2023 AES: Special Lecture | The Multi-disciplinary Patient Centered Team in Treating People with Epilepsy-The Role of the Pharmacist in Epilepsy Pharmacotherapy and Patient Education

The Role of the Pharmacist in Epilepsy Pharmacotherapy and Patient Education

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Barry Goodell's presentation introduces non-traditional roles for pharmacists, emphasizing their potential as advanced practice providers within the healthcare system. Highlighting the model adopted by the Madison VA, he discusses how credentialed pharmacists, with postgraduate residency training, can operate with prescriptive authority and manage complex medication regimens autonomously. Goodell notes that this approach, significantly utilized in VA settings, improves access to care, allowing pharmacists to manage routine patients and freeing attending physicians to address more complex cases or new patients. He cites how this model, effective in both urban and rural healthcare settings, is being expanded into neurology and mental health disciplines. Goodell also explores the viability of implementing similar models in private settings where pharmacists collaborate with physicians under scope of practice agreements, proposing that this increases patient access to care and ensures efficient management of complex therapies.

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Presenter: Barry Gidal, PharmD, FAES

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non-traditional pharmacist roles

advanced practice providers

prescriptive authority

healthcare access

scope of practice agreements