174 - Finding Your Mount Rushmore: The Journey of an Industry Pharmacist

HelixTalk - Rosalind Franklin University's College of Pharmacy Podcast

Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS

Health & Fitness, Medications, Rosalindfranklin, Rfums, Pharmacy, Pharmd, Pharmacist, Medicine, Drugs

5 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we interview Scott Glosner, PharmD, MPH, BCPS about his extensive experience working at Pfizer in medical outcomes and as a field medical director. Dr. Glosner will share his career journey from a clinical pharmacist transitioning into the pharmaceutical industry in the late 1990s and what current pharmacists and students should know about a job in a pharmaceutical company.

Key Concepts

Pharmacists are playing an increasingly important role within the pharmaceutical industry. Prior clinical experience is a significant advantage to applicants for these positions.
Key characteristics of a competitive pharmacist applicant for an industry position include strong communication skills, being perseverant (“tough skin”), being extremely persistent, and having real-world clinical experience.
Different companies and job positions within industry often require differing amounts of prior experience. Applicants with more than several years of experience (or equivalent fellowship experience) may be more competitive for positions. Standing out in any way, whether board certification, doing research, networking, etc. is important for any applicant.
In the future, pharmacists in industry may be playing a greater role in the oncology space, social determinants of health, emerging topics (such as gene therapy), and being capable of analyzing and interpreting “real world” clinical trial data.

Questions for Dr. Scott Glosner? He can be reached at [email protected] or on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-glosner-b743234).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Helix Talk, an educational podcast for healthcare students and providers covering real-life clinical pearls, professional pharmacy topics, and drug therapy discussions.
0:11.0	This podcast is provided by pharmacists and faculty members at Rosal Franklin University College of Pharmacy.
0:17.0	This podcast contains general information for educational purposes only. This is not professional
0:22.4	advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified health care provider.
0:27.2	And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 174. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.
0:36.1	And I'm Dr. Patel. And the title of today's episode is Finding Your Mount Rushmore, the Journey of an Industry
0:42.2	Pharmacists.
0:43.5	Today we're interviewing Dr. Scott Glossner, and just as a quick disclaimer, he is an
0:48.1	employee of Pfizer and that his views expressed by him may not represent the views of Pfizer.
0:53.3	Now with that out of the way, Dr. Glossner,
0:55.5	it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast today. I'm going to let you kind of tell the audience a
1:00.3	little bit about yourself and then we'll kind of dive into some questions about why you're here
1:04.1	and what our topic is today. Great. Thanks. Again, thanks for the opportunity to speak with you
1:08.1	both. So I am Scott Gloucester. I'm originally from the
1:11.1	Pennsylvania area, Pittsburgh area. I went to undergraduate pharmacy school at Purdue, got my
1:17.2	farm to university of Texas and did a residency there in ambulatory care. And then I practiced at
1:22.2	Parkland Hospital, which is a large county hospital in the Dallas area. And then I transitioned
1:26.6	over to the Dallas VA and worked
1:29.1	at UTMB, so the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for a short period time,
1:34.1	Cleveland VA, and then I transitioned over to the current company I work for now, which is Pfizer, Inc.
1:39.0	I started in the Philadelphia area. And my role there is a clinical education consultant,
1:43.9	the education and outcomes projects. And my role there is a clinical education consultant to be education and
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