Beata Ineck, Pharm.D., likes the variety that academic pharmacy offers, and she appreciates how the UNMC College of Pharmacy treats its students as more than just numbers.
She also enjoys making a difference in the lives of primary care patients.
In Omaha, Dr. Ineck will have the opportunity to fill both roles, as the newest college faculty member will split her time between UNMC and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
“I think that the UNMC College of Pharmacy has a good emphasis on student learning; the smaller class sizes allow you to know all of the students,” Dr. Ineck said. At the VA, it is fulfilling knowing that you can make an impact by ensuring patients receive the most appropriate and effective drug therapy for their disease states. Veterans often take numerous medications so it is necessary to make certain they are treated safely and that they attain their disease state goals.”
Dr. Ineck will serve as an assistant professor in the department of pharmacy practice at UNMC. While her class schedule and research avenues haven’t been finalized, she has professional interests in the pharmaceutical care of patients with diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels among other primary care-related disease states.
She said several factors attracted her to UNMC, including the stability of its pharmacy faculty members and the fact that it has been a Pharm.D.-offering institution for several years.
“Many schools are going through that transition, from offering a bachelor’s degree to offering the Pharm.D.,” Dr. Ineck said. “There a lot of bumps in the road during that transition.”
A native of Chicago, Dr. Ineck received her Pharm.D., from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She did a primary-care residency at the VA in Boise, Idaho, and also completed a six-month visiting assistant professorship at Idaho State. She later was an assistant professor for two years at the University of New Mexico and most recently worked for 15 months in the primary care clinics at the VA in Tampa, Fla.
“The thing I like most about working in the academic setting, is that there’s never a typical day,” Dr. Ineck said. “Your time is divided up by spending time with students, seeing patients in clinic, working in areas of scholarship, teaching in the classroom, etc.”
At the Omaha VA, Dr. Ineck will work to set up primary-care clinics that are pharmacy-run.
In her free time, she likes to hike, snow ski, travel, read and listen to music with her husband, Joseph Ineck, Pharm.D., who is a Creighton University faculty member.