Otis W. Kirksey, PharmD

• Provide direct diabetes disease management and education for indigent and uninsured patients with with diabetes.
• Liaised with other healthcare professionals to develop comprehensive patient care plans and provide highest quality of care.
• Established and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians and community organizations to promote high quality patient care.
• Communicates with patients, ensuring that medical information was kept private.
• Implemented successful healthcare program through professionalism, quality of care, medical teaching and patient satisfaction.
• Provide full administrative oversight of the Centers 340B prescription program. Serve as a liaison between the Center and 340B contract pharmacies; Serve as chair of Pharmacy Services Committee and managed and main medical center’s drug formulary;

• Researched and selected course texts and supplemental learning materials.
• Instructed and evaluated students in classroom in alignment with college mission by incorporating innovative teaching and learning strategies.
• Used different learning modes and types of technology to engage students in achieving learning outcomes.
• Encouraged class discussions by building discussions into lessons, actively soliciting input, asking open-ended questions and using techniques to track student participation.
• Provide didactic and clinical instruction to doctoral candidates in an academic program that has a total enrollment of 1000+ students

• Developed and coordinated community engagement efforts in service to build meaningful and sustainable relationships with surrounding neighborhoods and communities;
• Managed all functions of the College’s Office of Continuing Education, which provides non-credit educational experiences for licensed pharmacist and other health professionals to support licensure attainment and retention, workforce development, personal enrichment and public service programming.
• Successfully prepared application for program's accreditation by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education.

1.02

Liaises with principal investigators and/or trial coordinators/research assistants to establish pharmacy’s role, determine fee schedules and to implement dispensing, compounding and billing procedures.

1.03 Communicates with, and trains staff anticipated to participate in any aspect of the clinical investigational drug trial.

1.04 Maintains a pharmacy binder which contains a study summary, protocol, dispensing procedures, completed samples of required paperwork, dispensing checklist, fee schedule, billing procedures and any other relevant materials for each investigational trial.

• Supervised and trained staff on product knowledge and customer service.
• Maintained and coordinates distribution of an up-to-date Jackson Memorial Hospital clinical investigational drug trials list, as scheduled.
• Maintained responsibility for the management of the inventory for clinical investigational drug trials; orders, replaces and returns study materials, as required.
• Communicated any concerns regarding ethical issues or deviation from Jackson Memorial Hospital's policies & procedures to the pharmacist participating on Institutional Review Board Committee.
• Assisted in ensuring the participation of the pharmacy department in all clinical trials which involve drugs.