S1 Ep190: Public Health Matters - Importance of Advocacy in Pharmacy

This week's episode features Kathy Pham, PharmD, BCPPS, senior director of Policy and Professional Affairs at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), who discusses her experience at ACCP and why advocacy is important to health care and the profession of pharmacy.Kathy Pham is the Senior Director of Policy and Professional Affairs at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. Pham came to ACCP from the Pew Charitable Trusts, where she served as Senior Officer of the Drug Safety Project. Her previous clinical experience has been in pediatric pharmacy practice, with the majority of that time spent as the NICU clinical specialist and pharmacy residency director at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Pham earned her PharmD degree from Rutgers and completed her pharmacy residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Pham leads ACCP's interprofessional stakeholder engagement to advance medication optimization. https://www.brown.edu/news/2023-01-11/pharmacy-addiction-treatmenthttps://www.genoahealthcare.com/pharmacists-can-start-patients-on-road-to-recovery-from-opioid-use-disorder-study-shows/