He has been working with Mercer to establish Reagan Pharmacy as a community pharmacy residency site that would focus on disease state management. He hopes the residency can help demonstrate the economic viability patient counseling can have on the profession. It is our profession's responsibility to do it. Mike, who serves as director of pharmacy services for Georgia Cancer Specialists, has also taken patient care further and is credited with developing the first immunization training program for pharmacists. The idea surfaced during a board meeting of the Georgia Pharmacy Association.
Paramedics can administer injections.
After reviewing paramedic manuals and OSHA requirements, Mike developed the immunization training program for pharmacists. Sixty pharmacists took part in the first workshop at the 1994 GPhA Convention. It wasn't long before the training paid off. A month after the convention, floods devastated the Albany and Montezuma areas. Jeff Sikes, a pharmacist from Valdosta who had just been through the program, got out there and began giving tetanus shots, too.