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Hoover, Al, Us

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Oversight for 5 hospital pharmacies with goal of process standardization and collaboration.Medication Safety: Created and ran reports identifying areas of greatest opportunity for improvement leading to process changes and improved patient safety.Clinical Informatics: Rebuild of order sets to improve nursing compliance with protocols and improved Provider order entry workflow to reduce order entry rework by Pharmacists.Controlled Substances: Implementation of Controlled Substances Surveillance software, established surveillance team and performed diversion investigations.EHR Reports Resource: Created, ran and analyzed numerous types of reports from the EHR. A few examples of topics investigated are provider prescribing practices of antibiotics, morphine milligram equivalents administered to inpatients, bar code administration compliance rate, and order set utilization rates by provider.Clinical research Clinic: Established a Clinical Research Clinic. The first study was for one of the COVID vaccines that successfully made it to market. Clinic is now self-funded from research and has FTE Research Manager, Research Nurse, Medical Assistant, and an as needed Investigational Drug Pharmacist.COVID Vaccination Program: Served as the Market lead for COVID vaccinations.

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States

Director of Pharmacy for Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital, 286-bed regional referral center, 49.6 Pharmacy FTEs (28 Pharmacists/31 Technicians), and Annual drug budget of $12.3 million. In addition, oversight Director of Pharmacy for 2 smaller hospitals with a combined 185 beds, 8 Pharmacist FTEs and combined annual drug budget of $1.2 million.Accomplishments• Budget neutral conversion of the Pharmacy Practice Model from a centralized operation to a Nursing Unit Based Pharmacist Practice in which each pharmacist provides order verification and clinical services to their assigned geographical location. Resulted in:• 75% decrease in Actual Medication Errors. • 30% increase in Near Miss Medication Event reporting.• 70 % increase in Pharmacy Interventions.• 40% decrease in antimicrobial spend.• Practice improvement was recognized by receipt of the Tennessee Society of Health Systems Pharmacy 2015 Innovative Practice Award for Hospitals exceeding 100 beds.• Improved Nurse and Physician Satisfaction.• Implemented Nursing Unit Based Pharmacy Technician Model for geographically assigned. Also,• Implemented of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.• Implemented and optimized Sentri7 clinical surveillance software• Implemented Pharmacy Technician driven Medication Histories in the Emergency Department.• Supported the planning, deployment, and post-implementation optimization of CPOE. • Completed two TJC Accreditation visits with zero findings in the Medication Management section.• Established an ASHP accredited PGY-1 Hospital Pharmacy Residency Program.• Established a Disease State Management Clinic run by a pharmacist under a Collaborative Practice Agreement.• Facility's lead for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Studer Leadership Evaluation Management tool used for all leaders.• LEAN principles utilized for process improvement.• Studer training for Hardwiring Excellence.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Assisted in the development of McKesson HEO and Meditech for CPOE implementation in 2 different markets.Developed TheraDoc clinical surveillance tool and drove optimization.

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• First 12 years as Sr Pharmacist: Demonstrated the Proof of Concept for the Nursing Unit Based Pharmacist practice in the CCU and ultimately drove change to adopt this model on other nursing units.• Last 7 years as Manager for a pharmacist/pharmacy technician team covering 500 patient beds in a decentralized pharmacy practice model. The last 5 of those years, as the Department of Pharmacy lead for the facility’s EHR replacement project, served as Chair or Co-Chair for Order Set development, Clinical Decision Support, and the Pharmacy application.

Pharm D, Pharmacokinetics, Cardiology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Pharmacy

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Zoology/Animal Biology

Associate'S Degree