ALUMNI NOTES

Brittany Burkhead, PharmD (Class of 2015) has worked for CVS for 10 years now and is still going strong! She paid off her school loans and is living debt-free. She is now saving up to buy her own home. Dr. Burkhead says, “I’m involved at my church, Grace Baptist, where I participate in a weekly Bible study. My new hobby is line dancing! I have a good community of Christian friends, and we have had many opportunities to share the gospel with other friends there. We recently started a Bible study with some of the young men who want to know more about the Bible.”

Dr. Kyle Reed (Class of 2014) currently serves as a clinical pharmacist at Adventist Health Hanford Medical Center. The hospital is part of the Central Valley Network (CVN), made up of Adventist Health Hanford, Selma, Reedley, and Tulare Medical Centers. Dr. Reed’s work takes him on ICU rounds in Hanford (the main hospital) and also involves conducting all consults for Hanford, Selma, and Reedley. Half of Dr. Reed’s shifts entails the consults, managing the ICU unit after rounds and conducting antibiotic stewardship, and the other half of his shifts are staffing for all four hospitals and “IV shifts” (IV compounding). In November 2022, Dr. Joel Christian (Class of 2015) was promoted to serve as one of 13 Inpatient Pharmacy Directors in Kaiser SCAL. After working for almost four years as an Inpatient Pharmacy Supervisor at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, flagship tertiary care facility, Dr. Christian applied to become the director at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Inpatient Pharmacy. Woodland Hills hospital is a 280bed hospital and has just begun Neurosurgery cases. It has a large