{"id":1665,"date":"2015-04-10T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2016-01-04T01:36:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T01:36:03","slug":"pharmd-from-inmed-to-indian-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2015\/04\/10\/pharmd-from-inmed-to-indian-health\/","title":{"rendered":"PharmD From INMED To Indian Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftTagList\" class=\"fbPhotoTagList\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/muroka-kijabe.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1668\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/muroka-kijabe.jpg\" alt=\"muroka-kijabe\" width=\"530\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/muroka-kijabe.jpg 530w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/muroka-kijabe-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing&#8217;s for sure, my courses and experiences with INMED played a huge role in selecting me over other candidates that were interviewed for this highly competitive position. I&#8217;m forever grateful for that.&#8221; Joseph Muroka was a pharmacy student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City when he applied for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/diplomas\/international-medicine-public-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diploma in International Medicine &amp; Public Health<\/a>. Joseph&#8217;s training included at stent at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/service-learning\/training-sites\/kijabe-hospital-kenya\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kijabe Hospital<\/a> in Kenya. &#8220;I had the opportunity to make a follow-up visit to a newborn of HIV infected parents. This was perhaps the climax of my clinical experience throughout that month. I had read studies of such fortunate children, however this was my first such real life experience. The mother was gracious to allow me to share their story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is this new position for which Joseph Muroka is so qualified? Moreover, how can an American pharmacist apply the principles of global health to a career? Dr Muroka is now on staff with the United States Indian Health Service, serving one of the most disenfranchised subset of American citizens. &#8220;The position allows me to work as a public health ambulatory care pharmacist where a huge part of my duties will be to see patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, HTN, asthma, and those requiring anticoagulation, among others. I&#8217;m excited and thankful to God for this new opportunity <span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">to God for this opportunity to serve and give back<\/span><\/span><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftTagList\" class=\"fbPhotoTagList\">!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;One thing&#8217;s for sure, my courses and experiences with INMED played a huge role in selecting me over other candidates that were interviewed for this highly competitive position. I&#8217;m forever grateful for that.&#8221; Joseph Muroka was a pharmacy student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City when he applied for the Diploma in International Medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-grads-in-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}