Dr. Erin L. Albert - Fridays

Most pharmacists are surrounded by other pharmacists during their education - but what about the working world? In this new miniseries, we explore being the ONLY pharmacist, particularly in a nontraditional pharmacy setting. Our first guest and N of one pharmacist is Dr. Jason Kwan. Jason Kwan has a dual bachelor’s degree in finance and molecular biosciences/biotechnology. He earned my PharmD at the University of Arizona. Throughout undergraduate and graduate school, Jason pursued entrepreneurship training and created his own startup, LinkX. He also completed a managed care residency at Aetna Medicaid, gaining full competency in prior authorizations, formulary management, clinical quality, clinical outreach programs, and shadowing the pharmacy directors and executive director. He proposed a blockchain project on medication adherence and our team was runner up in the company-wide competition for innovative ideas. Jason's current role is as the population health pharmacist at Arizona Care Network. He analyzes t