Independant Practitioner of the Year Award
Ohio Health Care Association 2010
Dr. Robert Cluxton, Pharmacy Consultant
Alois Alzheimer Center, Cincinnati
Robert J. Cluxton, PharmD, is the Pharmacy/Research Consultant at the Alois Alzheimer Center. Concinnati. For 20 years Robert has made weekly rounds with the medical director and other physicians. He is an unpaid consultant, but is deeply devoted to the residents and the care they receive. He does so only because of his commitment and exceptional dedication to caring for others.
As a professor and consultant in long-term care, Robert provides staff with information on various medications and their side effects, conducting drug research studies that allow residents to reap the benefits much earlier than if they had to wait for FDA approval, and sharing his knowledge with physicians and others to ensure residents receive appropriate medication regimes. He has great respect and compassion for residents and families, and serves as a role model for the students he teaches, wanting them to understand not just the medications and the science behind them, but to see first-hand how they may affect older adults, and the alternatives that may work better.
Following an early stint at the facility for a grant, he asked. "Do you mind if I keep bringing my students here after the grant has ended? I think that the clinical experience prepares them much better for whan they move on to practice on their own." Twenty years later he is still doing just that, bringing students to the facility, and engaging them in multidisciplinary discussions about residents, medications, protocols and treatments.
"Robert has made contributions to the standard of care for residents within our facility," the application states, "and for countless others who benefit from their student experience. We have no doubt former students have moved onto careers with a better understanding that puts respect, caring and resident dignity first."
Congratulations Dr. Cluxton!
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