Moose Professional Pharmacy

Amanda Smolen
(above, left)
2009-2010 resident

 

Cindy Chang (left)
2009-2010 resident

Concord, North Carolina (map)

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

Preceptors: Joe Moose, PharmD (joe@moosepharmacy.com); Ashley Branham, PharmD (ashley@moosepharmacy.com); and James Bowman, PharmD (james@moosepharmacy.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 four affiliate sites for Moose Pharmacy: Moose Drug Company in Mt. Pleasant, Moose Midland Pharmacy, Moose Pharmacy of Salisbury, and Moose Pharmacy of Kannapolis. Moose Pharmacy of Mount Pleasant was named the North Carolina Family Business of the Year for 2008.

• 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. The Moose family takes its commitment to 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, a member of the NCPA Patient Care Committee, 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 is actively involved in the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and the National Community Pharmacists Association. He received the Community Care Pharmacist of the Year Award from NCAP in 2008.

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. After completing his residency, Bowman stayed on with Moose Pharmacy, where he has served multiple roles. Most recently Bowman opened Moose Pharmacy’s fifth location in Kannapolis in 2010 and has continued his involvement with various clinical activities, precepting students and residents, compounding, and staffing. At the Kannapolis store, Bowman provides immunizations, medication therapy management services, and cholesterol/diabetes/blood pressure services.

Bowman currently serves as a clinical instructor of pharmacy practice, precepting students from the Wingate University School of Pharmacy and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. He has served as the chair of the Community Practice Forum of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists and remains active in the association. Bowman is also involved with the American Pharmacists Association, National Community Pharmacists Association, and American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

Ashley Branham, PharmD

Residency preceptor since 2010

Ashley Branham, PharmD, BCACP, is the director of clinical services at Moose Pharmacy in Concord, North Carolina. Branham received her bachelor of science in biology from the University of Kentucky (2004) and her doctor of pharmacy from Campbell University (2008). She has completed a community pharmacy residency at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Moose Professional Pharmacy in Concord. She also completed a postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) community pharmacy residency with a focus in academia with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Moose Professional Pharmacy (2010).

Branham is involved in the implementation and enhancement of clinical activities, including immunizations, medication therapy management services, women’s health consultations, insulin-pump training, and disease state management programs. She also works as a clinical pharmacist at Cabarrus Family Medicine-Kannapolis. Branham is currently a preceptor for student pharmacists completing advanced pharmacy practice rotations and for residents completing a community pharmacy practice residency with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Branham is an active member of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the National Community Pharmacists Association, and the American Pharmacists Association. She currently serves as chair of the NCAP Community Care Practice Forum and is co-chair of NCAP’s Immunization Task Force.