Amanda Wollitz

Her Story

Dr. Wollitz received her PharmD degree from Mercer University in 2011 and completed an ASHP-accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at UF Health Jacksonville in 2012. She completed a fellowship with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in 2014 and is a Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS). She served on the American Society of Health System Pharmacists Section Advisory Group for Medication Safety for two terms and is currently a member of the Section Advisory Group on Value, Quality, and Compliance.

Dr. Wollitz is program director of pharmacy for policy and quality for the AdventHealth Central Florida Division. In her current role, she is responsible for policy creation, review and implementation and oversees the pharmacy quality program. Dr. Wollitz helped develop and continues to coordinate the Central Florida Division’s diversion prevention and oversight program, Designated Person Panel, and coordinates the pharmacy and therapeutics committee. She precepts a leadership and a quality and compliance rotation for PGY-1 pharmacy residents, PGY-2 HSPALs and PGY-2 Medication-Use Safety and Policy residents.

Facility

With a sacred mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ, AdventHealth is a connected system of care with nearly 50 hospital campuses and hundreds of care sites throughout nine states.

AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division encompasses more than 20 hospitals and ERs in the seven counties in and surrounding metro Orlando. The world-class hospitals, combined with a comprehensive outpatient care network, sees more than 3.4 million patient visits annually.

AdventHealth Orlando — the Central Florida Division’s flagship campus — has nationally and internationally recognized programs and serves as a major tertiary referral hospital for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Recent Significant Projects

Dr. Wollitz most recently led policy standardization and consolidation for all hospitals within the AdventHealth Central Florida Division’s seven county region. Working with a small team of subject matter experts, the team worked to standardize and align processes for 72 documents for their shared library and deleted 751 documents from the individual campus locations.

She also developed and implemented a quality compounding committee for the Central Florida Division. As part of this committee, she led out on standardization of quality compounding tasks, a standardized batch compounding library, standardization of compounding SOPs, and she currently coordinates centralized decision making for compounding standards.

Dr. Wollitz also leads the pharmacy diversion prevention team consisting of four pharmacy technicians who review product movement and user activity across the organization.

Furthermore, she recently assisted AdventHealth with a transition to new diversion software that is being used company wide.

Initial Involvement in ASHP

She has been a member of ASHP since 2010 and is currently a member of the ASHP Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders Advisory Group on Value, Quality and Compliance. Dr. Wollitz also served two terms on the ASHP Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Advisory Group on Medication Safety in 2015 and 2016.

Why did you become involved in ASHP?

During my time as a pharmacy student, while pursuing a residency and career in hospital pharmacy, someone recommended ASHP to me.

Advice for Someone New to Specialty Area

Relationships and connections are key. With each project or process improvement I work to implement, I recognize success is based on a full understanding of each impacted disciplines’ input and a shared understanding of mutual need and purpose.

How would you explain the value of ASHP to a friend or colleague?

By attending conferences, I have been able  to network and meet key individuals who have helped guide me down the path I am on today. I have developed great friendships, met like-minded individuals, and obtained several mentors through my membership in ASHP.

What is the value of ASHP for the profession?

The resources available through ASHP are invaluable to the hospital pharmacist. I use ASHP as a resource daily to help me develop policies and improve processes for my organization. Before I start any project, ASHP is my go-to resource to see what has already been done or what best practice recommendations are available on the topic.