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Program Director: Linda Meurer, MD

Presenter:

Dr. Courtney Smith is a clinical pharmacist, clinical instructor, and an inaugural postdoctoral pharmacist fellow in primacy care research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Smith is bilingual in Spanish and English. She has six years of experience in community pharmacy practice as both a staff pharmacist and pharmacy manager. During this time, she provided pharmaceutical care to underserved patients who were predominantly affected by type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and opioid use in rural southeastern areas. Currently, Dr. Smith works as the first Spanish-speaking clinical pharmacist at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers (SSCHC) in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. SSCHC is focused on enhancing access to care in the underserved Latino population, among other ethnicities. Dr. Smith’s research has focused on addressing health disparities in cardiovascular disease among the Latino and African American populations. Dr. Smith is the primary investigator of a systematic review entitled, “The impact of cultural interventions on medication adherence in Hispanic adults with hypertension or heart disease in the United States”. Findings from the systematic review will inform the development of prospective culturally tailored interventions that increase medication adherence in Hispanic populations in clinical practice.