COVID-19 & Pharmacists on the Frontlines: FutureDose Special Episode - PPN Episode 999

Special Guest FutureDose Host David Berkowitz PharmD David's guest is Daryl Schiller, PharmD, FASHP, BCPS-AQ ID. Daryl is a Pharmacy leader with experience in hospital and retail settings, ambulatory surgery consulting, education, and medical writing. He currently oversee clinical and operational activities as the Director of Pharmacy at Montefiore Nyack Hospital where medication safety is the top priority. Daryl helped establish a clinical practice model that integrates pharmacists into multidisciplinary care teams, an enhanced clinical specialist service with a postgraduate residency training program, safer sterile compounding procedures, and improved medication dispensing and monitoring. Since coming to Montefiore Nyack, they have added almost 10 positions to the Department, increased the number of board certified pharmacists 4-fold, increased 340B revenue 8-fold, and implemented various targeted medication quality and performance improvement initiatives. Prior to joining the Pharmacy Team at Montefiore Nyack, Daryl was the Assistant Director for Clinical Pharmacy Services and Pharmacy Residency Director at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ where he was also the clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases and burn trauma. Daryl has held leadership positions with numerous professional and community organizations, have been a question writer for the Board of Pharmacy Specialists Certification exam, have nearly 50 publications or presentations in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and was the recipient of the NJ Pharmacist of the Year Leadership Award. About David: David Berkowitz PharmD is currently an Omnicell One Field Consultant and the Director of the Omnicell Fellowship in Data Analytics. Previously he worked for approximately 10 years in various inpatient pharmacy administrative roles at Partners Healthcare and Boston Medical Center, both in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to his inpatient pharmacy experience, Dr. Berkowitz has also worked for two digital health startups serving as the Director of Pharmacy Strategy at Pillo health and the President of VeriCurious. He is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy where is also an associate professor of pharmacy practice and he serves on their Digital Health Advisory Committee. Other organization involvements include serving on the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Section of Pharmacy Informatics Professional Development Advisory Group and he is an advisor for the digital health platform, HealthXL. This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine, UCI, Master of Science in Pharmacology, learn more: https://sites.uci.edu/mspharmacology/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices