Cedarville Magazine, Fall 2013

Juanita Draime ’13, Pharm.D. ’16 Wherever God Leads Juanita Draime is in Cedarville’s inaugural pharmacy class and will graduate with a Pharm.D. in 2016. She went to the Dream Center with Frame on her spring break in 2013, and she is currently organizing a team of Cedarville students to return to the Dream Center to help not only with ongoing daily missions and medical assistance. Long term, Draime feels God is calling her to serve as a medical missionary in the field of pharmacy. “I have been encouraged by faculty and staff in the School of Pharmacy who are taking medical missions trips,” she said. “Their willingness to serve people in all aspects of life around the world has helped me stay focused on what I will be able to achieve after graduation.” Though she doesn’t know specifically where her heart for missions will take her, Draime is hoping to put her pharmacy degree to work either alongside a missionary or in a mission hospital. “My motto over the last year has been, ‘See a need; fill a need.’ It reminds me that opportunities for missions are everywhere, and everywhere I look, people need help.” Melody Hartzler Dayton, Ohio, and Jamaica Dr. Melody Hartzler provides her expertise at a Dayton, Ohio, clinic located at a federally qualified health care center — a community-based organization that provides comprehensive primary and preventive care to anyone, regardless of their ability to pay or health insurance status. She estimates at least half of her patients are uninsured. She is a clinical faculty member, which allows her to continue practicing as a pharmacist part of the week while teaching in the clinical setting. She spends three days a week at the clinic and, in 2015–16, Cedarville students will begin rotating through her site on their clinical rotations. From the clinical expertise she has gained by practicing here, she challenges students in her classroomwith real-world patient and medication challenges. “Medicine and pharmacy change every day,” she said. “If we aren’t in the trenches, we are going to be teaching outdated material.” In order to serve her community more efficiently, Hartzler started a collaborative, shared medical appointment where she, along with a resident physician and a psychologist, provide weekly diabetes education and management for up to 10 patients at a time. They noticed patients would come in and essentially ask the same questions hour after hour. So they decided to build upon the shared medical appointment model, which has been documented in medical journals to improve outcomes for chronic disease. Adding to the already established models, these shared appointments include a psychologist and addressing behavioral change from an entirely different angle. Chronic disease is often accompanied by depression and, working collaboratively, they have been able to better identify and address these concerns. Patients arrive together, Hartzler and her team provide education, patients ask questions among their peers, and then patients are individually evaluated and receive medication adjustments as needed. The two-hour format is more efficient for both medical staff and patients, and Hartzler found patients — especially shy, quiet ones — benefited from the questions more vocal peers asked. The rest of her time in the clinic is spent providing individual medication-therapy management services for patients with diabetes, asthma, and chronic anticoagulation. Hartzler’s heart for serving the underserved also extends beyond the Dayton area. She has served with Medical Ministry From the American inner city to Third World villages, Cedarville’s pharmacy professors and students are intentional about serving patients who have limited access to health care and medication. Cedarville Magazine | 15