{"id":11328,"date":"2010-06-01T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2010-06-01T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T09:00:07","slug":"newslettersummer2010-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2010\/06\/01\/newslettersummer2010-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Profile: Michael Sipala Class of \u201974"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alumni Profile<\/h1>\n

Michael Sipala Class of \u201974<\/h3>\n

\"\"Michael Sipala is Executive Director of Administrative and Ancillary Services for CharterCARE Health Partners*, a devoted husband and father, and a proud University of Rhode Island alumnus and donor.\u00a0 A Class of \u201974 graduate of the College of Pharmacy, Sipala left URI to develop an extensive career in hospital pharmacy\u2014beginning as a clinical pharmacist and\u00a0 venturing into administrative positions\u2014and returned only to give back to pharmacy students and the future of the profession.
\nSipala is firmly focused on improving patient care, an objective largely dependent upon successful communication and cooperation between program personnel and practitioners within the hospital system. \u201cThe toughest part of the job is getting people to come to the table\u2014physicians, pharmacists, and nurses\u2014to work on the same wavelength for the benefit of the patient,\u201d Sipala says.\u00a0 \u201cTo be successful, you have to be able to bring everyone together.\u201d
\nBut bringing people together is only part of the job.\u00a0 Sipala\u2019s challenge is inspiring interest among employees\u2014pharmacists in particular\u2014by specializing their work.\u00a0 \u201cWe put our pharmacists on different committees.\u00a0 The reason we do this is because pharmacists might find a niche for themselves.\u00a0 If they enjoy what they\u2019re doing, they\u2019ll want to become more involved with it and it becomes a project.\u201d
\nSipala also oversees student internships at St. Joseph designed to round students\u2019 experiences in the medical field and offer future pharmacists an additional path\u2014hospital pharmacy. When asked what he hopes to teach students working at the hospital, Sipala replied, \u201cWe don\u2019t want students coming in saying \u2018I\u2019m in pharmacy because of the money.\u2019\u00a0 The money isn\u2019t the reward; the reward is what you\u2019ve done for your patients.\u201d
\nDespite all he does as an administrator, there is one thing he misses from his time as a clinical pharmacist: \u201cIt is very rewarding when you are working in a hospital, a physician calls upon you for a pharmaceutical recommendation for a sick patient, and that patient gets better.\u201d
\nOutside of the office, Sipala is an avid sports fan.\u00a0 \u201cMy wife and I love sports.\u00a0 She\u2019s the Superintendent of the schools in Narragansett, so we\u2019re both very busy and we like to spend time together when we are home.\u201d\u00a0 He recalls fond memories of playing baseball at URI and of coaching his daughter in soccer.
\nSipala has three children, all of whom are students of URI: Lindsey, who graduated with a degree in pharmacy; Christine, who graduated with a PhD in psychology; and Michael, who is working towards a PhD in biology.
\nChad Lamoureux, Pharmacy Student, Class of 2015<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n

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Newsletter Article – Summer 2010 Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alumni Profile Michael Sipala Class of \u201974 Michael Sipala is Executive Director of Administrative and Ancillary Services for CharterCARE Health Partners*, a devoted husband and father, and a proud University of Rhode Island alumnus and donor.\u00a0 A Class of \u201974 graduate of the College of Pharmacy, Sipala left URI to develop an extensive career in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":11335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,146,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-news-alumni","category-newsletter-summer2010"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}