Pharmacist - Ambulatory Care Clinic - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Posted: 23-Nov-25
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Internal Number: 13292
Job Description
When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai. From working with a team of premier healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you?ll have everything you need to do something incredible-for yourself, and for others. Join us and discover why we are #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.
The Ambulatory Care Clinical Specialist Pharmacist in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist who works with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive medication management for IBD patients. Responsibilities include medication reconciliation, therapy monitoring, managing side effects, educating patients on specialty medications and infusions, and assisting with patient access.
The Pharmacy Specialist in IBD achieves positive patient outcomes through evidence-based disease management guided by established protocols, promotes adherence, and enhances satisfaction among both patients and based on current clinical guidelines, such as those from the American College of Gastroenterology and Cedars-Sinai?s P&T-approved protocols, the specialist initiates, adjusts, or discontinues therapies, orders and interprets lab results, and authorizes medication refills.
Additionally, this specialist educates patients about specialty medications and serves as a clinical resource for physicians and support staff and liaison with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Specialty Pharmacy. They also help develop and maintain order sets, best practices, protocols, competency assessments, and participate in ongoing quality improvement efforts.
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Qualifications
Educational Requirements:
Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy - Minimum
Completion of ASHP accredited residency program - Preferred
Licenses and Certifications:
California Pharmacist license - Required
Advanced Practice Pharmacist License - Strongly preferred or in progress of obtaining certification
Board certification in specialty pharmacy - Strongly preferred
What Else Are We Looking For?
Clinical Practice Experience: Previous experience in IBD specialty or infusion therapy management in an ambulatory care setting is preferred.
Patient Experience: Possesses excellent patient service skills prioritizing patient care needs to support safe effective medication use.
Team Skills: Collaborates effectively with internal teams and stakeholders to achieve program goals.
Analytical: Apply critical thinking to analyze and interpret information and/or data. Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information for decision support.
Analytical: Demonstrates good decision-making/problem solving skills. Exhibits good clinical reasoning skills and judgments in managing patients with the highest medical complexity/acuity.
Communication: Ability to convey and/or receive written/verbal information to/from various audiences in different formats. Communicates effectively and engages in positive inter/intra departmental interaction with peers, physicians, staff and patients.
Documentation: Demonstrates the ability to accurately and promptly document all clinical interventions, assessments, and therapy changes in the patient?s Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Project Management: Initiate, plan, design, implement, and monitor project(s) Ability to manage projects, establish timeliness, analyze data relevant to areas of responsibility. Ability to function independently, ability to plan, organize, direct, monitor and evaluate assigned work.
Budgetary & Financial: Possesses fiscal management skills and proven track record to prepare, monitor and control budgetary expenses and generate revenue.
Regulatory: Ability to interpret and apply knowledge of State, Federal and Agency standards to comply with regulations.
Technical: Ability to learn and adapt to the use of software, technology, and automated information systems in daily practice.
Physical Demands:
Frequent sitting; walking, bending; reaching, occasional pushing, pulling, lifting of materials up to 50 pounds.
Responsiveness to auditory alarms and communication devices including telephones, pagers, fire alarms, and mechanical failure alarms.
Sufficient mobility to access equipment, patients, and other customers.
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
