 Biography-Karl Hess-College of Pharmacy
| Karl Hess - Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration |
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Degree
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Year
obtained
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Institution
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Pharm.D.
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2005
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Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences - Boston
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Residency
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Year
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Institution
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Community Pharmacy Practice
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2005-2006
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University of Southern California
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Description of Academic/Research Interests:
Travel and preventative medicine
Implementation and evaluation of collaborative practice based disease state management programs within community pharmacy
Practice site:
Hendricks Pharmacy
137 N. Harvard Ave
Claremont, CA 91711
www.hendrickspharmacy.com
Rotation description:
The Community Pharmacy Clerkship at Hendricks Pharmacy is designed to provide various experiences necessary to prepare students to become entry-level community pharmacy practitioners with an emphasis in collaborative practice based disease state management. Students will be involved in direct patient care activities in a collaborative practice based travel medicine clinic and will attain competency in destination specific and risk-avoidance counseling, vaccine administration, and travel-related medication recommendations. Opportunities exist to help develop additional collaborative practice based disease state management programs at Hendricks Pharmacy. Students will be assigned various projects throughout the rotation and are required to present a journal club as well as a 30-minute presentation that is given to the rest of the staff, faculty, and students at the pharmacy.
| Selected Publications |
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Hess K, Goad J. Immunization Update. California Pharmacist Journal. Spring 2006; 18-26.
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Hess K, Goad JA, Johnson K. Adherence and Completion Rates of a Nine Month Regimen of Isoniazid Therapy within a Pharmacist Managed Latent Tuberculosis Infection Clinic (abstract #112). American Pharmacist Association Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, CA
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Contact Information
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| Office address: 309 E. Second St. |
| Pomona, CA 91766 |
| Main phone: (909) 469-5500 |
| Fax: (909) 469-5539 |
| E-mail: khess@westernu.edu |
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