Hello everyone! My name is Alexandra, and everyone calls me Ali! I am a P4 PharmD candidate at St. John's University in Queens, New York. I was born and raised in Rockland County, New York. My passion for pharmacy was sparked after my sister was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. After this experience, I began to see if a career in pharmacy would be fulfilling to me. I discovered that I love serving patients. I love helping them discover something new about their medication routine. I also love addressing barriers or gaps in care for patients. I currently work at New York-Presbyterian. Here, I work on multiple projects to improve patient care. I believe we have so many opportunities in the health system setting to make a significant difference in these patients' lives. Whether it be improving processes, understanding the patient care journey, or counseling prior to discharge, pharmacists are uniquely positioned to improve patient outcomes. I have also worked in the community setting at Walgreens pharmacy. I helped counsel patients, resolve insurance barriers, and improve medication use through Medication Therapy Management and adherence calls. I also have experience working in the pharmaceutical industry. I completed a three month summer internship at a biotech company based in San Francisco, California. Here, I learned the ins and outs of the pharmaceutical industry. I hope to pursue this as a career option after I graduate with my doctor of pharmacy degree. I am a passionate leader, compassionate health care professional, and innovative thinker. I am looking forward to a fruitful career in which I truly impact patient care.
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Hello everone,
My name is Fateha Chowdhury and I am a pharmacy candidate of class 2024. This is currently my 9th rotation out of 11, so with my excitement to almost be done, I am also very scared. 2024 is going to be the year where I go through the most change with school, career, and maybe other things in life like finding a life partner. As a brown girl, it is expected to settle soon after graduation, but thats another journey I am yet to explore. In the meantime, I am focused on studying for the Naplex, job applications, growing my network, maintaining my social life with friends and family, and keeping enough time set aside for myself to remember to self pamper/spoil with skincare, hair, nails, and to stay in touch with my feminine side in general. I also have a passion for dance, particularly in Bollywood/Indian dance. I made it to the SJU RAAZ dance team which is a girl group indian dance team back in my sophmore year of college, but did not join due to school and work. But now that I have some spare time, I started taking dance classes in the city that reconnected me and my love to dance. I forgot how it serves as an outlet to me to get away fom reality and just feel the music speak to me even if it is for 2 hrs. Career wise, I am still figuring out what I want to do. As much as I wanted to stay away from retail pharmacy, chain retail in specific, it looks like that's where I may be headed first for a year or 2 and I am learning to be okay with that. I eventually want to work for corporate pharmacy health systems and it is important that I know what it means to be in the shoes of all pharmacists I would be representaing, retail and hospital both. I am known to be social, funny, a leader, team cheerleader, adaptive and more. With all the different rotations I've been put in, the biggest take away is that you can have fun doing what you do in any environment through means of pespective and having a positive attitude. Little things like waking up/sleeping early and having a healthy breakfast make a big difference on how you start about your day. But yea, thats a little bit about me... as you can see I went off on some tangents and thats me in real life too! I just want to to be able to make an impact whereever I go and put my pharmD to use to help our community grow, not just for patients but for the health system in itself!