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Fall 2024

How do pharmacists help people manage medications?

Pharmacists offer crucial help to people with complex medication regimens.

As people get older, the number of medications they take often keeps growing. That can make for a tricky exercise in making sure they use the right prescribed medicine at the right time.

But they’re not alone in managing multiple medications. Pharmacists, and specifically consulting geriatric pharmacists, offer help in a number of ways.

At Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, pharmacotherapy professor Brian Gates (’99 PharmD) and associate professor Jeffrey Clark (’09 PharmD), both board-certified geriatric pharmacists, teach pharmacy students as well as practice as consulting pharmacists.

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Spring 2024

Pharmacy care in rural Washington—an interactive map

Rural health care access in Washington rural counties and the Rural Health Initiative

Millions of Washington state residents live in primary care shortage areas and nearly 800,000 struggle to access minimum health care in rural Washington. Washington State University’s Rural Health Initiative (RHI) addresses the need for pharmacists in rural communities by placing WSU pharmacy students with a rural, independent pharmacy for six weeks.

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MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREAS & POPULATIONS — MUA and MUP designations identify areas within counties or populations as having a lack of access to … » More …