Career Reconstituted: How these pharmacists turned their job into a dream job

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This is the real-life story of how I quit my awesome job as a clinical pharmacist of 11-years with no real plan of what I’d do next. I had a vague notion that I wanted something different, to make a greater impact, and use different parts of my brain. I started talking to friends, then friends of friends, and so on and so forth. Now, I’m discovering some brilliant career pivots proving that there is life after clinical pharmacy. And I want to share my journey with you.

  1. 02/26/2024

    It's a wrap!

    Season one of Career Reconstituted has wrapped. I'm in the final lap of my job search as I've narrowed it down to THE WHAT and just need to figure out THE WHERE and THE HOW. Once the dream job comes to fruition, I'll pop back in with all the deets. Until then, bye friends. Stay tenacious out there.

    5 min

  2. 02/19/2024

    Dr. Michelle Payan - clinical oncology pharmacist to co-founder and CEO of non-profit organization that provides holistic care to cancer patients

    Michelle is so thoughtful about her career path. This is what we all should do! She was a clinical pharmacist in oncology for 20-years before she became disenchanted with the US healthcare system (metrics, money, etc) and saw a chasm in the care of patients with cancer. She took a masters course and dove right in. She is now the CEO and co-founder of Kairos Therapeutic Retreat, which provides holistic, integrative care (for free!!!) to patients who are living with the aftermath of cancer. Please check out her website and consider donating: http://kairoshealth.org/ This episode will drop on Monday (2/19/24) on You Tube, Apple Music, and Spotify. Please listen, get inspired...and leave a rating and review if you'd like.

    48 min

  3. 02/12/2024

    Dr. Wilson Tam - Medication Therapy Management Pharmacist to Director of Sales Engineering

    Dr. Wilson Tam started as a Medication Therapy Management intern and now works in Healthcare Technology as Director of Sales Engineering. He’s on the forefront of important sectors like specialty pharmacy, infusion companies, and information technology.  Wilson started his unique career path off with two things: 1) a professor who engaged him in important conversations and 2) an idea to answer a clinical question. In turn, those sparks created a chain of events that led him to wanting to solve the hardest problems in our field. I love this convo, please join us! This episode of Career Reconstituted will drop 2/12/24 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

    41 min

  4. 02/05/2024

    Dr. Omolola Adeoye-Olatunde - community pharmacy to professor and health equity researcher

    I love this convo with Lola because we get deep really quick & talk about how race and racism affect healthcare outcomes. I knew I was in a safe space to go there because Lola is the founder-director of the Health Equity Research (or HER) lab. Furthermore, she and her team have worked with students to host over 100 health fairs where they administered 4,000 vaccines (and more). Lola breaks down terms, gives real life experiences, and talks about how to get into the work. Hope you join us and love this convo as much as I did. Here's the link to her paper that we discussed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079557/

    50 min

  5. 01/29/2024

    Dr. Nicolas Georgiades - clinical pharmacist to MSL to tech entrepreneur

    Nick figured out how to take the leap by fixing a problem he encountered in his previous role as an MSL. He made the solution into one company (PharmAccelorator) and joined forces on another one (PharmacoTalent). So now he runs a tech company, coaches pharmacists to become MSLs, and helps companies find good candidates. He has a lot of advice for pharmacists who are looking to join industry. This episode of Career Reconstituted drops 1/29/24 on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Please follow or subscribe and leave a comment. Here are the links to Nick's companies: http://www.pharmaccelerator.com/ http://www.pharmacotalent.com/

    46 min

  6. 01/22/2024

    Dr. Samia Baig - Public health researcher, data scientist, and software developer

    So excited to have a "girls who code" (!) episode with Dr. Samia Baig who works on a bunch of really cool projects by combining public health with biostatistics and software development. Coolest part? She learned it herself, and shares how she did this in our convo. Would love for you to join and let us know what you think. This episode drops Monday (1/22/24) on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Please follow/subscribe and leave a rating.

    47 min

  7. 01/15/2024

    Dr. Alex Barker - ambulatory pharmacist to founder of The Happy PharmD

    I love this conversation with Dr. Alex Barker. He started out as a residency-trained ambulatory care pharmacist and became the founder and CEO of The Happy PharmD, which is a pharmacist career coaching firm (and more). We discuss workplace bullying, what burn out looks like, imposter syndrome, and pharmacy job trends. His website is here, so check it out: https://thehappypharmd.com/ This episode of Career Reconstituted will drop 1/15/2024. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and You Tube. Please follow/subscribe and leave a rating and review.

    57 min

  8. 01/08/2024

    Dr. Carol Holtzman - pharmacy professor to public health specialist by way of knocking on doors in Lesotho

    Dr. Carol Holtzman has an impressive story. She was a pharmacy prof and HIV clinician in Philly until one day, she moved with her family to Lesotho, a country in Southern Africa. While there, she knocked on doors to get a job until she got her big break making a mobile phone app for tuberculosis (where she had to code!). After this, she worked for the State Department and USAID as an public health specialist doing HIV programatic work for the world. I love her story, and you will too. This episode of Career Reconstituted will drop 1/8/2024. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and You Tube. Please follow/subscribe and leave a rating and review.

    54 min
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This is the real-life story of how I quit my awesome job as a clinical pharmacist of 11-years with no real plan of what I’d do next. I had a vague notion that I wanted something different, to make a greater impact, and use different parts of my brain. I started talking to friends, then friends of friends, and so on and so forth. Now, I’m discovering some brilliant career pivots proving that there is life after clinical pharmacy. And I want to share my journey with you.

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