency and understanding how the whole system works,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: which is really what executive does, is about right. We're
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: trying to uncover all the different dynamics and how influences
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the delivery healthcare, especially at the pharmacy level.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: So this is awesome, all right.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Number forty two coming in from a passionate pharmacist that
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: we all know. I've known doctor Alex Barkey for probably
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: ten years now. I look up to him. He's a
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: leader on our pharmacy. He's been part of APHA for years.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: He's working for Vascant and and he's he's the senior
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: director of Client Success at Vassant and he's the immediate
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: past president of the American Pharmacists Association.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: John, have you had a chance to meet Alex?
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: So the funny thing is I met Alex at APHA
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: and I didn't know him. And I met him when
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: he gave his pre acceptance speech when he was running
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: for president. So literally two individuals running for president that
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: give their their speech of why pick me? And I
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: was literally sitting in the crowd and I went up
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: to him afterwards and I said, I'm voting for you
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: for one reason. I hear passion in your voice, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: I said, we need more passionate pharmacist in our profession.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: So yeah, great guy. You know, interact him several times afterwards.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: And that's the type of leadership we're looking for on
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: a national level.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: There's no ego with this guy either. He's he's so gentle.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Give him.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: He's a big guy. He makes me look tiny. I
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: walk up to him, give him a big hug. He's
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: just he's a servant leader, doesn't I know I'm only
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: five seven.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I know you are. You do make me
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: look like a dwarf, all right.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Coming in number forty one is Daniel Mullens, doctor Daniel Mullins.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: He is in the academia and pharmacy education space. He's
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. I am
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: so excited to see teachers and professor professors of the
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: future of pharmacy on this list.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I think that's so important. And I just, I know, I.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Know with the the handoff, the when I almost feel
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: like we're running a race with younger pharmacist student pharmacists,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: you pass that baton, John. You have so much connection
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: into pharmacy students through Ducane University. How does being an
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: influencer and being a professor, how does that kind of
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: fuse together?
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: I think the main thing is, you know, all these
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: student pharmacists they meet a good teacher or a practice example,
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: and then that person becomes a mentor later on for them.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: You might not have every question answered when you're in
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: your four year degree on your professional phase, but you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: I just I think just between Ducane, University of Pittsburgh
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: some other schools that I'm affiliated with, you know, I'm
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: just I'm thinking of doctor Mark Harold at Dukane the
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: Gentleman's won the top professor in pharmacy school for twenty
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: five years. There is a reason why that person and
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: no matter where you go in the field, you mentioned
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: that individual's name, and everybody knows who he is, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: they all have a good story about how they help them.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: Every student struggles. We all struggled at pharmacy school. We
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: all made it out somehow. Yeah, but when you have
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: someone like Daniel that is actually recognized, it's it's great
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: to see that that's part of the Top fifty this year.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, thank you so much, doctor Daniel Mullins for your
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: work and for your commitment, And thanks everybody out there
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: that voted for him and showing up for the importance
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: of academia and the future of our pharmacy educators. Thank
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: you so much. All right, come in in number forty.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: No stranger to the pharmacy fifty list. No stranger to
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: doing things differently and and and doing and being an entrepreneur.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Doctor Amina occubar Avant Pharmacy and Wellness Center over there
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: in the Philadelphia area.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I think right, is it out there?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Do you know where pharmacy is at further south, further south,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: further Jersey or something?
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Huh, I want to say, Carolina, but I might be wrong.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what you have on the Thing's Charlotte North.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Charlotte right there.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Why don't I read, buddy?
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Come on, that's right?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: So nice to him, just gently saying, trying to get
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: invited back.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: The show is is this anyway? Like what's going on?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: John is perfect though, Hey, just keep thinking a little
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: bit further stuff, just gently going.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Mina is absolutely dynamic. She is.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Very infectious and passionate and thinks of ways to use
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: clinical services as an education tool for her patients. I
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: just love her whole attitude and what she's doing. I
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: want to say congratulations to Amina.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: I would say too that most of her success, and
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: we've heard this word at least two or three times
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: so far, is the versification. Yes, she has diversified her
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: model and that is why she has been successful.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, real quick question with diversity, it has definitely
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: come up, and pharmacy has to be but a pharmacy
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: could also really hold a key value if they own
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: an area too, right, So whether it be women's health
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: or something like that. But the point is what I'm
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: seeing is that pharmacy, if they can do the core
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: stuff well I always say like functional intelligence, that's they
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: can dispense drugs, they can manage patients, do it. And
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: then there's situational intelligence, and that's that they're figuring out
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: we're in their community or in their region, they can
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: make a difference or influence either because there's not resource
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: there or there's just a tremendous need for something that
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: would make a difference in terms of quality life or
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: something like that. So I really and that's again came
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: up in our last podcast, is that we have to
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: be able to give more service because quite frankly, you
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: can see it right. You can see that the need
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and demand is starting to grow again at pharmacy and
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: they're going to be able to service it if they
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: have the resources do so and ingenuity and creativity.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: And I think when you go back to customer service,
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: we always think of service as the number one thing
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: that pharmacy offers. COVID probably took a lot of that
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: customer service away and you had that whatever two to
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: three year window where there just wasn't customer service. Now
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: that it all is coming back, that's part of the
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: the magic of what makes pharmacy or someone like an
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: Amina special because she goes beyond the traditional model of
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: just pining in five and putting it in a bottle.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: And I guess that when we're thinking about independent pharmacy,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: because up until a year ago, and I'm in my fifties,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I never went into an independent pharmacist in my life.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know why, but I just nothing against the
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: cvs IS and the national pharmacy organizations we have. They
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: all provide value. But it has been a truly refreshing
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: experience in just last year because in the last couple months,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I've had some unexpected health issues that kind of piled
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: on to themselves. And to have that connection with my
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: local pharmacist and what they've done, even you know, navigating
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: coverage and payment, to making sure everything was kosher in
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: terms of drug drug interaction or whatever it might have been,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: it took it to a whole new level and I
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: appreciate and that's why I'm very, very convinced that the
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: renaissance of independent pharmacy and pharmacy in general will continue
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: to grow.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Shout out to him to Amina, I can't wait to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: see you at APHA or the NCPA, but we got
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: to get you on twerks all right. Number thirty nine
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: is doctor Olton McLoone and he's a clinical hematology oncology pharmacist,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: a health system pharmacy. He's from UPMC. He is a Pittsburgh.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: We were talking before we start recording about the significance
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: of Pittsburgh and pharmacy and how Statlanders started here which
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: was the beginning of specialty, and how community pharmacy has
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: expanded here through technology. We have technology companies that actually
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: started here that have been gobbled up into the mckessons
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: of the world. And Red Sale has roots in Pittsburgh.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: So Pittsburgh and pharmacy is a big deal.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: I can just to go back in time. I was
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: an intern at stat Landers.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Oh well, you're absolutely right. I mean, everybody wants to
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: think about Boston or Philadelphia, New Jersey, maybe Atlanta, San
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Francisco is the hubs of where are just you know,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: some of the East West coast major cities. But Pittsburgh
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: does have a tremendous mound. There's a lot of other
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: businesses that I'm associated working with as potential partners in
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: the area of managed care and delivery of drug free
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Market health is another one that's started up here in Pittsburgh,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: which they have a very cool model that they're working on. So, yeah,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is underrated in terms of what they're doing and
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: delivering healthcare and obviously from the medical side, you know,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: University of Pittsburgh and yeah, I mean go on and
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: going on. If we had more time.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll get I want to get Alton in there.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I want to get you PMC on the show sometime
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: and just talk to them about the evolution of what
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: they're doing.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: It's they're a big system.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Hey, a shout out to my friend, somebody I've known
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: for over fifteen years. He's been an active marketer in
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: pharmacy forever. He runs Dispense Marketing and Dispense Times, which
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: is actually a publication that Steven has been featured in
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: several times. It's an up and coming of publication. It's
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: really on fire right now. Mister Josh Paristani, congratulations for
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: making the Pharmacy fifty. I think this is his second
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: or third year. So he's a fighter and he's out
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: there for independent community pharmacy.
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  Speaker 2: Number thirty eight. That's all we've gone to so far,
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  Speaker 2: and we must have had ten different categories. That tells
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  Speaker 2: you right there the diversity and importance of pharmacy absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: A shout out to doctor Yalda Olcott, vice President of
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  Speaker 3: Health Operations and Customer Service. She's had a greater Minneapolis
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  Speaker 3: Saint Paul area. She's in the Technology and Digital health
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  Speaker 3: section and just everything that she does and focuses on
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  Speaker 3: clinical operations, technology background, understanding how technology plays into patient care.
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  Speaker 3: She really believes in social media influence, but the world
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  Speaker 3: of technology and pharmacy that is fused together. She works
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  Speaker 3: for Noomom, which is kind of a direct consumer model,
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  Speaker 3: but the backbone of what Neom's doing is spilling over
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  Speaker 3: into other platforms.
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  Speaker 4: So shout out to YadA.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks for listening to part one of the twenty
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  Speaker 7: twenty five Pharmacy Fifty Awards, recognizing the fifty most influential
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  Speaker 7: people in pharmacy. Be sure to come back for Part
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  Speaker 7: two next Saturday.