Beyond the Mic: Jim Jorgenson on Leadership, Purpose, & Legacy

Well, I mean, I think we all know or are familiar with a lot of your achievements over the course of your career.

But as you look back on everything that you've done and all the places you've been around the country, what are the achievements that you're most proud of?

Well, like she mentioned, one that I'll start with is the number of residents and grad students that I've had the opportunity to mentor.

You know, at this stage in my career, just looking out and seeing how successful so many of those people have become and just thinking that, you know, I had a little bit of a role in helping them achieve that success.

That feels pretty good.

And then being able to lead the delivery of pharmacy services for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

You know, that was kind of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

But, you know, getting to work with Linda Tyler and her team at Drug Information to create the formulary, the banned drug list.

And then just provide drug information for all the athletes, medical staff, and guests was a tremendous opportunity.

And then working with Mike Kelly and Craig Herzog to actually set up the physical dispensing pharmacy and data systems in Athletes' Village was really tremendous.

We really set the next Olympics up that were held in Italy with some great resources, and I felt really good about what we were able to do.

I think the other thing that I feel really good about is the number of pharmacy leaders that have been promoted concurrently with vSAN engagements or shortly thereafter our engagements.

And, you know, I've always tried to position ourselves at vSAN such that we were an extension of the pharmacy services that we were working with so that really the credit for the success goes to the pharmacy team and the pharmacy leaders, not so much us.

I think at last count when I was there, I think we had nine pharmacy leaders that had been promoted and maybe more than that now, but that really felt good as well.

And then last, you know, just being able to have the acumen and ability to create two businesses that have been really successful.

And then work with Mike Flagstead and then Pharmacy Starvers, working with Keith Streckenbach to create a compounding quality management system, compounding 360.

So I really had no idea that I could be that successful in the business world.

Those are probably the biggest wins.

Before I turn it back over to Steve, as one of those leaders that had the opportunity, the privilege to be promoted after V-Sign came through, I sincerely thank you for your influence and for your work.

Steve, I'll turn it over to you.