Episodios

  • 2025 Year in Review

    2025 Year in Review
    Dec 30 2025
    As we close out 2025, PSW CEO Sarah Sorum reflects on a year of fast-moving change—and how Wisconsin pharmacy responded with leadership, agility, and impact. From shifting federal guidance and vaccine policy to protecting access to care in communities across the state, Sarah shares key highlights and the momentum PSW is carrying into 2026.
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    17 m
  • Member Spotlight - Dave Zilz

    Member Spotlight - Dave Zilz
    Dec 15 2025
    In this episode of the PSW Member Spotlight podcast, PSW Past President, Janet Fritsch welcomes longtime PSW pharmacist member Dave Zilz (DZ) for a reflective and inspiring conversation on the evolution of pharmacy practice in Wisconsin and beyond. DZ shares his professional journey, including his early residency training, among the first at UW Health, and how those formative experiences shaped his commitment to collaboration, innovation, and community-building within the profession. Listeners will hear how DZ’s leadership and partnership efforts helped foster a strong, connected pharmacy community across the nation, and why mentoring has remained a cornerstone of his career. Tune in to learn from DZ’s well-known “3, 2, 1 + 1” framework for sparking insight and growth through mentorship, and to be inspired by his continued dedication to supporting the next generation of pharmacy professionals, and all the generations in between.
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    35 m
  • Member Spotlight - Brian Wittenberg

    Member Spotlight - Brian Wittenberg
    Nov 20 2025
    In this episode of the PSW Member Spotlight podcast, PSW Past President - Janet Fritsch, welcomes pharmacy technician leader Brian Wittenberg, whose career path reflects the power of encouragement, lifelong learning, and the impact of professional community. Brian shares his journey from a background in music to a thriving career in pharmacy, an unexpected transition made possible through the support of colleagues and the opportunities he found within the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. Tune in to hear Brian’s story and to learn how PSW membership empowers pharmacy professionals at every stage of their journey.
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    34 m
  • Engaging Patients and Building Trust

    Engaging Patients and Building Trust
    Nov 4 2025
    The Pharmacy Voices in Opioid Use Disorder Care is a podcast series from the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. In this podcast, you’ll hear directly from pharmacists Mollie Shoyer and Diane Johnson, on the frontlines of patient care, sharing practical strategies, lessons learned, and best practices for supporting individuals with opioid use disorder. This episode is accredited for continuing pharmacy education and discusses how pharmacy professionals can build therapeutic relationships with patients experiencing pain or opioid use disorder using stigma-free communication and trauma-informed care strategies. Listeners will walk away with practical language that promotes trust when connecting with our patients and a clearer understanding of how trauma-informed care principles apply in everyday pharmacy outreach.

    Use this link to claim CE Credit: https://www.lecturepanda.com/a/PVOUDE2
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    19 m
  • Health-System Leaders Spotlight - Mo Kharbat

    Health-System Leaders Spotlight - Mo Kharbat
    Oct 27 2025
    Step inside the minds shaping the future of pharmacy in Wisconsin. Through authentic dialogue with members of the PSW Health-System Pharmacy Advisory Committee, you’ll uncover the real stories, leadership lessons, and strategic thinking driving innovation in pharmacy today.

    This episode features Mo Kharbat, Vice President of Pharmacy Services at Ascension Health in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A healthcare executive with expertise spanning healthcare operations and finance, supply chain, pharmacy services, value-based care, and population health. A passionate mentor, he has trained and coached clinicians into leadership roles, with many advancing to senior leadership positions in Wisconsin and beyond. Interviewed by PSW's very own Sarah Pagenkopf, this conversation highlights Mos insights and his commitment to advancing practice and patient care.

    Tune in as PSW continues to spotlight voices shaping the next era of pharmacy leadership.
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    30 m
  • Harm Reduction Principles

    Harm Reduction Principles
    Oct 16 2025
    PSW Pharmacy Voices in Opioid Use Disorder Care - Harm Reduction Principles

    The Pharmacy Voices in Opioid Use Disorder Care is a podcast series from the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. This episode brings together key public health concepts and discusses the pharmacist’s role in harm reduction, whole-person care, and reducing stigma. The podcast authors emphasize the use of tools like naloxone distribution, drug checking, syringe access, and patient education as valuables ways that pharmacy professionals can support people who use drugs.

    Jordan Wulz and Haley Pals, speakers for this podcast, report no financial relationship with ineligible companies. None of the planners of this knowledge based activity report relationship with ineligible companies.

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    This learning activity helps to build knowledge. To receive ACPE continuing pharmacy education credit for this session, learners will listen to a podcast and then register in the PSW Learning Management System, Lecture Panda, and enter the session code provided at the end of the podcast. Learners must successfully complete a focused learning assessment, scoring better than 70% of answers correctly and a podcast feedback evaluation to claim continuing pharmacy education credit.
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    16 m
  • Member Spotlight - Trea Marszalek

    Member Spotlight - Trea Marszalek
    Sep 26 2025
    In this PSW Member Spotlight episode, we’re honored to welcome PSW's incoming Technician Section Board President - Trea Marszalek. Trea joins PSW Past President Janet Fritsch as they engage in a wide-ranging conversation that focus on Trea's transition from preschool teacher to pharmacy technician, her role as a pharmacy buyer, her role within PSW, and her vision for technician inclusion during her term. With a passion for helping others, Nicole (Nic) Schriner shares how collaboration, connection, and a teamwork can shape the world.
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    29 m
  • Member Spotlight - George MacKinnon

    Member Spotlight - George MacKinnon
    Sep 22 2025
    Meet one of the leaders shaping the future of pharmacy in Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy Dean George MacKinnon!

    In this PSW Member Spotlight podcast, hosted by former PSW President Janet Fritsch, Dean MacKinnon shares his professional journey, his passion for supporting flexible learning models, expanding the practice of pharmacy, and how MCW is preparing future pharmacists to lead with purpose and innovation. From academic insights to bold ideas for what’s ahead in pharmacy, you won’t want to miss this inspiring conversation.
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    35 m
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