Dr. Hae Mi Choe Published in Pharmacy Times
As the Director of Pharmacy Innovations & Clinical Practices for the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) Faculty Group Practice, the health system’s physician group practice; Director of Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Transformation in the UMHS Department of Pharmacy; and Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Dr. Hae Mi Choe is advancing the role of pharmacists in the ambulatory care setting, within the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) and the accountable care organization (ACO) models, and in the community pharmacy setting.
Dr Choe earned her PharmD in 1993 from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed her pharmacy practice residency with Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles in 1994. She then spent five years overseas, where she developed and implemented anticoagulation and asthma services for the first time at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea.
Hired at UMHS in 1999, Choe created the first integrated ambulatory care pharmacy practice there; integrated pharmacists in the PCMH model across all 15 primary care clinics and three specialty clinics within UMHS, establishing collaborative practice agreements; and developed and implemented new reimbursement models for pharmacists’ patient care services. She was the first pharmacist endorsed by the Credentialing Committee at the University of Michigan Health System and was granted special privileges in patient care; she has led her entire clinical pharmacist team through the credentialing process.
Down the road, Choe said, she would love to become more involved in the policy process to help drive the profession—not just by being on the receiving end and responding or reacting to a policy, but by actually influencing policy to ensure that pharmacists are included.
Learn more: Dr. Choe's Publications
