College of Pharmacy alumnus selected as first clinical pharmacist at hospital in east Tennessee

masterson__juliaDr. Julie Masterson (Class of 2012) recently completed a PGY-1 residency at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville and has accepted a clinical pharmacist position at LeConte Medical Center in Sevierville, Tennessee.

Dr. Masterson will serve as the first clinical pharmacist at LeConte and will develop clinical programs to aid patients in the East Tennessee area.  She will work as a member of an interdisciplinary team to make pharmacy related interventions where appropriate.  She will focus on completing consults and making interventions via Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) based on generated reports.

Dr. Masterson states that she will be implementing policies and protocols with pharmacists from other local hospitals to help standardize pharmacy care among the different treatment centers of which LeConte is a member.