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At Summa Health, John Feucht leads pharmacy services for the health system.. He’s also embraced another role: nurturer in chief. Initiatives such as retail pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, population health pharmacy, and ambulatory care resident programs all started as staff ideas that were nurtured into successful programs.

The challenge facing Gee Mathen and his Willow Team: Ensure constant availability of standardized IV products for pediatric patients to meet continuous infusion requirements for smart pump-EMR interoperability. The team’s solution was to bring sterile compounding in house using the technology, tools, and technicians provided by Omnicell’s Robotic IV Insourcing Solution (RIIS™). The insourcing center is located in the main hospital and serves all Texas Children’s acute care facilities.

“My marriage with pharmacy was an arranged marriage,” Snehal Doshi likes to joke. “My dad told me what to do. Soon after I started, I fell in love with pharmacy.” Today, Doshi leads pharmacy for WellStar, the largest health system in Georgia. He trusts his diverse practice background to help him oversee WellStar’s inpatient pharmacies, retail pharmacies, and pharmacy helpline. His quest to seek provider status for pharmacists is personal.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s top 1 percent of medical institutions, Massachusetts General Hospital is a highly respected healthcare provider, researcher, and innovator. It’s the responsibility of Chris Fortier to lead Mass General’s inpatient and outpatient pharmacy services. While Fortier grapples with many of the same daily issues that plague other pharmacy leaders—such as drug shortages, rising costs, and changing regulations—in many ways, his pharmacy team also is shaping the future of healthcare.

When it comes to patient safety, sterile compounding is among the highest-risk activities performed by health-system pharmacies. The quest for solutions to reduce this patient risk led Dave Webster to become an early adopter of sterile compounding automation—as well as a noted author, lecturer, and advocate on the subject. Among other responsibilities, Webster leads sterile compounding operations across multiple sites for the University of Rochester Medical Center. To date, fully automated robots have produced over 170,000 doses for the medical center, including patient-specific oncology doses, with IV workflow devices producing an additional 3,000 doses per month.

Soon after high school, Chris Newman was hired to work in the pharmacy at John D. Archbold Medical Center in his hometown of Thomasville, Ga. It was an experience that shaped his life and career. “After pharmacy school, I was inspired to return and make a difference in the community I grew up in,” he said. Today, as the member of the health system’s executive team responsible for the pharmacy, radiology, lab, materials management, supply chain, sleep and neuro diagnostics departments, he’s giving back in ways that his teenage self could have never imagined.

Charles McCluskey oversees all of OhioHealth pharmacy lines, including operations for all hospital pharmacies, hospital-based clinics, retail/discharge pharmacy, clinical practice sites with physician offices, and home infusion.

As chronicled in the book, Letters from Women in Pharmacy, at age six, Yen Pham escaped from Vietnam, and crammed into a boat with her father, seven siblings, and hundreds of other refugees. At the time, she never could have dreamed that one day she would be leading pharmacy services for a major academic medical center. And generating $1.1 billion in revenue.

Ranee Runnenbaum’s career is predicated on medication safety. Starting as a clinical pharmacist, she became an expert in informatics before moving to medication safety, now with Children’s Hospital of New Orleans.

Many talk about transformational change. Jillian Foster is leading it, transforming a pharmacy team to strengthen inpatient care delivery and develop new outpatient services for a diverse patient population across 22 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in three states.