RxSchool - Pharmacy Continuing Education
Go to the RxSchool.com Home Page
View the RxSchool.com Course Library
View the RxSchool.com Products & Services
Read More About RxSchool.com
View the Help Files on RxSchool.com
New User? Register Here

RxSchool Presenters


Alan P. Agins, BS, MS, PhD
President - PRN Associates, Ltd.
Continuing Medical Education

Alan P. Agins earned his BS in psychology from State University of New York (Brockport). He also received a Masters in Pharmacology & Toxicology and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Rhode Island. Over the past fourteen years, Dr. Agins has presented lectures and continuing education programs nationally to over 50,000 healthcare professionals (physicians, NPs, nurses, PAs, pharmacists, dentists, etc). He is currently an adjunct associate professor at Brown University where he was the recipient of the medical school’s “Dean's Teaching Excellence Award” for five consecutive years. He has authored a book, written CE monographs, textbook chapters and currently writes a monthly newsletter for Lexi-Comp. Most recently he wrote, and performed in, a series of entertaining video vignettes that were published as an educational DVD (+ workbook) for nursing students by Elsevier.

Ken Baker, B.S. Pharm, JD
Ken Baker, RPh. J.D. is a pharmacist and an attorney. He is currently vice president and general counsel for Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company, Algona, Iowa. Prior to joining Pharmacists Mutual, Dr. Baker practiced general trial law for 13 years, including three years as a deputy prosecuting attorney. He practiced pharmacy for several years before becoming a lawyer and managed a community chain pharmacy for over four years.



Susan Cornell, BS, PharmD, CDE, CDM
Assistant Director of Experiential Education
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Midwestern University, Chicago College of Pharmacy
Downers Grove, Illinois

Susan Ann Cornell, BS, Pharm.D, CDE, CDM is the assistant director of experiential education and an assistant professor in the department of pharmacy practice at Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy in Downers Grove, Illinois. Dr. Cornell is also a clinical pharmacy consultant and certified diabetes educator, specializing in community and ambulatory care practice with over 20 years experience. Dr. Cornell received her bachelor of pharmacy at the University of Illinois, College of Pharmacy in 1986 and her Doctor of Pharmacy at Midwestern University in May of 2002. Dr. Cornell’s current clinical practice is with Access Community Health Network, where she trains, educates, and supervises students from the colleges of medicine, pharmacy, and health sciences, as they provide diabetes education classes for patients in underserved clinics. She has given numerous presentations to various healthcare professionals and community groups and has published and contributed to numerous professional publications.

Stephen Freed, RPh, Diabetes Educator
Publisher of DiabetesinControl.com Newsletter
Stephen Freed has been a registered pharmacist for the last 29 years and a Diabetes Educator for over 15 years becoming a certified diabetes educator 1995 and for the last 15 years has been dedicated in advancing diabetes care to physicians, pharmacists and nurses. He is the founder and publisher of www.diabetesincontrol.com, a diabetes newsletter that goes out to over 77,000 medical professionals in diabetes care. He designed and developed the Know Your Healthy Steps program for Bayer Diabetes Care which has been shared with over 180,000 patients and translated into 4 languages. He currently works as Publisher of Diabetesincontrol.com, serves as a CPT for Medtronic and Deltec, and is a new provider for Lilly MYD programs.

Darrell Hulisz, RPh, PharmD
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
School of Medicine - Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

Dr. Hulisz currently practices as a clinical pharmacist with University Hospitals of Cleveland, Family Medicine Residency Program, where he works in consultation with family physicians, both on inpatient and outpatient services. He was recently awarded a federal, multi-agency faculty development fellowship to further his expertise in the field of substance abuse. He is also an investigator for a multidisciplinary chronic pain study funded by the Macy Foundation. His areas of interest and expertise include the pharmacological management of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Other areas of expertise include substance abuse, insomnia, patient education, and formulary management.

Dave Joffe, RPh, CDE, CPT, FACA
Editor of DiabetesinControl.com Newsletter

Dave is a graduate of University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. He has practiced in the Tampa Bay area since 1986 and got involved in Diabetes Care in 1994. He is a 1994 graduate of the Eli Lilly Diabetes Program as a Diabetes Education Specialist. In 1997 he completed his NIPCO Certification Program as a Diabetes Outcome Manger. He completed the AADE Pharmaceutical Care Program for Diabetes Educators and the University Minnesota Patient Care Program in 1999 along with attending the LifeScan Pharmacy Partners in Diabetes Care Program. He attended the 2002 University South Florida, CDE Certification Course and 2002, AADE Advanced Practice Diabetes Course before sitting for the National Certification Board CDE exam in Tampa in October of 2002. Dave earned the designation of CDE in October of 2002.

Marianne McCollum, PhD, RPh, BCPS
Assistant Professor - School of Pharmacy
University of Colorado Denver
Marianne McCollum, PhD, RPh, BCPS, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Denver. Dr. McCollum received her BS Pharm in 1989 from the University of Colorado, and her PhD in Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research with emphasis in Pharmacoeconomics in 1999, also from the University of Colorado. She received a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in 1998 from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education in support of her graduate studies. Prior to her graduate work, Dr. McCollum practiced pharmacy for 10 years at the Denver VA Medical Center, serving as manager of the inpatient pharmacy for five years. In 2000, Dr. McCollum joined the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, where she teaches health economics in the Doctor of Pharmacy program and Director of Graduate Studies in Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research. Dr. McCollum is a member of Phi Lambda Sigma and the Rho Chi Society; she became a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist in 1995, and was re-certified in 2002. Her current research focuses on clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes for patients with diabetes. Dr. McCollum received the ACCP Health Outcomes Investigator Development Research Award in 2004, and the ACCP Career Development Research Award in 2005 in support of her research investigating associations between diabetes and comorbid depression.


Susan Paulsen, PharmD
Associate Professor - Department of Clinical Pharmacy
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Dr. Susan Paulsen is an experienced pharmacy educator. She was recently appointed Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Assessment at Regis University in Denver Colorado. Dr. Paulsen works at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital, putting an emphasis on the wellness and healing of the entire person, drawing on both conventional and complementary medicine.




Home | About Us | Courses | Continuing Education | Help | Contact Us

Are you looking for pharmacy technician training or pharmacy technician review for the PTCB exam? Check out RxTechSchool for more information.

Copyright © 2000 - 2010 RxSchool - All rights reserved.

RN.com

Privacy Statement | Policies and Procedures | Terms and Conditions of Service

866-960-5334