Available Until 8/21/2027

2024 Ambulatory Care Pearls

Planned in cooperation with the Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners   

ACPE Activity Number: 0204-0000-24-074-H01-P
Release Date:  August 21, 2024
Expiration Date: August 21, 2027
Activity Type: Knowledge-based 
CE Credits:  2 contact hourS, (0.2 CEUs)
Activity Fee: Member – Free / Non-Member – Not Available 

This activity is a recording from a live webinar and those that claim credit for the live webinar should not claim credit for this activity.

Activity Overview 

The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pearls is an hour and half webinar that showcases in five-minute increments interesting clinical topics that pharmacists should know more about. Each pearl is designed to convey one idea, concept, or fact that has been useful in day-to-day practice, and may not be widely known, understood, published, or taught. 

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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education with Commendation.

This activity was planned to meet the educational needs of pharmacists and technicians who practice in ambulatory care.

After completing this activity, the learner should be able to…

  • Identify novel clinical practice options for patient care in the ambulatory care setting. 
  • Discuss opportunities to improve ambulatory care services.
  • Describe effective medication management strategies for an ambulatory care service.
  • Outline teaching and learning activities that may add benefit to practice. 

  • Introduction and Announcements 

  • Presentation  

  • Questions, Answers, and Discussion 

Lauren G. Pamulapati, Pharm.D., BCACP (Moderator)
Assistant Professor, Ambulatory Care
Department of Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science
Faculty Director, Continuing Education
Coordinator, Teaching and Learning Certificate
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy
Clinical Pharmacist, Hayes Willis Health Center/VCU Health
Richmond, VA 

Karen Gunning, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP
Professor, Assoc Dean, Clinical Pharmacist Family Medicine
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 

Kelly Sklanka, PharmD, CDCES
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Wilkes University Nesbitt School of Pharmacy
Wilkes-Barre, PA

Megan Adelman, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, CDCES
Family Medicine Clinical Pharmacist
Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Akron, OH 

Emily Doycich, PharmD, BCPS
Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Specialist
MetroHealth Systems
Cleveland, OH 

Michelle Link Patterson, PharmD, BCACP
Ambulatory Pharmcist Clinician
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Lancaster, PA 

Carleigh Krueger, PharmD, BCACP
Pharmacist in Charge
SRHC Outpatient Pharmacy
Salina, KS 

Justine Latif, PharmD, BCACP
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Palm Beach Atlantic University
West Palm Beach, FL 

Kristin Rieser, PharmD, BCACP
Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Denver Health
Denver, CO 

Jeff Lewis, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, CDCES, CLS
Assistant Director
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, TN 

Ellen Jones, Pharm.D., BCACP
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Harding University College of Pharmacy
Searcy 

Diane Hobbs, PharmD
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Manchester University/ Neighborhood Health Clinics
Fort Wayne, IN 

Beatriz Jimenez Cadilla, PharmD, BCACP, CPh
Clinical Ambulatory Pharmacy Specialist I
Baptist Health 
Delray Beach 

Rachel Chandra, PharmD, MPH
Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner/PGY-1 Program Director
Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center 
Dayton, OH

Erin Sherwin, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner
Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC 

Lawrence Chang, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Pharmacist
County of Santa Clara Health System
San Jose, CA 

Carolyn Jung, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP 
PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency Director, Clinical Coordinator
Trinity Health Muskegon
Muskegon, MI 

Larissa Carli, PharmD, BCACP
Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist
Hennepin Healthcare
Minneapolis, MN

In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. 

An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience. 

  • No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company. 

This activity consists of recordings of faculty slides presentations, active learning activities, discussion, and handouts. Participants must participate in the activity in its entirety to claim continuing pharmacy education credit online at ASHP Learning Center. Follow the prompts online to complete the evaluation, claim credit and view the statement of credit immediately after completing the activity. 

Per ACPE requirements, CPE credit must be claimed within 60 days of being earned. Once you have processed and claimed your CE credit, we encourage you to check your NABP eProfile account to verify your credits were transferred successfully before the ACPE 60-day deadline. It is an electronic direct-report process so your credits should appear in your account within a few minutes. After the 60 day deadline, ASHP will no longer be able to report your credit(s) for this activity.