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Jason Callori is a senior advisor, Marketing Operations, and host of the Cardinal Health™ Counter Talk™ Podcast. Jason has worked at Cardinal Health since 2014 and has used his passion to connect with pharmacists for the annual Cardinal Health Retail Business Conference. He started his career back in 1999 with Kinray Inc., a pharmaceutical wholesaler in the state of New York. He was hired to create the company’s first website which blossomed into a 22-year career in marketing to independent pharmacists. While working at Kinray, he learned about challenges the pharmacists, the patients, and how important independent pharmacies are to healthcare. Jason’s passion for the independent pharmacy filters into everything he does.
Episode 17 – Becoming the Vaccination Destination in Your Community
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90% of patients live within five miles of a community pharmacy. It’s all about convenience and accessibility, and in today’s world, pharmacies are working to understand not only what vaccine their community members and patients need but also when and why they need it/them.
In this podcast, Cheri Schmitt, pharmacist and member of Cardinal Health’s Pharmacy of the Future Clinical Team, Tonya Shackelford, pharmacist and senior manager for Cardinal Health’s Clinical Pharmacy Solutions Team and Wimberly Gayle, an independent pharmacist from Louisiana, address the evolution of pharmacies as an emerging healthcare destination by offering even more immunizations — especially for the upcoming fall and winter seasons.
Here, Cheri, Tonya and Wimberly address this ever-pivoting world for independent pharmacies and how they may effectively balance their vaccine inventory and offerings.
Learn about the guests
Cheri Schmit, R.Ph:
Cheri Schmit, R.Ph. is a senior manager, Product and Solutions Management for Cardinal Health. She is a licensed pharmacist and has worked as a practicing community pharmacist and as a Director of Clinical Pharmacy for a group of independent pharmacies. She is currently a clinical pharmacist on Cardinal Health's Pharmacy of the Future Clinical team. In her current role, she is working to develop and manage innovative pharmacy focused solutions for independent and small chain community pharmacies to provide, drive, measure and maximize non-dispensing clinical pharmacy opportunities that improve patient care and outcomes, and provide value to health care and appropriate clinical revenue for pharmacies.
Tonya Shackelford, R.Ph:
Tonya Shackelford, R.Ph. is a senior manager, Product and Solutions Management at Cardinal Health. She is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and has close to 30 years of retail pharmacy experience. This work has included independents and small and large chain operations at a store, district, and corporate level. The last seven years she has been focused primarily on clinical programs that help pharmacies expand their services to help reduce DIR fees and bring in additional revenue. In her current role, she is supporting clinical solutions that Cardinal Health offers to their customers. These solutions include immunization programs, point of care testing, medical billing, and pharmacy appointment scheduling platforms. Tonya’s passion is making sure pharmacies can provide clinical programs in formats/platforms that fit into the operational workflow.
Wimberly Gayle:
Wimberly Gayle is a 1994 graduate of The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and has worked in independent pharmacy for 30 years. She is a consultant pharmacy for many behavioral health clinics and long-term care facilities and a pharmacist and owner of Curry Pharmacy in Clinton, LA, Curry Pharmacy Slaughter in Slaughter, LA and Jelks Family Pharmacy in Centreville, MS. Her pharmacies focus on vaccinations, medication synchronization and compliance packaging and offers services for both inpatient and outpatient customers.
Cardinal Health is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities. With 50 years in business, operations in more than 30 countries and approximately 44,000 employees globally, Cardinal Health is essential to care.
