Season 4 Ep. 15 : Oncology Workforce Collaborative

The PQI Podcast

This week we sit down with Alison Gulbis, PharmD, BCOP, Kamakshi Rao, PharmD, BCOP, FASHP, and Zahra Mahmoudjafari, PharmD, MBA, BCOP, FHOPA to discuss their work on the Oncology Workforce Collaborative.

Alison is a Clinical Pharmacy Manager at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. She obtained her PharmD at the University of Florida and completed her PGY1 and PGY2 residencies at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has been in clinical practice for 19 years at MD Anderson and manages a team of clinical pharmacy specialists in pediatric hematology/oncology and adult stem cell transplant.

Kamakshi is an Interim Director of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill. She oversees Adult Ambulatory and Acute Clinical Services as well as the hospital’s academic enterprises, including resident and student training programs. Additionally, she leads the department’s growing efforts around diversity, equity, and inclusion. She spent 20 years in direct patient care, working with patients undergoing bone marrow transplants at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital before moving into her current role.

Zahra is a Clinical Pharmacy Manager in the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics at the University of Kansas Health System (TUKHS). She earned her PharmD and MBA from the UMKC School of Pharmacy and the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. She completed residency training at The Ohio State University Medical Center and The Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. She has been a board-certified oncology pharmacist since 2012. In 2022, she was the recipient of the ASTCT Pharmacy Special Interest Group Lifetime Achievement Award and ASCO’s 40 Under 40 in Cancer award.

You can read more here: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jac5.1693