Stacy L. Carson, PharmD, BCPS, FISMP (Stacy.Carson@AdventHealth.com) is the Medication Safety Officer for AdventHealth. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Palm Beach Atlantic University. She completed a Pharmacy Practice and Drug Information residency at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, KS. She then went on to complete a Safe Medication Management Fellowship at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Horsham, PA. In her current role, she leads the medication safety strategic plan, co-chairs the enterprise-wide Smart Pump Oversight Committee, precepts residents, and helps lead enterprise-wide medication safety initiatives working in collaboration with clinical, operational, and informatics leaders.
Carson has a large interest in how medication safety and technology intersect. She has participated and led out on numerous projects related to healthcare technology including: implementation of a companywide pump drug library and roll-out of pump integration, optimizing barcode medication administration and expansion to the procedural space, automated dispensing cabinet override oversight, and EHR medication alert optimization.
Carson’s ASHP involvement includes member of the Medication Safety Advisory Group for 5 years where she was a workgroup leader for 2 projects and member of the Operations and Automation Advisory Group for 6 years where she was a workgroup leader for some projects and served as the SAG Chair for the 2020-21 year. And she has presented at ASHP meetings a few times including a program on medication safety technology data.
Our work as pharmacists is to provide safe and appropriate medications to patients. Within the hospital, the use of technologies is tightly interwoven into all pharmacy work processes. As a medication safety leader, I am a huge proponent of making it easier to do what is right and using data to help drive change. Leveraging pharmacy informatics, data, and our medication safety technologies enables us to do that within the medication use process.
My experience with the Section Advisory Group for Operations and Automation has been highly rewarding. I’ve had great opportunities to collaborate, share, and promote best practices within pharmacy informatics from across the country. The networking, mentoring, and friendship opportunities have been wonderful. I want to take the next step within SOPIT by representing our members and contributing to the future direction of projects and initiatives.
I am honored to be nominated for Director-at-Large of the Section and look forward to the opportunity to bring my passion for pharmacy informatics and improving safe patient care to the role.