2011 Summer Meeting
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Redefining, Reconstructing, Reinventing: Leveraging Technology to Impact and Achieve the Future Pharmacy Practice Model
Track:
Education Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 122-L04
Date: Monday, June 13, 2011
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM MST
Location:
205
PRESENTER(S):
Robert Adamson
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Mr. Churchill is the Executive Director of Pharmacy Services at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts where he is responsible for leadership of the pharmacy department. Mr. Churchill also serves Brigham and Women’s hospital as the Chairperson of the Drug Safety Committee, Vice Chairperson of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, and Co-Chairperson of the eMAR/Bar Code Scanning Project Team. He also serves the Partners Healthcare Network as the Co-Chairperson of the High Performance Medicine improvement team focused on medication safety technology. Mr Churchill serves as the Chairperson of the University Hospital Consortium’s Pharmacy Financial Performance Committee and as a member of the UHC Pharmacy Executive Committee. For his efforts in improving medication safety worldwide, Mr. Churchill was awarded the 2007 American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists’ (ASHP) Distinguished Leadership Award and the 2008 Massachusetts HealthSystem Pharmacist of the Year Award by the Massachusetts Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists (MSHP).
Mr. Churchill received both his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from Northeastern University from Boston University and has a faculty appointment as Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Northeastern University, Bouve College of Health Sciences.
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Christopher Fortier is the Manager of Pharmacy Support Services at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a Clinical Assistant Professor with the South Carolina College of Pharmacy – MUSC Campus. Dr. Fortier received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Connecticut and completed both a PGY-1 Practice Residency and a PGY-2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center.
As the Manager of Pharmacy Support Services he oversees procurement/contracting, controlled substances, repackaging, compounding, give-in-clinic, and investigational drug services. Dr. Fortier has recently lead the implementation of bar code medication administration and smart infusions pumps across the organization.
As a member of the ASHP Practice Manager Section he serves as the immediate past chair on the sections Leadership Development Advisory Group (2005-present). Additionally, he is a representative on the ASHP Foundation’s Center for Health-System Pharmacy Leadership Student & New Practitioner Leadership Task Force (2007-present). Dr. Fortier has served on the ASHP New Practitioners Forum Executive Committee for two years, serving as the vice-chair in 2006-2007. Dr. Fortier is also involved with the University HealthSystem Consortium’s (UHC) Pharmacy Council in which he is a member of the Pharmacy Council’s Executive Committee and chairs the Medication Use Informatics and Technology Committee. Dr. Fortier is a member of the South Carolina Society of Health System Pharmacists and serves on the Continuing Education Committee (2006-present).
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Richard Paoletti
PROGRAM CHAIR:
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Christopher Fortier is the Manager of Pharmacy Support Services at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a Clinical Assistant Professor with the South Carolina College of Pharmacy – MUSC Campus. Dr. Fortier received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Connecticut and completed both a PGY-1 Practice Residency and a PGY-2 Health-System Pharmacy Administration Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center.
As the Manager of Pharmacy Support Services he oversees procurement/contracting, controlled substances, repackaging, compounding, give-in-clinic, and investigational drug services. Dr. Fortier has recently lead the implementation of bar code medication administration and smart infusions pumps across the organization.
As a member of the ASHP Practice Manager Section he serves as the immediate past chair on the sections Leadership Development Advisory Group (2005-present). Additionally, he is a representative on the ASHP Foundation’s Center for Health-System Pharmacy Leadership Student & New Practitioner Leadership Task Force (2007-present). Dr. Fortier has served on the ASHP New Practitioners Forum Executive Committee for two years, serving as the vice-chair in 2006-2007. Dr. Fortier is also involved with the University HealthSystem Consortium’s (UHC) Pharmacy Council in which he is a member of the Pharmacy Council’s Executive Committee and chairs the Medication Use Informatics and Technology Committee. Dr. Fortier is a member of the South Carolina Society of Health System Pharmacists and serves on the Continuing Education Committee (2006-present).
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Description
Can you envision a future practice model that will ultimately allow all pharmacists to perform point-of-care clinical roles? It’s coming – and technology will be a major component of it. Attend this session and focus on how your future, fully enabled by technologies, will impact the practice model with systems being interconnected, remote and mobile, automated, analytical, and patient centered.
- Describe multiple demonstration projects that have been effectively implemented that have encompassed a futuristic and progressive approach to pharmacy informatics.
- Describe the consensus statement on technology that was developed at the PPMI Summit.
