Who Are Consulting Pharmacists?

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A certified consultant pharmacist, Joseph Chebli serves as managing member and executive director of JC Rx Consulting, LLC, based in Belle Mead, New Jersey. In addition, Joseph Chebli is an adjunct assistant professor at Felician College in Lodi, New Jersey, where he teaches courses on the moral and spiritual dimensions of health care.

Most people deal with a pharmacist in a retail setting when they pick up their prescriptions. While this is perhaps the largest segment of professionals, there are other pharmacists who lend their expertise to patient groups and other organizations. These professionals are known as consulting pharmacists.

Often in the geriatric care setting, consulting pharmacists help senior adults make informed decisions about the medications they are using. They do this through a one-on-one relationship in which the consulting pharmacists tailor their expert advice based on the patient’s health conditions, diet, and other relevant factors.

Consulting pharmacists also provide advice to healthcare professionals who prescribe medications, as well as those who oversee the dispensing of drugs.

Felician College’s Healthcare Administration Degree

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With degrees in pharmacy from Shenandoah University and St. John’s University as well as a master’s degree in systematic theology from the Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, consultant pharmacist Dr. Joseph Chebli is a managing member and the executive director for JC Rx Consulting in Belle Mead, New Jersey. In addition to his consulting work, Joseph Chebli, PharmD, teaches a course called The Moral and Spiritual Dimension of Health Care at Felician College in Lodi, New Jersey.

The course is a component of Felician College’s healthcare administration and nursing degree. Healthcare administrators do not generally work directly with patients but rather shape the policies and systems that affect those patients on a day-to-day basis. These are the professionals who will need to be able to make effective, ethical decisions about how healthcare systems run.

Felician College’s program in healthcare administration includes a range of courses in healthcare as well as core business courses that will provide students with the ability to think critically, communicate effectively, stay accountable to their decisions, and make those decisions as ethically as possible. The program is centered on the case study approach, which gives students a chance to look at real-world situations both in teams and on their own.

The healthcare industry is growing, especially in New Jersey, and completing a degree in healthcare administration may open up a range of possible career options, including health information technology, biotechnology, consulting, and government positions.

Medical Communication Services Spanning Continuing Education Programs

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Joseph Chebli, PharmD, is the owner and managing member of JC RX Consulting in New Jersey, a firm that provides healthcare facilities with patient-centric advisory services. Also the director of Med Learning Group in New York, Dr. Joseph Chebli offers a full range of support solutions, from medication management and chart review to implementation of benchmarking and trend analysis.

JC RX Consulting also offers strategic medical communication and medical education development solutions with a scientific basis. Undertaking in-depth gap analysis, the JC RX team creates needs assessments and assists in generating continuing medical education (CME) grants that achieve positive results.

As grant givers, pharmaceutical companies seek out independent medical education programs that offer distinct disease management benefits to patients and providers. JC RX Consulting has longstanding relationships with CME providers who offer objective, unbiased educational materials that reflect the latest clinical guidelines and regulations. The firm provides education solutions geared toward entire health systems as well as to specific staff, such as physicians, nurses, and administrators.