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”The We You Don’t See”, Dr. Helen Sairany PharmD | Transforming a Nation

Dr. Helen Sairany PharmD returns to 'Transforming a Nation' to share her 2nd book and leadership guide In The We You Don't See, Dr. Helen Sairany unravels a narrative that's both gripping and deeply transformative. Drawing from her own experiences growing up amidst the horrors of war in Iraq, and juxtaposing them with her mission to heal traumatized refugee girls, this book is a testament to the indomitable human spirit.
Within these pages, readers are not only taken on a journey through the perilous landscapes of a war-torn nation, but also through the often more treacherous terrains of the human psyche. As Sairany delves deep into the intricacies of trauma, she sheds light on the invisible scars that many carry with them, often in silence.1st Interview: Trading Grenades for Medicinehttps://pharmacypodcastnetwork.podbean.com/e/trading-grenades-for-medicine-transforming-a-nation/ December 1st, 2023 New Book: 
The We you Don't See: Understanding the Long Shadows of Trauma
https://www.amazon.com/We-you-Dont-See-Understanding/dp/B0CN7HVDBB
 
 

Gender Affirmed: Youth Care with Dr. Michelle Forcier | Transforming a Nation

The fifth and final episode in a series exploring medication access for members of the gender-diverse community and how pharmacists can better reach this population. In this episode we talked to the wonderful Dr. Michelle Forcier, a pediatrician and provider of gender-affirming therapy for adolescents.

Gender Affirmed: Breaking Barriers with Virginia State Delegate Danica Roem | Transforming a Nation

The fourth in a series exploring medication access for members of the gender-diverse community and how pharmacists can better reach this population. In this episode we talked to the incredible Danica Roem, Virginia State Delegate and outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. Narrated by Addy Ghantae, final year pharmacy student of High Point University.

Gender Affirmed: Addressing Stigma | Transforming a Nation

The second in a series exploring medication access for members of the gender-diverse community and how pharmacists can better reach this population; in this episode we spoke with Adriana Adams and Corey Higgins of Triad Health project, a sexual health and justice organization based in Greensboro North Carolina. We discuss stigma surrounding PrEP and PEP therapy, as well as gender-affirming therapy, and how healthcare providers like pharmacists can bridge the gap and address stigma in their practice. Narrated by Courtney Woo, final year pharmacy student of Loma Linda University and chair of the Practice with Pride Committee of Pharmacy Legislative Week.
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Gender Affirmed: Hormone Replacement Therapy | Transforming a Nation

The second in a series detailing medication access for gender-diverse individuals in light of increasingly restrictive legislative action. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Sarah Kokosa and Dr. Kelsea Aragon, two clinicians providing hormone replacement therapy to discuss the medications most commonly utilized for gender-affirming therapy. For more information, please check out guidelines published by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health or the University of California, San Francisco. 
Our audience of pharmacists, pharmacy students, and other healthcare providers need to hear the stories of gender-diverse patients, pharmacists, and advocates who will stop at nothing to bridge the gap to care.
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Gender Affirmed: Inclusion in the Pharmacy | Transforming a Nation

 The first in a four-part series detailing medication access for gender-diverse individuals in light of increasingly restrictive legislative action. 
As front-line healthcare workers, it’s incumbent upon pharmacists to be paragons of not only equality but equity in healthcare. Gender expansive and nonbinary patients face a massive disparity of outcomes, many of which are improved with gender-affirming therapy. With the expansion of pharmacists’ roles in healthcare, many cases of gender-affirming therapy are often overseen or monitored by pharmacists. The world is changing, and the landscape of healthcare with it.
Our audience of pharmacists, pharmacy students, and other healthcare providers need to hear the stories of gender-diverse patients, pharmacists, and advocates who will stop at nothing to bridge the gap to care.
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Trading Grenades for Medicine | Transforming a Nation

How does it feel to be torn between two vastly different worlds: the one you were born to, and the one you fled to and eventually thrived in? What does it mean to become an American? 
Trading Grenades for Candy is a memoir of a Kurdish woman who fled war and turmoil in Iraqi Kurdistan as a young child and transformed herself into a quintessential American success story. Hers is a richly expressed and deeply personal journey from barely surviving in a mud house amidst landmines, to evolving into an independent, world-traveling pharmacist. By understanding her personal story of hardship and perseverance, readers will come to understand not only her personal triumph, but the wider story of the Kurdish people.
This memoir will change the way one looks at what it means not only to be an American, but a fellow human being in our diverse world. 
This special edition of 'Transforming a Nation' is with Dr. Helen Sairany, PharmD., author of Trading Grenades for Candy: A Kurdish Refugee's American Journey
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Pharmacist’s Impact on Ending Asian Hate | Transforming a Nation

The horrific story of a gunman killing eight people at three Atlanta-area spas earlier this year; six of the victims were women of Asian descent, sparking fears among advocacy groups that the killings may have been racially motivated.
Anti-Asian hate crimes have spiked 150 percent since the pandemic began, according to a recent study.
Suspect charged with killing 8 in Atlanta-area shootings that targeted Asian-run spas
People of Asian descent have been living in the United States for more than 160 years, and have long been the target of bigotry. Transforming the Nation tackles this sociological & community issue head on. It's up to us to End Asian Hate. 
Our special guests:  
Shin-Yu Lee, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP - sylee.rx@gmail.com; https://www.linkedin.com/in/shin-yu-l-p-ab2427213
Bonnie Hui-Callahan, PharmD, CDCES - bonnie.c.hui@gmail.com; https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnie-hui-callahan
Free compiled list of resources for AAPI community and allies: www.theclinicianleader.com/ally 
The Clinician-Leader: www.theclinicianleader.com; LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook 
Additional Resources: 
NEJM - Practical Guide for Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2102656
https://stopaapihate.org/ - tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harrasment, and discrimination against AAPI
www.aapidata.com - demographic data and policy research on AAPI
www.standagainsthatred.org
https://ahi.ucsf.edu/advocacy/resources - Asian Health Institute
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Leadership in Transformation NPhA | Transforming a Nation

The National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA) is a national, professional organization of pharmacists committed to serving the underserved and promoting minorities in pharmacy.
The National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA) is a national, professional organization of pharmacists founded by Dr. Chauncey I. Cooper in 1947.
Dr. Cooper recognized the vital need to develop a pharmacy organization focused on the needs of the minority community. He strived to promote excellence and uniformity among minority health professionals in order to improve the quality of health care in minority communities.
The National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA), established in 1947, is dedicated to representing the views and ideals of minority pharmacists on critical issues affecting healthcare and pharmacy, promoting racial and health equity, as well as advancing the standards of pharmaceutical care among all practitioners. 
Today's guests are Lakesha Butler, PharmD & Angela Riley, PharmD 
Dr. Lakesha Butler is a Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. She earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree with honors from Mercer University in Atlanta, GA and completed a pharmacy practice residency with emphasis in ambulatory care at the University of Illinois- Chicago. Dr. Butler is an accomplished young leader, national speaker, author and strong advocate for developing leaders, increasing cultural competency among healthcare professionals, serving the underserved and improving diversity and inclusion.
She is the sole clinical pharmacist providing medication management services at the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, a clinic that serves uninsured patients of St. Louis, Missouri. In the classroom she has developed and coordinates a required pharmacy graduate level course that addresses health disparities, health beliefs, health literacy, and cultural competency. She is the creator of the first and only Health Literacy instructional DVD teaching tool for pharmacy students and pharmacists across the nation and co-author of the pharmacy textbook “Patient Communication for Pharmacy: A Case-Study Approach on Theory and Practice.”
Dr. Angela Riley previously served as the executive director of experiential education and assistant dean in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton University from 2016 until 2020.
Dr. Riley has obtained several grants and contracts, including a Community Action Grant from the American Heart Association and recently received the Stephen David Ross University and Community Projects Fund.
Riley graduated from Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences with her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and obtained her PharmD. degree from Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy. Riley serves on several national, regional, and local boards and committees within various organizations including the National Pharmaceutical Association, Phi Lambda Sigma Leadership Society, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
References:
Socialized and traumatized: Pharmacists, underserved patients, and the COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544319121002028?dgcid=author
 
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Women & Men: The Balance of Leadership in Healthcare | Transforming a Nation

Women & Men: The Balance of Leadership in Healthcare
Guest:
Katashia Partee Kendrick, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist | Health & Wellness Coach | Toastmaster | Infertility Advocate | Fitness Enthusiast
20 Women Of Color Medical Students And Graduates Who Matched In 2021 Share On Soon Joining The Frontlines
As Match Day, March 19, 2021 rolled around, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) reported this year’s Match was the largest in history. 38,106 positions were offered and a record high of 5,915 programs partook in the occasion reaching a growth number of 16.7% after five years. This growth was realized a year after the pandemic amid a season that has challenged the health sector also disrupting clinical rotations and testing and creating major changes in the residency application process. However, registering applicant did not waver, the 2021 Main Residency Match reached a high of 48,700 registered applicants with the largest single-year bump in recorded history—an 8.3% rise since 2020—along with 95% of the 35,194 first-year positions being filled.
 
Amid these moving developments, the pandemic that has concurrently occurred has continued to illuminate disparities that exist among populations of color grappling with navigating its effects. As early research during the pandemic has conveyed, the Covid-19 virus has disproportionately affected Black and Brown communities. And since the vaccine has been created these populations have continued to feel skepticism when asked their thoughts on receiving the vaccination. Much of this skepticism coming from the history of unethical medical practices on Black and Brown communities that have resulted in large segments of this population distrusting the medical system.
 
The Pandemic Is Forcing Women Out Of The Workplace
https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2021/03/29/the-pandemic-is-forcing-women-out-of-the-workplace
 
by: ï  Callie Crossley  twitter calliecrossley
 
Forty hours a week doesn’t begin to describe it. The standard weekly work hours are the baseline for women working outside of the home pre-pandemic.
Traditionally, women’s combined time working in the office and at home has always been substantially more than their male partners. That got worse in March 2020, when the country shut down to slow the spread of COVID-19. Schools and child care centers abruptly closed, companies sent workers home and suddenly some women employees were clocking the kind of overtime that violates labor laws. Most of them took on extra roles, including teacher and 24/7 cook.
But soon, women like Farida Mercedes were forced to make a choice.
Five months after the shutdown started, Mercedes resigned from her position as L’Oréal’s assistant vice president of human resources, telling NPR, “I made a very difficult decision to leave my role. I just could not imagine what I had done in the spring of being a stay-at-home mom and working full time.” She, like millions of other women, stepped off the corporate ladder — effectively stalling or ending their careers.
To be clear, women’s absence hurts the bottom line. McKinsey's "Women In The Workplace 2020" report points out that company profits and share performances can be “close to 50% higher when women are represented at the top.”
But most women in the American workforce do not work in corporate America. An overwhelming number don’t even earn a living wage. There’s a reason why so many are leaders in the national Fight for 15 movement — organizing to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Women dominate in low wage jobs like nursing home health aides, child care, hotel maids, grocery store clerks and waitresses. Before COVID-19, many women made ends meet by working several low wage jobs. The pandemic made visible the invisible, unpaid work of women workers.
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