Mentorship has consistently been at the heart of my professional journey, forming the foundation of who I am as I prepare to enter the pharmacy profession in just a few short months. Throughout my training, mentors showed up for me in ways that went far beyond academic guidance. They saw my...
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I have recently spent some time in the Hazardous Drug space and have encountered another instance in which it seems to me that we pretend to achieve levels of precision which seem unlikely. Specifically, I have looked at dosing per square meter of Body Surface Area (BSA). There is a BSA...
When we were in pharmacy school the perils of a medication error were drilled into our head. We are taught that it is the role of the pharmacist to catch these errors and prevent them from getting to the patient. We are trained to be meticulous in everything we do; we are trained to be...
From Former CEO Paul W. Abramowitz Pharm.D., Sc.D. (Hon.), FASHP
Pharmacy General Intelligence: Q4 2025 Update Welcome to the last update for 2025 tracking the evolution of AI through the lens of Pharmacy General Intelligence (PGI). As a reminder, PGI focuses specifically on AI's potential to perform at or beyond the level of a pharmacist,...
One of the more interesting technologies on display in the MCM exhibit hall was a compounding system for personalized medication doses that looked a lot like a 3-D printer but was not. Rather, it consumes a mixture of drug and compounding base and extrudes the required amount of the mixture into...
I read with some interest the article by Greszler et al regarding recommendations for implementation of gravimetric systems. Among the authors of this article are individuals I have known for a long time and whom I greatly admire. Their recommendations regarding the implementation of...
Last year, at the 2024 ASHP Conference for Pharmacy Leaders in Chicago, I recall receiving a particular question following our second presentation. During the Q&A session, an audience member asked, "When will there be an AI pharmacist verification product?" What was particularly...
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I have read with some interest recent publications about the application of AI in pharmacy practice. Ben Michaels' Update describes a number of issues that need to be addressed before the plethora of EMR data can be used to try to drive pharmacy API models that might be useful, chief among...
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