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成人视频 pharmacist named pharmacist of year

Jodi Heins, left, receives the Hustead Award from Jessica Strobl, past president of the South Dakota Pharmacists Association, at its annual gathering in Brookings Sept. 13. Heins has taught at 成人视频 for more than 30 years and Strobl is a former student of Heins. The award recognizes the association鈥檚 pharmacist of the year.
Jodi Heins, left, receives the Hustead Award from Jessica Strobl, past president of the South Dakota Pharmacists Association, at its annual gathering in Brookings Sept. 13. Heins has taught at 成人视频 for more than 30 years and Strobl is a former student of Heins. The award recognizes the association鈥檚 pharmacist of the year.

Longtime South Dakota State University pharmacist Jodi Heins of Sioux Falls has been named pharmacist of the year by the South Dakota Pharmacists Association.

Heins, a professor in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions at 成人视频, received the Hustead Award at the association鈥檚 annual gathering in Brookings Sept. 13.

She becomes the sixth 成人视频 pharmacy faculty member to receive the Hustead Award, which is named after Ted Hustead, founder of Wall Drug. The other 成人视频 faculty recipients are Bernard Hietbrink (1989), Gary Van Riper (1998), Brian Kaatz (2001), Dave Helgeland (2009) and Teresa Seefeldt (2023).

Heins, a Nebraska native, joined the 成人视频 faculty July 1, 1994, after completing a one-year postgraduate residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

She initially had a 50-50 position as an assistant professor of clinical pharmacy with the college and a clinical pharmacy specialist with the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System. Since 2012, Heins has worked full time with the college in addition to serving as a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota.

In her 30-plus years as a pharmacy educator, Heins has had an 鈥渦nprecedented鈥 impact on the profession of pharmacy in South Dakota, according to her nominator for the Hustead Award.

 

Oversees experiential education

Heins has worked with pharmacy鈥檚 experiential education program since December 2010 and has been its director since February 2012. Depending on class size, Heins estimates she works with 150 to 200 pharmacy students a year. 

Pharmacy is a six-year program with the final four years spent in the professional program. During the first three years of the program, students must accumulate 300 hours of practice education. During the final year, students take five-week rotations in eight different areas, spending their entire year in practice settings.

Heins oversees that program, including working with preceptors at practice sites and 50-50 faculty members at hospitals and clinics around the state.

She is assisted by Scout Forbes-Hurd, a former student of Heins who works on the Brookings campus in a coordinator鈥檚 role.

 

Became a role model

Forbes-Hurd credits Heins for what she has been able to accomplish in her career.

Forbes-Hurd, who completed her Pharm.D. in 2011, recalls being in the third year of the professional program and struggling with lessons on electrolytes and fluids. 鈥淚t was a hard concept for me to grasp. She took the extra time to explain it in a way I could understand.鈥 Through Heins鈥 open-door policy, she not only learned the topic, she learned about Heins the person.

鈥淲hen I was pursuing my Pharm.D., I was a mom. I saw how she really managed being a mom, teaching and being a pharmacist at the VA. I saw how she made all those things work, and it really excited me,鈥 Forbes-Hurd said.

Her time with Heins 鈥渞eally opened my eyes toward clinical pharmacy and to becoming a hospital pharmacist.鈥

With a solid understanding of electrolytes and fluids, she able to apply her therapeutics knowledge during her hospital rotation and felt much more confident than she would have otherwise, Forbes-Hurd said. 鈥淗er topic was pretty much what I did as a hospital pharmacist at the Brookings hospital鈥 after graduation, she said.

 

Satisfaction comes from student success

Heins said that example is a big part of the reason that she enjoys her job.

鈥淲atching students be successful is really what makes this job so satisfying. Sometimes they end up at places they never thought they would go. They find an area that they鈥檙e really passionate about. It鈥檚 fun and exciting to see them succeed in places maybe they themselves never thought they would go.鈥

In Forbes-Hurd鈥檚 situation, that was clinical pharmacy and then pharmacy education.

Another great example of student success is Jessica Strobl, a 2004 Pharm.D. graduate who took a community-based residency at Liebe Drug in Milbank, later oversaw the residency program there and moved to Sioux Falls when the residency program moved there when Liebe was purchased by Lewis Drug.

Strobl advanced from chief pharmacist at Lewis, to clinical lead, to director of pharmacy services and now is vice president of professional services.

Heins said, 鈥淚 have so many students who have done great things. Jess鈥檚 growth and watching her achieve all these things is exciting, too.鈥

 

鈥楽omeone I can always call鈥

Forbes-Hurd said she didn鈥檛 realize Heins would be her supervisor when she applied for the full-time position at 成人视频, but she said she couldn鈥檛 have a better supervisor.

鈥淲e work extremely close together. Even though she is my supervisor, I feel like we鈥檙e a team together. There is nothing that she asks me to do that she doesn鈥檛 do herself. She holds herself to the same standard as she does to the people around her.  

鈥淪he is someone I can always call, and she never assumes I know the answer to the question and really makes sure I am set up for the success every day.鈥

The relationship Heins and Forbes-Hurd have isn鈥檛 unique within the college, the women said.

 

Career highlight centers on people

Looking back on more than 30 years of service at 成人视频, Heins said the highlight would be 鈥渢he amazing students we have and the amazing people we have at the college; the faculty, staff and administration from the top down. In all facets, both groups have made 成人视频 an amazing place to work. I鈥檓 blessed to be working with great faculty and students.鈥

In turn, Forbes-Hurd said she is thankful to be mentored by someone like Heins.

鈥淎 lot of the same work ethic, dedication to students and dedication to the profession that she has, I have. What she does is something I always looked up to and now I get to work alongside that,鈥 Forbes-Hurd said.

The Hustead Award is considered a lifetime achievement honor, but in Heins鈥 case it is not a harbinger of retirement. At 55, she said she has no eminent plans for retirement.

鈥淚t鈥檚 still gratifying to have students come back excited to tell me about their career and their family, and I know there will be more examples like that coming from the next graduating class,鈥 Heins said.