Clinical Pharmacologist

Job Summary: Develop, review, and evaluate clinical guidelines and Drug Utilization Reviews, provides consultations, develops programs, prepares articles, and conducts research.

Job duties:

• Clinical Guidelines - Develops, reviews, and evaluates clinical guidelines for medications used in state management protocols. May participate in the evaluation of health plans.
• Drug Utilization Review - Develops, reviews, and evaluates retrospective Drug Utilization Review (DUR) criteria.
• Consultation - Provides clinical consults on complex retrospective DUR cases and/or medication authorization requests. Suggests therapeutic alternatives to providers when sub-optimal therapies have been identified.
• Program Development - Participates in the development and presentation of educational intervention programs.
• Article Preparation - Prepares or reviews articles pertaining to clinical therapies and guidelines for the DUR newsletter.
• Research - Conducts research and reviews of the literature on medication therapies when there is a high cost issue, quality of care, etc.
• As Needed - Performs various duties as needed to successfully fulfill the function of the position