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Presenter: Avni Sherh, PharmD

The purpose of this lecture is to discuss the importance of adding a compounding pharmacy to your team and key factors in evaluating a pharmacy. Working with a pharmacy established in anti-aging medicine and compounding will become one of your most valuable assets as you start to integrate your knowledge. The lecture will focus on how to select a pharmacy with knowledgeable clinical pharmacists to help you develop medication therapy recommendations for patient cases. We will review how to evaluate quality assurance standards regarding non-sterile and sterile compounding regulations, staff experience and training, and laboratory equipment. Key topics include criteria to evaluate a pharmacy’s customer service and value as an extension of the practioner’s office. We will discuss how working with a strong compounding pharmacy will ultimately help you to expand your practice.