Pharmacy Executive Director
Vizient, Inc.
As Pharmacy Executive Director at Vizient in the Center for Pharmacy Practice team, she brings more than 25 years of experience in healthcare. Prior to joining Vizient, Gretchen served as a Director of Clinical Pharmacy, Residency Program Director and Pediatric Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at a large tertiary care academic medical center in Pennsylvania as well as a Pharmacotherapy Specialist for a clinical drug information provider. Gretchen’s areas of expertise include: clinical pharmacy services; pediatric pharmacotherapy; medication quality & safety; medication cost avoidance strategies; drug shortage and formulary management; medication use policy; clinical research and pharmacy informatics with a focus on pediatrics. Gretchen holds the following experience among her key accomplishments: expansion of clinical pharmacy services to an emergency department and ambulatory setting; inpatient clinical pharmacist decentralization; implementation of a “Meds to Beds” program; customization of an electronic dose-range checker; leading a multidisciplinary drug shortage committee; directing an antimicrobial stewardship program expansion to pediatric patients; creation of a stand-alone neonatal dosage field in a pediatric drug information resource; implementation of an inpatient pediatric immunization program and participation in a physical relocation of an inpatient pharmacy and Children’s Hospital. Gretchen received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, completed an ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Practice Residency at Meriter Hospital and an ASHP-accredited Pediatric Pharmacy Practice Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina.
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