Jennifer Tryon, PharmD, MS, FASHP, (jtryon2@hfhs.edu), is the senior vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan. She leads pharmacy services across Henry Ford Health’s integrated delivery network, advancing an enterprise pharmacy model that connects care settings, standardizes medication-use work, and positions pharmacy as a driver of patient care and health-system value. Her practice experience spans community hospitals, academic health systems, and integrated delivery networks, giving her broad perspective on the opportunities and challenges facing health-system pharmacy.
Committed to teaching, Tryon has lectured at multiple schools of pharmacy and is faculty for the ASHP Foundation's Pharmacy Leadership Academy. She has been the residency program director for HSPAL and postgraduate year one residency programs and has enjoyed training over 100 pharmacy residents. Jennifer received her MS from the University of Wisconsin, her PharmD from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, and a two-year health-system pharmacy administration residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
Tryon has served on the ASHP Board of Directors and previously held leadership roles as the chair of the Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders, the Council on Pharmacy Management, section advisory groups, and served in the House of Delegates. She is a past president of the Oregon Society of Health-System Pharmacists and has held other elected leadership roles in pharmacy associations.
Tryon is a frequent national and international speaker on pharmacy leadership, innovative practice models, technology, and health-system transformation. She received the 2021 ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders Distinguished Service Award.
Meet Jennifer Tryon
The headwinds facing healthcare today require pharmacy to think differently about our work, our workforce, and our role in patient care. For pharmacy to rise to this moment and meet its full potential as the medication expert profession, we must be willing to lead transformational change.
This is both an exciting and challenging time. New technology, automation, data, and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing what is possible, while also creating understandable skepticism about how these tools will be used. I believe pharmacy has an opportunity and an obligation to help shape that future. Technology should not distance us from patients or replace the judgment of pharmacists. It should instead help us reimagine a future with technology-enabled medication management solutions that are highly reliable and support pharmacists and technicians spending more time doing the work that improves care, advances outcomes, and supports patients across the continuum.
ASHP has an important role in helping the profession lead through this period of change. Through advocacy, policy, education, and the sharing of best-practice models, ASHP can help ensure pharmacy professionals are empowered to respond to workforce pressures, rising drug costs, value-based care, medication access challenges, supply chain disruption, and the growing complexity of therapies.
Throughout my career, ASHP has been my professional home. I would be honored to serve its members as the ASHP president and help advance a future where pharmacy is more connected to patients, more accountable for outcomes, and more fully recognized for the value we bring to healthcare.