Job Responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:
- Faculty will develop an innovative clinical practice in an in-patient or ambulatory care setting and serve as a preceptor and role model for students on introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences
- Faculty will provide didactic classroom teaching and recitation instruction on campus
- Faculty will provide service on college committees, will attend and participate in departmental meetings, and will perform other faculty duties as appropriate
- Faculty will contribute to new knowledge (research) through research activities, poster presentations, publications, obtaining grants and/or contracts, clinical trials and other scholarly work
- Faculty will 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 at the Dental Clinic 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 dentists 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 dentists 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 dental 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 dental providers and residents in areas identified by the dental providers (for example, antimicrobial spectrum/coverage, indications for anticoagulant discontinuation, duration of action, and reversal agents, 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 dental residents
- Lead and collaborate on research endeavors with dental school faculty and students
