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SAG on Medication Safety

Charge

  • Make the national medication safety initiatives more useful for inpatient care practitioners. 
  • Help translate the national initiatives into direct patient care practice for daily use.
  • Encourage inpatient care practitioners to take leadership in the medication safety process.
  • Organize networking sessions in the areas of IDS, medication safety, OR/Anesthesiology at the Summer Meeting or Midyear Clinical Meeting.
  • Assess current ASHP programs, tools, and resources related to medication safety.
  • Identify and develop future programs/resources that enhance the ability of members to meet patient needs.
  • Identify unique needs of pharmacists with practice foci on medication safety, investigational drug services, OR/Anesthesiology and develop strategies to meet these needs.
  • Identify and develop future program resources, in collaboration with the SICP Educational Steering Committee, in the area of investigational drugs and OR/Anesthesiology with an emphasis on the patient/medication safety perspective.
  • Identify and develop future programs/resources for practitioners in the area of investigational drugs and OR/Anesthesiology with an emphasis on the patient/medication safety perspective.

Leadership

Chair
Jorge D. Carrillo, Pharm.D., MS, BCPS
Director, Medication Safety
HQ, U.S. Army Medical Command
Quality Management Division
Fort Sam Houston, TX

Vice-Chair
Deborah Wagner, Pharm.D.
Pediatric Patient Safety Coordinator
Associate Professor
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI

Committee Rosters

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