Tara R. Whetsel
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Pharmacy
West Virginia University
United States of America
Biography
Tara Whetsel earned her B.S. in pharmacy and her Doctor of Pharmacy from the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. After earning her PharmD, she completed an ambulatory care residency at the Louis Stokes V.A. Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Whetsel is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy. She coordinates and teaches the Nonprescription Drug course. In 2011, Dr. Whetsel redesigned this course using a flipped classroom model.Dr. Whetsel provides patient care at Cheat Lake Physicians and Milan Puskar Health Right (MPHR) Clinic. Services include medication therapy management and diabetes education and management. She is the program coordinator for the MedCheck program, a collaboration between the WVU School of Pharmacy and MPHR where faculty preceptors and third year student pharmacists provide medication therapy management services to uninsured, low-income patients.he is board certified as an ambulatory care pharmacist and in advanced diabetes management.
Research Interest
pharmacy
Publications
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Mallow JA, Theeke LA, Barnes ER, Whetsel T. Examining dose of diabetes group medical visits and characteristics of the uninsured. Western journal of nursing research. 2015 Aug;37(8):1033-61.
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LA, Barnes ER, Whetsel T, Mallow BK. Using mHealth tools to improve rural diabetes care guided by the chronic care model. Online journal of rural nursing and health care: the official journal of the Rural Nurse Organization. 2014 Jan 31;14(1):43.
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Mallow JA, Theeke LA, Barnes ER, Whetsel T, Mallow BK. Free care is not enough: barriers to attending free clinic visits in a sample of uninsured individuals with diabetes. Open journal of nursing. 2014 Dec 1;4(13):912.
