Clinical Assistant Professor
Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
Lorinda Anderson, PharmD, BCPS, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at OSU/OHSU’s College of Pharmacy who teaches in the P2 year Pharmacy Practice course and the women’s health lectures in therapeutics. Dr. Anderson's clinical site is at the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis where she rounds with an internal medicine academic teaching team.
In 2015, Dr. Anderson worked closely with the Oregon Board of Pharmacy to develop and implement the first statewide protocol in the country that allows pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraception. Today, more than half the states in the country have passed legislation or broadly utilize collaborative practice agreements for pharmacist-provided hormonal contraception. Many of these states have utilized Oregon's statewide protocol and the training that Dr. Anderson developed as an example in helping implement their own programs.
Dr. Anderson has also been involved in research to look at outcomes of pharmacist-prescribed contraception and other clinical prescribing through statewide protocols. Oregon now utilizes an interdisciplinary committee to approve new statewide protocols and Dr. Anderson is the current chair of this committee. Since the creation of this committee, Oregon pharmacists are now allowed to prescribe for many categories of medications that include HIV PEP and PrEP, travel medicine, tobacco cessation, and vulvovaginal candidiasis.
Changing the Way Patients Access Reproductive Healthcare
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM