On Friday, October 19th, alum and 2012 OSU Pharmacy Alumni Fellow, Shelton Louie, Founder & CEO of GSL Solutions, Inc., shared insights from his entrepreneurial career with first and second year pharmacy students. Louie’s company is the first to develop a proven and scaleable prescription will-call retrieval system for retail pharmacies utilizing radio frequency identification. Louie stressed the importance of thinking outside the box and critically thinking about how to solve existing problems.
Josh Bishop (Class of ’06), Director of Pharmacy & Government Relations at PacificSource Health Plans, spoke to the P3 students on Monday, October 29th about the opportunities for pharmacists in managed care. His talk focused on the changing healthcare marketplace, pharmacy’s role in managed care and job opportunities for pharmacists in managed care.