Tonja Woods Receives WPhA Innovative Pharmacy Practice Award

Tonja Woods (L) shown with presenter Linda Martin.

During the Wyoming Pharmacy Association's 91st Annual Convention in Casper June 26-28, Tonja M. Woods, Pharm. D., was presented the Innovative Pharmacy Practice Award. This award is sponsored by the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations to recognize innovative pharmacy practice resulting in improved patient care.

Dr. Woods graduated from the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy in 2002, and since the beginning of her employment with the School of Pharmacy in August 2003, has been instrumental in establishing innovative practice sites. As with all innovations, the early prototypes make the final product successful. As of summer 2007, Dr. Woods has taken the chronic disease management and the peri-surgical anticoagulation models into the area of private enterprise. She has a thriving practice at Laramie Valley Medical, an internal medicine clinic in Laramie Wyoming. This private practice model is extremely rare and the peri-surgical piece is unique.

In addition, she has co-produced diabetes workshops at Senior Centers throughout the state and, this summer, will be doing the same with computer training on Medicare Part D.

Dr. Woods was named the Innovative Pharmacy Practice Recipient of the Year for her continued commitment to the profession of pharmacy through innovative practice models. The Association was honored to recognize her for these achievements
 

Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008