The BPS Board-Certified Pharmacist Podcast

Join our host Ellie LaNou, BPS Director of Professional Affairs, as she talks with Amanda Charlton, PharmD; Krystal Haase, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCP; and Tim Jones, PharmD, about their research projects as the 2022-2023 BPS Seed Grant Recipients. They share background on why they pursued their research, what they have found, and what hopes they have for future research into board certification.

Dr. Charlton and Dr. Haase's project, titled ‘Distribution and Accessibility of Board-Certified Pharmacists’, aims to identify the geographic distribution of board-certified pharmacists within the United States, analyze their relation to existing health care accessibility patterns, and characterize any drivers that enhance the accessibility a patient may have to a board-certified pharmacist.

On today's episode, host Ellie LaNou, BPS Director of Professional Affairs, is joined by Rosana Steavenson, a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist and board-certified psychiatric pharmacist at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Their discussion dives into Rosana's experience with credentialing and privileging at the VA, the role of board certification in gaining and maintaining a scope of practice, and Rosana’s vision for other institutions to implement credentialing and privileging processes, allowing qualified pharmacists to practice at advanced levels.

On this episode, guest host, Aneesh Asokan, PharmD, MBA and BPS Executive Resident, is joined by Holly Divine, PharmD, BCACP, BCGP, CDCES, FAPhA, and Clark Kebodeaux, PharmD, BCACP, to discuss their role in Community-based Pharmacy Residency Programs (CPRPs) and their views on board certification. In this roundtable discussion, these two colleagues remark on the evolution of community-based residencies within the pharmacy profession and the necessity of pharmacists that practice in the ambulatory space. 

Join our host Ellie LaNou, BPS Director of Professional Affairs, as she talks with Hunter Fly, PharmD, and Adam Moss, PharmD, MPS, about their research projects as the 2021-2022 BPS Seed Grant Awardees. They discuss trends and findings of their projects to date, as well as what they hope to find as they continue their dive into pharmacist board certification.

On this episode, Ellie LaNou, PharmD, BCPS, is joined by Chris Edwards, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, chair of the BPS Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Specialty Council, to discuss the emergency medicine pharmacy certification examination debuting in 2023. Chris offers his insights to the process of how a specialty certification is created as he and his emergency medicine pharmacy colleagues have worked at the center of the peer-developed and peer-reviewed specialty examination. Chris also shares his background in finding emergency medicine pharmacy and what he is most excited for as this credential goes live.

On this episode, Ellie LaNou, PharmD, BCPS, is joined by Stephanie Gaston, RPh, BCACP, one of the 2021 BPS Ambassadors. Stephanie explains how she reached a point in her career where she began to ask herself "what's next?" and found her answer with board certification in ambulatory care pharmacy (BCACP). She also shares her advice to those considering board certification at any point in their career and the value she sees in her everyday practice.

On this episode, Ellie LaNou, PharmD, BCPS, is joined by the Chair of the Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board (CPRB), Melanie Danilak, BSc. Pharm, ACPR, MEd; and Chief Pharmacy Officer of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Christina Cella, RPh, BSc. Pharm, ACPR, DPLA. They discuss the impact of BPS Certification, the acknowledgement of CPRB year 1 residencies within specialty certification eligibility criteria, and what our guests envision the future of pharmacy in Canada to look like.

On this episode, Ellie LaNou, PharmD, BCPS, is joined by 2020 BPS Seed Grant Recipients, Vasyl Zbyrak, PharmD, BCPS, and Lauren Pamulapati, PharmD, BCACP, as they detail their process to identify the factors associated with increased job satisfaction among BPS Board-Certified pharmacists in Virginia. They discuss how this topic became of interest and the broader applications of the information they found in the current pharmacy landscape.

On this episode, Ellie LaNou, BPS Director of Professional Affairs, PharmD, BCPS is joined by 2020 BPS Seed Grant Recipients, Charlie Summerlin, PharmD, MS, BCPS, and Kayla Waldron, PharmD, MS, BCPS as they describe their research into a standardized process to measure the impact of board-certified pharmacists based in clinical practice. They describe how they developed the process and how their findings can be implemented in a wide range of practice settings.