Ronda K. Lehman, Pharm.D., M.B.A., is the Administrative Director of Pharmacy and The Health Management Group at St. Ritas Medical Center in Lima, Ohio. Lehman is also an adjunct faculty member of Ohio Northern University and Chairperson of the Institutional Review Board at St. Ritas. She received her B.S. from Ohio Northern University and her PharmD. from The Ohio State University. Lehman completed her MBA at Tiffin University. Lehman completed the Executive Management Program for Pharmacy Leaders at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She has served on advisory groups for the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) concerning new pharmacy legislation, and has given lectures for OHA concerning these topics. She is also part of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Managers Advisory Groups and Programming Committee. Her areas of practice interest include: pharmacy automation and integration, patient safety and development of new practice models to deliver pharmacy services.

Edith A. Nutescu, Pharm.D., FCCP, is Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Director of the Antithrombosis Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy and Medical Center. Dr. Nutescu is also part of the Faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research. She earned her Pharm.D. degree with high honors at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy. After graduation, Dr Nutescu went on to complete an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) accredited Pharmacy Practice Residency at Lutheran General Hospital Advocate Health Care and a Primary Care Specialty Residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center.

As a clinician and educator, Dr. Nutescu has contributed extensively to the care of patients and the education of students and health care providers on topics related to cardiovascular therapeutics and thrombosis. Dr. Nutescu maintains an active clinical practice and research program. Her research and practice interests are in the areas of thrombosis, antithrombotic therapy, cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. Dr Nutescu has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific articles, book chapters, and abstracts published in the science and medical literature and has served as a reviewer for the literature in her field. She serves on the Editorial Boards for Annals of Pharmacotherapy and the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and serves as the Vice-President and on the Board of Directors for the Anticoagulation Forum.

Darryl S. Rich currently is a part-time Surveyor for The Joint Commission in the hospital, home care, and ambulatory accreditation programs. He also works as part of the Joint Commission's Standards Interpretation Group, serving as an internal resource on pharmacy and medication management issues. He has been with the Joint Commission for over 16 years, the first 10 of which he worked in the Joint Commission headquarters in surveyor management and development.

Darryl received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree (PharmD) from the University of California at San Francisco, and a MBA in Health Care Management from Bryant University in Rhode Island.
He also completed an ASHP accredited residency in hospital pharmacy from Rhode Island Hospital. Prior to coming to the Joint Commission, Darryl was Director of Pharmacy Services at Boston University Medical Center and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at Northeastern University. He also served as National Director of Pharmacy Services for Critical Care America, Inc., a national home infusion company.

He is active member and Fellow in the American Society of Health System Pharmacists and a past President of the New England Council of Health-System Pharmacists. He has received numerous awards including the 2000 Cheers award by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Board of ASHP in 2004 for his work in medication safety at the Joint Commission.

As of December 2008, Darryl has 565 invited professional presentations and 75 publications in refereed journals, including 8 books and 4 video series.

Allen J. Vaida is the Executive Vice President for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Horsham, PA. He previously served as Vice President of Clinical Operations (Chief Operating Officer) at Mercy Suburban Hospital in Norristown, PA. Vaida served on the United States Pharmacopeias Safe Medication Use Expert Committee from 2000 through 2005 and is Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Assistant Adjunct Professor at Temple University School of Pharmacy, Adjunct Associate for the Centers for Heath Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University and Stanford University School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty for the Executive Patient Safety Fellowship offered through Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He has given professional presentations on hospital and pharmacy systems and management, error prevention strategies, healthcare outcomes, integrated systems and interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr.Vaida is a past president of the Pennsylvania Society of Health-System Pharmacists and a recipient of the Pharmacist of the Year Award in Pennsylvania and the Jonathan Roberts Award from the Delaware Valley Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 1995. Vaida received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Scranton, a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Minnesota.