Casey Gilmore - Mental Health Pharmacy
Pre-Pharmacy Club Meeting
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
5:00 – 6:30 PM, Room 2002 School of Pharmacy/Rennebohm Hall
Casey Gallimore – Mental Health Pharmacy
Exposed to pharmacy at a young age as her Mother is a Pharmacist
Went UW Madison for Undergrad and Pharmacy School.
Originally interested in Retail pharmacy – quickly realized that was not what she wanted to do
Didn’t realize she was interested in academia and ambulatory pharmacy until about the second year of pharmacy school
Did a residency due to not being sure what she exactly wanted to do
2 years at the U of M
Am Care clinic there
Taught half time at Minnesota
Came back to Madison
Coordinates skill labs about documentation and health care paperwork and interaction with patients
Interest: mental health
Teaches mental health
Practice in primary care
Works with pharmacy for getting meds for those with no or low insurance
Ties with mental health...hard to get into psych specialty care along with insurance problems and qualifications
Works with behavioral health with primary care doctors and manage complex psych meds; works with social workers and psychologists; behavioral education with behavioral and physical health
Ways to get involved with mental health
CPNP – Organization in the pharmacy school focused on mental health pharmacy
Psychiatric elective course (in Pharmacy School)
Shadowing and project opportunities