Pharmacy Manager

Eric Shah, PharmD.

Palatine, IL Phone: 847-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Doctor of Pharmacy with significant Chicago-area experience in health systems pharmacy, operations management, and across multiple therapeutic areas. I am seeking a Clinical Pharmacist role with a growing and passionate healthcare organization. My areas of expertise include:

Health Systems Pharmacy

Hospital Pharmacy Operations

Controlled Substance Management

Patient and Customer Safety

Medication Therapy Management

Emergency Medication

Anti-Microbial

Anti-Coagulation

Medication Safety

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pharmacy Operations Manager 2017-2018

Centegra Health System, McHenry, Illinois

Ensured proper coordination of pharmacy services, maintain department operations, instrument quality improvement programs

Participated in many Pharmacy and Hospital wide committees including Medication Safety, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Code Blue, Sepsis, and Organizations Outcomes

Responsible for pharmacy department inventory management that required meeting target inventory levels, overstocks send backs, and out-of-date return and recall procedures; Oversaw inventory reduction initiative that resulted in $500,000 decrease in inventory cost

Improved the hospital formulary management to create a separate inpatient vs. outpatient medication formulary

Managed the renovation projects for a clean room that met USP 800 standards; and worked on the renovation of the pharmacy clean room in the Oncology center

Led the implementation of medication therapy management and a billing process for services

Successfully implemented clinical initiatives including Anti-Microbial Stewardship, on-line programs such as Sentri7, and process improvements that contributed $250,000 in revenue Clinical Decentralized Patient-Care Pharmacist 2015-2017 AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Defined own role to manage anticoagulant therapy for over 95% of inpatients, involving dosing, monitoring, therapy adjustment, and reversal for low molecular weight heparin, Unfractionated Heparin, Anti-Xa inhibitors and direct thrombin inhibitors

Presented chemotherapy regimens to Pharmacy & Therapeutics and Medication Executive committees; improved regimens resulted in fewer dosing errors

Led successful implementation and training of anticoagulant management and the antibiotic stewardship program

Ensured appropriate use of antibiotics to optimize outcomes including minimal patient stays and hospital costs

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Interim Director of Pharmacy/Operations Manager 2012-2015 AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Managed pharmacy services, department operations, and quality improvement programs

Co-chaired the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee and Medication Safety Team

Led performance reviews for ca. 50 pharmacists and technicians; metrics included appropriate clinical utilization, cost analysis, medication orders processed, and staff hours

Spearheaded all necessary pharmacy operations to open a new Women’s and Children Hospital

Clinical Staff Pharmacist 2009-2012

AMITA Health St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Specialized in dosing Warfarin, monitoring Vancomycin and Aminoglycosides, preparing drips, LVP’s, PCA’s, and Epidurals, and facilitating chemotherapy protocols

Trained Pharmacy staff of 40 during transition from one electronic records system to another; Built dictionary rules and order strings to facilitate the move Staff Pharmacist 2006-2009

Rush-Copley Medical Center, Aurora, Illinois

Led the implementation and competency-driven training of 10 staff pharmacists on a new Eclipsys Sunrise Medical Manager 2.0 computer system, which controlled pharmacy patient profiling & drug distribution; Worked directly with the vendor during development

Managed patient-care through medication dosing, physician order review and entry, and daily support of ICU, NICU, and Intermediate Care units EDUCATION

Doctor of Pharmacy May, 2006

Drake University College of Pharmacy, Des Moines, Iowa Licenses and Certifications

State of Illinois License No. 051.291537

Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certified Professional Organizations

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

American Pharmacists Association

Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists

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