Jason Wentzell, Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist & Founder, Extend Pharmacy - Empowering Community-Based Cancer Care

On this episode of The People Playbook Podcast, host Jason Taylor sits down with Jason Wentzell - a Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist, past president of CAPhO, and founder of Extend Pharmacy - to explore how oncology expertise can be brought closer to home. Jason shares why community-based cancer care matters, how the Extend Cancer Pharmacy Network (ECPN) trains and supports independent pharmacies, and what leaders should look for when building mission-driven healthcare teams.

You’ll learn:

• Burnout safeguards for high-empathy oncology teams
• How Extend Pharmacy grew from a hospital insight to a community model
• Collaboration > competition: empowering local pharmacists with specialty oncology care
• Traits Jason hires for as he scales beyond Ontario
• Practical hurdles with take-home cancer drugs—and how to solve them
• The future of oncology: immunotherapy, targeted therapies, and care at home