Huy Le

Her Story

Huy Le, PharmD, received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy. She then completed her pharmacy residency at VA West Los Angeles, California.

She currently practices in Medication Safety and Pharmacy Quality at Loma Linda University Medical Center. She teaches a Medication Safety Elective course for Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy. She precepts and mentors Loma Linda School of Pharmacy students and PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residents. She is the program director for Loma Linda University Medical Center’s PGY2 Pharmacy Residency in Medication-Use Safety and Policy.

Describe the facility where you work (eg. Is it a teaching hospital? Health Center? 

Loma Linda University Health is an academic medical center operating six hospitals with total of one thousand forty six beds with more than sixteen thousand employees. Loma Linda University Health treats more than 1.5 million outpatients every year and serves as a Level I trauma center for a region that covers more than 25% of California.

Recent Significant Projects

Recently, Dr. Le created a collaborated work group meeting between the pharmacy administration team and information technology team twice a month to streamline pharmacy related requests and to ensure they are prioritized appropriately. She was also instrumental in implementing letter character limits when searching for a medication in the automated dispensing cabinets as part of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recommendation to reduce medication selection errors.

Initial Involvement in ASHP

Dr. Le is an active member of ASHP. She is currently a member of the Section Advisory Group (SAG) on Medication Management. She has also presented at ASHP’s Midyear Clinical Meeting - Medication Safety and Quality Pearls for the last several years.

Why did you become involved in ASHP? 

Dr. Le became involved in ASHP because of her interest to share with colleagues at ASHP what Loma Linda University Health does and also learn from other members on medication safety and management topics. 

Advice for Someone New to Specialty Area 

Her advice to someone new in medication safety and pharmacy quality management would be to learn the workflow of all disciplines (e.g., prescribers related, nurses, respiratory, pharmacy and other ancillary services) and work together to improve our processes as a whole, not individually.

How would you explain the value of ASHP to a friend or colleague?

It’s great to collaborate with other ASHP members, learning new things that they’re doing at their institutions, questions we all have and how we work together to serve our community better.

What is the value of ASHP for the profession?

Dr.  Le believes ASHP is active at addressing national and local issues and advancing our pharmacists every day. ASHP also is a valuable resource for all educational materials in different areas of pharmacy.