Palliative Care Pharmacist Working to Improve Transitions of Care for Patients

After taking an undergraduate organic chemistry class, Madison Irwin, PharmD, BCPS, decided to pursue a career in a different field than her original choice of neuroscience. After looking into pharmacy upon the recommendation of a friend, she knew she had found her new passion and never looked back.

Irwin is a clinical pharmacist specialist in palliative care at University of Michigan Health and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. She supports a palliative care consult team and outpatient palliative care clinics by seeing patients who are transitioning out of the hospital, as well as patients who have more complex medication management needs.

As a part of Drug Topics’ continuous coverage of American Pharmacists Month, Irwin joined us to discuss how her career has unfolded, a program she worked on that exemplifies the value of pharmacists in patient care, opportunities out there for pharmacists to expand their role, and how high rates of chronic pain will impact the pharmacy profession in the coming years.

To read more from this series, visit our American Pharmacists Month resource center.

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