Dr. Zachary Renfro (Class of 2012) has accepted a position as a Community Pharmacy Account Specialist with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in east Tennessee. He will assist in implementing community pharmacy-based initiatives that are aligned to shared GSK and retail chain headquarter objectives. The Community Pharmacy Team with GSK will focus 100% of its efforts on community pharmacy and will serve as the GSK point of contact for community pharmacists.

Dr. Renfro will work with Community Pharmacists in both independent and retail settings to encourage and support patient interventions/outcomes that result in better patient care in diseases such as asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and hypertriglyceridemia. The primary function will be to work with community pharmacists at the store level to encourage/support patient interventions that result in better patient care (i.e. medication adherence), specifically on GSK products such as Advair, Serevent, Flovent, Avodart, Jalyn, and Lovaza. This is a relatively new position within the pharmaceutical industry, with GSK being the first company to create it approximately 3 years ago.

Dr. Renfro has worked as a resident the past year with the Tennessee Pharmacist’s Association.