This week on Race to Value, we are excited to celebrate Pharmacy Week – it is a time to recognize the invaluable contributions pharmacists and technicians make to patient care in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and other healthcare settings, and to raise patients’ and colleagues’ awareness about the vital role pharmacists play on the healthcare team. Our guests this week are mavens in aligning pharmacy and value-based care. In this episode, we discuss the importance of women in leadership, the impact of drug prices on minoritized communities, vaccine equity, the relationship between SDOH and medication adherence, pharmacy integration, and vaccine science and effectiveness research.

Melissa Murer Corrigan was founding Executive Director and CEO of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) in Washington, D.C. from 1994-2011. Melissa’s leadership launched the PTCB program that has now certified over 600,000 pharmacy technicians working across the United States. Murer Corrigan embraced ambition, took risks, and was the only woman on the PTCB Board of Governors during her 17-year tenure as CEO.

In 2012 Melissa joined the ACT as Vice President of Social Impact and sits on the Board of Directors for the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy. Melissa has served as adjunct faculty with the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy since 2013. She has been named a Fellow of both the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Association and the American Pharmacists Association.

Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, also known as “JAM," is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Loma Linda University, School of Pharmacy and a Critical Care Infectious Disease pharmacist, and an Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics/ Pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) Research Fellow at Wayne State University under the tutelage of Dr. Michael J. Rybak PharmD, MPH, PhD. Her dedication to improving public health has been recognized by the United States Public Health Services, as she was the 2017 recipient of the USPHS Outstanding Service Award. Additionally, her research has led her to be recognized by the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases one of their 30 under 30 outstanding young scientists, for their ECCMID 2021 31st annual meeting.

 

Episode Bookmarks:

02:00 Introduction to Melissa Murer Corrigan and Dr. Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir (Dr.JAM)

04:00 The importance of National Pharmacy Week

05:30 Overcoming the dominant idea of patriarchy in business and medicine and honoring strong women by allowing them to lead

07:30 Melissa on the celebration of women in leadership and how men can serve as allies and advocates

08:30 Reflecting on women in pharmacy leadership (e.g. Rosalind Brewer, the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance)

09:20 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to create a “growth mindset” within women

10:30 Dr. JAM on the steps taken to towards improving gender equity within the pharmaceutical workforce

12:00 Prescription drugs are the fastest growing healthcare expenditure and consistently outpace other health spending

13:00 Biden administration support for legislation to empower the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices with Big Pharma

14:00 Melissa on providing patients with the access to medications they need so they are “not making choices between treatment and buying groceries”

14:30 Dr. JAM on how drug prices impact individuals in minoritized communities

15:30 Utilizing the approach to equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to the provision of lifesaving medications to underserved communities

17:00 The role that pharmacies have to positively impact and address the systemic health disparities in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods

17:30 Referencing AJMC research showing that Black individuals who received medication therapy management services from a pharmacist significantly improved their diabetes

18:30 Dr.

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