Clinical Pharmacist - Abdominal Transplant MGH

Overview

Massachusetts General Hospital is currently seeking highly motivated candidates to join our clinical transplant pharmacy team. This clinical position is for a full-time Abdominal Transplant Clinical Pharmacist. The Solid Organ Transplant Clinical Pharmacist will cover abdominal transplant patients, serving as an expert of transplant pharmacotherapy for the interdisciplinary transplant teams.

This position requires application of advanced transplant training to lead: immunosuppressive and opportunistic infection discussion on interdisciplinary rounds, transplant education for patients and healthcare professionals, transplant protocols and guidelines, quality improvement and research projects, and transplant training for the PGY-2 transplant resident and additional learners. The Transplant Clinical Pharmacists are recognized as exceptional resources to the Pharmacy and Transplant Departments, with whom they collaborate closely.

Clinical Pharmacists assume responsibility and accountability for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. They provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel to deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. They are aligned with target interdisciplinary programs and specialty services to deliver medication therapy management and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are integrated throughout the institution.

Pharmaceutical care services include, but are not limited to, assessing patient needs, incorporating age and disease-specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education, adjusting care according to patient response, and providing clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events. They serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups, and manage the appropriate use of medications according to professional and regulatory standards.

They conduct practice-related research and patient care, quality, and regulatory compliance initiatives to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice. They provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for pharmacy residents and Doctor of Pharmacy students.

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• Lead immunosuppressive and opportunistic infection discussions on interdisciplinary rounds for abdominal transplant patients.
• Provide transplant education for patients and healthcare professionals.
• Develop and follow transplant protocols and guidelines; participate in quality improvement and research projects.
• Provide transplant training for the PGY-2 transplant resident and additional learners.
• Serve as a resource to the Pharmacy and Transplant Departments and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams.
• Deliver direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy services to optimize medication therapy.
• Engage in practice-related research, regulatory compliance initiatives, and education/training for staff and students.

Required:

• Must be eligible for licensure to practice pharmacy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Board Certification by examination, or equivalent certification, in the relevant specialty is preferred, required within 18 months of hiring.

Preferred:

• Completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 and PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacy Residency or Fellowship.

Experience:

• Experience working as a pharmacist 2-3 years preferred.

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?

• No

• Pharmacist [State License] - Generic - HR Only required
• Massachusetts Controlled Substances Registration (MCSR) - Massachusetts Department of Public Health preferred

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• Attention to detail.
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