Key Takeaways:
- Define the continuum of opportunities for pharmacist integration in clinical practice.
- Analyze different correctional systems to determine where pharmacists can be implemented to develop more efficient operations within correctional facilities, reducing costs, improving decision-making processes, enhancing safety, and optimizing resource allocation.
- Evaluate the current strategies of disease management within the carceral setting and analyze novel approaches to improve patient care, decrease costs, and optimize resource allocation.
- Envision how implementing novel strategies for the management of complex disease processes can enhance the operation of a correctional institution through technology and a paradigm change, optimizing screening and treatment practices.
- Formulate strategies to utilize various healthcare disciplines that encourage a collaborative, team approach.
Overview of Series:
The nine-part series will explore how to integrate clinical pharmacists into primary care, as well as identify proven approaches for carceral team medicine and clinical pearls in disease states affecting adults in custody.
Format:
Nine weekly one-hour webinars. The sessions will be recorded and made available on the NIC website.
Dates and Details:
To be recorded on NIC’s WebEx URL https://nicmeetings.webex.com by bopnic-pd-webhost-s@bop.gov (NIC Prisons Division Webhost account).
Date and Time: March 13, 2025 – May 8, 2025, weekly each Thursday at 9 am PT / 10 am MT /11 am CT / 12 pm ET for one hour.
Click here to register for any or all the programs in this series.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Any employee of a state, federal, local, or tribal correctional jurisdiction with an interest in correctional healthcare.
You can register for the series or a single event.
Follow this link to register in NIC’s WebEx Event Center Webinar series name.
You can sign up for the entire series or individual episodes.
Content Contact
CAPT Chad Garrett, Health Program Manager, Prisons division, National Institute of Corrections
cagarrett@bop.gov
Webinar Technical Contact
Scott Richards, Correctional Program Specialist, Prisons Division, National Institute of Corrections
s1richards@bop.gov
You’ll need a hands-free telephone, headset or earbuds, and an internet-enabled computer. For optimum learning, be in a quiet place, free from distractions/interruptions, sight-and-sound separated from others, where you can concentrate on what is happening during the webinar. Connect to webinar audio bridge via a hands-free telephone or your computer, using earbuds/headset connected to your phone/cell phone, so your hands are free to interact with your keyboard.
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Click https://nicic.gov/webinar-vilt-readiness for further information on NIC’s live webinars, including (cost = free!), how to obtain training credit from your agency, and much more!
Episodes
Episode #1: Integrating Pharmacists into Primary Care
Date: March 13, 2025
Educators: Captain Tami Rodriguez & Commander Josh ValgardsonEpisode #2: Eliminating Hepatitis C
Date: March 20, 2025
Educators: Commander Katrina Klang & Lieutenant Commander Alex BrorbyEpisode #3: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Correctional Settings
Date: March 27, 2025
Educators: Commander Tyler Campbell & Commander Jessica MurrerEpisode #4: Harm Reduction and Re-entry
Date: April 3,2025
Educators: Commander Beth Thompson & Lieutenant Commander Alyson DunlaveyEpisode #5: HIV-Screening, Treatment, Prevention
Date: April 10, 2025
Educators: Commander Drew Swigart & Lieutenant Commander Marinda Thomas-LePageEpisode #6: Pharmacists Engagement with OUD
Date: April 17, 2025
Educators: Commander Trey Draude & Lieutenant Commander Jennifer GossettEpisode #7: Caring for the Aging Incarcerated adult
Date: April 24, 2025
Educators: Commander Chawntel Hunt & Lieutenant Commander Kiara StonerEpisode #8: Diabetes Pharmacotherapy: Beyond Blood Sugar Program
Date: May 1, 2025
Educators: Natalie Li, Colby KernEpisode #9: Diabetes Technology in the Secure Environment
Date: May 8, 2025
Educators: Commander Josh Valgardson & Commander Drew Swigart