Gina Jeong

• Provide ambulatory pharmaceutical care to complex patients in collaboration with physicians and interdisciplinary care teams using approved protocols.
• Conduct comprehensive medication reviews to identify and resolve drug-related problems, medication discrepancies, and access barriers.
• Deliver evidence-based, cost-effective recommendations addressing high-risk medications (BEERS), polypharmacy, CNS burden, renal/hepatic dosing, drug interactions, and lab monitoring.
• Optimize therapy by adjusting subtherapeutic or supratherapeutic dosing, reducing pill burden, and improving adherence.

Certified Specialty Pharmacist

• Manage complex, high touch and high-cost medications with patient focused care to optimize adherence and clinical results through the application of URAC/ACHC guidelines.
• Initiate prior authorizations and drug enrollment and financial assistance programs to expedite coverage and access for patients in need of treatment.
• Serve as regulatory lead in specialty pharmacy leadership ensuring compliance with URAC and ACHC guidelines and oversee onboarding for new employees, including orientation and training. Manage and maintain HR files to meet regulatory standards, conduct audits of onboarding and HR processes.

Transitions of Care Pharmacist

• Assist with patient discharges as a Meds-to-Beds Pharmacist, performing comprehensive medication reconciliations and providing detailed counseling on discharge medications.
• Ensure high-risk patients receive thorough medication consultations and education to prevent rehospitalization and enhance post-discharge outcomes.
• Collaborate directly with healthcare providers to streamline the discharge medication process, including making necessary medication adjustments to address insurance approvals and financial constraints.
• Work with providers to adjust, monitor, and recommend changes in drug therapy in alignment with current clinical guidelines.
• Coordinate with nurses and case managers to facilitate the timely delivery of discharge medications, ensuring seamless transitions of care for patients.

Advanced Pharmacist Clinical Intervention Program (APCIP)

• Oversee comprehensive medication reviews, conduct drug interaction checks, and assess new medications to ensure appropriateness and improve patient health outcomes.
• Adjust, monitor, and recommend changes in drug therapy under collaborative practice protocols, including providing medication refills and ongoing management.
• Initiate prior authorizations and drug enrollment and financial assistance programs to expedite coverage and access for patients in need of treatment.

Outpatient pharmacist

• Process and dispense medications efficiently in a high volume outpatient pharmacy, ensuring accuracy and timeliness while managing inventory and maintaining pharmacy records.
• Consult patients on medication use, including drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and storage, and provide clinical support to providers and the multidisciplinary team, including conducting medication therapy reviews and recommending adjustments to therapy as needed.

• Influenced pharmacy teams to enhance patient outcomes by motivating staff to uphold key metrics and deliver exceptional service.
• Led pharmacy staff to ensure compliance with patient safety, regulatory standards, quality assurance, and effective workflow management.
• Provided immunizations to patients following CDC recommendations.
• Worked in specialty pharmacies, including Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Walgreens Pharmacy, Roxbury Walgreen’s Specialty Pharmacy, and APLA HIV/AIDs Walgreen’s Specialty Pharmacy, focusing on diverse patient needs.