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professional advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified health care

provider. And now, on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 25. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane.

And I'm Dr. Patel. We're missing Dr. Schumann, but we have a guest faculty, Dr. Bradley Cannon.

Hello.

Who's going to help us understand what pharmacy education is all about.

And we're trying out something new for this episode,

so it's going to be question and answer in interview format

to help you get

some knowledge as to what pharmacy was before, what it is now, and where it's going.

Absolutely. So we're going to go ahead and kind of kick things off, Dr. Cam with.

Could you just tell us maybe in a minute or less kind of what your pharmacy experience has been

like from school all the way until now.

Wow. 20 years in a minute. I'll do my best. So I began working as a delivery guy for community

pharmacy, my senior year in high school, and gradually fell in love with a profession.

Went to University of Illinois, graduated in 94, and during my last year in training on my third rotation, I fell in love with teaching.

And so I did a residency and stayed at the University of Illinois for quite a while, first working as a clinician and taking students and again realizing that I loved pharmacy but I also

loved the education piece and was able to move into experiential ed where I've stayed for about 20

years. So let's back up to the very beginning. I think that that really sets a good overview

of kind of your career path and things like that. What was it at the very beginning that got you

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