ASHP sits down with Amanda Condon-Martinez to discuss the intricacies of caring for transplants patients during COVID-19. Dr. Condon-Martinez shares her experiences and best practices for ensuring this vulnerable patient population doesn’t slip through the cracks.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Amanda Condon is a clinical pharmacy specialist in solid organ transplantation at Medical City Dallas in Dallas, TX. She received her PharmD from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and completed her PGY1 Pharmacy and PGY2 Solid Organ Transplant residencies at the University of Wisconsin Health. Dr. Condon is board certified in pharmacotherapy. Her professional interests include kidney transplantation, chronic disease management, transplant program quality improvement, and student and resident education. Amanda is committed to professional service and has served as a member of the ASHP Commission on Credentialing, as a clinical content expert for the solid organ transplantation BPS petition, as chair of the ACCP Immunology & Transplantation Practice Research Network New Practitioner Council, and as a member of the ASHP New Practitioner Council.
Vicki Basalyga, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCPPS, is the Director for the Section of Clinical Specialists and Scientists. In this role Vicki serves as an information resource and provides guidance to ASHP members regarding science and scientific developments affecting pharmacy practice in health systems. She serves as secretary to the Section executive committee and coordinates activities to accomplish the objectives established by the Section. Additionally, Vicki has assumed the position of Council Secretary for the ASHP's Council on Therapeutics.
Vicki received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Duquesne University and completed an ASHP accredited PGY1 at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Vicki is also a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist and a Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
Prior to her current position at ASHP, Vicki practiced as critical care pharmacist in both the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Other activities Vicki performed included drafting policies and procedures, co-chairing the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, creating and drafting order sets for CPOE conversion and precepting residents and students.