Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Languages
Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences
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Kyungbin Moon

Bellevue,WA

Summary

Dedicated Pharmacy Manager enthusiastic about helping diverse people and offering experience with regulatory requirements. Knowledgeable in medication management and pharmacy management. Bringing successful career history comprising more than three years. Also a capable pharmacist well-versed in collaborating with patients and healthcare team members to help alleviate symptoms and address root causes of medical issues. Experienced in calculating doses, preparing compounds, and securing storage to protect inventories.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Pharmacy Manager

Safeway Pharmacy
07.2023 - Current
  • Improved patient satisfaction by providing personalized consultations and medication management services, including MTM and CMR.
  • Streamlined pharmacy operations for increased efficiency by implementing new inventory management systems.
  • Enhanced patient safety with thorough drug utilization reviews and monitoring potential drug interactions.
  • Developed strong relationships with healthcare providers, ensuring seamless coordination of care for patients.
  • Performed duties as a responsible pharmacy manager, including overseeing inventory management, ensuring the availability of essential medications, and maintaining appropriate storage conditions
  • As a preceptor, taught pharmacy students from various programs regarding working as a pharmacist in a community setting.
  • Managed a pharmacy, filling 1,200 to 1,500 prescriptions per week
  • Achieved a 10 to 20 percent steady revenue increase compared to the prior year

Pharmacist

Safeway Pharmacy
12.2022 - 07.2023
  • Improved patient outcomes by providing comprehensive medication therapy management and counseling.
  • Collaborated with insurance providers to resolve billing discrepancies, ensuring timely reimbursement for pharmacy services.
  • Increased immunization rates in the community by administering vaccinations during flu season.
  • Performed the Safeway Travel Health service by providing travel medication consultation and vaccination services for yellow fever and typhoid.
  • Provided specialty pharmacy services such as monthly antipsychotic injections and Vivitrol ventrogluteal injections to the local populations

Pharmacy Manager

Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy/Medly Pharmacy
01.2021 - 12.2022
  • With the addition of free medication home delivery service, exceptional nursing home facility pharmacy services, and excellent customer service, the overall store profit margin increased by 5 percent, and the store prescription volume counts increased by 6 percent compared to previous years
  • Overall customer satisfaction and rating on Yelp and Google Reviews increased compared to previous years; 4 out of 5 stars in Google Reviews
  • Trained and trained pharmacy assistants to become pharmacy technicians
  • Trained and taught student pharmacists and pharmacy interns to eventually become successful pharmacists in Washington State
  • Performed Insurance audits, inventory management, providing herbal supplements and homeopathic counseling services, providing custom prescriptions and compound prescriptions consultation, and vitamin injection services
  • Streamlined pharmacy operations for increased efficiency by implementing new inventory management systems.
  • Improved patient satisfaction by providing personalized consultations and medication management services.

Pharmacy Intern

Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy
09.2017 - 01.2021
  • Assisted the pharmacy in achieving a Google Reviews rate above 3.5 stars out of 5 by providing satisfying over-the-counter prescription medication consultation, offering well-developed therapy recommendations, and preparing custom compounding medications (primarily hormone topical and T3/T4 capsules)
  • Increased pharmacy profit margins and exceeded the flu shot goal during influenza season by taking responsibility for entire immunization and vitamin IM injection processes at the pharmacies, including documentation, verification, vaccine injection, and patient consultation, honored by staff pharmacists as the “immunization guy.”
  • Enhanced pharmacy efficiency by assisting in inventory management, medication storage organization, and restocking shelves.

Tutor and Teaching Assistant

Tacoma Community College
08.2015 - 06.2016
  • Increased student comprehension by utilizing personalized teaching methods and adapting to individual learning styles.
  • Improved students’ academic performance and assisted students in acquiring college degrees by developing worksheets/problem sets, creating chemistry and biology course summary outlines, and tutoring math, chemistry, and biology.
  • Achieved the average student organic chemistry courses pass rate above 90% by providing in-class tutoring in organic chemistry classes taught by Dr. Jeffrey Engle, Ph.D.
  • Led weekly discussion groups for developing effective tutoring techniques and methods.

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
06.2020

Master of Science - Health Informatics

Purdue University Global
West Lafayette, IN
09.2024

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
06.2013

Bachelor of Arts - Chemistry

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
06.2013

Skills

  • Drug Inventory Management
  • Training and Mentoring
  • Pharmacy Operations Management
  • Drug Utilization Review
  • Drug Safety
  • Patient Safety
  • Staff Training
  • Immunizations

Certification

  • Licensed Pharmacist, Credential Number: PH61079615 - January 2021Present
  • Clinical Trials Certificate, University of Washington Department of Pharmacy: Biomedical Regulatory Affairs - June 2019
  • Vaccinating Adults and Adolescents: An Immunization Program for Pharmacists - October 2016—Present
  • ACPE Accredited Immunization Administration Training for Pharmacists - January 2023—Present
  • CPR/AED for Healthcare Providers & First Aid Certification, American Heart Association - Renewal Date: September 2024
  • International Yellow Fever Vaccination, State of Washington Department of Health- April 25, 2023—April 25, 2024

Languages

Korean
Native or Bilingual

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences

General Medicine

Harrison Medical Center

Preceptor: Angela Bottalico, PharmD, BCPS

  • Inpatient pharmacy practice experiences in ICU, PCU, and hematology & oncology departments, including rounding, medication order reviews, and medication therapy recommendations
  • Participated in weekly antibiotic stewardship meetings to provide antibiotic therapy recommendations and review Harrison Medical Center antibiotic therapy protocols


Clinic-Based Ambulatory Care

CHI Franciscan Health: Ambulatory Clinic
Preceptor: Kristin Peterson, PharmD, BCACP

  • Anticoagulation clinic pharmacy practices, including INR interpretation, designing warfarin regimens, and direct oral anticoagulant therapy appointments
  • Primary care pharmacy practices mainly focus on diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular diseases
  • Participated in weekly journal club meetings for introducing and discussing pharmacotherapy-related topics, including elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor for cystic fibrosis with a single phe508del allele treatment and anticoagulant therapies for bariatric surgery patients


Non-Profit Health Plan Managed Care

Premera Blue Cross

Preceptor: John Watkins, PharmD, MPH, BCPS

  • Developed an initial drug review monograph for ITCA 650 (implantable exenatide in DUROS®, a mini-pump system) with potential formulary recommendations. The product remains in the pipeline and will be reviewed by the P&T committee in February 2020.
  • Created recommendations and outlines for specialty drug prior authorization cases.
  • Created a comprehensive table comparing various specialty drug policies of Premera and Express Scripts included in the Rare Conditions Value Programs, which was utilized for potential medical and pharmacy policies.


Government Agency

Washington State Health Care Authority

Preceptor: Ryan Pistoresi, PharmD, MS

  • Created an SBAR for recommending an intra-articular steroid agent for managing osteoarthritis pain; the doctor who requested Zilretta accepted the recommendations for osteoarthritis pain treatment.
  • Participated in medical journal evaluation method and strategies education session organized by Health Care Authority and Oregon Health & Science University to learn an advanced method for evaluating medical literature
  • Attended strategic policymaking meetings, drug review meetings, and pharmaceuticals meetings to comprehend the agency, policy, and relationship with different health plans and pharmaceuticals


Pharmacy Benefit Management

OptumRx

Preceptor: Amy Lin, PharmD and Christopher Chiu, PharmD, BCPS

  • Developed an initial drug review monograph for Slynd (drospirenone); further formulary consideration will be discussed at P&T meeting.
  • Performed prior authorization evaluation and modeling of recently approved Parkinson’s Disease drugs, including Apokyn (apomorphine) and continuous subcutaneous injectable levodopa.
  • Performed various OptumRx Utilization Management division tasks, including preparing drug monographs, creating drug management guidelines, and recommending drug formulations and tiers.

 

Timeline

Pharmacy Manager

Safeway Pharmacy
07.2023 - Current

Pharmacist

Safeway Pharmacy
12.2022 - 07.2023

Pharmacy Manager

Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy/Medly Pharmacy
01.2021 - 12.2022

Pharmacy Intern

Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy
09.2017 - 01.2021

Tutor and Teaching Assistant

Tacoma Community College
08.2015 - 06.2016

Doctor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy

University of Washington

Master of Science - Health Informatics

Purdue University Global

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Washington

Bachelor of Arts - Chemistry

University of Washington
Kyungbin Moon