Title: Interdisciplinary Healthcare Services Research: Optimizing Patient-Centered Outcomes

Biography:

Ahmad El Ouweini is a Clinical pharmacist with focus on Internal Medicine and Cardiology. Clinical preceptor for APPE students, PGY-1 residents and MSc Clinical Pharmacy students. Clinical lecturer focusing on motivating the students to boost their self-confidence, stimulating their critical thinking to be always the person who asks the question: “why?” A fully determined and committed healthcare provider who is working ceaselessly toward achieving personal freedom, continuous growth and professional excellence. Persisting on implementing positive change in my work environment and transforming the pharmacy profession.

Abstract

Interdisciplinary healthcare research has been shown to produce more accessible, applicable, exciting and realistic knowledge than traditional disciplinary approaches. The importance of interdisciplinary healthcare research stems from its ability to build the future T-shaped clinician. In other words, a clinician who has deep expertise in their specialty along with appropriate knowledge in other healthcare-related skills that comes from different healthcare specialties. Examples of this type of research include: Ambulatory clinics (anticoagulation, dyslipidemia, pain management, oral chemotherapy, medication therapy management, etc.), patient education & support (disease, medications, lifestyle), monitoring objective and subjective data, patient care plan adjustments, inpatient patient-centered services such as: medication reconciliation, therapeutic drug monitoring, developing diagnosis & treatment algorithms, policies and protocols. This presentation aims to explore the importance of interdisciplinary healthcare services research, and to discuss the value of pharmacy services upon admission to an orthopedic surgery unit.