Applied Pharmacy Solutions
Strategies for Better Pharmacy Organizations and Enhanced Patient Care
Maximize effectiveness around any aspect of pharmacy and healthcare delivery.
Applied Pharmacy Solutions (APS) provides single-source strategies to optimize effectiveness of pharmacy organizations, enhance the services they provide to patients, and market their outreach activities more effectively.
APS leverages the talents of experienced academicians, clinicians, and researchers to address challenges and opportunities faced by pharmacy organizations of various types and their stakeholders, particularly patients. We provide single-source strategies that enhance your organization's value, effectiveness, marketing, profitability, and service acumen.
Our PhD- and PharmD-trained Associates have backgrounds in medication adherence, direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription goods and services, public health outreach, health/prescription drug benefit analysis, root cause analysis, advanced statistical modeling, pharmacy labor force economics, employee quality of work life, clinical drug trials, health information technology, medication therapy management, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacology, and dosage forms.
Our Associates have taught, conducted research, published, acquired competitive grant dollars and executed real-world strategies and interventions. APS can devise entirely new strategies or amend your organizations existing ones to maximize their effectiveness around any and all aspects of pharmacy and health care delivery.
APS leverages the talents of experienced academicians, clinicians, and researchers to address challenges and opportunities faced by pharmacy organizations of various types and their stakeholders, particularly patients. We provide single-source strategies that enhance your organization's value, effectiveness, marketing, profitability, and service acumen.
Our PhD- and PharmD-trained Associates have backgrounds in medication adherence, direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription goods and services, public health outreach, health/prescription drug benefit analysis, root cause analysis, advanced statistical modeling, pharmacy labor force economics, employee quality of work life, clinical drug trials, health information technology, medication therapy management, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacology, and dosage forms.
Our Associates have taught, conducted research, published, acquired competitive grant dollars and executed real-world strategies and interventions. APS can devise entirely new strategies or amend your organizations existing ones to maximize their effectiveness around any and all aspects of pharmacy and health care delivery.
Optimizing efficiency and outcomes
Areas that APS can address include the following:
Operations Management Strategies
Data analysis using multivariate statistical procedures.
Community outreach and intervention support services.
Prescription drug plan analysis and medication therapy management.
Health Information Technology (HIT)
Pharmacy Academic Program Success
Grant writing
Consulting services
APS Affiliates
APS is proud to be associated with the following organizations.
Elsevier, McGraw Hill, Script Your Future, and California Chronic Care Coalition.
APS Statement on Biden Announcement
Medicare Part D Drug Negotiation
While we appreciate the Biden Administrations’ efforts to lower drug costs at the pharmacy counter for Americans, we are not confident that any savings promised by the Inflation Reduction Act will actually reach patients. We know that Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM’s) play a significant role in what patients actually pay for their medications, and we urge the Administration to refocus their efforts on reforming these middlemen and supporting legislation that creates transparency of PBM’s. Until that happens patients will not see real savings for their medications.
Granada Statements
Improving the visibility and quality of pharmacy practice and education research.
ABOUT US:
Pharmacy practice has been defined as “the scientific discipline that studies the different aspects of the practice of pharmacy and its impact on health care systems, medicine use, and patient care”. Like any other scientific discipline, clinical and social pharmacy practice disseminates research findings using scientific journals. Clinical pharmacy and social pharmacy journal editors have a role in promoting the discipline by enhancing the quality of the articles published.
As has occurred in other health care areas (i.e., medicine and nursing), a group of clinical and social pharmacy practice journal editors gathered in Granada, Spain to discuss how journals could contribute to strengthening pharmacy practice as a discipline. The result of that meeting was compiled in these Granada Statements, which comprise 18 recommendations gathered into six topics: the appropriate use of terminology, impactful abstracts, the required peer reviews, journal scattering, more effective and wiser use of journal and article performance metrics, and authors’ selection of the most appropriate pharmacy practice journal to submit their work. Access the Granada Statements: The Granada Statements are currently endorsed by the following journals:Research in Social and Administrative, Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, Farmacia Hospitalaria, Journal de Pharmacie Clinique, Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, Ars Pharmaceutica, Pharmacy Education, Revista Brasileira de Farmacia Hospitalar e Serviçios de Saude, Canadian Pharmacists Journal.
They have been published concurrently in 12 journals, all as open access publications.
As has occurred in other health care areas (i.e., medicine and nursing), a group of clinical and social pharmacy practice journal editors gathered in Granada, Spain to discuss how journals could contribute to strengthening pharmacy practice as a discipline. The result of that meeting was compiled in these Granada Statements, which comprise 18 recommendations gathered into six topics: the appropriate use of terminology, impactful abstracts, the required peer reviews, journal scattering, more effective and wiser use of journal and article performance metrics, and authors’ selection of the most appropriate pharmacy practice journal to submit their work. Access the Granada Statements: The Granada Statements are currently endorsed by the following journals:Research in Social and Administrative, Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, Farmacia Hospitalaria, Journal de Pharmacie Clinique, Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, Ars Pharmaceutica, Pharmacy Education, Revista Brasileira de Farmacia Hospitalar e Serviçios de Saude, Canadian Pharmacists Journal.
They have been published concurrently in 12 journals, all as open access publications.
APS President Shane P. Desselle, RPh, PhD, FaPhA
Shane Desselle is President of Applied Pharmacy Solutions. He has years of experience in pharmacy practice, in academia, research, consulting, publishing, program development, and grantsmanship. Shane is formerly Dean and Professor at California Northstate University College of Pharmacy. He received his B.S. in Pharmacy and Ph.D. in Pharmacy Administration from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He began is academic career at Long Island University, then became Director of Assessment & Educational Strategies at Duquesne University for 9 years. At Duquesne, Dr. Desselle was tenured and promoted to professor while earning College and University-level teaching and research awards. He then took a position as Associate Dean and Chair at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Oklahoma. He co-edits Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings, 5th ed, the most widely used pharmacy management text, worldwide. He has received 2 Fulbright specialist scholarship awards.
He is founder and editor of Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy and has served on the editorial boards of JMCP, JAPhA, and AJPE, as well as on Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy. Dr. Desselle has served on AACP’s Board of Trustees and the Boards of the Northern California chapters of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the American Diabetes Association. Dr. Desselle has served as a Fulbright Specialist Scholar in Pristina, Kosovo in 2018 and Sydney, Australia in 2024. Shane has developed successful community outreach programs and public health initiatives. He has developed mentoring programs for pharmacists, pharmacy students, pharmacy academicians, and pharmacy technicians. He developed a career laddering mechanism for pharmacy technicians and has led task forces on pharmacy workforce at local, state, and national levels. He has been invited to speak throughout and even outside the U.S. on myriad topics. He has published over 80 original research articles and nearly 200 conference presentations. Dr. Desselle has taught courses in health care systems, health care economics, social/behavioral pharmacy, research methods, and pharmacy management.
APS Associates
Anandi Law, PhD
Anandi V. Law is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration in the College of Pharmacy at Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California, where she has been since 1999. Since 2003, she has served as Director of an ACCP peer-reviewed Health Outcomes Fellowship having graduated 5 fellows placed in different parts of the world. Dr. Law has a Bachelor’s in Pharmacy (University of Mumbai, India), a Master’s in Pharmaceutics and PhD in Pharmaceutical Administration (both from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH).
Her research is focused on health outcomes measurement (clinical, economic and patient reported outcomes, patient safety and satisfaction); as well as pharmacists’ roles in providing clinical services in the community, such as Disease Management and Medication Therapy Management (MTM). Dr. Law has several grants, abstracts, book chapters and more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, in her areas of interest. She is active in professional associations such as AACP, APhA and ISPOR. She was recently installed on the Board of Directors of AACP. She is a graduate of the Academic Leadership Fellows Program through AACP in 2010, and was named Fellow of APhA in 2013. Dr. Law also serves as a consultant to research organizations, and volunteers on the Board of various professional and community organizations.
Monica Skomo, PharmD, MS
Dr. Monica L. Skomo is Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Director of the Office of Assessment and Educational Strategies at the Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University. She earned her B.S. Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from Duquesne University and completed an Academic and Research Fellowship. Dr. Skomo is a Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP). In addition, she holds certificates in pharmacy-based immunization, travel health, dyslipidemia disease management, and pharmaceutical care for patients with diabetes, and has authorization to administer injectables in the state of Pennsylvania.
As a pharmacist clinician, Dr. Skomo has practiced in the community and ambulatory care settings. She currently practices in a pharmacist-managed ambulatory care clinic and provides medication therapy management, point-of-care testing, wellness, and screening services to patients with a wide variety of disease states including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, asthma, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), migraine and primary headache disorders, osteoporosis, tobacco use, weight management, and other chronic diseases. In addition, Dr. Skomo provides extensive immunization services, including travel health. Dr. Skomo helped to develop and managed the Spirit of Health Initiative, a mobile health unit that provides screening, medication therapy management, and immunization services to medically underserved individuals.
Erin Holmes, RPh, PhD
Erin Holmes is Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration and Research Associate Professor of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Holmes earned her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree and Masters Degree in Pharmacy Administration at Duquesne University and completed her Doctoral Degree in Pharmacy Administration at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Holmes’ teaching responsibilities at the University of Mississippi include Pharmacy Management, Pharmacy Law, Pharmaceutical and Health Care Policy, and Personal Finance.
Her research focuses on adherence management and service implementation in community pharmacy as well as work life outcomes and implementation of best practices in customer service, human resource management, organizational behavior, and compensation in pharmacy practice. Most notably, Dr. Holmes has co-developed a medication synchronization program and has implemented this service in pharmacies throughout Mississippi and other states. Dr. Holmes has received grant funding for the implementation of this service and examination of its outcomes as well as funding for her other research interests. Dr. Holmes has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications, 70 contributed papers, and multiple book chapters. Dr. Holmes is a recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy Faculty Service Award, two-time recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences Teacher of the Year Award and is a University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy Distinguished Teaching Scholar.