Jennifer Seifert

Director of Continuing Professional Development

Associate Professor - Clinical Pharmacy

Pharmacy Practice and Science

Research Areas: Pharmacy Practice & Advancement, Division of Pharmacy Practice and Science

Professional Interests

Jennifer Seifert’s professional interests include advancing continuing professional development (CPD) programming for pharmacists and instilling CPD values in students. She has a passion for community-based pharmacy practice with an emphasis on the care of older adults. Her scholarship has focused on access to pharmacy services for people living in poverty

Biography

Jennifer Seifert, MS, RPh, BCGP, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Science at The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. She serves as the Director of Continuing Professional Development and Director of the PGY1 Community-based Residency Program. She graduated from Ohio Northern University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and from The Ohio State University in 1999 with a Master of Science in Pharmacology.  She is Board Certified in Geriatric Pharmacy.   

As a community-based pharmacist practitioner, she has precepted hundreds of pharmacy students and over 40 pharmacy residents in a variety of community-based practices including Kroger, the Medicine Shoppe, Target, and the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio. During her practice at the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio from 2010-2021, as Executive Director the organization was named Healthcare Trailblazer by Columbus CEO and received the Community Pharmacy Innovations in Quality award from the Pharmacy Quality Alliance and Community Pharmacy Foundation. 

She currently teaches in global health encouraging a global perspective for pharmacy students and she facilitates international learning for students and pharmacists visiting the United States from global partner institutions.  Her practice interests include innovative community practice, health care access, and geriatric medication management.  Her professional focus is to foster continuing professional development for pharmacists in practice from 1 to 50 years to cultivate confidence, competence, and compassion in all that they do from delivering direct patient care to assuming responsibility for the advancement of safe and effective medication use systems.  She has a passion for experiential learning and encourages practitioners to embrace the professional responsibility of training the next generation of pharmacists.

Education

2018 - Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacy - Board of Pharmacy Specialties
APhA Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services (Faculty Trainer)
APhA Pharmacy-based Immunization Delivery (Faculty Trainer)
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers
1999 - MS, Division of Pharmacology - The Ohio State University
1993 - BS, Pharmacy - Ohio Northern University

Honors

2023 - Community Pharmacy Residency Excellence in Precepting Award, The American Pharmacists Association
2022 - Residency Mentor Award, The Ohio State University Residency Program
2020 - Outstanding Community Engagement Award, The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy
2019 - Health Care Trailblazer Award, presented by Columbus CEO
2018 - Community Pharmacy Innovations in Quality, presented by Pharmacy Quality Alliance and Community Pharmacy Foundation
2018 -Excellence in Community Partnership Award, presented by the Office of Outreach and Engagement, the Office of International Affairs, the Office of Service-Learning, the Office of Undergraduate Education, and the Office of Student Life, The Ohio State
2012 - Distinguished Alumni, The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy
2011 - Clinical Site of the Year; presented by The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, co-preceptor Allan Zaenger, MS, RPh

Publications

Perceptions and barriers to the annual influenza vaccine compared with the coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine in an urban underserved population, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2022 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.japh.2021.10.019.
Identifying nutrition risk in a charitable pharmacy population, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2021 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1353/HPU.2021.0146.
Health care insecurity in the underserved: Effect of a charitable pharmacy model, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2019 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.japh.2019.03.011.
Implementation and use of an electronic health record in a charitable community pharmacy, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2019 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.japh.2018.12.004.
Assessment of self-care and medication adherence in individuals with mental health conditions, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2017 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/j.japh.2017.02.023.
Charitable pharmacy services: Impact on patient-reported hospital use, medication access, and health status, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 2015 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1331/JAPhA.2015.14010.
Diabetes related cardiomyopathy time dependent echocardiographic evaluation in an experimental rat model, Life Sciences. 2001 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/S0024-3205(01)01141-9.
Perineurium inflammation and altered connexin isoform expression in a rat model of diabetes related peripheral neuropathy, Neuroscience Letters. 2001 Jan | journal-article. doi: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)01696-2.