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Anne Bobb,
BS Pharm, Clinical Informatics Pharmacist,
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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Anne Bobb received her BS in Pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy. She has over 15 years experience as a staff pharmacist in a variety of clinical settings in academic medical centers. From 2002 to 2007, Anne was part of a multidisciplinary patient safety research team studying the causes of medical error and possible prevention strategies. In this capacity, Anne studied medication errors and since 2003 has focused on safe design of medication orders and order sets within a computerized provider order entry system and the use of clinical decision support to improve patient care. Annes current role is in the Department of Quality and Clinical Informatics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago as an informatics pharmacist. Her team represents the voice of the clinician, and in conjunction with IT staff, works to optimize clinical information system design, workflow and integration across care sites. Anne is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the American Medical Informatics Association. Her research interests include optimal deployment of clinical decision support to improve patient outcomes with a focus on medication decision support.
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Terri Cardwell received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Auburn University and her Doctor of Pharmacy from Virginia Commonwealth University. For the past eight years she has worked with Novant Health, Inc. most recently working with geriatric patients in the Safe Med Program. In addition she works with the quality care and disease management teams to ensure appropriate medication usage in the practices.
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Frank Federico,
BS, Executive Director,
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Frank Federico, R.Ph. is Executive Director for Strategic Partners at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA. His primary areas of focus include patient safety, application of reliability principles in health care, preventing surgical complications and the Idealized Design of Perinatal Care. He is also faculty for the Patient Safety Officer Training Program. Mr. Federico has worked with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement since 1996 as a faculty member and Co-Chair of a number of Patient Safety Collaboratives.
Prior to joining IHI, Mr. Federico was the Program Director of the Office Practice Evaluation Program and a Loss Prevention/Patient Safety Specialist at Risk Management Foundation (RMF) of the Harvard Affiliated Institutions in Cambridge, MA. He, along with a team of nurse surveyors, developed a compendium of effective practices to reduce risk and harm in the office setting. Mr. Federico is one of the Executive Producers of First, Do No Harm, Part 2: Taking the Lead. He served as Director of Pharmacy at Children's Hospital, Boston. While in that position, he was co-chair of a quality improvement team charged with revamping the medication system and chaired the Adverse Drug Event Committee. He is co-author of a chapter in Achieving Safe and Reliable Health Care, Strategies and Solutions. Frank Federico coaches teams and lectures extensively, nationally and internationally, on patient safety.
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J. Thomas Frank,
PharmD, BS, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice,
Area Health Education Center Northeast
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Tom Frank has been involved in various aspects of drug therapy for over 30 years. He has worked in retail, hospital, nursing home, clinical and consultative pharmacy practice settings.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at AHEC Northeast. He also teaches drug therapeutics to family medicine residents at the Northeast Arkansas Area Health Education Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He also provides clinical pharmacy consultation services and serves on the Quality Assurance Committee at St. Bernards Medical Center. In these settings he directs drug therapy rotations for family medicine residents, pharmacy students and medical students.
Dr. Frank is married and has two children. He grows roses for a hobby.
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Christopher A. Hatwig, M.S., R.Ph. is vice president of Apexus, which is responsible for managing the 340B Prime Vendor. Apexus is a wholly owned, non-profit subsidiary of Provista Inc., located in Irving, Texas. Mr. Hatwig works closely with Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Office of Pharmacy Affairs and the Pharmacy Services Support Center in Washington, D.C. to educate all stakeholders, and to improve the integrity and value of the 340B Drug Pricing Program for the nation's safety-net providers, which include HRSA grantees and disproportionate share hospitals. The Prime Vendor provides added value by collectively representing 340B covered entities purchases to secure federal sub-ceiling discounts on pharmaceuticals and discounts on other outpatient pharmacy related products and services. In 2007, the program generated an average savings of 16% below the federal 340B ceiling pricing on contracted sales for its participants. With a primary goal of improving access to affordable medication, the program is currently providing value to over 7,000 provider sites providing care to the nation's low income and uninsured populations.
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James Jorgenson, RPh, MS, Executive Director of Pharmacy, Clarian Health Partners
Jeannell Mansur, PharmD, Practice Leader for Medication Safety, Joint Commission Resources
Sandi Mitchell, BS Pharm, MSIS, Senior Consultant, maxIT Healthcare
Jimmy Mitchell,
RPh, MPH, Director, Office of Pharmacy Affairs,
Heath Resources and Services Administration
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Jimmy R. Mitchell, RPh, MPH, MS
Jimmy Mitchell is the Director of the Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Co-Director, with Dr. Denise Geolot, of HRSAs Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative. His office administers the 340B Drug Pricing Program through which more than 12,000 outpatient clinics and disproportionate share hospitals purchase approximately $5 billion annually in discounted drugs. He has directed several new initiatives, including the Prime Vendor Program, clinical pharmacy demonstration grants, and the Alternative Methods Demonstration projects, all of which improve access to comprehensive pharmacy services for underserved populations. He retired from the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps after 31 years of service.
Mr. Mitchell graduated from the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy, where he currently serves on the Deans advisory committee. He also earned a Masters Degree in National Resource Strategy (health care focus) from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and a Masters Degree in Public Health from the John Hopkins University.
Mr. Mitchell is the recipient of both the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Managements Award for Distinguished Achievement in Administrative Practice and the ASHP Award of Excellence. He is the 2009-2010 Honorary President of APhA.
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Jennifer Reif, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Novant Health
Darryl Rich,
PharmD, MBA, Surveyor,
The Joint Commission
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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.
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Joseph Saseen,
PharmD, Associate Professor,
University of Colorado Denver
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Dr. Saseen is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. He is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist with added qualifications in cardiology, is certified as a Clinical Lipid Specialist, and is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. Saseen received both his B.S. pharmacy degree and PharmD degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and then completed an ambulatory care research fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Saseen is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Lipid Association's Accreditation Council for Clinical Lipidology.
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Allen Vaida,
BSc, PharmD, Executive Vice President,
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
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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. Prior to his appointment as Vice President in 1995, 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. 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.
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Anne Wittkowsky, PharmD, FCCP, Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Pharmacy
