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Fall 2024

Prescription drugs

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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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Winter 2003

What is this drug, and what does it do?

On a typical day, a dozen pharmacists, physicians, and other health care practitioners will call the Drug Information Center (DIC) in Spokane for some help.

“The questions run from easy ones we can answer right away to ones where three days from now we still don’t have an answer,” says Danial E. Baker, DIC director and a pharmacy professor at WSU Spokane.

The center, which was started in 1973 and is primarily funded by grants and contracts, also serves as a teaching laboratory for up to four pharmacy students at a time. Students in their final year of pharmacy school spend six weeks … » More …