Dr. Selma Kajtazovic, PharmD, and Dr. Vincent Lam, PharmD, during a GLFHC Pharmacy Sock Drive for patients.
Vincent Lam, (front left), and Selma Kajtazovic (second from left), alongside pharmacy preceptor Ashley Rogers (third from left) and family medicine residents and preceptors Claire Trachtman, MD (bottom right), Tuhin Roy, MD (top left), Jonathan Lichkus, MD (top center), and Miguel Joaquin, MD (top right) who attended the annual asthma symposium at Tufts University. They delivered a presentation on, "Addressing Asthma Using a Population Health Approach: A Community Health Center Perspective."
D (left) and Dr. Emily Canuel, PharmD at the resident poster presentation session during the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear 2023 Clinical Meeting and Exhibition in December 2023. Emily Canuel (left) and Qitong (Coco) Yang pictured at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Year End Pharmacy Residency and Fellowship ceremony. 3 of 4 Alumni Highlights 3: Pharmacy Residency Celebrates 10 Years page is loaded. Dr. Qitong (Coco) Yang, PharmD (left) and Dr. Emily Canuel, PharmD at the resident poster presentation session during the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear 2023 Clinical Meeting and Exhibition in December 2023.
Emily Canuel (left) and Qitong (Coco) Yang pictured at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Year End Pharmacy Residency and Fellowship ceremony.
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center’s PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency program with MCPHS University is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, we profiled graduates of our teaching program over the past few months. This is the final of three parts.
Dr. Selma Kajtazovic, PharmD, is currently a clinical psychiatric pharmacist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts for patients with mood and affective disorders. The PGY-1 pharmacy residency program at GLFHC inspired her to create opportunities for continued face-to-face patient care and the importance of transitions of care. This guided Selma to shape her practice to include leading skills-based medication management groups, advocate for creating long-acting injectable antipsychotic outpatient services, and begin developing a formal transitions of care clinical program.
Dr. Vincent Lam, PharmD, is currently a clinical pharmacy specialist at Boston Medical Center. He is implementing PrEP services in the primary care clinics with goals to expand into HIV and hepatitis C treatment in the future. Being a part of the GLFHC & MCPHS University pharmacy residency instilled in me the passion to build a community with patients and interdisciplinary members to address healthcare gaps and needs.
Dr. Emily Canuel, PharmD, is currently employed at GLFHC as a Clinical Pharmacist, also assisting with operating the Coumadin Line and precepting pharmacy residents in their clinical pharmacy services learning experience. She feels that her residency through GLFHC and MCPHS helped shape her desire to be a life-long teacher and learner through working with various students, patients, and health professionals.
Dr. Qitong (Coco) Yang, PharmD, currently works remotely as an MTM Pharmacist at Centene, which is a healthcare company that provides managed care services to patients with Medicare and Medicaid, among other insurances. She conducts various levels of medication reviews and communicates with patients and providers on a daily basis. Some of the biggest experiences from GLFHC that shaped her career are the amount of patient education and motivational interviewing she conducted, and learning how to become resourceful, adaptable, and proactive in the face of all kinds of challenges or barriers she may encounter going forward.