WPQC Spotlight: Dana Whittlinger
by Moua Lee, 2022 PharmD Candidate
"The Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative (WPQC) encourages pharmacists to perform comprehensive medication review and assessment (CMR/A) services by combining financial and professional incentives. This spotlight focuses on a pharmacist who has shifted her role over time and is leading the way in providing WPQC CMR/A services at her pharmacy location. Dana Whittlinger, PharmD, BCACP, and a graduate of UW-Madison’s School of Pharmacy 2002, is a medication expert expanding her role. After graduation, she chose to move to the Eau Claire area with her husband, Michael Whittlinger, also a pharmacist. She currently practices in the outpatient pharmacy at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, where she is given opportunities to expand pharmacy clinical services. With support from her leadership and director, she became WPQC certified and began providing medication therapy management (MTM) services in her department. She has been participating in a cardiovascular- and diabetes-focused program that provides CMR/A services to Medicaid members with support from the local public health department and PSW. She now lives in Fall Creek with her husband and two teenage sons."
Keywords: Pharmacists, Medication Therapy Management, Motivation, Medicaid, Electronic Health Records, Public Health, Spouses, Wisconsin, Personal Satisfaction, Outpatients, Pharmacies, Pharmacy Service, Hospital, Pharmacy, Telemedicine, Schools, Diabetes Mellitus
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"The Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative (WPQC) encourages pharmacists to perform comprehensive medication review and assessment (CMR/A) services by combining financial and professional incentives. This spotlight focuses on a pharmacist who has shifted her role over time and is leading the way in providing WPQC CMR/A services at her pharmacy location. Dana Whittlinger, PharmD, BCACP, and a graduate of UW-Madison’s School of Pharmacy 2002, is a medication expert expanding her role. After graduation, she chose to move to the Eau Claire area with her husband, Michael Whittlinger, also a pharmacist. She currently practices in the outpatient pharmacy at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, where she is given opportunities to expand pharmacy clinical services. With support from her leadership and director, she became WPQC certified and began providing medication therapy management (MTM) services in her department. She has been participating in a cardiovascular- and diabetes-focused program that provides CMR/A services to Medicaid members with support from the local public health department and PSW. She now lives in Fall Creek with her husband and two teenage sons."
Keywords: Pharmacists, Medication Therapy Management, Motivation, Medicaid, Electronic Health Records, Public Health, Spouses, Wisconsin, Personal Satisfaction, Outpatients, Pharmacies, Pharmacy Service, Hospital, Pharmacy, Telemedicine, Schools, Diabetes Mellitus
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2021 November/December Table of Contents