Pharmacist - Primary Care/Pain Management - Medical Network
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Posted: 18-Apr-26
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Internal Number: 16497
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, and it?s just one of the many reasons we?ve achieved our six-consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. 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 tied #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.
The Ambulatory Care - Primary Care/Pain Management Clinical Pharmacist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Network
The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist is an Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner who collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive medication management for patients in primary care setting.
The pharmacist collaborates with primary care physicians, pain management physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and specialty pharmacy teams to optimize pharmacotherapy, improve patient outcomes, ensuring patient safety and the highest quality of care is delivered.
Provides comprehensive medication management for ambulatory patients including medication reconciliation, therapy monitoring, and pharmacotherapy optimization.
Evaluates drug therapies and develops individualized pharmacotherapy plans for patients with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, those on anticoagulation therapy, those on chronic opioid therapy and/or benzodiazepine therapy.
Provides Smoking Cessation education and medication management.
Initiates, titrates, and adjusts medications under collaborative practice agreements and approved clinical protocols following updated clinical guidelines, such as those from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), American Diabetes Association (ADA), American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), CDC Opioid and Benzodiazepine Medication Prescribing Guidelines.
Orders, reviews, and interprets laboratory tests and monitoring parameters necessary for safe and effective medication therapy management.
Monitors medication adherence, therapeutic response, and patient outcomes.
Identifies, resolves, and prevents medication-related problems including adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, untreated indications, and inappropriate drug selection.
Provides therapeutic recommendations and answers medication and patient-related questions from other healthcare providers.
Provides patients? and other healthcare providers with education on medication use, side effects, and drug interactions when appropriate.
Supports the process of completing medication prior authorizations as needed.
Documents patient encounters, pharmacotherapy interventions, and therapeutic outcomes in the electronic health record.
Assists in development and maintenance of clinical pathways, best practices, protocols, competency assessments.
Supports ambulatory clinical pharmacy billing activities where applicable including documentation supporting incident-to or other pharmacist clinical service reimbursement models.
Assures ongoing performance improvement of the pharmaceutical care services provided.
Precepts pharmacy residents and students in ambulatory clinical pharmacy practice.
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Qualifications
Educational Requirements:
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from an accredited school of pharmacy.
Licenses/Certifications:
Pharmacist license in the State of California.
Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner (APP) License - Required or must be eligible for and obtain within twelve (12) months of hire.
Professional certificate in relevant practice area(s) preferred.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
Eligibility to obtain DEA registration if required.
What Else Are We Looking For?
Completion of PGY1 pharmacy residency or equivalent clinical experience required.
Eligibility to obtain DEA registration if required.
Comprehensive knowledge of common disease states, pathologies and ability to apply current pharmacological and biopharmaceutical principles.
Pain Management experience- preferred
Completion of PGY2 residency in ambulatory care, pain management, or pharmacotherapy preferred.
Experience in ambulatory clinical pharmacy practice or outpatient clinic setting preferred.
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.
