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Holly E. Causey, PharmD, BCACP, CPP, CDE Clinical Pharmacist in Ambulatory Care Duke Outpatient Clinic, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC Holly Causey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She completed her PGY1 Community Pharmacy residency with Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (Buies Creek, NC) and Kerr Drug (FuquayVarina, NC). She then completed a PGY2 Ambulatory Care Specialty Residency at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC. Following completion of her PGY2 residency, she took a position at the Duke Outpatient Clinic. She has had the privilege of implementing
a Transitions of Care service and a group hypertension visit in her clinic as well as managing patients for pain, anticoagulation, diabetes, hypertension, and general medication management. Most recently, she has implemented a protocol for the treatment of Hepatitis C Virus within her patient population. She is a clinical pharmacist practitioner (CPP), board certified ambulatory care pharmacist (BCACP), and certified diabetes educator (CDE). She is also an adjunct assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy where she teaches in the ambulatory care elective as well as precepts 4th year students on rotation. She also serves as program coordinator for the Duke University Hospital 2nd year ambulatory care pharmacy residency program. She is currently serving as chair of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP) Residency Committee. She has also served as chair of the NCAP New Practitioner Network Executive Committee and has served on the executive committee since 2010. Dr. Causey is also a member of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Section of Ambulatory Care Practitioners’ (SACP), currently serving on the Advisory Group on Compensation and Practice Sustainability. She has previously served on Medication Therapy Management in the Community Section Advisory Group and the Pain Management and Palliative
Care Section Advisory Group and was an ASHP New Practitioner Forum Executive Committee member in 2012-2013. She has been a member of the American Pharmacist Association (APhA) since a student in pharmacy school and has served on the New Practitioner Network Transitions Advisory Editorial Board and diabetes special interest group. Dr. Causey first became involved with NCAP as a student and has remained a very active member. “NCAP allows me to stay connected. I’m able to keep up with the initiatives and legislative updates as well as socially connect with other pharmacist practitioners. On a more personal level, many of the preceptors I had as a student and resident are highly involved with NCAP. Thus, this is a way of giving back to the profession.” Her piece of advice to new practitioners: “Smooth seas do not make for skillful sailors.” My advice is simply this: respect the obstacles and adversity that come your way for they will make you a more resilient person and pharmacist practitioner.
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