Rx // Drug Interaction Note
Warfarin + Fluconazole
↑ INR risk ×3.4
Monitor q48h
ASHP MIDYEAR 2025
SPEAKER
Maya Okonkwo
Drug Safety Visualization
Am J Health-Syst Pharm
"Visual Communication of Drug-Drug Interaction Severity: A Framework for Patient Education Materials"
Okonkwo M, Chen R, et al. — 2025
fig. 3 — polypharmacy cascade
↳ binding affinity
CYP2D6 substrate
MayaOkonwo.
Pharmacist. Visual translator. The person who turns a 47-page drug interaction monograph into something a patient can actually understand at 11 PM before their first dose.
The Work.
Three projects that show the range — from clinical tools to patient education to CE content that other pharmacists actually finish.
Drug Interaction Severity Map
A browser-based visualization engine that renders 12,000+ known drug-drug interactions as a force-directed graph. Clinicians can filter by mechanism (CYP enzyme, protein binding, QT prolongation), severity tier, and patient risk factors. Built for a 340-bed community hospital that reduced ADR incidents by 31% post-deployment.
Discharge Literacy Toolkit
Plain-language medication guides rewritten at a 6th-grade reading level, co-designed with patients from three urban health systems. Each guide includes a one-page visual flowchart of "what to watch for," QR-linked video explainers, and multilingual variants (English, Spanish, Haitian Creole). Adopted by 6 hospital systems across the Southeast.
"Dangerous Combinations" CE Course
A 3-credit ACPE-accredited continuing education course that reframes pharmacokinetics through real patient cases. Not a slide deck — a narrative. Each module opens with an anonymized near-miss case, walks through the mechanism, and closes with a clinical decision framework. Rated 4.9/5 by 1,200+ pharmacists. Now licensed by two pharmacy school chains.
Ready to work together?
Hospital formularies. App credibility.
CE content that lands.
"Maya doesn't just explain drug interactions — she makes you feel the clinical stakes. Our residents still quote her session six months later."
Dr. Renata Vasquez
Dir. of Pharmacy, Emory Healthcare
"We brought her in to review our medication safety UI. She rewrote our alert taxonomy in 48 hours. It was like having a translator between pharmacology and product design."
James Osei
Head of Clinical Product, MedSync Health
"The Dangerous Combinations CE is the first pharmacokinetics content I've seen that actually keeps pharmacists awake. And engaged. And slightly nervous."
Prof. Linda Cho
Dean of Pharmacy, Mercer University
Who Calls.
Hospital pharmacy directors, healthtech founders, and pharmacy deans. They all want the same thing: clinical credibility that doesn't put people to sleep.
Memorial Regional Health
Atlanta, GA
Drug Interaction Visualization Tool
Grady Health System
Atlanta, GA
Pharmacist Grand Rounds — 3 sessions
Piedmont Healthcare
Atlanta, GA
Discharge Literacy Toolkit rollout
MedSync Health
San Francisco, CA
Clinical credibility review for FDA 510(k)
PillPath
Austin, TX
Drug interaction alert taxonomy redesign
ClearScript Rx
New York, NY
Clinical advisory board + content strategy
Mercer University COP
Atlanta, GA
Adjunct faculty — P3 pharmacokinetics
UGA College of Pharmacy
Athens, GA
"Dangerous Combinations" CE license
On Stage.
PHARMACY TIMES
Top 10 Pharmacy Educators to Watch — 2025
AJHP
14 peer-reviewed articles, 2022–2025
DRUG SAFETY
Contributing editor, Interaction Watch column
STAT NEWS
Quoted expert on OTC-Rx interaction risks
FIERCE HEALTHCARE
Profiled: "The Pharmacist Rewriting Drug Safety Education"
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