Jean Chinwe Mokeme
Summary
MD Degree. Pharm.D. Degree.
A highly motivated, enthusiastic clinical professional, willing to take on new challenges, capable of working on a wide range of projects and is very flexible when priorities changes. I am experienced in clinical safety and efficacy monitoring. My technical skills, judgment, and experience are in accurately tracking, assessing seriousness, and expectedness, seeking follow-up information and decisions on expedited and periodic safety reporting. I have a working knowledge of the drug development process, the phases of clinical trials and the responsibility of the team. With the tightening of government regulations on the licensing of new drugs and re-licensing of existing drugs, it is ever so necessary to employ individuals like myself who has MD and Pharm.D. degrees. The Knowledge gained at FDA has further help me to understand how vital my role is as a healthcare professional. Extensive experience and knowledge in clinical pharmacy practice. Experienced in Administrative Management. Experience in Medicine. Experience in Anesthesiology. Knowledge in Pharmacology and Oncology.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Pharmacist / 2nd Lead Pharmacist
University of MD Health Systems
06.2020 - Current
Pharmacist/ Interim Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist
Capital Regions Health
06.2021 - Current
Oncology Clinical Pharmacist 1
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
05.2008 - Current
- Works collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to promote wellness and maintain Compliance with good clinical standards
- Works to promote the use of established investigational medication use policies and assist with the identification and development of new policies as they relate to the use of Investigational medications
- Provides education to patients, students, residents, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers
- Assumes a leadership role in the profession of Pharmacy
- Educate patients and healthcare providers
- Assist with medication history and reviews of patients with complex medication history.
- Provide drug interaction management along with dosage adjustments
- Management of antibiotic therapy (selection, monitoring, pharmacokinetic)
- Provide quality improvement and assurance
- Assist with transition to computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE)
- Assist with transition to EPIC from CPOE
- Became a liaison between the oncology clinic and inpatient pharmacy
- Provided regimen/drug therapy review, and pharmacokinetic monitoring for inpatient oncology units
- Preparation and dispensing of chemotherapy agents
- As well as disposed of wasted chemotherapeutic agents
- Conducted numerous drug literature search as well as medical search
- Evaluated numerous oncology treatment protocols, as well as participated in protocol development
- Evaluated numerous investigational drug study protocol in clinical trial
- Qualified patients based on the study protocol
- Kept accurate records of all studies
- Supports and participates in the institutional mission of providing quality patient-care, education and research
- Provided drug information to pharmacy staff as well as other healthcare providers
- My experience in oncology includes Solid tumor and Non-solid tumor, IDS and Critical care as well as Pain management.
Medical Reviewer
Global Drug Device and Medical
06.2008 - Current
- Conduct medical review of individual case safety reports (ICSRs) including identification of appropriate follow-up requests of important medical information for the proper medical assessment and evaluation of
- Nsures ICSRs are medically accurate, complete, coded appropriately (MedDRA), with appropriate causality assessment, seriousness and
- Nsures accuracy and timeliness of expedited reports and periodic reports from postmarketing surveillance and clinical
- Articipates in the identification, analysis and reporting of possible trends and concerns with company products including the identification and evaluation of safety signals through assessment of single case safety reports, aggregate trend analyses, and literature
- Articipate in the preparation and maintenance of Reference Safety Information (RSI) and product labeling (e.g
- Company Core Safety Information (CCSI), Investigator Brochure (1B), national labels)
- Ctively participate in a multidisciplinary Safety Management Team whose responsibilities include safety surveillance (signal detection and evaluation), risk management planning, and making recommendations related to safety issues
- Ollaborate with key stakeholders including business partners in appropriate safety analyses and risk assessment and management
- Uthor medical-safety sections of aggregate safety reports (DSUR, PBRER)
- Articipate in development of safety-related responses to queries from Regulatory Authorities
- Articipate in development of internal PV business infrastructure including standard operating procedures and work practice instructions to ensure seamless PV processes
- Maintain knowledge of Immunocore disease and therapeutic areas for marketed products and products in development
- Emonstrate knowledge and ensure compliance with applicable global PV regulations and guidelines (e.g
- CIOMS, FDA, EMA, ICH,)
- Oly Cross Health at Silver Springs
Clinical Pharmacist/ Lead Pharmacist
Glen Arden First Baptist Church Vaccination Clinic, Capital Regions Health
05.2021 - 06.2021
- Managed pharmacist and pharmacy technicians at the vaccine clinic, leading clinical care delivery to ensure optimal operations, staff management to meet demand, and pharmacy expertise
- Maintained patient and staff education, and resources
- Collaborated with leadership to set quality standards for pharmacy care and develop relevant policies and procedures
- Key Accomplishments:
- Interpreted and enforced various polices and protocols, ensuring uniform delivery of services and promoting quality assurance
- Implemented staff training and develop to ensure consistency of services, increasing patient visits from 1k per day to over 1.5k in only a few weeks
Division Director/Assistant Director of Pharmacy
laurel Medical Center
06.2020 - 05.2021
- Responsible for working collaboratively with the health care team to promote wellness
- Maintain current health, or intervene in acute or chronic illness as well as assisting the Director for the Pharmacy Division with managerial responsibilities
- Promotes the safe and effective use of medications by consulting with other health care professionals concerning problems and instructs patients and families on their medications
- Managerial responsibilities include monitoring, recommending, and implementing changes to improve the operations of the department.
Clinical Staff Pharmacist
10.2014 - 05.2018
- Works collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to promote wellness and maintain Compliance with good clinical standards
- Assumes a leadership role in the profession of Pharmacy
- Educate patients and healthcare providers
- Assist with medication history and reviews of patients with complex medication history.
- Provide drug interaction management along with dosage adjustments
- Management of antibiotic therapy (selection, monitoring, pharmacokinetic)
- Provide quality improvement and assurance
- Became a liaison between the nursing team on nightshift and inpatient pharmacy
- Monitor and advice multi-disciplinary team of available pharmaceutical products, including there uses, and efficacy, equivalency to other products in the marketplace
- Provided regimen/drug therapy review, and pharmacokinetic monitoring
- Conducted numerous drug literature search as well as medical search
- Supports and participates in the institutional mission of providing quality patient-care and education.
- Ood and Drug Administration (FDA)
Medication Safety Evaluator
09.2013 - 09.2014
- To make a difference in protecting the health of the American people by serving as the consumer watchdog by ensure that safe and effective drugs are available to improve health and the health benefits outweigh known risks
- Participate in a multi-disciplinary team of Safety Evaluators responsible for the prevention and surveillance of medication errors associated with products, which are regulated by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
- To use post-marketing data, human factors engineering and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to assess the potential for the nomenclature, labeling, packaging, and design of products to contribute to errors during pre-approval and post-approval
- Utilizing medical-scientific judgment to determine the adequacy of the clinical documentation, the severity of the adverse reaction and possible causal relationship between the therapeutic agents and the adverse reactions
- To review, evaluate, interpret, analyze, and abstract pertinent adverse drug reaction report in the Adverse Events Report System (AERS)
- Ensure that the description of the event is appropriately captured in SAE verbatim term
- To follow-up with the appropriate team to obtain additional clinical information on adverse reactions reports considered a significant safety issue
- Review concomitant medications in perspective of the SAE that occurred and possible confounding effects from concomitant medication
- To prepare written summaries of clinical assessment of adverse reaction analyses
- To assess if there are other SAEs hidden in a given case that need to be reported with the event
- To maintain and updated knowledge of new developments in drug products and their application in order to anticipate possible safety and reporting problems.
Clinical Pharmacist & Medication Safety Officer
Mercy medical Center
Baltimore, MD
05.2007 - 06.2008
- Reporting to the Medication Safety Officer, assumes responsibility for coordinating of pharmacy division performance improvement and risk management efforts
- Works collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to promote wellness and maintain compliance with good clinical practice standards
- Pharmacokinetic drug monitoring and doing of renal impairing medication
- Check for correct patient ID throughout all reports included for medical review
- Make sure that the event as it was described is a credible and possible medical occurrence
- Ensure that the description of the event is appropriately captured in SAE verbatim term.
Registered Pharmacist
Advocate Rx Solutions
Baltimore, Maryland
07.2001 - 01.2008
- To operate in the pharmacy processing doctor’s medication orders, answering any clinical drug questions, checking for drug-drug or drug-food interaction, notifying the medical staff off any pre-existing allergies
- Compounding all the intravenous admixtures
- Basically, the duties of the pharmacist are to operate in the pharmacy in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Maryland State Board of Pharmacy.
Pharmacist (Assistant District Manager)
Kmart Pharmacy
, Maryland
03.2005 - 12.2007
- To supervise all Kmart pharmacist within the Maryland region
- Under general supervision, provides customer focused pharmaceutical care and oversees the efficient dispensing, processing, and recording of prescriptions issued by physicians, dentists, other authorized health care providers
- Communicates with providers to influence optimal drug information to patients and health care providers
- Participates in patient and provider educational programs to positively impact patient compliance and provider prescribing practices
- Oversees and directs pharmacy technician staff in the execution of technical functions
- Assists in cash and inventory control in accordance with departmental procedures and comply with all record keeping and legal requirement of the practice of pharmacy
- To ensure that the daily operation of the pharmacy is within compliance of the Maryland pharmacy laws
- To evaluate, hire, and terminate pharmacist for Kmart
- To represent Kmart pharmacy at Career fairs
- To operate in the pharmacy answering any clinical drug questions, checking for drug-drug or drug-food interaction
- This position upholds Kmart’s policies and procedures, the Principles of Responsibility, accreditation standards, and applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations notifying the medical staff off any pre-existing allergies
- Compounding all the intravenous admixtures
- The pharmacists are to operate in the pharmacy in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Maryland State Board of Pharmacy.
Staff Pharmacist
Wal-Mart Pharmacy
, Maryland
03.2002 - 04.2005
- Analyses patient care and services needs in a manner that facilitates the achievement of both a high level of customer satisfaction and the attainment of organizational care and service initiatives
- Reviews prescribe medications and dosages to ensure that therapy is safe and effective for the patient's condition
- Utilizes patient profiles to identify clinically significant drug allergies and drug interactions
- Processes and labels prescriptions with proper identification data and directions for patient use
- Compounds and dispenses medications accurately
- Provides advice and consultation to patients regarding side effects drug interactions, specific storage requirement and complete directions for use
- Monitors designated patients' compliance and response to drug therapy to improve individual patient outcomes
- Routinely communicates with providers to influence the use of formulary medications in compliance with clinical protocols, target drug initiatives and pre-authorized therapeutic substitutions
- Document all clinical interventions using approved forms
- Demonstrates proficiency in operating automated systems for prescription order entry, patient profile review or retrieval of clinical or statistical data
- Maintains proper records relating to medication profiles, prescription files, controlled substances records, non-formulary records and other legal and departmental record and procedures
- Demonstrates proficiency with the Point of Service (POS) cash register system and cash management procedures
- Serves as a liaison to assigned clinical care team as demonstrated by problem solving skills on medication related issues, input on education matters relating to medications and fostering interdepartmental coordination on pharmaceutical care initiatives
- Maintains professional competency through attendance and participation in clinical team meetings and ACPE accredited continuing education programs
- Assists in the training and education of pharmacy students and technicians
- Participates in departmental quality improvement initiatives and contributes to team or departmental projects directed toward the achievement of improved service efficiency and patient outcomes.
Registered Pharmacist
CVS Pharmacy
, Maryland
06.1998 - 01.1999
- Analyses patient care and services needs in a manner that facilitates the achievement of both a high level of customer satisfaction and the attainment of organizational care and service initiatives
- Reviews prescribe medications and dosages to ensure that therapy is safe and effective for the patient's condition
- Utilizes patient profiles to identify clinically significant drug allergies and drug interactions
- Processes and labels prescriptions with proper identification data and directions for patient use
- Compounds and dispenses medications accurately
- Provides advice and consultation to patients regarding side effects drug interactions, specific storage requirement and complete directions for use
- Monitors designated patients' compliance and response to drug therapy to improve individual patient outcomes
- Routinely communicates with providers to influence the use of formulary medications in compliance with clinical protocols, target drug initiatives and pre-authorized therapeutic substitutions
- Document all clinical interventions using approved forms
- Demonstrates proficiency in operating automated systems for prescription order entry, patient profile review or retrieval of clinical or statistical data
- Maintains proper records relating to medication profiles, prescription files, controlled substances records, non-formulary records and other legal and departmental record and procedures
- Demonstrates proficiency with the Point of Service (POS) cash register system and cash management procedures
- Serves as a liaison to assigned clinical care team as demonstrated by problem solving skills on medication related issues, input on education matters relating to medications and fostering interdepartmental coordination on pharmaceutical care initiatives
- Maintains professional competency through attendance and participation in clinical team meetings and ACPE accredited continuing education programs
- Assists in the training and education of pharmacy students and technicians
- Participates in departmental quality improvement initiatives and contributes to team or departmental projects directed toward the achievement of improved service efficiency and patient outcomes.
Education
Post Graduate Experiences - Residency
University of Maryland, Health system, Transitional medicine: Maryland General
Aug. 2007, Aug. 2007
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University of Maryland
June 2004
M.D. Degree - undefined
Ross University School of Medicine
May 2003
Pharm.D Degree - undefined
Howard University
May 1998
Skills
- Nationality
- USA citizen
- Benefits, Research
- Brochure, Risk assessment
- Cash management, Risk management
- Cash register, Safety
- Consulting, Scientific
- Consultation, Staff management
- Customer satisfaction, Staff training
- Delivery, Supervision
- Documentation, Technician
- English, Trend
- Forms, Written
- Good clinical practice, Author
- IDS
- Inventory control
- Leadership
- Legal
- Director
- Managerial
- Marketing
- Meetings
- Works
- Monitors
- Nursing
- Order entry
- Organizational
- Packaging
- Policies
- POS
- Problem solving skills
- Processes
- Protocols
- Quality
- Quality assurance
- Quality improvement
- Record keeping
- Recording
- Reporting
- Requirement
Affiliations
- American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) 2004- present
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacist (ASHP) 1996- present
- Kappa Epsilon, Fundraising Committee Co-Chairperson 1996-97, Member 1996- Present
- Student National Pharmacy Association (SnaPhA), Fundraising Committee Chairperson 1996-97, Member 1996- Present.
- American Pharmaceutical Association (AphA) 1996- Present.
- Doctor of Pharmacy Class of 1998, Fundraising Committee member 1995- present. Research
- A study to assess the compliance of HIV infected patients on Zidovudine (AZT) therapy.
Additional Information
- Honors and Awards , Ross University Dean’s List Howard University Board of Trustee Scholarship, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98 Howard University School of Pharmacy Dean’s Honor Roll, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98 Howard University Scholarship, 1995-96, 1996-97
Timeline
Pharmacist/ Interim Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist
Capital Regions Health
06.2021 - Current
Clinical Pharmacist/ Lead Pharmacist
Glen Arden First Baptist Church Vaccination Clinic, Capital Regions Health
05.2021 - 06.2021
Clinical Pharmacist / 2nd Lead Pharmacist
University of MD Health Systems
06.2020 - Current
Division Director/Assistant Director of Pharmacy
laurel Medical Center
06.2020 - 05.2021
Clinical Staff Pharmacist
10.2014 - 05.2018
Medication Safety Evaluator
09.2013 - 09.2014
Medical Reviewer
Global Drug Device and Medical
06.2008 - Current
Oncology Clinical Pharmacist 1
Johns Hopkins Hospital
05.2008 - Current
Clinical Pharmacist & Medication Safety Officer
Mercy medical Center
05.2007 - 06.2008
Pharmacist (Assistant District Manager)
Kmart Pharmacy
03.2005 - 12.2007
Staff Pharmacist
Wal-Mart Pharmacy
03.2002 - 04.2005
Registered Pharmacist
Advocate Rx Solutions
07.2001 - 01.2008
Registered Pharmacist
CVS Pharmacy
06.1998 - 01.1999
Post Graduate Experiences - Residency
University of Maryland, Health system, Transitional medicine: Maryland General
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University of Maryland
M.D. Degree - undefined
Ross University School of Medicine
Pharm.D Degree - undefined
Howard University