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Please Welcome Connor Glasgow Our Student Pharmacist for the Month of January from The Ohio State University.

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This month, we are joined at Plain City Druggist by Connor Glasgow, a fourth-year pharmacy student from The Ohio State University’s College of Pharmacy.

Connor will graduate in May 2022 with his PharmD degree and will then take the test to become a registered pharmacist. Connor will be with Tayler and the staff here in Plain City throughout January, so please stop by and meet him while he is here.

Here is what Connor tells us about himself:

My name is Connor Glasgow, and I am a current fourth year APPE student at The Ohio State University’s College of Pharmacy.

I am a long time Ohio resident who grew up in Worthington, where I graduated from Thomas Worthington High School. Following graduation, I started my undergraduate career at Ohio Wesleyan University, where I graduated with a Pre-Medicine major with a Chemistry minor.

Taking courses in biochemistry and human physiology led me to be especially interested in the relationship between chemicals and the human body. However, I still wanted to directly help patients. Given that, I was naturally drawn to pharmacy because of the face-to-face interactions pharmacists have with patients, while also providing quality healthcare. As such, the primary focus of my career has been in the retail community pharmacy setting.

My career in pharmacy began prior to entering OSU, when I applied to be a pharmacy technician with Kroger Pharmacy in Delaware. After a year, I was a certified technician, and after another year with Kroger I was in their intern program. After four years at Kroger, my passion for community pharmacy has only increased after completing their internship program. In some ways, my time there has been unique given the advent of Covid-19 and the need of healthcare professionals to assist in mitigating the spread of the pandemic.

Aside from helping immunize patients at Kroger, I have also assisted in a large-scale immunization clinic at the Schottenstein Center for several weeks. Both these experiences have only further demonstrated to me the utility and need of pharmacists at the community level in helping improve community health in ways that no other profession can.

In addition to my time at Kroger, my APPE rotations have given me skills and perspectives from all areas of pharmaceutical practice. These rotations have included time at a home-infusion clinic observing a rapidly growing sector of pharmacy, outpatient infusion services and compounding; assisting the pharmacy director of SUN Acute Behavioral hospital to help patients in urgent mental health assistance; as well as spending time with Equitas administrative offices, a local clinic and pharmacy specializing in community outreach.

I have even seen how pharmacists handle animal patients and compounding for such patients while a student at OSU Veterinary Hospital. However, despite all these experiences I still feel most at home and satisfied with community pharmacy.

If anything, I feel my career has been preparing for work in a community setting, and this newest rotation at Plain City Druggist is all the better preparing me for my future career. Though the majority of my career has been in a large chain community setting, I am excited to see how a local, independent pharmacy operates day-to-day, and what makes an independent pharmacy different from a large chain pharmacy. Independent pharmacies often form the backbone of healthcare, especially in rural areas that may be underserved. These pharmacies in many ways represent the peak of community practice and improving the healthcare of the community, not just the customer.

I am beyond excited to observe and learn what I can from Plain City Druggist.

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