Tracy Frame, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Pharmacist at The Next Door in Nashville
The Next Door is a non-profit organization that helps women in crisis. They provide services to women impacted by addiction, mental illness, trauma and/or incarceration. Students that come to The Next Door on rotation get to assist on the medical team by working with all patients in both the detoxification unit and the residential unit. Students work with both the pharmacy faculty member and the nurse practitioners on site by assessing patients health conditions and problems that are occurring, monitoring and adjusting therapeutic plans as needed and providing patient education classes. It can be difficult to see women in such mental, physical and spiritual pain, but is also so rewarding to see them work towards recovery and be a part of their journey!

Montgomery Green, PharmD, BCPS
Internal Medicine/Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist at Williamson Medical Center
Williamson Medical Center is a small hospital with a community feel. I work primarily with the hospitalist physicians as their internal medicine pharmacist reviewing patient charts, discussing medication therapy plans with physicians, and following up with patient outcomes. I also serve as the pharmacy chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee which is a multidisciplinary team with physicians, other pharmacists, nurses and microbiology, patient safety, and IT specialists. We work together to ensure that antimicrobials are used appropriately and only when necessary in order to help combat the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance. I also serve as a preceptor for several of the PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency rotations at WMC. APPE students are involved in all aspects of my practice when on rotation. They review patients and discuss recommendations with hospitalist physicians, attend and present at Antimicrobial Stewardship meetings, interact with residents, and complete admission medication histories for patients being admitted to the hospital. WMC is a great place to see all aspects of an institutional pharmacy.

Elisa Greene, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Pharmacist at Siloam Health in Nashville
Siloam is a non-profit faith based family medicine clinic aiming to provide whole-person care to patients without insurance. We serve people from over 80 different homelands and language groups, so students gain diverse cultural and medical exposures while working with an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, behavioral health consultants, social workers, pastors, and many others. Among other things, while on this rotation students gain experience managing chronic medical conditions, identifying foreign medications, finding affordable and sustainable medication options, researching physician questions, working across language and cultural barriers, and educating both patients and the clinical staff on topics of interest. More information about Siloam is available at www.siloamhealth.com

Lindsay Hahn, PharmD, BCPS
Internal Medicine Pharmacist at Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville
My site is located at a community based-hospital, where I round with the Internal Medicine teaching team. We round with physicians, medical residents, and medical interns and provide pharmaceutic care services to the team. These services can include medication/treatment selection, medication dosing, medication monitoring, medication reconciliation, drug information, order entry/verification, and patient counseling.

Leela Kodali, PharmD, BCACP
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville
I serve veterans at a primary care clinic North of Nashville and manage chronic disease states such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and COPD. The VA allows me to practice at the top of my license and I love being able to share that with 4th year students.

Phillip H. Lee, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist for Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville
At Vanderbilt I work to support Internal Medicine physicians as they take care of hospitalized patients. I help them by reviewing current medication therapy, making medication therapy recommendations, dosing medications, answering drug information questions, and counseling patients. Most of my day is spent seeing patients, writing notes in the medical record, and researching different drug therapy topics.

Michael McGuire, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist at Rolling Hills Hospital in Franklin
Rolling Hills is a 120 bed behavioral health facility that provides both inpatient and outpatient services to patients with psychiatric disorders as well as substance use disorders. I see patients with Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and other psychiatric conditions. As a clinical pharmacist at Rolling Hills, I attend treatment team with psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers. I am responsible for monitoring the drug therapy for the patients in the hospital and for providing patient education to patients in the hospital and in patients in the outpatient program. Students greatly enjoy my practice site because they get a significant amount of direct contact with patients and are incorporated into the treatment team.

Marilyn Odom, PhD, BS
Faculty Research Labs
My lab focuses on understanding cellular pathways involved in breast cancer progression. My current research investigates the mechanism by which a drug currently in Phase II/III clinical trials kills triple negative breast cancer cells. Understanding this could yield other pharmacologic targets. Students can volunteer to work in the lab during the summer or choose to complete a research APPE elective with me. The goal is for the student to gain research experience in basic medical science, but the bigger picture is for the student to gain an understanding of the concept of bench-to-bedside.

Adam Pace, PharmD
Pharmacy Manager at Belmont University Pharmacy
Belmont Pharmacy provides pharmacy students a unique opportunity to learn while serving their fellow students. We are located in McWhorter Hall, the same building where pharmacy students take their classes. Undergraduate students, faculty, and staff all benefit from the care provided by our staff and students.

Kendall Shultes, PharmD
Hematology/Oncology Clinical Pharmacist at Vanderbilt Ingram-Cancer Center at Cool Springs
I work in an outpatient ambulatory care oncology clinic with physicians and nurses providing care to all types of oncology patients with solid tumor and hematological malignancies as well as benign hematological malignancies. I have many different roles within the clinic including but not limited to monitoring patients that have an appointment that day, assisting with chemotherapy regimen management, answering clinical drug and disease questions, and providing patient education. As a student on rotation, we will focus mainly on oncology-related topics but given the ambulatory care setting, also review non-oncology disease states.

Steven Stodghill, PPhD, BS
Nashville Zoo at Grassmere
We assist the veterinary staff at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere in conducting pharmacokinetic studies involving exotic animal species. The veterinarians often use medications that have been studied in domestic animals but little or no information is available regarding their use in the exotic species commonly found in zoos. The research is focused in two major areas. The first is in the development of the extraction and analytical procedures needed to quantify the analyte of interest from various matrices (e.g. blood, plasma, urine, feces). The second focus is in the modeling and interpretation of the data to provide important pharmacokinetic parameters for the analyte to assist the veterinary staff in safe and effective dosing for that species of animal. When possible, we will also use this data in an attempt to predict how a change in species will result in the need to alter dosing parameters. In order to register for this rotation, students must have completed the Veterinary Pharmacy elective taught during the Fall semester. During this elective, students apply for the rotation and are selected on a competitive basis.

Kristy Wahaib, PharmD, BCPS
Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville
My practice site is at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. While there, my students and I round with teams taking care of adult patients on the Internal (general) Medicine service. Teams consist of physicians, medical residents, and medical students. Our therapeutic recommendations and patient education efforts are highly valued and we are considered an integral part of this service.

HELPFUL LINKS:

Affiliate Faculty Library Resources are available through the Lila D. Bunch Library.

RxPreceptor is utilized by the Office of Experiential Education to provide students information on rotation experiences and what each site/faculty member has to offer. It is also the program responsible for assigning students to rotations based on faculty availability and student preference.

The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy website contains useful information pertaining to licensure in the state of Tennessee. All students and experiential education faculty are expected to be familiar with the Tennessee state requirements for obtaining a pharmacist license.