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.

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.

Medical Communication Services at JC Rx Consulting

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Joseph Chebli is the VP of clinical operation at JC Rx Consulting. A doctor of pharmacy with more than 25 years of experience, Joseph Chebli is also a consultant director of scientific and medical services for the Med Learnign Group in New York City.

At JC Rx Consulting, Mr. Chebli and his team provide clients–healthcare industries and facilities–with a wide variety of services.

In the area of clinical pharmacy, JC Rx Consulting offers an interdisciplinary approach to patients’ care that incorporates monthly trend and quality assurance reports, as well as analyses that highlight clinical areas where improvement is required. These “gap analysis” reports study the clinicians’ practices, such as gradual dose reduction, drug-induced behavioral adverse effects, and health economic outcomes.

The consultant is available to help the client work through the generated reports and to recommend and instigate any necessary policies to ensure improvement in the future. The medical communication division is also responsible for the development of nurse training programs.

JC Rx Consulting services help clients create and maintain open lines of communication among all professionals involved in a patient’s care: the health system, nurses, doctors, and pharmacists.