While Dr. Suzanne Soliman is a pharmacist by training, she is an entrepreneur by choice. Suzanne facilitates the largest organization of pharmacists in the United States, the Pharmacist Moms Group, or PhMG for short. The group is a place for pharmacist mothers to share their successes, struggles, questions, and support for one another. The job of a pharmacist can be lonely at times operating in solitude at work, and the group is a terrific resource for fellow pharmacists to lean on each other for resources and advice from one another.
The group reached 1,000 members only a month after its inception, and now has over 33,000 members. Dr. Soliman has always had a passion for helping women and advancing her profession in pharmacy, and this group has become a vital vehicle for both aspects of her passions. She has always felt that pharmacists deserve more recognition, and is constantly inspired to tell the story of the pharmacist to the public. Based on the progress of her group and it being registered formally as a 501c3, it’s quite clear that Dr. Soliman is doing a terrific job.
Outside of running the group, Dr. Soliman has over 100 publications and presents nationally on parenting, professional development, and women’s health. She is a recipient of the Rufus A. Lyman award given to the best manuscript published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education and of the Next Generation Pharmacist Civic Leader Award in 2019. She also serves as a medical expert and journal reviewer for Annals of Pharmacotherapy and Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning and founded Women Pharmacist Day in 2018.
Dr. Soliman believes it is valuable to discuss both failure and success, as we grow through failures and become better as a result. One of her posts that received massive engagement on social media was her being real, with a photo of her car in the back showing how dirty it was from her children. The truth is that anyone looking up to you does not care if you have setbacks, struggles, or problems, it only shows that you’re human and Dr. Soliman is perfectly alright with showing the “human” aspects of her life.
In line with her pharmacist group, Dr. Soliman says that great teams will always outperform great people; Being able to apply skills to a project in collaboration with others is the most critical component to success. Her founding of this incredible group for pharmacists is a huge testament to that.
