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Remarkable Learning from
Mentoring and Entrepreneurship




Choice Compounding Pharmacy owners Susan Ter-Abelian, PharmD ’08, and Sarkis Jarakian, PharmD ’07, pictured in their first pharmacy, have recently opened their second
pharmacy Hope Specialty Pharmacy.
S chools and colleges of pharmacy capacity. Courses that focus on 16-week advanced elective course
offer rigorous doctor of pharmacy
cultivating future pharmacy owners
Entrepreneur Independent Pharmacy
(PharmD) programs to ensure that contribute greatly to providing these Ownership. Jesse Martinez, PharmD,
graduates are prepared to provide students with the knowledge and FASCP, has been teaching the course
patient care. However, there are confidence they need to take control of since its first class of eight students in
inconsistencies in the extent to which their careers. 2005 and is happy to have been the
each school or college educates its In 2004, Western University of Health course facilitator from the very
students about the crucial topics of Sciences College of Pharmacy, applied beginning.
entrepreneurship and pharmacy for an National Community Requirements for the course include the
management.
Pharmacists Association (NCPA) development of a business plan to either
PharmD graduates with an Foundation grant to develop a course purchase a pharmacy, or start one from
entrepreneurial spirit can be well on pharmacy ownership. Dr. Ter- scratch. Questions about corporate
positioned to fulfill their dreams of Abelian and Dr. Jarakian (photo above) structures such as a C or S Corporation,
becoming pharmacy owners and are just two of 33 graduates who saw LLC, LLP (Limited Liability Company,
utilizing their degrees to the fullest their dreams turn into a reality from the partnership), sole proprietorship or


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