Dr. Donna Bartlett- The AntiPharmacist

Meet Dr. Donna Bartlett – Champion for Safer, Smarter Aging

Dr. Donna Bartlett is a Board-Certified Geriatric Pharmacist licensed in Massachusetts with over 25 years of pharmacy practice experience in retail, outreach, hospital, and academia. She earned both her BS in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University–Boston.

Currently, she serves as a Professor of Pharmacy Practice and oversees an internal medicine clinical site. Her expertise includes polypharmacy, deprescribing, geriatrics, and falls prevention. Dr. Bartlett also co-hosts The Med List Podcast and speaks locally, nationally, and internationally — including presenting at the first and second International Deprescribing Conferences in Denmark (2022) and France (2024).

She is the author of MedStrong: Shed Your Meds for a Better, Healthier You and the MedStrong Workbook.

📖 About the Book:

MedStrong: Shed Your Meds for a Better Healthier You — Aging Well through Deprescribing tells of the need to keep medications in check throughout the aging process. Why is this necessary? Overmedication increases side effects that can impact one’s well-being and quality of life, and can cause unintended consequences such as falls, hospitalizations, and traffic accidents. Many individuals remain on medications far longer than necessary, and have medications added when deprescribing a medication may be a better treatment option. Our bodies change through the years from adult to older adult, our ability to metabolize and eliminate medications also changes causing potential adverse events. Through patient scenarios, templates, and medical literature MedStrong educates patients, caregivers, and those interested in working with older adults, on polypharmacy, deprescribing, and how to overcome the barriers that stop sound deprescribing in its tracks, before the fall, accident, injury, or toxicity occurs.

There are over 70 million baby boomers in the United States. By 2030 all baby boomers will be 65 years or older. Over one-third of older adults take five or more medications with one or more medications being considered unnecessary or inappropriate. With these statistics it is not surprising that approximately 2 million adverse drug events require hospitalizations each year.

Board-certified geriatric pharmacist, Dr. Donna Bartlett, with her keen approach to medication therapy management and deprescribing, lends her experience of over 25 years of pharmacy practice, including retail, outreach, hospital, and academia. Let her take you through the process of deprescribing to optimize your medications.

Target Audience:

Adult health care consumers, older adults, caregivers, and those that work with older adults. Health care providers of all disciplines may also find this book helpful in learning and speaking with patients about deprescribing.

Reach out to Donna to schedule a consult to review your meds today and tell her A Better Path to Wellness sent you or get her book here!