Board-Certified Clinical Pharmacist and Professor

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I develop and lead clinical programs that help stakeholders use and advance medication management tools (e.g., formularies, pharmacy, and therapeutics committees and medication therapy management), quality metrics, research methodologies, and health information technology. Currently, I am a Medical Director for Optum Serve and a Professor at Texas Tech University and Arizona College of Nursing, having co-authored numerous papers in the areas of infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacogenomics, and therapies in the lung transplant population. I started and operationalized system-level programs at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and am also the founder of MedOp Advisors, a concierge medication, nutrition, and complementary wellness advisory group. I have experience in medication utilization statistical analyses to demonstrate adherence to evidence-based practice guidelines and inform health program policies. I examine pharmacoeconomic trends and strive to ensure a cost-effective pharmacy benefit is administered to members, as well as consult with the care management team to provide guidance regarding member goals. I also conducts physician training and staff education regarding medication trends and utilization, identification and mitigation for potential medication fraud, waste and abuse, and collaborate in disease management and population health programs. In addition to receiving my LEAN/Six Sigma Certification and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree, I holds degrees in finance, international business, business administration, and biochemistry. My other experiences include statewide non-profit economic development and business intelligence, adjunct professor of technology and time management, finance, banking, and corporate development liaison to NASA.