Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Research
Presentations & journalclub
Industry visit
Languages
Volunteer Experience
CONFERENCE ATTENDED
Timeline
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Nirali Patel

Madison,WI

Summary

Compassionate and detail-oriented pharmacist with over 8 years of experience in retail pharmacy, including 2+ years as a licensed pharmacist. Proven ability to enhance patient outcomes through quality care, effective communication, and collaboration with healthcare teams. Adept at medication therapy management, patient counseling, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Dedicated to advancing community health through personalized service and education.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Pharmacist

Walgreens Pharmacy
Madison, WI
06.2022 - Current
  • Process an average of 400 prescriptions daily, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in dispensing and resolving insurance claims.
  • Provide patient counseling on prescription and over-the-counter medications, ensuring safe and effective use.
  • Conduct medication therapy management (MTM) to support chronic disease management
  • Perform comprehensive drug interaction and contraindication reviews to minimize adverse effects.
  • Administer immunizations, including flu shots and other vaccines, contributing to community health initiatives.
  • Oversee inventory management, including ordering, stocking, and controlling pharmacy supplies.
  • Collaborate with healthcare providers to develop and implement patient care plans.

Blister Packer / Pharmacy Intern

Daly Drug Pharmacy & Walgreens Pharmacy
06.2016 - 05.2022
  • Blister-packaged maintenance medications for nursing homes and residential facility patients.
  • Assisted pharmacists with prescription filling and inventory management in a fast-paced environment.
  • Gained hands-on experience in drug interaction screening, patient education, and community outreach.
  • Managed pharmacy operations, including inventory management and order processing.

Rotation:

UW Health Pharmacy - Union Corner
  • Calculated dosages, performed therapeutic interchange, dispensed medications and verified prescriptions under pharmacist supervision.
  • Screened patients' Wisconsin Immunization Registry (WIR) and made recommendations for eligible patients

Rotation:

UW Health Pharmacy- Northeast
  • Managed disease states in antihypertensive and antidiabetic therapy, and conducted medication therapy management.
  • Reviewed patient profiles and simplified regimens for PCP recommendations.
  • Assisted in managing blood pressure medications according to UW Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) protocol.

Rotation:

SSM Health Pharmacy -Community Outpatient Pharmacy
  • Conducted research on new medications, treatments, and procedures related to pharmacy administration.
  • Performed medication substitutions as per collaborative practice agreements with an anticoagulation team.
  • Utilized EPIC, telepharmacy, and RX30 for various tasks, including verifying prescriptions and managing medication boxes.

Rotation:

Unity Point Health Meriter
  • Worked with a close-knit team on the cardiology floor, performing consultations for DOACs, warfarin, and heart failure education.
  • Determined appropriate dosing for warfarin and vancomycin.
  • Monitored 8-10 patients daily, intervening and managing severe heart failure and coronary blockage cases.
  • Prepared and presented best practice guidelines for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and participated in discussions on various cardiology topics.
  • Responded to emergencies such as arrhythmias, chest pain, stroke, or shock according to hospital protocols.

Pharmaceutical Experience - Internship

Lifecare Pharmaceuticals Company
Gujarat, India
  • Oversaw quality assurance area, final product testing, and lab validation.
  • Worked with tablet and capsule manufacturing machinery, focusing on quality assurance and testing.

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) -

University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Pharmacy
Madison, WI
05-2022

Master of Pharmacy (M. Pharm) in Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance -

Anand Pharmacy College
Anand, Gujarat, India
06-2014

Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) -

Sat Kaival College of Pharmacy
Sarsa, Gujarat, India
06-2012

Skills

  • Medication Therapy Management
  • Software expertise- IntercomPuls, EPIC, Willow Ambulatory, Stornet
  • Customer service skills and clinical collaboration
  • Drug Interaction Analysis
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Prescription management
  • Health Screening
  • Overseeing pharmacy operations
  • Delegating assignments
  • Recall monitoring
  • Calculating doses

Certification

  • Licensed Pharmacist, Wisconsin, 21355-40
  • Licensed Pharmacist, Gujarat, India, 2012-2014
  • Immunization Certification, 2020
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification, Renewed 2024
  • PTCB-Certified Pharmacy Technician

Research

Dissertation Thesis (M. Pharm Project), Spectrophotometric and Chromatographic Methods for Simultaneous Determination of Ambroxol HCL, Guaifenesin, and Loratadine in Cough Syrup Using UV Spectroscopy and HPLC.

Presentations & journalclub

  • Migraine therapy management: chronic migraine - Emgality treatment
  • GOLD guideline-recommended chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment
  • GLP-1 agonist drugs and injection techniques
  • Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and case presentation
  • Efficacy and tolerability of tripeptide (TZP), a dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist in patients with type 2 diabetes: A 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate different dose-escalation regimens
  • Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
  • Journal club: Efficacy and safety of colchicine after myocardial infarction

Industry visit

Visited Sunrise Pharmaceutical, India. On-site tablets and capsule manufacturing machinery and quality control lab testing. A manufacturing site for multivitamin, mineral, and pharmaceutical products.

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Gujarati
  • Sanskrit (limited)

Volunteer Experience

  • MEDIc clinic, Regular volunteering at the Access clinic with healthcare students to help uninsured patients. My role as a pharmacy student was gathering patients' health conditions, updating medication history, calling prescriptions to pharmacies, and making suggestions and recommendations to healthcare providers.
  • WISCARES clinic, Volunteering to help the clinic fill pets’ prescriptions, call for medication assistance, and transfer/send prescriptions to the other pharmacies.

CONFERENCE ATTENDED

  • A seminar on “The control of cell cycle exits in Drosophila” by Dr. Jenny Bandura
  • A seminar on “Cold-blooded killers: studies in the ecology and molecular biology of Ranaviruses” by Dr. Thomas Lentz
  • State-level workshop on “Designing & Writing Quality Scientific Clinical Research Protocols” sponsored by ICMR, Organized by APC
  • A seminar on “Current challenges in clinical trials of Herbal Drugs”
  • National level seminar on “Recent development in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology”
  • AICTE sponsored a National seminar on “Current trends in clinical Trials in Herbal drugs”
  • Participated in college-level “Case Study: A Detective Pharmacist”

Timeline

Pharmacist

Walgreens Pharmacy
06.2022 - Current

Blister Packer / Pharmacy Intern

Daly Drug Pharmacy & Walgreens Pharmacy
06.2016 - 05.2022

Rotation:

UW Health Pharmacy - Union Corner

Rotation:

UW Health Pharmacy- Northeast

Rotation:

SSM Health Pharmacy -Community Outpatient Pharmacy

Rotation:

Unity Point Health Meriter

Pharmaceutical Experience - Internship

Lifecare Pharmaceuticals Company

Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) -

University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Pharmacy

Master of Pharmacy (M. Pharm) in Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance -

Anand Pharmacy College

Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) -

Sat Kaival College of Pharmacy
Nirali Patel