UC Pharmacy Alumna Pens Award-Winning Book

Fourteen years ago UC alumna Cathy Rosenbaum, PharmD, ('90), a hospital medication quality assurance and safety manager with TriHealth pharmacy, took an impromptu trip to China with a group of medical professionals to study herbal and prescription medication research and global health care solutions. While there she toured government sponsored research hospitals in Beijing, the Beijing Genomics Institute, the Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and visited a barefoot doctor clinic in rural Chengdu, all experiences, she says, that changed her professional perspective and emphasis. 

"There I found myself standing in the gap between Eastern and Western principles, diagnostics, and practices, and thus a passion was born for integrative medicine," says Rosenbaum. After returning from her trip, Rosenbaum stepped back into her career field, but continued her interest in holistic and complementary medicine by starting her own radio show, Your Holistic Health, and her consulting business, Rx Integrative Solutions in 2005. 

The trip to China and the consulting experience led to her write the recently released book: Don't Sweep It Under the Drug!: Integrating Evidence-Based Body Mind & Spiritual Practices into Your Health & Wellness Tool Kit.

The book, self-published and available on Amazon, is intended to help people manage prescription medications and improve their health through a back-to-basics, mind-body-spirit paradigm. It placed second in the Xulon Press Christian Book Awards, in the Health category for Fall 2015.

"Integrative health and medicine is a personalized, multi-pronged approach that enhances Western medicine and our life journey?l wanted to share with readers what it looks like to be whole or healing from a mind/body/spirit perspective by developing a health 'tool kit'," said the author, noting the content is geared to baby boomers who want to be accountable for their health, especially to those taking five or more medications a day.

Rosenbaum calls herself a holistic clinical pharmacist through her private consulting practice and says she conducts the same rigorous research analysis on dietary supplements and non-traditional modalities as she would for prescriptions/over the counter (OTC) medications and traditional medicine interventions, a clinical practice she learned while attending UC's James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. 

"I make professional recommendations that are based on human clinical studies that emphasize efficacy and safety, not on in vitro or animal data. I refined that skill set in my PharmD program." 

Rosenbaum received her BS in Pharmacy from Ohio Northern University, her PharmD from the University of Cincinnati, her MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, and is a Certified Health Coach.

To learn more about Rosenbaum and the book, visit her

www.rxintegrativesolutions.com

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