四色AV

Rotation:聽 Non-patient Care Academic Experience

Practice Site:聽 四色AV College of Pharmacy

Dr. Ashley Barbo received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2007. She practiced as a community pharmacist for eleven years before returning to 四色AV in 2018. There, she serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice Laboratory Coordinator. She teaches first- through third-year pharmacy students in the skills lab and precepts fourth-year students on an academic advanced practice rotation. Dr. Barbo is a trainer for both the American Pharmacists Association's Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery Certification Course and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations' Pharmacy-Based Point-of-Care Test & Treat Certificate Program. She has a passion for implementing innovative teaching techniques in the laboratory and promoting the advancement of pharmacy practice. Dr. Barbo鈥檚 APPE rotation is a non-patient care academic experience. Students can learn about academia through various assignments such as assisting in laboratory activities, delivering lectures, academic focused topic discussions and journal clubs.

Rotation:聽 Oncology

Practice Site:聽 Oschsner LSU Health Shreveport-Monroe Medical Center

Dr. Jameshia Below is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Science degree at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy. She went on to complete a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Slidell Memorial Hospital and a PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency at Memorial Regional Hospital/ Memorial Cancer Institute.

As a faculty member, she practices at the Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport 鈥� Monroe Medical Center as a Clinical Oncology Pharmacy Specialist where she collaborates with hematology/oncology physicians and nurses to develop supportive care plans for cancer patients and counsel patients on chemotherapy regimens, supportive care medications, and others. The clinics that she is involved in include breast cancer, malignant hematology and gastrointestinal cancers. In the classroom, she teaches informatics, oncology and women鈥檚 health lectures. Jameshia is currently a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Hematology Oncology Pharmacist Association, Louisiana Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Minority Women Pharmacists Association and the National Pharmaceutical Association. She currently serves on the HOPA Patient Outreach Committee and as Advisor to the National Compounding Oncology Dispensing Association and Co-Advisor to the Student National Pharmaceutical Association at the University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy.

Dr. Below is married and enjoys traveling and spending time with her four children.

Rotation:聽 Adult Medicine

Practice Site: Ochsner Louisiana State University Health Monroe Medical Center

Dr. Jessica Brady earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2007 then completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She returned to 四色AV in 2008 as a faculty member. She is currently a Clinical Professor and Associate Director in the School of Clinical Sciences. She maintains a hospital-based clinical practice where she sees patients with a Family Medicine inpatient team. Here, she and her rotation students provide drug information and work with the team to provide appropriate pharmacotherapy recommendations to optimize patient care. She teaches various self-care and therapeutic topics in all three years of the curriculum, along with an elective focused on hospital pharmacy practice.

Rotation:聽 Non-patient Care APPE

Practice Site:聽 四色AV College of Pharmacy

Dr. Craft is the Associate Dean of Assessment and Administrative Affairs. She received her BS in Pharmacy from NLU in 1990, her PharmD from the University of Florida in 2001, and her MBA from 四色AV in 2015. Her teaching passions include leadership and pain management. She currently offers a non-patient care APPE each fall and spring. She strives to customize her rotation to the interests of the students. For example, in the past, she focused more on the business of running the college for PharmD/MBA students who were interested in 鈥渉ow the sausage is made鈥�. At other times, the focus is more on academia and what it means to engage in the 3 areas of teaching, service, and research. Occasionally, students who have taken her leadership elective ask for more opportunities to further develop their leadership skills. Hobbies include harassing Dr. Evans as often as possible. If this sounds enjoyable to you, please sign up for an APPE with Dr. Craft.

Rotation:聽 Family Medicine Ambulatory Care

Practice Site: Oschsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center

Dr. Bryan Donald graduated from the Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy in 2016 and then completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Corpus Christi Medical Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. He joined the 四色AV College of Pharmacy faculty in 2017 and has offered a variety of rotation experiences to students, starting with adult internal medicine, then moving to outpatient pediatric cardiology, and finally an outpatient family medicine clinic. Dr. Donald and his students support the family medicine clinic by helping optimize patients鈥� medication regimens, counseling patients, and answering drug information questions from attending and resident physicians.

In the classroom, Dr. Donald coordinates and teaches the Research Methods and Literature Evaluation course. He also teaches in some therapeutics modules. Dr. Donald鈥檚 research relates to pharmacy practice 鈥� in 2019 he received a grant from USDA to study collaborative drug therapy management via a pediatric hypertension clinic, and he is currently funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents to study pediatric medication safety.

Rotation:聽 Non-patient Care APPE

Practice Site:聽 四色AV College of Pharmacy

Dr. Jeffery Evans is an Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences and serves as the School Director for the School of Clinical Sciences. He usually practices Ambulatory Care focusing on Cardiovascular Risk Reduction but has not been practicing since he assumed the role of School Director. He graduated from the University of Florida in 2002 and completed a Primary Care Residency in 2003. His first academic position was at South University in Savannah Georgia and he moved to the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2006. His current rotation is focused in Academia. Students taking the rotation will be working in the classroom in several different ways and completing research to see what can be done to improve the delivery of information at the College.

Rotation:聽 Ambulatory Care Family Medicine

Practice Site: Oschsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center

Dr. Hill is a 2008 graduate of the 四色AV College of Pharmacy. He pursued residency training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS and completed a teaching certificate program in 2009. Dr Hill then took a job as a clinical pharmacist at Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas, TX where he worked as an inpatient pharmacist for 5 years. He then returned to his alma mater in July 2014 to begin his career in academia at the Monroe Campus. Dr. Hill currently practices in an ambulatory care family medicine clinic at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe. Dr. Hill and his students provide medication expertise in the outpatient clinic by optimizing patient's medication regimens, counseling patients, and serving as the drug information experts for the medical residents and staff of the clinic.

In the classroom, Dr. Hill coordinates and teaches in the Pharmacy Communcations course and the elective Problems in Therapeutics. He also teaches in many therapeutic modules and has a passion for education about all things related to substance use disorder. He is currently part of a large grant with other COP colleagues that is providing substance use disorder and harm reduction education and materials to first responders, community members, and healthcare students. Finally, Dr. Hill is the residency program director for the 四色AV COP PGY-1 residency located in Monroe.

Dr. Hill is married to Kristen and enjoys spending time with his three daughters, Rachel, Hannah, and Madeline.

Rotation:聽 Adult Medicine

Practice Site: Oschsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center

Dr. Lance Nickelson is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Practice. He received a BS in pharmacy from what was then Northeast Louisiana University and a Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences. He started his clinical career as a Specialist in Poison Information at what was then the Louisiana Poison Control Center. He began his career as a faculty member serving as the clinical pharmacist for St Patrick鈥檚 hospital (an inpatient geriatric psychiatric facility). For the last 15 years, he has been the clinical pharmacist for a 26-bed adult inpatient psychiatric facility located at Ochsner LSU Health- Monroe Medical Center. This student experience involves patient assessment, drug selection and therapeutic drug monitoring as part of an interdisciplinary team consisting of psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, social workers and nursing. In the classroom, Dr. Nickelson provides all lectures relating to psychiatric drugs and topics as well as providing an elective course on psychiatric and substance abuse topics. Dr. Nickelson is a fan of the New Orleans Saints, the Chicago Cubs and professional wrestling

Rotation:聽 Ambulatory Care

Practice Site:聽 Retina Center of Eye Associates of Northeast Louisiana

Dr. Michelle Zagar鈥檚 route to pharmacy was a little different than most. She has a bachelor鈥檚 and a master鈥檚 degree in education from the University of Louisiana Lafayette and spent 8 years as a kindergarten and elementary school teacher. She received her Pharm.D. from the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2003 and joined the faculty in 2004. She is a Clinical Professor and also serves as the Program Director for Faculty Development for the College of Pharmacy.

Her content area in the pharmacy curriculum is geriatrics. She has worked with older adults for the majority of her pharmacy career. She now provides diabetes medication management services to retina patients in an ophthalmology practice in the community. It has been reported that the majority of vision loss caused by diabetes can be avoided by good diabetes management and timely treatment; but many people with diabetes do not take their medicines as they should. While on this rotation, students will work with patients who have diabetes to improve medication-related outcomes in an effort to minimize disease-related vision loss.