On today’s episode, I’m extra thankful I had the opportunity to connect with Darowan Akajagbor, a clinical pharmacy specialist, who earned her PharmD from the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2009.
Dr. Akajagbor completed her postgraduate training at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and a critical care pharmacy residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Following her training, she practiced as a clinical pharmacy specialist in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. She held a clinical assistant professor faculty appointment at D’Youville College School of Pharmacy while serving as an adjunct professor at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
From 2012-2015, she collaborated with professors and pharmacists at the Makerere University department of pharmacy and Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, to establish an international introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) for PharmD students at D’Youville.
In 2015, Darowan was appointed as an academic scholar for the Carnegie African diaspora fellowship program (CADFP), where she assisted with the development of a clinical pharmacy master’s program for the pharmacy at Makerere University.
Subsequently, she relocated to Houston, Texas where she worked as a clinical pharmacy specialist for a medical-surgery and inpatient chemotherapy unit at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital.
In August 2019, Darowan quit her job, sold all of her belongings, and left the U.S for what she calls a ‘travel adventure!’ She is currently serving her second year as a language assistant with the North American Language and Culture Assistants program in Seville, Spain.
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