Patient Safety Officer
Amazon Pharmacy
Elizabeth Wade is the Patient Safety Officer for Amazon Pharmacy. Prior to this, she served as the Medication Safety Officer at Concord Hospital in New Hampshire, where as the first medication safety officer in the state, she established the medication safety program and started the just culture movement for the health-system. Prior to this, she served as the Medication Safety Officer for Adult Med/Surg at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. She works closely with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in guideline development, as well as the American Society for Health-System Pharmacists, where she serves as the chair for the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Section Advisory Group on Medication Safety. As a founding member for both the Partnership for Health IT and Patient Safety formed by ECRI, as well as the Patient Safety Council at Cerner, she is passionate about human factors and the development of safe systems and processes to make it easy for people to do the right thing. She worked actively with the New Hampshire Board of Pharmacy to pass legislation for implementation of continuous quality improvement programs in all pharmacies in New Hampshire.
Medication Safety and Quality Pearls 2023
Monday, December 4, 2023
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM