Joe Marchiano

2023 Distinguished Service Award Winner

Professional Bio: I am a Clinical Lead Pharmacist in the specialty of Geriatrics at Summa Health and an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). After graduating from Ohio Northern University, I completed a PGY-1 residency at the University Hospitals (UH) Geauga Medical Center before completing a PGY-2 residency in Internal Medicine and Academia through the UH Geauga Medical Center and NEOMED. Currently, I practice in ambulatory and inpatient multidisciplinary settings to enact medication-related assessments and plans for older adults while teaching in special populations as well as interprofessional education at NEOMED.

Reasons for selecting this career path and professional interests: As a pharmacy student and tutor, I developed a love for helping others achieve their academic goals while enjoying the process of understanding and applying how medications work at the cellular level. This translated into a desire to talk about these things in the classroom and experiential settings in a way that can help others accomplish their own objectives, so I was drawn to the career path of a shared faculty member. From there, APPE rotations and residency training allowed for me to experience the fulfillment that stems from improving the wide variety of complicated medication-related and social situations often present in the lives of older adults; the impact that pharmacists can have through helping these patients, and their unique needs, is incredible! This understanding, and these situations, led me to my current position as a geriatrics-focused shared faculty member. My research areas of interest include the use of guideline-directed medical therapy in older adults, the prevention and management of delirium, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Interest in serving on the NPF Executive Committee: Since learning about the work of SSHP as a first-year pharmacy student, it has been my dream to maintain organizational involvement consistently throughout my career with the goal of advancing pharmacy practice to the fullest possible extent. This led me to involvement with ASHP Advisory Groups as both a student and New Practitioner, and being involved in these capacities has allowed for me to understand the large-scale benefit that ASHP membership is capable of achieving through producing resources and momentum that allow for pharmacists to expand their abilities to ultimately help patients. It is an honor to be able to serve on the NPF Executive Committee to help coordinate the efforts of the Advisory Groups which aim to understand and serve pharmacists in the earliest stages of their career, and I hope to contribute to a year of new, meaningful achievements in this regard.

Benefits of being involved in ASHP as a New Practitioner: There are so many benefits of being involved in ASHP as a New Practitioner! Active involvement exposes you to a support system of pharmacists that genuinely seek to improve the profession, so the learning opportunities associated with this are seemingly endless. You will be able to enrich your own practice by learning from others on the cutting edge of practice in all regions, and you will be able to contribute your expertise to these conversations as well. With that, the ability to make meaningful connections with others is also extremely valuable and can lead to a number of opportunities not otherwise available (eg, scholarship efforts, refining protocols). In addition, active participation in ASHP Advisory Groups allows for you to transcend your most immediate environment to learn about, and impact, pharmacy practice across the country; this, to me, is an incredible opportunity to broaden your impact in caring for patients!