LEWISTON – “Cardiac Medications” will be the topic of a Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute presentation on Monday and Thursday, Oct. 15 and 18.

Central Maine Medical Center pharmacist Sarah Melanson Green will discuss the medications used to treat heart problems.

The presentations will be held in the first-floor Young Wing conference room at 1 p.m. on Oct. 15 and again at 6 p.m. on Oct. 18. Light refreshments will be served. Anyone with questions should call 795-8240 or e-mail [email protected].

Prior to joining the Central Maine Medical Center staff this year, Green was a pharmacy practice resident at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. She completed pre-pharmacy studies at the University of Maine in Orono and earned her doctor of pharmacy degree at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Worcester, Mass.

While attending the University of Maine, she was elected to the Chi Delta Chapter of the Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society. She was also named to the Rho Chi Honor Society, Gamma Pi Chapter, and served as chapter president of the American Pharmacists Association at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

She has been recognized with numerous academic awards and is a member of the Maine Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. She is an associate member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

Green’s pharmacy-related experience includes work at CMMC, the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, Mass., and at Stop and Shop Supermarkets in Worcester, Mass. She is licensed by the Maine Board of Pharmacy.