Community Pharmacy Section
The Community Pharmacy Practice section of the Center for Advancing Pharmacy Practice and Research Excellence (CAPPRE) is dedicated to supporting pharmacists in community-based settings across Idaho and Alaska. This section focuses on empowering pharmacists to deliver high-quality care by fostering innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Key initiatives include hosting regular meetings to discuss best practices, maintaining a resource library tailored to community pharmacy needs, and cultivating partnerships with stakeholders to enhance service delivery. In alignment with the Center’s broader mission, the section prioritizes advancing the role of pharmacists through targeted funding opportunities, collaborative research efforts, and advocacy for policy changes that benefit community pharmacy practice. By addressing challenges unique to community settings, this section aims to modernize pharmacy services and improve patient outcomes.
Leadership
Section Facilitator
Zachary Rosko, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Rosko is the founding Director of the Center for Advancing Pharmacy Practice and Research Excellence (CAPPRE) at the Idaho State University L.S Skaggs College of Pharmacy. In this role, he will lead the efforts of the University to help identify and disseminate practice models and billing methodologies that lead to the sustainment and spread of advanced pharmacy practice models across the care continuum.
Dr. Rosko previously served as the Director of Pharmacy and Care Teams at a multisite FQHC system in Oregon, where he implemented and sustained integrated clinical pharmacy services via traditional medical billing pathways and launched the system's first in house dispensing pharmacy and 340B program. As an independent consultant, he has worked with a wide variety of practices throughout the country to assist in the implementation and sustainment of clinical pharmacy services.
Dr. Rosko maintains a clinical practice and provides telehealth primary care and urgent care medical services to patients throughout Idaho in his own telehealth clinic, and is presently working on starting a specialty OUD outpatient pharmacist clinic in Southern Nevada. As a resident of Nevada, he also serves as a Member at Large on the Board of the Nevada Pharmacy Alliance, and will begin a term as the President-Elect in 2025. His practice interests include addiction medicine, preventative medicine and respiratory disease.
Get Involved
-Link to join mailing list (we have been using a google form - if there ais a better option please let me know) and Practice Section Collaborative Meetings
-Monthly Collaborative Session: TBD
-Contact Us – Not sure if we should just use my or the lead’s email or if we can have a CAPPRE email/some type of contact form
Resources
-None yet but we plan to have quite a few shared resources (open to how this is shared and we want some access and content control - would this be a linked google drive or what is the best method?)
News
Stop by the student poster presentations to see two offerings by ISU students in collaboration with CAPPRE Community Practice Section:
Study Plan for a Case-Series of Medication Claims from Community Pharmacies in Idaho
December 9th 12-1pm CT
and
Community Pharmacists in Medication-Assisted Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder:
Facilitating Positive Outcomes Through Prescribing, Patient Management, and Primary Care Referrals
December 9th 12-1pm CT