Dr. Ashley Barbo received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Louisiana
Monroe in 2007. She practiced as a community pharmacist for eleven years before returning
to ULM in 2018. There, she serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice
Laboratory Coordinator. She teaches first- through third-year pharmacy students in
the skills lab and precepts fourth-year students on an academic advanced practice
rotation. Dr. Barbo is a trainer for both the American Pharmacists Association's Pharmacy-Based
Immunization Delivery Certification Course and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy
Associations' Pharmacy-Based Point-of-Care Test & Treat Certificate Program. She has
a passion for implementing innovative teaching techniques in the laboratory and promoting
the advancement of pharmacy practice. Dr. Barbo’s APPE rotation is a non-patient care
academic experience. Students can learn about academia through various assignments
such as assisting in laboratory activities, delivering lectures, academic focused
topic discussions and journal clubs.
Practice Site: Oschsner LSU Health Shreveport-Monroe Medical Center
Dr. Jameshia Below is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University
of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy. She completed her Bachelor of Science
in Pharmaceutical Science degree at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She received
her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy.
She went on to complete a PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Slidell Memorial Hospital and
a PGY2 Oncology Pharmacy Residency at Memorial Regional Hospital/ Memorial Cancer
Institute.
As a faculty member, she practices at the Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Monroe Medical
Center as a Clinical Oncology Pharmacy Specialist where she collaborates with hematology/oncology
physicians and nurses to develop supportive care plans for cancer patients and counsel
patients on chemotherapy regimens, supportive care medications, and others. The clinics
that she is involved in include breast cancer, malignant hematology and gastrointestinal
cancers. In the classroom, she teaches informatics, oncology and women’s health lectures.
Jameshia is currently a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, Hematology
Oncology Pharmacist Association, Louisiana Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Minority
Women Pharmacists Association and the National Pharmaceutical Association. She currently
serves on the HOPA Patient Outreach Committee and as Advisor to the National Compounding
Oncology Dispensing Association and Co-Advisor to the Student National Pharmaceutical
Association at the University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy.
Dr. Below is married and enjoys traveling and spending time with her four children.
Practice Site: Ochsner Louisiana State University Health Monroe Medical Center
Dr. Jessica Brady earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Louisiana
Monroe in 2007 then completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Mississippi
Medical Center. She returned to ULM in 2008 as a faculty member. She is currently
a Clinical Professor and Associate Director in the School of Clinical Sciences. She
maintains a hospital-based clinical practice where she sees patients with a Family
Medicine inpatient team. Here, she and her rotation students provide drug information
and work with the team to provide appropriate pharmacotherapy recommendations to optimize
patient care. She teaches various self-care and therapeutic topics in all three years
of the curriculum, along with an elective focused on hospital pharmacy practice.
Dr. Craft is the Associate Dean of Assessment and Administrative Affairs. She received
her BS in Pharmacy from NLU in 1990, her PharmD from the University of Florida in
2001, and her MBA from ULM in 2015. Her teaching passions include leadership and pain
management. She currently offers a non-patient care APPE each fall and spring. She
strives to customize her rotation to the interests of the students. For example, in
the past, she focused more on the business of running the college for PharmD/MBA students
who were interested in “how the sausage is made”. At other times, the focus is more
on academia and what it means to engage in the 3 areas of teaching, service, and research.
Occasionally, students who have taken her leadership elective ask for more opportunities
to further develop their leadership skills. Hobbies include harassing Dr. Evans as
often as possible. If this sounds enjoyable to you, please sign up for an APPE with
Dr. Craft.
Practice Site: Oschsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center
Dr. Bryan Donald graduated from the Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy
in 2016 and then completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Corpus Christi Medical
Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. He joined the ULM College of Pharmacy faculty in
2017 and has offered a variety of rotation experiences to students, starting with
adult internal medicine, then moving to outpatient pediatric cardiology, and finally
an outpatient family medicine clinic. Dr. Donald and his students support the family
medicine clinic by helping optimize patients’ medication regimens, counseling patients,
and answering drug information questions from attending and resident physicians.
In the classroom, Dr. Donald coordinates and teaches the Research Methods and Literature
Evaluation course. He also teaches in some therapeutics modules. Dr. Donald’s research
relates to pharmacy practice – in 2019 he received a grant from USDA to study collaborative
drug therapy management via a pediatric hypertension clinic, and he is currently funded
by the Louisiana Board of Regents to study pediatric medication safety.
Dr. Jeffery Evans is an Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences and serves as the
School Director for the School of Clinical Sciences. He usually practices Ambulatory
Care focusing on Cardiovascular Risk Reduction but has not been practicing since he
assumed the role of School Director. He graduated from the University of Florida in
2002 and completed a Primary Care Residency in 2003. His first academic position was
at South University in Savannah Georgia and he moved to the University of Louisiana
Monroe in 2006. His current rotation is focused in Academia. Students taking the rotation
will be working in the classroom in several different ways and completing research
to see what can be done to improve the delivery of information at the College.
Practice Site: Oschsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center
Dr. Hill is a 2008 graduate of the ULM College of Pharmacy. He pursued residency training
at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS and completed a teaching
certificate program in 2009. Dr Hill then took a job as a clinical pharmacist at Methodist
Dallas Medical Center in Dallas, TX where he worked as an inpatient pharmacist for
5 years. He then returned to his alma mater in July 2014 to begin his career in academia
at the Monroe Campus. Dr. Hill currently practices in an ambulatory care family medicine
clinic at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe. Dr. Hill and his students provide medication
expertise in the outpatient clinic by optimizing patient's medication regimens, counseling
patients, and serving as the drug information experts for the medical residents and
staff of the clinic.
In the classroom, Dr. Hill coordinates and teaches in the Pharmacy Communcations course
and the elective Problems in Therapeutics. He also teaches in many therapeutic modules
and has a passion for education about all things related to substance use disorder.
He is currently part of a large grant with other COP colleagues that is providing
substance use disorder and harm reduction education and materials to first responders,
community members, and healthcare students. Finally, Dr. Hill is the residency program
director for the ULM COP PGY-1 residency located in Monroe.
Dr. Hill is married to Kristen and enjoys spending time with his three daughters,
Rachel, Hannah, and Madeline.
Practice Site: Oschsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center
Dr. Lance Nickelson is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Practice. He received
a BS in pharmacy from what was then Northeast Louisiana University and a Doctor of
Pharmacy from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences. He started his clinical
career as a Specialist in Poison Information at what was then the Louisiana Poison
Control Center. He began his career as a faculty member serving as the clinical pharmacist
for St Patrick’s hospital (an inpatient geriatric psychiatric facility). For the last
15 years, he has been the clinical pharmacist for a 26-bed adult inpatient psychiatric
facility located at Ochsner LSU Health- Monroe Medical Center. This student experience
involves patient assessment, drug selection and therapeutic drug monitoring as part
of an interdisciplinary team consisting of psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, social
workers and nursing. In the classroom, Dr. Nickelson provides all lectures relating
to psychiatric drugs and topics as well as providing an elective course on psychiatric
and substance abuse topics. Dr. Nickelson is a fan of the New Orleans Saints, the
Chicago Cubs and professional wrestling
Practice Site: Retina Center of Eye Associates of Northeast Louisiana
Dr. Michelle Zagar’s route to pharmacy was a little different than most. She has a
bachelor’s and a master’s degree in education from the University of Louisiana Lafayette
and spent 8 years as a kindergarten and elementary school teacher. She received her
Pharm.D. from the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2003 and joined the faculty in
2004. She is a Clinical Professor and also serves as the Program Director for Faculty
Development for the College of Pharmacy.
Her content area in the pharmacy curriculum is geriatrics. She has worked with older
adults for the majority of her pharmacy career. She now provides diabetes medication
management services to retina patients in an ophthalmology practice in the community.
It has been reported that the majority of vision loss caused by diabetes can be avoided
by good diabetes management and timely treatment; but many people with diabetes do
not take their medicines as they should. While on this rotation, students will work
with patients who have diabetes to improve medication-related outcomes in an effort
to minimize disease-related vision loss.
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