Zakia Woods, PharmD, CDCES (she/her/hers)

Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist
Riverside Health System

Zakia Woods, PharmD, CDCES is an Ambulatory Care Pharmacist at Riverside Health System in Newport News, VA. She works within 2 different practice sites, including the Congestive Heart Failure clinic as well as a Family Medicine clinic. She also serves as the pharmacy team lead to a health-system wide initiative to improve Population Health quality measures for patients living with diabetes and is the Residency Program Coordinator for the Riverside PGY-1 Community-Based Residency. After graduating from Hampton University (HUSOP), she embarked on a 12-year career that exposed her to multiple areas of pharmacy practice, including working as a Critical Care Pharmacist at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus in Cleveland, Ohio to becoming a corporate trainee for several retail pharmacies before refocusing her career as a clinical pharmacist; she returned to complete a PGY-1 residency with inClinic Rx based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Dr. Woods has been afforded the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for medical residents at Eastern Virginia Medical School, focusing on deprescribing strategies for advance aged patients. She is also on the National Speaker’s bureau for Dexcom, as well as a National Certified Pump Trainer for Insulet, the makers of OmniPod ®. She was selected as a keynote speaker for the HUSOP Pharmacy Annual Preceptor Conference in 2021 and 2022 and has been awarded Preceptor of the Year.

Presentation(s):

• Guess Who™: Diversity Edition

  Tuesday, December 5, 2023
  8:00 AM – 9:00 AM