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Squabbling About Pain: Current Controversies in Chronic Pain Management with Opioids
PRESENTER(S):
Dr. Ernest Dole, PharmD, BCPS, Pharmaceutical Care Coordinator, Lovelace Medical Group; Internal Medicine
Dr. Herndon received both his BS and PharmD from St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Following completion of a geriatrics residency, he was on faculty with the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy where he worked in pain and palliative care with local hospices and a regional cancer center. Prior to his current position, he was a science and research liaison in analgesia with Johnson and Johnson. He is currently the Network Facilitator for Pain within ASHP and serves on the ASHP Task Force of Pain and Symptom Management.
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Mary Lynn McPherson,
PharmD, BCPS, Professor and Vice Chair,
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Mary Lynn McPherson, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore. She serves as a consultant pharmacist for both local and national hospice and palliative care programs, and has designed a critical thinking process for appropriate drug use in end of life patients. She serves on the Boards of the Hospice Network of Maryland and the Maryland Pain Initiative. McPherson is also the Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Pain Educators. Dr. McPherson teaches extensively in the Pharm.D. curriculum on pain management and end of life care, including didactic and experiential content. McPherson also serves as a primary care pharmacist and Director of Pharmacotherapy Services at UniversityCare Waxter in Baltimore. She also developed one of the first and few palliative care pharmacy residencies in the U.S. McPherson is a Fellow in the American Pharmacists Association, American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists and American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. She has received many honors for her work, including the American Pharmacists Association Distinguished Achievement Award in Specialized Practice, the Maryland Pharmacists Association Innovative Practice Award, and the Maryland Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists W. Purdum Lifetime Achievement Award. She has written three books, and many chapters and peer-reviewed articles on pain management, palliative care, and other topics.
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Jennifer Strickland,
PharmD, BCPS, Co-Director of Center for Advancing QOL (LRMC),
Lakeland Regional Medical Center
Jennifer Strickland received her PharmD from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and subsequently completed a specialty pharmacy residency in pain management at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Following her residency, she was the clinical pharmacist for the Pain and Palliative Care Service at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center for 6 years. Following Moffitt, she partnered with a physician and another pharmacist to open an interdisciplinary pain management, addiction, and psychiatry clinic in Tampa, where she served as the clinical coordinator. She currently is the pain management and palliative care pharmacist and director of pharmacy at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, FL. Jennifer is the past-president for the Florida Pain Initiative and is an invited member of the Palliative Care Task Force for the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. She has served as a residency director for a Specialty Pharmacy Residency in Pain management and Palliative Care LRMC and is an adjunct faculty member at University of Florida, FAMU, Palm Beach Atlantic, and Nova Southeastern Colleges of Pharmacy. Jennifer has published in the area of pain management and palliative care and has lectured nationally on these topics as well.
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