Edward Thomas Pappert
Bloomfield Hills,MI
Summary
Proactive and goal-oriented licensed pharmacist with over a decade of medical/pharmacy related education and experience. A strong leader known for reliability and adaptability with extensive experience in research, administration, vaccinations, and customer service. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Grade Potential Tutoring
03.2025 - 02.2026
- Worked in a specialized department focused on preparing graduate level students for standardized tests and licensing exams (NAPLEX, MCAT, USMLE, DAT, NCLEX etc).
- Worked with special education students at varying levels of age, education, skill, and disability, who needed more individualized help.
Graduate Intern Pharmacist
Walgreens Community Pharmacy
Chicago, IL
09.2023 - 01.2025
- Self-motivated with leadership experience and strong sense of personal responsibility. Experience keeping the staff together during a period of high turnover, managing floating pharmacists, employee schedules, working with the store and district managers to hire/fire employees while transitioning between new pharmacy and technician managers and remodeling of the pharmacy.
- Experience training new employees, direct training in managing a pharmacy from a managerial standpoint, managing budgets, employees, and inventory.
- Extensive experience giving vaccinations (Covid, flu, MMR, Tdap, pneumo) and counseling patients.
- Experience using the Walgreens medication/patient profile computer system, managing vaccination/medication payments, dealing with insurance/payment issues and other operational duties.
Lombard Community Pharmacy
05.2023 - 07.2023
- Experience operating in a mail-order based community pharmacy - prepping medications for shipment, correcting medication errors, verifying prescriptions, and dealing with patient medication issues remotely.
- Extensive experience compounding medications (sterile and non-sterile) in a community setting.
UI Health Specialty Pharmacy Administration
08.2022 - 10.2022
- Experience working in pharmacy administration, running departments from a managerial perspective, managing employee satisfaction, creating excel based tools to improve work output.
- Experience working with URAC accreditation pharmacists and going through an accreditation process for a specialty pharmacy.
UIC Center of Biomolecular Sciences
09.2019 - 02.2020
- Experience using the computer program GOLD (Genetic Optimisation for Ligand Docking), a genetic algorithm for docking flexible ligands into protein binding sites to conduct molecular docking studies.
- Worked with drug companies to conduct molecular docking studies to gather information to be incorporated into the drug companies data/clinical trials to be used to help formulate their new drugs.
Mariano’s Community Pharmacy
Chicago, IL
01.2019 - 04.2019
- Experience operating in a community pharmacy environment in a large grocery store chain - working with pharmacy techs, medication filling, counseling patients, dealing with inventory management, managing non-medication related operation duties.
- Dispensed medications according to prescriptions, ensuring accuracy and patient safety.
- Assisted pharmacists in medication therapy management, enhancing patient adherence to treatment plans.
Wayne State University
01.2016 - 08.2017
- Worked with Dr. Aikins, a neuroscience and clinical researcher who works with military veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Our research focused on neuroplasticity as a model for conceptualizing traumatic stress responses, risk and resilience models of PTSD and possible approaches for PTSD treatment.
- Worked with Doctors Leff and Rillema researching the lasting effects of PTSD on the normal function of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal gland Axis. Wrote an extensive research thesis and gave a presentation on my findings in front of an auditorium of medical professionals/researchers.
Lyman Briggs, Michigan State University PCR Laboratory
09.2013 - 03.2014
- Led research team in a Cystic Fibrosis lab. Developed DNA primers to identify the R553X nonsense mutation of Cystic Fibrosis and used Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Gel Electrophoresis to create an improved genetic assay to more accurately recognize and diagnose the mutation in patients with Cystic Fibrosis.
Education
Doctorate of Pharmacy -
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy
Chicago, IL07-2023
Masters of Science - undefined
Wayne State University Basic Medical Science Masters Program
Detroit, MI05-2017
Bachelor of Science - Zoology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI05-2015
Skills
- Computer Programming - Microsoft Office, JAVA, Python
- Vaccination administration and Patient Counseling
- Customer Service - Experience dealing with insurance/payment issues
- Language - Extensive background working with non-english speaking patients
- Compounding/Hazardous Drugs - Experience with USP795, USP797, and USP800
- Leadership/Administration - Experience hiring/firing new staff, running a pharmacy
Timeline
Grade Potential Tutoring
03.2025 - 02.2026
Graduate Intern Pharmacist
Walgreens Community Pharmacy
09.2023 - 01.2025
Lombard Community Pharmacy
05.2023 - 07.2023
UI Health Specialty Pharmacy Administration
08.2022 - 10.2022
UIC Center of Biomolecular Sciences
09.2019 - 02.2020
Mariano’s Community Pharmacy
01.2019 - 04.2019
Wayne State University
01.2016 - 08.2017
Lyman Briggs, Michigan State University PCR Laboratory
09.2013 - 03.2014
Masters of Science - undefined
Wayne State University Basic Medical Science Masters Program
Bachelor of Science - Zoology
Michigan State University
Doctorate of Pharmacy -
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy