Rebecca (Becky) Taylor, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP (rebeccataylorpharmd@gmail.com) is Vice President, Pharmacy Service Line, UPMC where she is responsible for pharmacy services and strategic alignment for 45 hospitals, 90 infusion clinics, 17 retail pharmacies, and a robust specialty and home infusion pharmacy. Becky is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy (where she also earned her PharmD in 2003). Becky then completed a PGY1 residency at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee as well as an MBA in Healthcare Management from Regis University.
Becky has been active in ASHP at the national and state levels. She is past president for the Ohio Society of Health System Pharmacy and is an active member of both PSHP and PPA in her current role. She has remained an active state affiliate member and past president through various search committees and advisory capacities. Becky is an active advocate in the state of PA with the board of pharmacy in supporting practice advancement in automation as well as pharmacist practice. Within ASHP she has served as faculty for the Manager's Boot Camp, Past Chair of the Education Steering Committee, Past Chair for the Multi Hospital Executive Committee, past member of the FASHP selection committee and past member of the Council on Education and Workforce. She was awarded fellowship in 2018.
Healthcare leaders face tremendous chaos in today’s practice environment; from regulatory pressures, shifts in reimbursement, support of the vital 340b program, an aging pharmacy leadership population and a looming pharmacist shortage. It is paramount that the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders remains a professional home for our leaders as it has been for me. I believe we have a significant opportunity in these difficult times to create strong professional connections amongst the section and support the critical initiatives that the executive committee and board have developed for our strategic plan over the next 3-5 years.
ASHP must continue to lead in contemporary issues affecting our patients including: stability of the pharmaceutical supply chain, advocacy, navigation of complex gene and cell therapy, partnership with other organizations in Washington D.C., and scarcity of access with a shrinking retail pharmacy network across our nation. Health system pharmacy leaders are poised with the right skill and tenacity to be a part of all these solutions.
I am proud to have served the section for over 20 years and I am honored to be nominated as Chair.