ince Dr.
Kimberly Braxton Lloyd, ’95, became Director of the Auburn University
Pharmaceutical Care Center (AUPCC) in 2000, she has set a lofty goal of
providing valued pharmaceutical care services to the community as well
as distinguishing the Center as a recognized health care facility in the
State; one that health officials recommend and one to which people are
comfortable coming. She has referred to this goal as a "significant
challenge" more than once. It’s not easy to establish a name for hands
on health care from within a university pharmacy school. But Dr. Braxton
Lloyd is consistently making progress toward that goal. One of her
methods is a regular newsletter. In it, she highlights AUPCC
accomplishments, shares up-to-date medical information and comparative
statistics while keeping the Center’s name before the public. The newly
redesigned web site is another way she hopes to reach and stay in touch
with prospective clients.
As work has progressed, Dr. Braxton Lloyd has
developed pharmaceutical care services, which fill basic needs she felt
were not being completely serv ed by other medical establishments in the
area. A pharmaceutical care facility is rather a new concept in
pharmacy. The Center’s programs come with a great deal of one-on-one
counseling, regularly scheduled follow up and progress assessment. The
programs include health and wellness, women's health, smoking cessation,
H. Pylori screening, diabetes care, and asthma management. The Center
also serves as an innovative practice site for pharmacy student
training. There is much success to report in all these areas, but we
want to focus on asthma management in this report.
You see, Dr. Braxton Lloyd is scheduled to co-present
"A Course for Professionals: Asthma Triggers & Medications" in a
prestigious, two-hour satellite conference. The nationwide telecast is a
joint effort of Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy, the
Alabama Cooperative Extension System and the Alabama Department of
Public Health. The conference will present up-to-the-minute research on
asthma triggers and medications, providing tips for professionals on how
to help their clients identify and remove asthma triggers, and to
properly use asthma medications. The targeted audience includes state
and local health agency staff, health educators, Extension educators,
environmental health specialists, nurses (including school nurses and
home health nurses), pharmacists, pharmacy students, social workers,
non-profit asthma organization staff and day care providers.
Participants will be able to get continuing education credits for the
course. Because of unavoidable complications, the conference had to be
rescheduled; a new date has not yet been set, but look for an
announcement soon.
We congratulate Dr. Braxton Lloyd on her continuing
good work which brings recognition to AUPCC, the School, and Auburn
University.