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Pharmacy student lands prestigious...
Pharmacy student lands prestigious internship
Kathleen McGuire White, a first-year pharmacy student in East Tennessee State University’s Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, will spend this summer in Rockville, Maryland, after landing a prestigious internship with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
White, a Kingsport native, applied for a government internship earlier this year and recently learned she was selected to intern for the SAMHSA Office of the Administrator and, as part of the internship, will have opportunities to shadow the acting deputy assistant secretary.
“I am really interested in how pharmacists can play a role in the public health realm, especially related to issues of substance abuse and mental health,” White said of her interest in the internship. “I believe pharmacists have an important role to play there and I want to learn more about how policy is developed, what research is used to make programming decisions and how those programs are implemented.”
White said she believes pharmacists can be a valuable resource in the process of developing methods for measuring the prevalence of an issue and coming up with subsequent solutions. She also would like to see pharmacists serve more significant roles in policy development in the United States.
In addition to being a pharmacy student at ETSU, White conducts research at ETSU Family Physicians of Kingsport, where she works closely with pharmacy faculty member Dr. McKenzie Calhoun and others. It is through her work there that White said she discovered just how many career paths there are for individuals who obtain a pharmacy degree.
“Dr. Calhoun is an ambulatory care pharmacist. I didn’t even realize pharmacists could be so involved with primary care and family medicine in this way. And she is a professor at Gatton,” White said. “You can really get the best of all of these worlds through a pharmacy degree.”
White also credits pharmacy faculty member Dr. Nick Hagemeier and others with encouraging her to pursue the internship. She begins the internship next month and will return to ETSU in August for her second year of pharmacy school. She also hopes to earn a master’s degree in public health through ETSU’s PharmD/MPH joint degree program.
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