Webinar Summary:
Learn from Commander Chawntel Hunt, a Board-Certified Geriatric Pharmacy Specialist, and Lieutenant Commander Kiara Stoner, Chief Pharmacist of the Federal Medical Center Fort Worth, about the ways the Federal Bureau of Prisons evaluates the challenges of aging in custody.
This webinar is part of the National Institute of Corrections Clinical Pearls series. The series explores how to integrate clinical pharmacists into primary care. Session participants will learn how to identify best practices for carceral team medicine and clinical pearls in disease states affecting adults in custody.
Webinar Learning Objectives:
During this 60-minute webinar, participants will:
- Identify unique considerations for aging incarcerated adults, including physiologic changes and preventative health guidance.
- Evaluate medications for changing risk-benefit profiles over the course of a patient’s lifespan.
- Apply evaluation tools and guidance to specific patient cases to achieve optimal outcomes for aging incarcerated adults.
Series Take Aways:
During this webinar series, participants will:
- Define the continuum of opportunities for pharmacist integration in clinical practice.
- Analyze different correctional systems to determine where pharmacists can be included 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 use various healthcare disciplines that encourage a collaborative, team approach.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Any employee of a state, federal, local, or tribal correctional jurisdiction with an interest in correctional healthcare.
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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
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Educator Bios
LT Kiara Stoner
LT Kiara Stoner is the Chief Pharmacist for the Federal Bureau of Prisons Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Fort Worth, Texas. FMC Fort Worth pharmacy provides pharmacy services for 1,400 medically complex adults in custody. She graduated with her Doctorate of Pharmacy from Hampton University School of Pharmacy in Hampton, Virginia. LT Stoner completed her PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency at Riverside Regional Medical Center.
LT Stoner joined the USPHS Commissioned Corp three years ago in 2021 because she saw the need to do more during the COVID pandemic and felt called to seek a higher mission. Prior to commissioning, LT Stoner was Director of Pharmacy at a 75-bed long-term acute care inpatient hospital, working in critical care, infectious disease and geriatrics.
CDR Chawntel Hunt
CDR Chawntel Hunt, a veteran, of the United States Air Force, currently serves as the Chief Pharmacist for the Federal Correctional Complex Tucson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. As an airman, she deployed to over twenty countries and worked for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for 3 years. She began her pharmacy career as a Senior Co-Step in 2011 and did two clinical rotations at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens before graduating from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in 2012. She is a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, a preceptor for the University of Arizona Pharmacy program, and Substance Use Disorder Clinical Pharmacist Consultant. Chawntel lives with her husband Eric, son Jase 9, and French bulldog Doug.
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