CPRP Site: Moose Professional Pharmacy

Cindy Chang
2009-2010 resident

 

Amanda Smolen (left)
2009-2010 resident

Concord, North Carolina (map)

270 Copperfield Blvd, Suite 101
Concord, NC 28025
704-784-9613

Preceptors: Joe Moose, PharmD (moosedrug2@vnet.net), and James Bowman, PharmD (moosedrugjames@yahoo.com)

Moose Professional Pharmacy has been operating as a family-owned pharmacy since 1887. The Concord location has been a residency site since 2001. There are 3 affiliate sites for Moose Pharmacy. They are Moose Drug Company in Mt. Pleasant, Moose Midland Pharmacy, and Moose Pharmacy of Salisbury.

• This pharmacy takes two residents per year
• Medication therapy management programs
• Practice management,  marketing, reimbursement strategies, community outreach and education, and teaching experiences
• Consulting and medication management services to long-term care facilities
• Teaching experience in classroom and clinical practice settings
• Compounding services
• Clinic experience in the UNC-affiliated Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency Program

About the Preceptors

Joseph Moose, PharmD

Residency preceptor since 2001

Joseph Moose is a fourth-generation pharmacist with Moose Pharmacies and currently manages the Concord, North Carolina, location. The Moose family’s focus is on keeping people healthy, promoting better health, and giving people the best treatment options. They take their commitment to their patients’ health a step further by helping them find the best management strategies through specialized educational programs, which include medication-therapy management, flu and shingles vaccinations, diabetes screening, compounding, and natural-hormone replacement consultations.

Moose earned his doctor of pharmacy at Campbell University in 1990. He is the co-chair of the NC Medicaid Drug Regimen Review Board, a member of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee for NC Medicaid, and an adjunct assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He serves as a community pharmacy preceptor for Wingate, Campbell, and UNC-Chapel Hill students.

Moose was awarded Community Care Pharmacist of the Year Award from the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists in 2008. Moose Pharmacy of Mount Pleasant was named the North Carolina Family Business of the Year for 2008. Moose is actively involved in the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and the National Community Pharmacists Association.

James Bowman, PharmD

Residency preceptor since 2008

James Bowman graduated from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in 2004 with a doctor of pharmacy and later completed a Community Pharmacy Residency through the School in 2005 with Moose Pharmacy.

Moose Pharmacy, established in 1882, is an independent pharmacy with four stores located in Mt. Pleasant, Concord, Midland, and Salisbury. At Moose Pharmacy, Bowman is involved with various clinical activities, precepting students and residents, compounding, and staffing. Some of the clinical activities he provides include immunizations, medication therapy management services, hormone replacement therapy consultations, and cholesterol/diabetes/blood pressure services. He also has a keen interest in store ownership and entrepreneurism, and he is part owner of the Salisbury location.

Bowman is currently a clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice and a clinical instructor of pharmacy practice at the Wingate University School of Pharmacy. He is a member of the board of directors of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and served as the chair of the Community Care Practice Forum. Bowman is also involved with the American Pharmacists Association, National Association of Community Pharmacists, and American College of Clinical Pharmacy.