The practice of medicine focusing primarily on the endocrine glands, meaning the organs whose primary function is hormone secretion.  Those organs include the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, ovaries, testes, and pancreas.

The practice of medicine specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic diseases, which are musculoskeletal  and systemic autoimmune diseases that typically cause pain, swelling and disfigurement in joints.  Specific  diseases treated include lupus, osteoarthritis, tendinitis and gout.

Clinical Pharmacy Practitioners provide blood pressure monitoring, continuous glucose monitoring, diabetes management, hypertension management, clinical drug trials, medication therapy management, anticoagulation (Coumadin) management, and transitional care management for patients discharged from the hospital setting in order to coordinate continuity of care back to the clinic setting.

Our Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners ensures each patient’s medications are individually assessed to determine that each medication is appropriate for the patient, effective for the medical condition, safe given other disease states and other medications being taken, and able to be taken by the patient as intended. It includes an individualized care plan that will be developed in conjunction with the health care team to ensure that the patient achieves the intended goals of therapy. The services are longitudinal in nature as the patient transitions the health care system.

A multi-discipline team of health care practitioners work collaboratively to provide a broad spectrum of diabetes care services. Care plans, while developed collaboratively with the health care team and patient, will be specific in order to assure that the goals of therapy are met. Components of the comprehensive diabetes care plan not only include medication management, but also target interventions to enhance monitoring and patient self-management skills such as blood glucose monitoring, disease education, continuous glucose monitoring, foot care, medical nutrition therapy and exercise. Individualized goals will be set with the patient in order to prevent the complications related the diabetes. Our providers are also certified in insulin pump management and are qualified to assess the appropriateness of an insulin pump for a patient, initiate the pump, titrate doses, and educate the patient on proper management.

Our Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners are experts on the field of anticoagulation, and are available to monitor and assist in anticoagulation drug therapy management. For patients who are on chronic warfarin therapy, point of care testing is used to provide immediate INR results and adjustment of dosing. For patients who are on the new anticoagulation medications, the clinical pharmacists in conjunction with the physicians, will provide comprehensive patient education and monitoring to avoid any bleeding complications. Additionally, our Clinical Pharmacists Practitioners are experts in transitioning patients from one anticoagulant to another in those patients requiring procedures that may interrupt therapy.