Clinical Pharmacy Manager - Ambulatory CDTM (JR233069

Introduction
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This position is responsible for effectively enhancing the drug therapy outcomes of patients at the Medical Center. This is accomplished through continual assessment of the appropriateness, safety, efficacy and outcomes of pharmacotherapy medication through direct patient care, education to health system personnel and the provision of pharmacotherapy-related outcomes research and performance improvement initiatives.

• As a member of an interdisciplinary heath care team, provides safe and effective patient care to a diverse range of patients, including those with multiple co-morbidities, high-risk, high-cost medication regimens, and multiple medications following a consistent patient care process.
  • Continual monitoring and assessment of drug usage and expenditures via attendance at medical team rounds. Monitors and motivates the medical staff toward enhancing patient/drug therapy outcomes.
  • Documentation of enhanced outcomes through periodic review of select patient/drug therapy scenarios.
  • Continual assessment of physicians’ prescribing habits and appropriateness, safety and efficacy of drug use.
• Develops and maintains collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM) (ambulatory practice) or “dosing per pharmacy” agreements (inpatient setting) thereby assuming professional responsibility for performing patient assessments, selecting, initiating, monitoring, continuing, and adjusting drug regimens, ordering laboratory tests and patient counseling for selected disease states.
  • Documentation of enhanced outcomes through periodic review of select patient/drug therapy outcomes.
  • Continual monitoring and assessment of the protocol's performance and quality of care.
  • Assessment of the protocol's cost effectiveness.
• Leverages the data from data resources, including Premier Quality Advisor, Service Line Analytics, and the Epic Business Universe to perform cost-effectiveness and comparative efficacy analyses on high-cost pharmaceuticals and evaluate variation of prescribing patterns of high cost and/or high-risk agents.
  • Aligning the efforts of the Pharmacy Department to Medical Center health-system initiatives through the Center for Pharmacotherapy Research and Quality, the Network Performance Group and Patient and Medication and Patient Safety.
  • Maintaining sustained cost savings through ongoing performance improvement (PI) initiatives aimed to reduce cost through ensuring appropriate utilization.
  • Documentation of completed or ongoing outcomes research or performance improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrate an ability to manage formulary and medication-use processes, as applicable to the Medical Center.
  • Prepares drug monographs and conducts formulary class reviews for consideration of the P&T Committee.
  • Avoidance of costly formulary medication additions with poor supporting evidence.
  • Re-evaluation of formulary medication additions for outcomes improvement.
• Provide effective medication and practice-related education to patients, caregivers, health care professionals, residents, fellows and students, and the public through lectures and publications.
  • Documenting the number of educational programs to the medical and nursing staff.
  • Document the number of publications, abstracts or posters annually.
  • Provide annually at least one ACPE-accredited continuing education lecture to the Montefiore Health System pharmacy staff.
• Precept and advise both Doctor of Pharmacy students PGY1 pharmacy residents during their acute care learning experiences or research/performance improvement projects.
  • Document…