ABOUT US
How it all Started
Our Team
TJ Jazouli, PhD | CEO
Tom Cornelli, RPh | Career Advisor
Amy Richardson | Community Relations
.Origin Story
In 2019, Dr. Jazouli shared his passion for business and career development with his wife. He helped her transition out of retail pharmacy to successfully land a non-traditional role as a remote government contracting associate.
As other pharmacists reached out, Dr. Jazouli helped a few transition to non-traditional roles in commercial sector and public sector, as well as launch their own healthcare ventures.
A few years later, our team developed a program to streamline the process of transitioning out of traditional pharmacy.
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Our Founder & CEO
TJ | Taoufik Jazouli, Ph.D. | LinkedIn
[Retail Pharmacy is Brutal.]
“In 2019, my wife’s physical and mental health were severally at risk. Our lifestyle as two working parents was no longer sustainable. One evening, I shared with my wife that I met two pharmacists, one entrepreneur running her own MTM practice and another working as a program manager at Google. Their path out of traditional pharmacy was rather obvious and replicable. Hearing my words, my wife’s eyes got teary, as I could feel her extreme exhaustion. Her retail pharmacy role had depleted every ounce of her energy and strained every emotion of her soul. A few months later, my wife received an email with a job offer for a remote government contracting role.” said Dr. Jazouli, sharing the origin story behind our program, Beyond the Pharmacy.
Dr. Jazouli is an engineer, entrepreneur, and a business leader. He has a bachelor, two masters, and a doctorate in multidisciplinary fields. Dr. Jazouli has led our team of pharmacists, engineers, and business experts to help everyday pharmacists transition to non-traditional career paths.
A Positive Trend
[40% Work in a Non-Traditional Pharmacist Roles.]
A decade ago, the majority of pharmacists worked in traditional pharmacy setting. However, recent studies show that over 40% of pharmacists work in non-traditional pharmacist roles, and that number is fast growing. This is not only due to challenging pharmacy work environment, but also due to many non-traditional pharmacy industries, including high-tech companies, demonstrating strong interest in hiring pharmacists in different lines of business. This relatively new trend includes commercial sector companies, public sector organizations, as well as entrepreneurial pharmacists establishing and launching their own healthcare ventures in medication therapy management, pharmacogenomics, and wellness consulting.
Time for Change
[Don’t Blame the Pharmacist.]
While 40% of pharmacists work in non-traditional pharmacist roles, there is very little highlight of those non-traditional career paths within the educational institutions, pharmacy schools, and pharmacy related industries in general. Whether the motivation behind this lack of awareness is intentional or not, it is time for a positive change within the educational institutions to develop curriculum that inform and encourage student pharmacists to explore non-traditional pharmacist career paths. Specifically, the need to highlight the tradeoffs, risks and benefits of pursuing a traditional pharmacist role in contrast with a non-traditional career path.
Our goal is to contribute to this positive trend and help as many pharmacists who are interested in non-traditional pharmacist career paths. Some of our team members are pharmacists, and we do realize that there is no ideal job, however, there is certainly a reasonable level of fulfilment and pride that one should experience and feel while performing their professional duties.