Senior Pharmacy Executive, Pharmacy Aggregation Groups
Vizient, Inc
Shannon Smallwood, PharmD, BCPS is a Senior Pharmacy Executive with Vizient supporting The Strategic Sourcing Solution (TS3), a Vizient Pharmacy Aggregation Group. In this role, Shannon draws on her clinical pharmacy background and financial expertise to help manage pharmacy spend sthrough the development and management of initiatives to target contracting and clinical utilization opportunities, in addition to implementing cost reduction strategies and revenue enhancement. She is committed to helping health systems work together on pharmacy performance improvement project and best practice sharing. She developed subject matter expertise on biosimilar optimization through the launch and maintenance of several biosimilar aggregation contracting opportunities since 2019.
Shannon graduated from the University of Colorado with a Doctor of Pharmacy and completed a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency at Intermountain Healthcare in Provo and Salt Lake City, UT and a PGY2 infectious diseases residency at the VA San Diego Healthcare System in San Diego, CA.
Prior to joining Vizient in 2019, she served as the P&T Manager at Community Health Network in Indianapolis, IN for 6 years where she oversaw the formulary change control and implementation process. Shannon has also worked in various roles throughout her pharmacy career including Infectious Diseases Clinical Specialist Pharmacist at Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, IN. She is board certified as a Pharmacotherapy Specialist and is a certified Lean Six Sigma green belt.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM