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<p>“White Coat Radio” provides listeners with helpful advice, stories, and insights from the faculty, staff, and student pharmacists at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Hosts Dr. Michele Williams and Stephen Woodward lead this informative and entertaining podcast, with new episodes appearing regularly. This podcast r<span>ecently </span><a href="https://news.etsu.edu/articles/podcast-rankings-july-2025" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">landed top spots on multiple national and state charts</a><span> for pharmacy and education podcasts.</span></p>
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June 29, 2026
Episode 32 — Dr. Kelly Covert on Hospital Pharmacy, Residency, and Tips for Success
On this episode of White Coat Radio, we’re joined by Dr. Kelly Covert, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. She precepts third- and fourth-year student pharmacists, as well as pharmacy residents, on an adult medicine rotation at Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC). Dr. Covert is the college's PGY2 Residency Program Director. In this episode she discusses a day in the life of her practice site at JCMC, as well as tips for rotations and pursuing a residency. Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:25:03Kelly CovertIf I have a student who can see a problem and try to to learn how to solve that problem, if they can see a med they're not familiar with and go look it up and tell me what they found versus me having to ask them to do that. I think that's the mark of someone who's going to really excel in their pharmacy career 00:00:55:12 - 00:01:18:12Michele WilliamsWelcome to White Coat Radio, a podcast from East Tennessee State University. Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Each episode we cover a wide range of topics about the pharmacy school experience, from study tips to deep dives with faculty and student pharmacists. I'm one of your host doctor Michelle Williams, assistant professor and director of academic success. 00:01:18:15 - 00:01:50:05Stephen WoodwardAnd I'm Stephen Woodward, marketing and communications manager. Today we welcome Doctor Kelly Covert, associate professor of pharmacy practice, who joined Gatton faculty in 2016. She precepts third and fourth year student pharmacists, as well as pharmacy residents on an adult medicine rotation at Johnson City Medical Center. Doctor covert is a 2014 graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, and completed her pharmacotherapy residency at the Medical University of South Carolina from 2014 to 2016. 00:01:50:07 - 00:01:57:19Stephen WoodwardAt Gatton she serves as a PGY2 internal medicine residency program director. Now let's get to our interview. 00:01:57:21 - 00:02:00:01Michele WilliamsWelcome to White Coat radio, Dr. Covert. 00:02:00:02 - 00:02:02:13Kelly CovertThank you. I’m excited to be here. 00:02:02:15 - 00:02:23:06Michele WilliamsSo, I'll get us started. You teach a number of courses here, at the college. And you're the course coordinator for the pharmacotherapy two course. Which students take in spring of therapy two year. What makes this course challenging for students, would you say? 00:02:23:09 - 00:02:52:27Kelly CovertYeah. I think, a piece of it is the design of the course. So when we redesigned the curriculum, there was a lot of intentionality in trying to kind of meld together. Pathophysiology and pharmacology and pharmacotherapy. And so this course does that to a certain degree. So we do expect students to do some pre-reading with regard to pathologies prior to coming into the course, which often students are less used to having to do. 00:02:52:29 - 00:03:15:25Kelly CovertAnd then as the course builds, the disease states that they have learned earlier in the course, if treated incorrectly, end up leading to disease state. They learn later. So everything kind of builds, and we try to be intentional about not forgetting content that they had not only earlier in pharmacotherapy too, but also in therapy. One in the fall semester. 00:03:15:27 - 00:03:19:21Stephen WoodwardCan you tell us about your teaching specialties and what got you interested in those areas? 00:03:19:22 - 00:03:39:15Kelly CovertYeah. So when I first came to Gatton, gosh, almost ten years ago, I knew that I would be taking over the then Renal Integrated series and the GI integrated series, which works perfectly for me. In residency, I had a strong interest in solid organ transplant, and where I trained, most of our transplants were kidneys and livers. 00:03:39:22 - 00:04:04:02Kelly CovertAnd so I had a strong, just interest in those disease states at baseline,
June 9, 2026
Episode 31 — Dean Debbie Byrd on new state funding, Gatton's 20th anniversary, and answers to student questions
On this episode of White Coat Radio, we’re joined by Dr. Debbie Byrd, Dean of East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. She discusses the latest news regarding state funding and reduced tuition, the college’s 20th anniversary, her philosophy for overcoming challenges, and answers questions from student pharmacists Dean Byrd is celebrating her 10th anniversary as dean of Gatton this year. In March, she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Pharmacy Academy by the National Academies of Practice (NAP), a prestigious honor that recognizes excellence and leadership in interprofessional health care. TRANSCRIPT: Dean Debbie Byrd I also view challenges as opportunities because I've seen that play out that when we do have those obstacles, many times they have resulted in some of our greatest successes. Michele Williams Welcome to White Coat Radio, a podcast from East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Each episode, we cover a wide range of topics about the pharmacy school experience, from study tips to deep dives with faculty and students pharmacists. I'm one of your hosts, Doctor Michele Williams, assistant professor and director of academic success. Stephen Woodward And I'm Stephen Woodward, marketing and communications manager. On this episode, we chat with Doctor Debbie Byrd, dean of ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. This year, Doctor Byrd is celebrating her 10th anniversary, coming to Gatton as Dean in 2016. In March, she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Pharmacy Academy by the National Academies of Practice (NAP), a prestigious honor recognizing excellence in leadership and interprofessional health care. Stephen Woodward Learn more about Doctor Byrd on our website e-t-s-u dot e-d-u slash pharmacy. Now let's get to our interview. Well, Dean Byrd, welcome to White Coat Radio. Dean Debbie Byrd Yeah. Thank you for having me. Glad to be here. It's great to have you here. Stephen Woodward We'll start by telling us what is a typical day. Being a dean look like. Dean Debbie Byrd You know, there's not a typical day. But I think that's probably one of the things that I enjoy most is just the variety and, you know, the work that I get to do internal to the college, which you know, most in the college would be, you know, very familiar with and, but there's also a lot of external work at the university and then even beyond the university. Dean Debbie Byrd So, a lot of my time is spent problem solving. I've described myself as a fire chief sometimes, putting my fire hat on putting out fires. But it's it's usually not to that, that level, but it's, a lot of serving as a, as a soundboard for people. It's been a lot of time in meetings. And that's where a lot of that, you know, problem solving and coaching and, and just, you know, hearing what, what others have in mind to do. I know when I was new to this position, I was very taken aback by all the meetings or how much time I was spending in meetings. And I remember, talking to my boss at the time, Wilsie Bishop. And I said, you know, when I've just. I'm in meetings all the time. I went, when does. When will I do my work, you know, as these, and this is my first job as a dean, and she, you know, paused and smiled and looked at me and said, this is the work that is that is the work which is very different from what I had done previously. But, you know, whether it's meeting with, members of the leadership team or executive committee individually, or, you know, as a group, with the faculty council, we have the dean student advisory Committee today. I was kind of I had to think about it a little bit because there are so many different things. But, just all of the stakeholders within the college, and our alumni here, those, those meetings go on on a, on a pretty regular cadence. But then at Etsu, there are a number of different councils that I serve on the university council, academic coun
May 12, 2026
Episode 30 — Drs. Tabitha Sineath ('24) and Katie Cox on Specialty Pharmacy
On this episode of White Coat Radio, we’re joined by two specialty pharmacists making an impact in Tennessee. Dr. Tabitha Sineath (’24), an ETSU Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy alumna who earned both her PharmD and MBA through the college’s dual degree program, now serves as Lead Pharmacist at Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy in Nashville, where she is the Clinical Lead for Transplant and Chronic Inflammatory Conditions. She is joined by Dr. Katie Cox, who manages Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy in Knoxville. Together, they share insights into careers in specialty pharmacy, their work in women’s health, and the real-world applications of their training. Full transcript: Tabitha SineathBecause you take back bits and pieces from every experience, whether that be as a student on rotations to your first job or what you ultimately grow into. It's the bits and pieces that you know as part of your experience that truly kind of define you over time. So don't. My advice to students is don't give up on that and continue to kind of seek those out because you know in your heart where your passion lies, you have to make the pathway. Michele WilliamsWelcome to White Coat Radio, a podcast from East Tennessee State University. Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Each episode, we cover a wide range of topics about the pharmacy school experience, from study tips to deep dives with faculty and student pharmacists. I'm one of your hosts, Doctor Michelle Williams, assistant professor and director of academic success. Stephen WoodwardAnd I'm Stephen Woodward, marketing and communications manager. Today we welcome Doctor Tabitha Sign at the 2024 alumna from Gatton, who, in addition to earning her PharmD, also completed our dual degree program to earn a master of Business Administration while she was here. That prepared her to now serve as leave pharmacist at the Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a clinical lead for transplant and chronic inflammatory conditions. Stephen WoodwardBut today, we have not one but two specialty pharmacies joining us. Doctor Katie Cox, who manages Walgreens specialty Pharmacy in Knoxville, also stopped by. Let's hear from them now. Doctor Cox, doctor Sineath welcome to White Coat Radio. Thank you all for coming out today. Katie CoxThank you for having you. Stephen WoodwardCan you start by telling us about your roles at Walgreens and where you work? Katie CoxYeah. Tabitha SineathSo I am, lead pharmacist at our specialty site in Nashville. And, oversee primarily our transplant in chronic inflammatory condition patients. Stephen WoodwardOkay. Katie CoxSo I work at Walgreens as well. I manage the, specialty pharmacy structure at Walgreens is a little bit different. I mean, it's the site that's in Knoxville. And, what's called registered manager, local specialty. So I'm over the whole site. I'll own kind of your accreditation and specific accreditation, not just for specialty pharmacies, but it does apply, within the specialty pharmacy field. Katie CoxThen there's an M.O., which is a pharmacy manager, and what we traditionally think of as a pharmacy manager. And then they're all kind of structured differently, which is what I love about specialties. It's like each side is a snowflake. It looks a little bit different. So the Nashville site has care. Teams are a little bit larger site. We are a newer site. Katie CoxI launched our site in 2023. And then we've got five pharmacists now, but we don't have a specific care team, so we kind of all share and own the disease state since we've structured a little bit differently than Nashville. Tabitha SineathYeah. And we talk about care teams a little bit. That's just kind of a delineation of what type of disease state we're managing. So in in Nashville, we're a little more bucketed. We have a virology and oncology pharmacist who oversees those patients, neurology, who oversees, like migraine and seizures. And, I oversee chron
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<p>“White Coat Radio” provides listeners with helpful advice, stories, and insights from the faculty, staff, and student pharmacists at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy in Johnson City, Tennessee. Hosts Dr. Michele Williams and Stephen Woodward lead this informative and entertaining podcast, with new episodes appearing regularly. This podcast r<span>ecently </span><a href="https://news.etsu.edu/articles/podcast-rankings-july-2025" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">landed top spots on multiple national and state charts</a><span> for pharmacy and education podcasts.</span></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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